Essays 721 - 750
In five pages this research paper presents an appreciation of jazz violin virtuoso Noel Pointer whose premature death at age 39 di...
In seven pages this paper examines Plato's Phaedo and The Republic in terms of how it portrays the philosopher's perspectives on d...
In five pages this paper examines how Plato described Socrates' trial and death in his dialogues Phaedo, Crito, Apology, and Euthy...
In eight pages this paper examines what is revealed about death and beyond through dreaming with various psychological and theolog...
An insightful discussion of the expectations imposed on human behavior by religion. The writer also addresses the issue of Christ ...
In a paper consisting of five pages the ancient Roman scholar Boethius's philosophy is applied to Congressman Sonny Bono's untimel...
In eight pages the ways these religions deal with dying and death through ritual and corpse disposition are compared and contraste...
live out eternity in blissful spiritual peace, while those damned to Hell will live out eternity in misery as punishment for disob...
In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...
In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...
This paper examines Dickinson's positive thoughts regarding death. The author discusses five of Dickinson's poems. This nine pag...
her mid-twenties Dickinson was on her way to becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally nev...
line in every stanza is shortened by two metric beats to create a sense of temporary suspension before the story continues (Abrams...
In six pages this paper analyzes the ways in which children and parental relationships within the context of death are depicted in...
In eight pages this paper discusses the images of love and death that reinforce the tragic inevitability of Romeo and Juliet. Six...
destroy Sigurd. She says that she has a favor to ask and makes the king promise that he will keep his word. He does, and asks her ...
example, is bypassed in favor of a machine to human interface. While the teacher is still involved in the classroom, that involve...
and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...
study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...
through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...
this case reveals how X26 Tasers are being implicated in deaths attributed to excited delirium. Is this implication justified? F...
about sex, even under oath, dont really matter" (Bennett, 1999, p. 8). Bennett argues that if we accept these attitudes, which he...
the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...
of the language in the beginning (Miller 56). Even though he is not "the finest character that ever lived" he does deserve some re...
her youth she experienced the suicide of a friend in the woods while camping. The body was never found and this woman, Lois, was n...
dying and then the death itself that show the reader the truths he discovers. He observes his life, what it has been, while he is ...
a sense of belief and stability. However, one is never really sure if the priest is really that devoted due to the general nature ...
is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...
would lead to an early death, he said, "... a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; h...
In five pages this paper considers how life, death, and afterlife were perceived by the peoples of ancient Egypt. Three sources a...