The book Maybe Someday, written by Colleen Hoover; is about a college student, her name is Sydney. Sydney lives with her best friend Tori and has a boyfriend whose name is Hunter. Sydney finds out that Hunter had been cheating on her with Tori, as this is all going on Sydney finds herself a friend named Ridge, he lives in the same apartment complex as her. Ridge also has a girlfriend named Maggie. Sydney and ridge instantly have a strong connection that they can’t ignore, they connect through music. Ridge is in a band and plays the guitar, he’s also deaf, and Sydney writes the lyrics for him. Ridge and Sydney realize they like each other more than just friends; they try fighting the attraction and realize they can’t. The main theme in this book is you can’t fight love and control whom you fall in love with. …show more content…
There are four main chemicals in the brain that play roles in compatibility. Dopamine is one of the chemicals, it’s a neurotransmitter and its what stimulates the feeling of pleasure within the body. The second chemical in the brain is serotonin, it’s one of the most important chemicals involved when feeling love. Then there is testosterone and estrogen, they regulate the reproductive system and activate when a person finds someone attractive. Ridge says, “My entire body is battling itself. My left brain is telling me this is somehow wrong, my right brain is wanting to hear her sing again, my stomach is nowhere to be found, my heart is punching itself in the face with one arm and hugging itself with the other.” (Hoover 111) He says this after the first time they got physically close while writing music. As ridge plays the guitar, he puts his head against Sydney’s chest as she sings so he’s able to feel the vibrations of the
The notion behind loving someone is simply very complicated and esoteric in nature. People often describe a certain chemistry, as in a certain attraction, needed between two individuals who are in love, but Barbara Fredrickson is able to coordinate the definition of love on the basis of chemicals. Barbara Fredrickson is able to provide the definition of love on the deductive reasoning based on chemistry, biology, and neurology explained in Love 2.0: How our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything we Feel, Think, Do, and Become. As Barbara explains, “With each micro-moment of love, then, you climb another rung on the spiraling ladder that lifts you up to your higher ground, to richer and more compassionate social relationships, to greater resilience and wisdom, and to better physical health.” (121).
The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book
Maggie's American Dream is Margaret Comer's inspiring biography written by her son James P. Comer. It also doubles as the autobiography of James P. Comer himself. It a great story of a person overcoming obstacles to reach their goals and dreams.
The poem “Cozy Apologia” by Rita Dove, explores the idea of love, and modern routine, while alluding to the disastrous hurricane Floyd of 1999. This poem was written for her husband, Fred, as mentioned after the title of the poem. In the first stanza of this poem, Rita Dove uses imagery to display her immense love for her husband. Dove writes, “This lamp, the wind-still rain, the glossy blue/ My pen exudes” (Dove 2-3). The imagery in these two lines represent items and things that remind Dove of her husband. She says everything makes her think of him, and in these two lines we can see that even just a lamp, or the ink from her pen bring her thoughts of her husband. Her true love for Fred is shown through this. The second stanza, Rita Dove starts to explain how a hurricane brought back memories of her teenage relationships.
William Miller, our unlikely hero, lives at home with his protective mother Elaine and rebellious older sister, Anita. His ORDINARY WORLD is the sheltered existence of a San Diego junior high school student. When Anita has a fight with her mother and decides to leave home to become a stewardess, her parting words to William make her the HERALD of his adventures to come. With the car packed and running, Anita takes hold of William on the front lawn, looks him dead in the eye and says: “One day, you’ll be cool.” Under his bed, the stack of albums she has left for him includes the Who’s Tommy, with a note taped to it. “Listen to Tommy with a candle burning and you will see your entire future,” it reads prophetically. And so it was written. Rock music is about to change William forever.
In the book Cycle of Hope, Tricia Downing went from a competitive cyclist to a paraplegic in a matter of minutes. After spending the summer competing in multiple cycling races, Downing is back home enjoying the sunny autumn day riding her favorite route with her friend, Matt. Together, they go for a bike ride sightseeing and appreciating the beauty of the city. As they reminisce about their enjoyable summer, a car appears out of nowhere, and crashes into her. After landing on her back, Downing recalls that something feels terribly wrong; consequently, this woman becomes paralyzed from the waist down. The author uses the strength, courage, and determination learned as a competitive athlete to overcome her disability.
Throughout the short story, the tone of voice each character uses gives insight into their relationship. The topic
Fallen Angel We all have been there. After a long day of work, all we are thinking about is getting home. As you head towards your car, you notice the darkness around you and suddenly feel that you are not alone. Your pace increases and you begin to sweat.
American Puritans in the 17th century were known for their fervor for personal godliness and doctrinal correctness. In addition to believing in the absolute sovereignty of God, the total depravity of man, and the complete dependence of human beings on divine grace for salvation, they stressed the importance of personal religious experience. In her novel Hope Leslie, Catharine Maria Sedgwick critiques the idea of Puritanism and shows its deficiencies through the characters of Everell Fletcher, Hope Leslie, and Magawisca.
The article '' love: the right chemistry'' by Anastasia Toufexis efforts to explain the concept of love from a scientific aspect in which an amateur will understand. Briefly this essay explains and describe in a scientific way how people's stimulation of the body works when you're falling in love. The new scientific researches have given the answer through human physiology how genes behave when your feelings for example get swept away. The justification for this is explained by how the brain gets flooded by chemicals. The author expresses in one point that love isn't just a nonsense behavior nor a feeling that exhibits similar properties as of a narcotic drug. This is brought about by an organized chemical chain who controls different depending on the individual. A simple action such as a deep look into someone's eyes can start the simulation in the body that an increased production of hand sweat will start. The tingly feeling inside your body is a result of a scientific delineation which makes the concept of love more concretely and more factually mainly for researchers and the wide...
In the short story titled, “Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen, which takes place in the United States, It talks about two girls who meet each other through school and start off having a very complex relationship. In this piece you will hear about Suzy’s side of the story and how she felt about Leah and how their relationship changed and evolved. The first time Suzy saw Leah was a place that she had heard from the newspaper, and she decided to drop off some food. She noticed Leah in particular because she was the only one who didn’t swarm around her to get food. The first thing Leah noticed about the girl was that she had a false smile.
Life Goes On The Optimist’s Daughter tells the story of Laurel Mckelva who has previously lost both her husband and mother. She returns to her hometown in Mississippi to be at side of her father as he gets surgery. Complications rise up and end at the death of her father. She stays in her childhood home with her father’s new wife; Fay. When Fay leaves to visit her family in Texas Laurel stays alone at the house and confronts memories of her family who are no longer with her.
Sian Beilock is the author of this novel, the information written by her would be considered credible due to the fact that she is a leading expert on brain science in the psychology department at the University of Chicago. This book was also published in the year 2015 which assures readers that the information it contains is up to date and accurate. The novel is easy to understand and the author uses examples of scientific discoveries to help make the arguments more relatable. Beilock goes into depth about how love, is something more than just an emotion, it derives from the body’s anticipation. “Volunteers reported feeling
Elie Wiesel once said “neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” In Michelle Cacho-Negrete’s Essay “Tell Me Something” she talks about her brother who died in the Vietnam War. In the end of the essay she challenges the reader “tell me something good about my country (739).” What is good about America is that it’s not. Hear me out, because America has been racist, sexist, and homophobic for so long that a new wave of LGBTQIA, feminism, and civil rights has emerged. As a queer, black woman these movements make me feel as though some people care about my struggles.
Meyer, M. L., Berkman, E. T., Karremans, J. C., & Lieberman, M. D. (2011). Incidental regulation of attraction: The neural basis of the derogation of attractive alternatives in romantic relationships. Cognition & Emotion, 25(3), 490-505. doi:10.1080/02699931.2010.527494