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Os Lusiadas by Luis Vaz de Camoes

In four pages this Portuguese literary classic is examined within the contexts of history and the life of the author's life. Thre...

Faust by Johann von Goethe and Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In eight pages these German and Russian works are contrasted and compared regarding their depiction of life's 'dark side.' Six so...

Viktor Frankl's Theories and Meaning in Macbeth and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines how life's meaning and human suffering's relationship is represented by these William Shakespeare...

Caesar Germanicus

with them since his days as a little boy when he went with his father. In fact, it was because he used to march around the camps i...

Life and Man Viewed Across the Cultural Divide

Aristotle, Native Indian and Hindu philosophers had varying philosophies of life and the nature of man. This essay compares Aristo...

Abortion According to Ronald Dworkin

In five pages this paper discusses Life's Dominion An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia and Individual Freedom by Ronald Dworki...

Christianity and Storms

In three pages this paper discusses the significance of storms in a consideration of how they represent personal life's problems a...

Four Insights into the Meaning of Life

responsibility. He feels stifled by his Louisiana environment and longs to leave. He knows that this involvement will strengthen h...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

Contemporary Lessons Taught by 16th Century St. Teresa of Avila

prayer and, ultimately, began to experience visions. During those visions she was outwardly the same but inwardly she was filed w...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Assessment of Oedipus' Guilt

In 4 pages this paper argues that because of his life circumstances Oedipus was not guilty for the events which turned his life in...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Symbolism of the Olive Tree

In four pages this paper analyzes how life's renewal and rebirth are symbolically represented by the olive tree in Homer's epic 'T...

Gender Issues Involved in Freedom from Slavery

In five pages the gender differences regarding freedom and slavery issues are considered within the context of the writings Uncle ...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

In five pages the author's naturalist perspective is applied to life's questions including the place of humanity, God, and what th...

Literature Alternatives to Freedom

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

Walker, Pearson, Frankl, Miller, and Fromm on Identity and Meaning

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

Representation of Captain Ahab as Evil, Good, Death, and Life All At the Same Time

In twenty five pages this paper discusses how Captain Ahab in Moby Dick by Herman Melville embodies all the dualities of the life ...

Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines life's meaning in a consideration of such philosophies as Albert Camus' French existentialism, s...

Comparative Analysis of Canadian Religious Minorities

on similar fundamentalist Christian beliefs, there are marked similarities between the roles that these communities assigned to me...

2 Poems by Robert Herrick Analyzed

of the seasons, which have been going on their course throughout all of history. "And Titan on the eastern hill / Retires himself,...

Aristotle on Inanimate Objects and Living Things

In five pages this paper examines Aristotle's perspectives life in a consideration of his concepts of living things and inanimate ...

Slave Narratives and the Portrayal of White Europeans

as I thought, in so savage a manner; for I had never seen among my people such instances of brutal cruelty. The closeness of the ...

Adulthood as Reflected in Two Books Compared

In eight pages the similarities and differences of New Passages Mapping Your Life Across Time by Gail Sheehy and The Developing P...

Life and Faith of Mohandas K. Gandhi

This paper consists of nine pages and examines how faith led the life's journey of Mahatma Gandhi. Five sources are cited in the ...

'A Small Good Thing' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report examines how existential reality and daily life's transitory nature are depicted in the 1983 short story...

Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Its Life Parallels

In nine pages this paper analyzes the life parallels between the society of the 1950s and as the play reflected the life of playwr...

The Life and Times of Federico Garcia Lorca

This paper discusses the life of Spanish dramatist and lyricist Federico Garcia Lorca. The author examines how his life was affec...

'Reality' of Near Death Experiences

In nine pages this research paper examines the phenomenon described by Raymond Moody in Life After Life as 'near death experiences...

The Man and the Demon That Was Adolf Hitler

This paper consists of six pages in which Adolf Hitler is considered through a discussion of his life's background and the twisted...