The History of LOVE Park

On the drawing board in 1682, the area that was to become known as LOVE Park, stood at the center of William Penn's City of Brotherly Love. His vision would soon attract settlers from around the world drawn by Penn's notions of tolerance, design, and community.

Slightly over 300 years later that same space, now known as LOVE Park, drew skateboarders from around the world attracted by tolerance, design, and community. Many of those who came remained, attracted by a city open to a new type of settler.

Yet in 2002, the wheels of government would silence the wheels of the skateboarders.

In 1932 Edmund Bacon, Philadelphia's future city planner designed "A Civic Center for Philadelphia" as his architecture thesis at Cornell. One of the features of the plan was a park at the southeastern terminus of the city's great boulevard, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Bacon could not have anticipated skateboarding when he designed LOVE Park, yet his space became one of the world's most famous skating spots, and came to represent Philadelphia's image, worldwide. That is, until Philadelphia's Mayor John Street banned skateboarding in 2002. This essay describes the history of LOVE Park, dating back to its roots in the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and even further back to William Penn's original vision for his city.

Literary allusions in The History of Love

There are many thematically significant literary allusions in The History of Love. The writer Isaac Babel (1894-1940), as eulogized by Leo Gursky in the chapter titled "The Trouble with Thinking", has unmistakable affinities with Zvi Litvinoff's description of Leo's own writing style, and the description of Rosa Litvinoff's writing style in the early chapter "Forgive Me". The Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) and his classic The Street of Crocodiles, is mentioned several times in the novel, as is Nicanor Parra (1914-), whose 1954 book of antipoems is translated by Charlotte Singer and read by the mysterious Jacob Marcus. A passing reference to Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) is also significant because Don Quixote is a novel that contains stand-alone stories within it, much in the same way that The History of Love contains excerpts of a mysterious book called The History of Love. Other important literary allusions in the novel include references to James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Leo Tolstoy, Rubén Darío and Pablo Neruda. In some ways, The History of Love is a celebration of the power writing and of the imagination, so it is hardly surprising that it would be so full of literary references.

faktor of love

Love has been described in many different ways in our society. Indeed love is able to encompass a large area of positive traits. Love is what a man and women can feel for each other. Love can be a close bond between friends. Love can be the sacrifice of ones dreams and goal for those of another. Love can be the one who stands in for another who is deserving of that punishment. Love is love, and it asks no questions but to love.

Love is the strength to stand when you might want to run. It is hard to explain, but the desire to do the right thing will make love strong. Love will stand when others run even though the odds may not be in your favor; you will stay in the struggle because of love.
Love is the strength to speak when you might want to be silent, but a burning fire of love will not let you stay silent. Love is the strength to pray when others are silent or afraid.
Love will give you the strength to do what must be done, as the scriptures state ,in part, love never fail.

Love can endure many hardship. Love will help you to endure those mountains of self doubt; even when you some times feel very discouraged. Love will give you the ability to endure a cheating spouse; it will also help to leave if need be. Love will help you to endure the financial burdens that we some times find ourselves under. Love will help you to endure disobedient children who continue ignore you instruction and advice.
Love will even help you to endure the gossip and slander of so called friends and family.

Love is the ability to tell the truth. It sounds like an easy task to do, but it is certainly not.
Love will tell the truth even though, it may not be understood by others. Telling the truth is a true sign that someone love you, because they love you enough to be honest. When your love is very strong, you will tell the truth with a straight forwardness and directness.

Love is love. I think there may be a few other ways to say it, but I think this is a good starting point. If we can show the characteristics of love, then we have a quality of love and a real compassion for our fellow man. Love is a key attribute in our lives. Everybody love somebody, because man is and always has been a communal soul. You should love for the sake of love; it feels good and right.

Love Of Means

love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection^[1] and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my boyfriend"). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love.^[3] Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.