Love In the media

1. Love In the media By Abby Pett

2. Passionate Love • Described as a state of extreme absorption in another person. • Romantic Love • Lust

3. Compassionate Love • “A type of love characterized by friendly affection and deep attachment based on extensive familiarity with the loved one.” • True love • Love for a child, grandparent, parent

4. High School Love • Three Types of Relationships • Freshies Relationships • Long distance • middle school dating • Whorin’ Relationships • hook ups • Serious Relationships • Rare • real relationship

5. Love or Lust? • Important points to distinguish love and lust: • How it makes us feel • Does it make you feel happy? • Or guilty? • How we interact • Is it more physical? • Or more social? • What our focus is • Ourselves? • Or the other person?

6. Media’s View of Love • Happily ever after is only for the “beautiful people” • Being single something is wrong with you • Relationships are Easy • “Sorry to say, but in real life, if you find someone to be with, every single day you spend with that person you will have to work to keep your relationship healthy and strong.” • Hook ups are okay

7. Last Song • Ronnie and Will • Combination of both passionate and compassionate love. • More passionate then compassionate • Knowing more of the person you are dating, or “love” • Unrealistic or realistic?

8. A Walk To Remember • Realistic Love • Compassionate or passionate? • Relationships that grow from friendship to romance • Can someone be loved with a terminally illness? • Landon and Jamie

9. Twilight • Unrealistic love • super powers • Passionate love • after a few days in love • Gives off the perfect guy is Edward • Edward and Bella

10. Valentines Day: Estelle and Edgar • Edgar and Estelle married couple • Compassionate love • Realistic Love • Discovering a secret from the past • Edgar and Estelle

11. Valentine’s Day: Felicia and Willy • Teenage love • Passionate love • Realistic Love • Short time dating, but they are in love • Felicia and Willy

12. Something Borrowed • Passionate and Compassionate Love • Unrealistic • too much like a fairy tale • Rough spots aren’t that easy to overcome • “true friends” • Truth from film • relationships have problems • Sometimes you find out later you’re in love • Something Borrowed

13. Good or Bad? • Advantages with media: • Good messages • Role models • Healthy relationships • Disadvantages with media: • Unrealistic view • Bad role models • Wrong Impression

14. Pictures • http://photos.lucywho.com/a-walk-to-remember-photos-t612460.html (Walk to Remember) • http://www.filmofilia.com/37-new-twilight-photos-5939/ (Twilight) • http://www.filmofilia.com/29-new-valentines-day-photos-13060/ (Valentine’s Day) • http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/02/10/taylor-lautner-taylor-swift-major-kissing-in-valentines-day/ (Valentine’s Day)

15. Pictures Continued • http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-08-29/entertainment/27073966_1_lawsuit-claims-security-guards-racketeering (Jersey Shore) • http://www.fanforum.com/f88/dex-ღ-rachel-ethan-ღ-darcy-♥-something-borrowed-62986911/index3.html (Something Borrowed) • http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2011/10/report-kim-kardashian-kris-humphries-divorcing/ (Kim Kardashian) • Videos from Youtube.com

16. Bibliography • Bizymoms. n.d. 3 November 2011 <http://www.bizymoms.com/relationshipadvice/love-and-lust.html>. • Courtois, Jim. That One Jim Guy. 2010. 8 November 2011 <http://thatonejimguy.com/2011/01/07/how-media-affects-dating-commercializing-love/>. • Unkown. Cracked.com. 1958. 3 November 2011 <http://www.cracked.com/funny-4981-high-school-relationships/>.