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Western Traditions in Dealing with Death

This essay discusses various views and fears associated with death in Western societies. The author addresses funeral rituals as ...

Continued Application and Social Trends Regarding the Death Penalty

In eight pages death row inmates and issues of their innocence are incorporated in a discussion of the death penalty in terms of i...

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...

Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and The Pearl by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the 1650 text by William Bradford with the 1945 novel by John Steinbeck. Two sour...

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

demonstrates how women can be extremely resourceful when it comes to their ultimate survival. In spite of the fact that she despe...

Death's Significance and Meaning in Celtic Fairytales

what fairy tales are, in relationship to other types of stories. In doing this we focus on the work of Marie-Louis Von Franz, a ve...

Utopia by Thomas More, Pearl by the Gawain Poet, and the City

In 4 pages these 14th and 16th century works are examined in terms of how each depicted the city of their respective time periods....

'The Pearl' and Symbols

In fifteen pages this paper analyzes this medieval prose in terms of the symbols it features. Nine sources are cited in the bibli...

Death's Role and Meaning in Fairy Tales

necessity. Beyond the obvious, however, lurks an even deeper meaning to the employment of death as an integral part of fairy tale...

Chemist, Novelist, and Poet Primo Levi's Death Blamed on the Nazi Death Camp in Auschwitz

In five pages this paper discusses the impact of his incarceration in Auschwitz on Primo Levi which led to his 1987 suicide. Four...

Analyzing John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Pearl

In five pages these stories are analyzed in terms of their similarities and differences and literary elements such as themes, char...

Comparison of Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...

A Review of At Dawn We Slept The Untold Story Of Pearl Harbor

States cheered on the Japanese, whom they regarded in a measure as their prot?g?s. But in time it became apparent that the plucky...

Pearl S. Buck's "The Child That Never Grew"

individual whose only crime was chemical disparity. The only way to deal with such social deviants in eras gone by was to lock th...

Catharina in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Tracy Chevalier

tempered (Teenink). She also seemingly has an apparent lack of feeling for art (Hurley). But, Catharina is obviously wary of Griet...

Comparison of Pearl Harbor and September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks

the victim in both instances, we realize the actual consequences of our unprepared state. We were sitting ducks in both instances...

A Difficult Death v. A 'Good' Death

film we have Joe who has suffered incredible wounds in WWI. He cannot talk nor can he see. He cannot hear and his arms and legs ar...

Comparison and Contrasting of Dillard's Death of a Moth and Woolf's Death of a Moth

and it is not until it attempts to fly against the pane again, that she notices something different about it. The moths movements ...

"Pearl Harbor": A Critique of the Historical Accuracy of this Popular Movie

would become a primary target of that vengeance. For the United States to incur a direct attack on its shores was perceived as sa...

Illness and Death in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...

Death Tax Changes

to protect their possessions from ending up in the hands of government agencies once they have died; however, this particular appr...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

How We Live & How We Feel About Dying

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

Dona Sebastiana

which "comprises a stunning class-conscious critique of Christian hypocrisy and the Churchs complicity with the rich" (Padilla 150...

Chopin/Story of an Hour

is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...

Causes of WWII/Pacific Theatre

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

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...

The Death Penalty: Obsolete and Useless

A 12 page paper which discusses how and why the death penalty is obsolete and useless. Bibliography lists 10 sources....

Willy Loman, Not a Tragic Hero

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

Lethal Injection

used (The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, 2007). In relationship to Oklahoma there was a bill which was passed, "writte...