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Aristotle and Friendship, 2000.
An argumentative paper on Aristotle's view on friendship.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 30.95
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This paper discusses Aristotle's analysis of friendship. The author discusses three types of friendship: a useful friendship, a pleasurable friendship and true friendship. These belong to two aspects of friendship: character friendship and advantage friendship. Included are examples.
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"It is argued that there are three branches of friendship: (1) doing favors for each other, (2) using each other for pleasure, and (3) true friendship. These branches belong to the two characteristics of friendship, which are character friendship and advantage friendship. Character friendship belongs to or is related to civic relations because it requires citizens to have active goodwill toward each other."
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Friendship, 2002.
An examination of the process through which a typical friendship is developed.
2,070 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper examines how the bonds of friendship are formed, looking particularly at the ways in which interactions with other people help to mold our sense of self and how interpersonal communication is the bedrock of friendship. It uses a model of the development of friendship (and the subsequent development of sense of self that any serious and/or long-term friendship entails) developed by L. Long and J. Wood to demonstrate how deeply interactive a process the relationship of friendship is. Using the friendship between the author's mother and her friend, it describes the six stages of friendship that Young and Wood describe as being typical of an evolving friendship. It then connects these at each step to the stage of friendship that actually occurred between and linking these descriptions to other theoretical models of the interactionist model of relational communication.
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"The first phase of friendship (these phases are arranged chronologically) is a "role-limited interaction" that "includes early interactions that tend to follow standard roles and rules" (long and Wood, 2000, p. 181). In other words, during this phase of friendship, while we are interested in forming more intimate and particularistic bonds with someone, we tend to act as someone in our role is expected to. In other words, the opening phase of a friendship is marked by an adherence to socially and culturally defined norms that we bring to the relationship, norms that we have already incorporated into our sense of self through previous interactions with other individuals (primarily the family if we are young and other friends and colleagues if we are older) and social institutions (Bell and Coleman, 1999, p. 23)."
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Aristotle and Friendships, 2008.
This paper analyzes the highest level of friendship that induces Aristotle's idea of friendship as a virtue in Nichomachean Ethics.
1,660 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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The paper analyzes the three different tiers of friendship in Aristotle's philosophy: friendships of utility, pleasure and of the good. The paper discusses Aristotle's argument that a friendship "of the good" provides a foundation for eudemonia (the happiest life). The paper explains how this level of friendship strives to discover the greatest good or happiness between friends, rather than seeking immediate gratification through superficial relationships.
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"For Aristotle, the greatest good of life comes from having a friendship that can be purified from immoral or materialistic causation. The importance of friends is one of the major virtues of life that must be taken into account when living for eudemonia or for the greater good of life in Book VIII:
"After what we have said, a discussion of friendship would naturally follow, since it is a virtue or implies virtue, and is besides most necessary with a view to living. For without friends no one would choose to live (Aristotle para.1)"
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Children?s Friendships, 2001.
A look at the positive influences friendships have on children.
1,725 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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The paper reviews Zick Rubin's book titled "Children's Friendships" on the importance of friendships for children's social and educational development. The paper notes that Rubin forms his thesis based on a narrow sampling of children, disregarding cultures in which friendship is viewed differently. The paper then analyzes the case of children from multiracial backgrounds, for which friendship based on similarity is difficult to form. The paper concludes with advice for educators about discussing the issue of friendship with children.
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"Rubin states that children?s relationships with their peers not only provide important social skills but contexts in which children can develop meaningfully and compare themselves to others. Friendships also provide children with a sense of group belonging. Friendships provide unique benefits and skills to children, Rubin writes, that parents and educators cannot provide. Some social scientists, such as David Riseman, as cited by Rubin, have argued that an overemphasis on children 'making friends' and 'relating to others' in our 'outer-directed society' has proved detrimental. But regardless, says Rubin, 'the fact that children?s friendships can be harmful only serves to outline their importance.'"
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The Importance of Friendship, 2008.
This paper explores "Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White and the important role of friendships.
1,359 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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The paper looks at "Charlotte's Web" and at the friendship of Charlotte and Wilbur. The paper discusses how friendship is important in building a child's social-emotional development. The paper explains that friendships provide trust, and love as well as teach children how to develop a healthy awareness not only of their own feelings but also of others'.
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The Importance of Trust in Building Social-Emotional Development
Children Need Friendships in Social-Emotional Development
Social-Emotional Development and Love
Building Self-regulation through Friendships
The Importance of Social-Emotional Development by Helping Others
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"One of the most important things that parents can teach their children is trust. However, children learn trust not only through their parents, but also through other relationships such as friendship. This bond between one friend to another can last a lifetime which can be seen in the book, Charlotte's Web. Charlotte is a friend that saves the life of Wilbur. Other relationships are also important in the story such as between father and daughter, Wilbur to Charlotte, and Fern to Wilbur. The relationship of friendship is important in building a child's social-emotional development."
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Faithful Friendship, 2002.
An examination of different concepts of friendship.
1,178 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper to explores the views of different authors and philosophers and discusses their view on the malleability of friendship. It looks at how people seek a faithful friendship, feeling betrayed when it is withdrawn and guilty when they themselves turn away from former friends. It shows how Gilbert Meilaender believes friendship must be subject to change because it is based on preferences and reciprocal caring and how Aristotle indicated that there were three different types of friendship, only one of which is actually likely to last for any considerable period of time. It also looks at the opinions of Lawrence Thomas and the principles of Confucian friendship.
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"However, a third type of friendship Aristotle thought could be more long-lasting, although still subject to change. This was the type of friendship in which individuals were friends because they "were good, and alike in excellence" (p. 3) and they wished well to each other for the friends' sake, rather than for their own. This kind of friendship is more rare and it requires time and familiarity in order to qualify - it stands the test of time, as we would put it. Aristotle noted that just the desire for friendship was not sufficient, nor was lovability, or pleasure, or other qualities. Instead, the two individuals must be of similar characters, must spend time getting to know each other and testing each other's loyalty, and must be equally interested and willing to involve themselves in the friendship."
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Love vs. Friendship, 2002.
This paper explores the differences and connections between love and friendship through the analysis of poetry.
1,605 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 52.95
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The paper provides the reader with new perspective, and insights on the subjects of love and friendship: the difference between the two, and how they connect and relate to each other. The author utilizes various poems in exploring this matter, such as those of Shakespeare, Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Emily Bronte.
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"Everyday life is dependent upon one?s relationships with others around them. This is evident in routine encounters with mail carriers, bank tellers, and neighborhood grocers to more intimate experiences with family and friends. These relationships seem to run along a complex continuum -- from casual business connections to friendships and family relations to passionate, romantic love. It is at this latter extreme where the defining lines get fuzzy ? where strong emotions run rampant and often cloud conventional definitions of friendship and love. Is it always possible to distinguish one from the other, and where does one draw the line? Poets have long been trying to tackle these issues and offer a variety of insights and perspectives on friendship and love."
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Friendship and Adolescence, 2008.
This paper analyzes the article "The Waltz of Sociability: Intimacy, Dislocation and Friendship in a Quebec High School" by Vered Amit-Talai.
717 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 25.95
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The paper examines how Vered Amit-Talai's article "The Waltz of Sociability: Intimacy, Dislocation and Friendship in a Quebec High School" takes an innovative look at adolescent friendships. The paper describes how Amit-Talai successfully takes issue with many of the commonly touted assumptions held by anthropologists as to the nature of friendship. The paper is of the opinion that this is a well-researched and thought-provoking article, which deconstructs some widely held beliefs and points the way towards further research.
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"Amit-Talai prefaces her discussion of her observations of these students by telling the reader what her aims are. She wants to deconstruct the perception that adolescence and friendship are tautologous, by examining four features that are commonly assumed to be part of friendship. These are that "true friendships are private, free-floating relationships;" that adolescents have plenty of time on their hands for friendship; that friendship in adolescence has a particularly intimate nature; and that adolescent friendships are "necessarily transient as a function of life cycle changes" (Amit-Talai 236)."
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Friendship, 2002.
A look at how friendships are developed and how they strengthen one's personality - based on the movies "Steel Magnolias" and "City Slickers".
2,155 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 67.95
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This paper examines the process through which a typical friendship is developed and maintained, looking particularly at the ways in which interactions with other people help to mold our sense of self and how interpersonal communication is the bedrock of friendship using examples from the movies "Steel Magnolias" and "City Slickers". This paper incorporates a theoretical model developed by Long and Wood as well as drawing upon the writer's personal experience and popular notions of friendship.
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"Many of us would like to think that someone deep down inside of us is our own true self, a person who never compromises or is compromised, an independent person who makes up her own mind, who is never subject to peer pressure or societal influences, a person who stays the same through thick and thin, who endures over time and through all challenges.
But while such an image of a pure, unchanging and incorruptible self is appealing (and has its roots in the Romanticism of the 19th century, which taught that we should believe in the innate goodness of all people, a reverence for individuality, and in the primacy of the connection between the pure human heart and the state of nature), it is in fact not an accurate one. In fact, while our sense of self is dependent on some internal factors, such as our genetic heritage and our physical state of well-being, most of our sense of who we are is derived from the people with whom we interact, and especially our family and friends. We are not in fact always the same person: We differ from one situation to the next and certainly from one year (or decade) to the next."
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Aristotle, Cicero and Friendship, 2008.
A comparative analysis of the concept of friendship according to Aristotle and Cicero.
2,561 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper examines the parallels between the two perspectives on friendship, as proposed in Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics." and in Cicero's "Lealius." It looks at how they mutually reveal illuminating refutations of friendships, which are false in pretense and how the discord between their assessments shows Aristotle's view to be more refined in its differentiation between friendships based on shared virtues and those based on shared goods.
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"Cicero's concurrence with Aristotle on the nature of friendship as it flows from 'goodness' points to a resolution that ends which accompany friendship and are not complimented by the presence of goodness do not then forge a true friendship. Cicero's foray into the subject of friendship is given prelude by the statement of intent that he must "at the very beginning lay down this principle - friendship can only exist between good men." (Cicero, I:5) This underlines Cicero's admonition that friendship stemming from a lack of good qualities, either within the parameters of the friendship or inherent in one or both of its parties, is not a friendship at all. Rather, he asserts, it is a relationship forged on false pretenses. Rather than through the pursuit of a mutual good, it is a relationship defined by its advantages to one or the other. "
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Friendship in the Ancient World, 2000.
A comparison of friendships in "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and "The Iliad".
1,490 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, $ 49.95
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This paper takes a look at the concept of friendship in the Ancient World by comparing two pieces of literature - "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and "The Iliad". It analyzes the friendships of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, and Achilles and Patroclus and shows how these are representative of the times. Through trials such as death, disease and heroic rescues, these friendships survived.
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"The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Iliad are both ancient literary works that offer us insight into the lives and values of our ancestors. A common theme of each is the effects of friendship on powerful men. Unlike most modern cases, social standing and imbalances in power complexly influenced the nature of these friendships. Men with great power sometimes saw their friends as servants. However, despite the apparent inequalities, it is obvious that the friendships were intensely valued as more than a servant relationship when the heroes Gilgamesh and Achilles experience the loss of their friends. For these two characters, the deprivation of friendship proves to be life altering."
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Friendships in a Social Network, 2006.
A discussion of "El-Barrio" and how friendships are influenced by society.
1,783 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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The paper analyzes friendships and how kinships have changed over time. The writer discusses how social scientists have searched for meaning in the structure of greater society, groups of individuals, and family orientations to find meaning in the relationships that color a person's life. The paper further examines how it is not merely the amity of two individuals, but a larger set of interactions and histories that combine to create the possibility for friendship. The paper concludes with new definitions of friendships that technology and the internet have created.
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"Bell and Coleman assert a view of friendship in which the foundation of the relationship is both voluntary and private. They argue that "friendship becomes a special relationship between two equal individuals involved in a uniquely constituted dyad." Because they view friendship as the voluntary establishment of a relationship between two autonomous individuals, why those specific individuals chose to form a friendship is important."
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Friendship In Two Dramas, 2002.
A discussion of the concept of friendship in "Tartuffe" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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An essay discussing the friendship between two in the dramas: "Tartuffe" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman". The discussion compares and contrasts the friendships based on three specific criteria: gender, sexuality and romance.
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Friendship According to Steinbeck and Golding, 2006.
A look at what friendship means in John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" and William Golding's "The Lord of the Flies".
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper compares John Steinbeck's definition of friendship in his novel, "Of Mice and Men" to William Golding's definition in his novel, "The Lord of the Flies". Through an analysis of the main characters in both novels, the paper shows how both authors portray loyalty as the defining, most significant quality of true friendship.
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"The popular saying "It's in the hard times when you know who your true friends are," argues that many friends will leave when "the going gets tough." Friendship is most valuable during times of turmoil and struggle and unfortunately, it is during these times that it is the scarcest. The willingness to take risks to build friendships in the midst of adversity requires more than just getting along. It requires loyalty. In both Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and Lord of the Flies by William Golding, loyalty is presented as the defining element of friendship through the characters of Lennie, George, Ralph and Piggy."
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Female Friendships in Literature, 2008.
This paper contrasts the importance of female friendships as described in J. Bauman's "Winter into Spring" and despaired of in "The Existential Paralysis of Women" by Simone de Beauvoir.
1,365 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that, although male dominated society excludes and exploits women, as portrayed in Ibsen's "A Doll House", the importance of friendship between women can overcome their marginality and restore women to the center of a husbanding society. The author compares Bauman's work to Beauvoir's and points out that Beauvoir writes about the exploitation of women in Western bourgeois society; whereas, Bauman recounts the trials of women in the void of that society smashed to pieces by the Nazis. The paper relates that Beauvoir sees the "eternal feminine" nature of a woman as shaped by the male dominated, patriarchal social structure even if women join together to off set the "masculine universe". The author thenstates that, in contrast, in Bauman's existential account of WWII, the friendship of five women who do "band together" to establish a "counter-universe" and survive is not only important but also vital.
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"The women in Mrs. Pietrzyk's room joined their common longings for life and love to link themselves back into the woman's world of hope, mystery, the sway of her body moving through the ebbs and tides, and the attainment of woman's wisdom. They did this with nothing but their hearts in a time of death. The rejected martyrdom and the paralysis mold. De Beauvoir says the lot of woman's life is passive waiting, but in truth nothing is more powerful: "I've been thinking now about this glorious future that I dreamed up last night. Will it come true? Shall I ever live a free, useful, happy life with someone I love and who loves me? "
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