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In Support of Capital Punishment

penalty is used rarely and for only the most severe crimes. But in 18th- and 19th-century England and America, the death penalty w...

Jacques-Louis David: “The Death of Socrates”

First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...

The Death Penalty is a Good Deterrent

researching this subject it seems that studies are scant at best. Also, there is a practical problem in researching the topic as m...

Death/Injury in Poetry

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

Immortality: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

point that immortality may not exist at all. The only true thing is suffering and pain and that people may well convince themselve...

The Late President Lord Chiang (Chiang Kai-Shek)

path in life. His father had died when he was only five, in fact, and the Chinese military seemed to offer him the most immediate...

Early Persecution Of Christians

flogged rather than killed (Acts 5:27-42). It is through the writings of early historians like Eusebius of Cesarea and Origen that...

Story of the Religious Leader Joshua

learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...

The Saver

could serve to sever Fern from her First Nations heritage. Fortunately, that turns out to not be the case. Fern actually grows s...

Fathers and Sons in “Fences” and “Death of a Salesman”

30). Cheated out of his greatest desire, Troy works now as a garbage man and in middle-age, is growing increasingly bitter (Bloom)...

Three Poets: Dickinson, Frost and Hughes

safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...

Victorian Reading Habits: The Thrill of Transgression

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

The Thrill of Transgression: “Frankenstein” and “Manfred”

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

The Death Penalty, Pro and Con

death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...

Adversity in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...

The Death Penalty, Public Policy and the Criminal Justice System

there will not be the endless appeals that follow the death sentence (Neumann, 2009). In addition, Wanzenreid notes that capital...

Taoist Teachings: Death and the Afterlife

light and dark, and sweet and sour. Some may see this phenomenon metaphorically as a dance. The point is that death is a part of l...

The Death Penalty

and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...

Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard

he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...

Human Development Stage of Death

there is no single way, or normal way, to handle death and dying. "However, psychologists and sociologists have isolated some of t...

Juvenile Crime and the Death Penalty

believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...

Opposition to the Death Penalty

be involved with the law when a capital case comes forth. Citizens are faced with ethical dilemmas that they would not come close ...

Death According to Mitch Albom

he is also far removed from Judaism (Schulweis, 2001). Albom describes Morrie as a "spiritual mutt," having gleaned the makings f...

Four Questions on William Shakespeare's Hamlet

true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...

Death Penalty Cases and Sentencing

proposals to standardize this and other sentencing issues so as to increases in criminal activity in certain areas of the country ...

Setting Importance and American Dream Theme in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...

The Element of Tragedy in Miller's Death of a Salesman

we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Avenging the Deaths of the Fathers

and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...

Giving Up Life for a Cause and Death Perspectives

those who are willing to die for a cause. After all, many appear to be unconcerned about their own deaths. Also, why should they c...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and its Themes

included intelligence, depth, compassion, and integrity. It was now a dream that focused primarily on material success and the dre...