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Socrates, Plato, 'Allegory of the Cave' and Phaedo

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny

question, one of the jurors came up to her later and told her, "I dont want you to think it was unanimous--it wasnt" (Sereny 360)....

Comparing Poems about War to Beowulf

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

'Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift' by Jonathan Swift

as literal descriptions of Swifts feelings (Jonathan Swift). However, there is also a note of truth behind these statements that...

Women's Influence Upon Edgar Allan Poe

death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...

Phases and Stages of Death and Dying

In five pages Robert Marrone's Death, Mourning, and Caring is considered in an examination of the perceptions regarding dying and ...

European History and Confrontation

In five pages confrontation throughout European history concentrating on the years 1848 through 1989 are examined as portrayed in ...

Comparing Three Works Thematically

This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...

Questions on Death of a Salesman Answered

His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...

Socrates' Choice to Stay in Prison in Crito by Plato

in violation of the law and acknowledged that he should be punished accordingly. His "apology" was not a request for forgiveness,...

Analysis of 'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas

In three pages this poem is analyzed in its depiction of loving women, the life cycle, death's inevitability, and the loss of inno...

Death in the Poems of John Donne

In five pages this paper analyzes how the theme of death and John Donne's depression regarding death are reflected in 2 of his 'Ho...

Motivation of Death

In four pages death as a motivator is considered within the context of The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm, The An...

20th Century and its 'Dismal State' Captured in Text

this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...

Death and Attitudes

but there was also a corresponding increase in the secularisation and commercialisation of the rituals surrounding death. In the 1...

'And Death Shall Have No Dominion' by Dylan Thomas

Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales in 1914 (Abrams, et al 1907). Early in 1933, when he was nineteen years old. Thomas sent two of ...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Death Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Dylan Thomas

This paper contrasts the death perspectives articulated by Dylan Thomas in the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' with t...

A Case Study of the Application of California Penal Code

placed wooden horses and other toys around the still to disguise it. These elements contributed to the criminal act, but they als...

The Unwillingness of Okonkwo to Conform in Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'

In this essay consisting of two pages the writer presents the argument that Okonkwo's failure to conform to society in all matters...

'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio

In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...

Marsha Norman's 'Night Mother, Life and Death

In five pages this paper discusses the life and death issues between mother Thelma and her suicidal daughter Jessie Case and the s...

Issues of Dying amd Death

In five pages the works of Richard W. Momeyer, Ernest Becker, and Philip Larkin are referred to in an answer to the quesiton of wh...

Dancing Skeletons

A 5 page essay exploring the ethnographic account by Catherine Dettwyler. Medical anthropology entials precise fieldwork, professi...

Characters Who Die in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines Hamlet's role in the deaths of certain characters in terms of whether or not he actually caused ...

Critical Responses to Death in Dickinson's Poetry

that in this poem, Dickinson sees death as a "courtly lover," accepting at face value the lines concerning his "civility" (Griffit...

A Review of Europa, Europa

A 5 page essay exploring the work of the film by Polish writer-director Agnieszka Holland. An eye-opening look at the lengths som...

Village of a Million Spirits by Ian MacMillan

In five pages this essay examines the Treblinka Nazi death camp uprising featured in the novel by Ian MacMillan with the Magda Now...

Biography of Josef Stalin

In twenty four pages this essay considers the life of Josef Stalin, comparing his leadership of the Soviet Union with other leader...