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Term Paper Title	Presented To: Mrs. Connell
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Presented to: Mrs. Connell
Presented by: Cory Hawke
Date: March 26, 1998

What Is Love?
     What is this thing called love? This simple question begs for an answer.  The symptoms of
love are familiar enough.  A drifting mooniness in one’s behavior and thought, the fact that it
seems as though the whole universe has rolled itself up into the person of the beloved, something
so wonderful that no one on earth has ever felt about a fellow creature before.  Love is ecstasy
and torment, freedom and slavery.  Love makes the world go round.
     Until recently, scientists wanted nothing to do with it.  The reason being that love is life’s
most intense feeling and love is mushy. Science is hard.  Anger and fear are emotions that have
been researched in labs and can be quantified through measurements.  Pulse and breathing rates,
muscle contractions, etc.  Love cannot be charted or measured.  Anger and fear have a definite
roll in human survival: fighting or running. Love does not. And since it is possible for humans to
mate and reproduce without love, all the swooning and sighing is beside the point.
     Up until the past decade, serious scientists assumed that love was all in the head.  Now the
research has become more intense. This may be because of the spreading of AIDS and that casual
sex carries mortal risks.  Others point to the growing number of female scientists and suggest that
they may be more willing then their male colleagues to take love seriously.  Whatever the reason,
science has come around to a view that romance is real.  That it is bred into our biology.
     We have always been influenced by love in our culture. It is a dominant theme in music,
television, films, novels an...

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