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Principles for Life/Apology and Crito

if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...

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 ...

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...

Eight Questions on Health Status

disease, parents first must have access to health care services and then utilize such services. Marshall (2003) points to the im...

Hinduism and the Concepts of Life and Death

human being itself is the Purusha and thus an infinite being. He only has to liberate himself from the bondage of Maya to realise ...

Life and Death of Terri Schiavo

That was thirteen long years ago, and nothing has changed for Terri Schiavo. Initially, her husband Michael took care of her pers...

The Meaning of Life According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...

'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 ...

'The Death of the Moth' by Virginia Woolf

to bother the moth any. She reflects on how she watches a particular moth and how he seems quite happy and content with his life....

ICU Patients and Communication

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...

Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity on the Afterlife

eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...

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...

Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant on Killing and Morals

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

Life After Death in Hindu and Christian Beliefs

we think of as ourselves continue to exist in the soul body. Death is a most natural experience, not to be feared. It is a quick t...

Spirit of the Dead Watching Painting by Paul Gauguin

the Dead Watching" Despite the fact that he painted numerous tropical scenes and used the colors of the jungles and oceans of the...

Sufi Poet and Mystic Jelaluddin Rumi

they are found in the Koran, point to this constant interplay of Mercy and Wrath, Beauty and Power" (76). (As bibliographical data...

Noted Thinkers on the Afterlife

how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...

John Paul II's The Gospel of Life Evangelium vitae

have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy ...

A Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guttierez by J. Breslin

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

Link Between Death Theme in His Poems and the Personal History of John Keats

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

Life and Times of Moses

sense of morality despite Moses obvious exposure to the belief system of the Egyptian gods and goddesses. In brief summary to hi...

The Ethics of Death and Dying: Is There a Duty to Die?

right to live if it is possible, one could well argue that it is never anyones duty to die. Battins essay, however, speaks of th...

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

Jewish Calendar, Life Cycle And Meaning Of God Is One

instructions, Moses told the people to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the outside of their homes (Oakley, 2006). When God...

The Theory of Knowledge from the Socratic and Taoist Perspectives

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...

Life of Kate Chopin and 'Story of an Hour'

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

Willy Loman and Exhaustion

soreness of his palms...then carries his case out into the living-room...Im tired to death" he tells his wife (Miller 12-13). Hi...

Evil and Death

It also seems likely that for someone or something to consider death an evil, that entity must self-aware. Its unlikely (though we...

Fashion Designer Coco Chanel

you based your entire philosophy and overall concept on monumental changes within the fashion industry where womens clothing is co...