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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

Changing Social Views on Dying and Death

of death often occurs without the presence of loved ones and in the absence of any great fanfare. While some cultures create an e...

Life and Death Ethical Decisions

man without getting help from the fire department or EMS. One is faced with an ethical challenge that requires weighing two sets o...

The Passion of the Christ and the Shared Suffering Between Jesus and the Film Audience

are the various traumatic events Christ endures from the Garden of Gethsemane until the Crucifixion. They are broken down into fo...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

Health Status Report, Indonesia

This research paper discusses factors that are relevant to Indonesians' health status. Topics covered include life expectancy, imp...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Seamus Heaney's Poetry and Ghosts of the Earth

four and five provide additional support for this hypothesis; the boys father, who usually "takes funerals in stride" is "crying"....

Lost Speech Symbolism in Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami

In five pages this text is compared in terms of similarities and symbolism with Arabian Nights' tales and the loss of speech is eq...

Life After Death According to Philosophers Heidegger, Ducasse, and Scheler

In this six page consideration of life after death various philosophical arguments are examined in an attempt to draw a definitive...

Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Role of Leon Trotsky

In 5 pages this paper discusses Trotsky's life, achievements, his revolutionary role, and why he was not Lenin's successor after h...

Life or Death and Cost Effectiveness

This research paper adresses the fact thaty it is far more costly to house and feed criminals for life than it is to sentence them...

Short Stories by Jack London and Edgar Allan Poe on Death

In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...

Life, Moral Judgments, and 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this report examines whether or not Ivan's death represents a moral judgment resulting from his life in this classic...

Manhood, Nature, and Death in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

In nine pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its symbolism and portrayal of themes including the nature of manhood, life, and ...

A Review of the Film, My Life

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the film, My Life, which stars Michael Keaton as a young man facing death from cancer. T...

Plague Theme in 'The Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...