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  • Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    McKade Huntsman May 12, 2008 Ms. Powers class XI Death of a Salesman In Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman, father of Happ and Biff Loman and husband of Linda Loman, is living a very difficult life. He creates problems within his family, and is constantly making them worse by attempting to make them better. He wants his son Biff to be as successful as he can, but he wants to live through him, and

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Death: H.W.Longfellow’s Opinions

    Death: H.W.Longfellow’s Opinions

    Some people might say that there is no life after death or that once we are dead everything from our life is gone. This is completely wrong. Our death should reflect our life. Yes, death is inevitable. It is one of the only sure things in life. The thing that should matter is that we need to live our life as if any moment our precious life could be over. Life can be long or

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    Essay Length: 978 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Max
  • Death as a Theme in the Writings of Emily Dickinson

    Death as a Theme in the Writings of Emily Dickinson

    Emily Dickinson Paper Alex Lesnick May 7, 2002 Period 1 Written word is perhaps the most powerful medium that humans have created to express their thoughts. A person can express a myriad of emotions through pen and paper, ranging from hope and happiness to morbid obsessions and anxiety. Written words, unlike spoken words, are for eternity. Once a thought is written down, anyone can read it, interpret it, ponder it, or question it, until

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    Essay Length: 822 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: July
  • The Black Death: Nature's Way of Saying We Are Doing It Wrong

    The Black Death: Nature's Way of Saying We Are Doing It Wrong

    The Black Death: Nature’s Way of Saying We Are Doing It Wrong Throughout the known world, the human race has been inhabited by disease. For centuries, groups of people have struggled to adapt and create balances between themselves and diseases. Disease not only affects the populations of large areas, but creates wars, puts pressure on global resources, and causes many groups of people to lose sight of their beliefs in the hopes that there will

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Joy of Death

    The Joy of Death

    Terror rose in my blood. My veins pumping, moving out of control as I hear the restless mad man next door to my chamber. The past eight days I have noticed this man who indeed lies next door to me gendering at my glass eye. One time I even caught a look of disgust coming from him as I walked past his room from the bathroom. I wonder if he knows that it is indeed

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    Essay Length: 333 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Response to Death of a Moth

    Response to Death of a Moth

    Annie Dillard’s essay “The Death Of A Moth” made no sense to me when I initially read it, in a “sleep-deprived” state. In the haze my mind was in, during the battle with my body and my desire to read this essay, all I could make out was that; she berated the small cat about her short-term memory before kicking her out of the bed they shared. She then proceeded to the bathroom to consort

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    Essay Length: 713 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Sids - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    Sids - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    The Health Issues Involved Introduction Imagine one morning you wake up to see that your infant is no longer breathing. At that moment you panic and come to realize that your baby has come to a sudden death. Everything dear to us causes us pain. Becoming a new parent opens up new doors and new responsibilities. How ever, sometimes even when we think we do everything right, babies still pass. What is SIDS? SIDS also

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Three People, Two Deaths, one Great Tragedy

    Three People, Two Deaths, one Great Tragedy

    In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet two young lovers lost their lives when hate and love collided. From the Montagues came Romeo and from the Capulets was Juliet. The two families were feuding and Romeo and Juliet could not stand being without each other. They both killed themselves because they thought life was not worth living without the other. Though there are many who can be blamed for this tragic ending, there

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    Essay Length: 737 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Steve
  • Death of a Naturalist

    Death of a Naturalist

    Commentary: ‘Death of a Naturalist’ by Seamus Heaney In the poem ‘Death of a Naturalist’, written by Seamus Heaney in 1987, the author develops a symbolic plot of an adult speaker looking back on his childhood, demonstrating how as a young boy, his perception of the same environment suddenly matured and altered, essentially providing a new way of looking at the bridge between childhood and adulthood, and displaying how over time, people’s interpretation of their

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Because I Could Not Stop for Death

    Because I Could Not Stop for Death

    “I first surmised the horses’ heads were toward eternity.”(Dickinson) In this poem a girl goes on a carriage ride with death and immortality. This carriage ride is very slow and the girl has to gives up a lot for death, almost like he is her family. When she is on this carriage ride she passes many sites that she was too busy to see before. Then death and her stop at a house which looks

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    Essay Length: 743 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Max
  • Black Death

    Black Death

    The Tragedy of the Black Death Imagine yourself alone on a street corner, coughing up bloody mucous each time you exhale. You are gasping for a full breath of air, but realizing that is not possible, you give up your fight to stay alive. You're thinking, why is this happening to me? That is how the victims of the Black Death felt. The Black Death had many different effects on the people of the Middle

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Death After the Loss of an Intimate Partner

    Death After the Loss of an Intimate Partner

    The first pertains to the sexual identify of the deceased and her partner. Lesbian and homosexual relationships present a variety of complications. These issues are unique in the lesbian and gay community and impact the grieving experience. Often couples have kept their relationship a secret and face the risk of being alienated from family rituals for the deceased. The second issue is the impact of death caused by a plane crash. Sudden and unexpected death

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • When Death Is Not Always a Devil

    When Death Is Not Always a Devil

    When Death Is Not Always a Devil “Against all the injuries of life, I have the refuge of death. If I can choose between a death of torture and one that is simple and easy, why should I not select the latter? As I chose the ship in which I sail and the house which I inhabit, so will I choose the death by which I leave life. In no matter more than death should

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Artur
  • Arthur Miller’s Play Death of a Salesman

    Arthur Miller’s Play Death of a Salesman

    Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman examines the life and times of the Loman family. In the play the various hopes and dreams of the characters are brought to the forefront. As the play begins to unravel we see the characters begin to unfold before are eyes and begin to understand the foundation of the play. In Death of a Salesman the central issue of the play is the failure in achieving the

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Death and Decay of the Southern Ideal

    Death and Decay of the Southern Ideal

    Death and Decay of the Southern Ideal In William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” the reader is introduced to the small, post-civil war town, of Jefferson, Mississippi. Jefferson, while fictional, embodies the erosion of Southern ideals and beliefs dating back to pre-civil war Mississippi. The encroachment of the New South is echoed in the mussing of the narrator, who represents the community of Jefferson as he reminisces about the central character in

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: regina
  • Cash Killers: Death of the High-Street.

    Cash Killers: Death of the High-Street.

    Cash killers: Death of the High-Street. Since the introduction of the internet in the early nineties (Leiner et al 2003) http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml it has shown phenomenal growth. This is especially true of the past four years with a 23% increase in home internet access (wallis 2006). This huge increase has been fuelled by cheaper prices by both providers and hardware (as described by Moores Law) as well as higher computer literacy levels since the government introduction

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Max
  • Life, Love and Death: The Work of Adam Fuss

    Life, Love and Death: The Work of Adam Fuss

    Life, Love and Death: The work of Adam Fuss Peanut butter and jelly, a common combination of two separate entities, most people have heard of this duo, many enjoy it, but only one manufacturer packaged them together in a handy snack. Much like the tasty treat that is Goobers is the tasty duo of Adam Fuss and Roland Barthes. Two separate men, Adam Fuss and Roland Barthes put together in one reading, complementing and accentuating

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Death of God and the Celebrity Atheists

    Death of God and the Celebrity Atheists

    In today’s society, people care more about celebrities than they do about the people in their own neighborhood. Even more disturbing people follow celebrities as if they are prophets. They even try to share the same beliefs Kabbalah has reached the height of its popularity with a-list celebrities like Demi Moore, Madonna, and Britney Spears. Tom Cruise has done the same for Scientology. Therefore, it would only make sense for George Clooney and Angelina Jolie‘s

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Simplistic Death of Kafka

    Simplistic Death of Kafka

    As a primary author of the early 20th century, Kafka although very influential, was unconventional and wrote stories such as The Trial which are unclear leaving the reader wondering the reasoning for it all. Kafka’s stories were a combination of reality and vivid exaggerations having to do with the main character often being persecuted, such as Gregor who was beaten by his father in Metamorphosis and the son in The Judgment who committed suicide. The

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Death Row Inmates

    Death Row Inmates

    Imagine a man who commits murder, and is given a fifteen year jail sentence and is returned to the streets where he kills again. He is imprisoned again only to be released. This could happen since almost one in ten death row inmates has been convicted of murder at least once. That means that some death row inmates have had more than one opportunity to rehabilitate, yet continue to commit crimes. Should the U.S. justice

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Realtionship Between Death and Freedom in Sorrows of a Young Werther and Crime and Punishment

    The Realtionship Between Death and Freedom in Sorrows of a Young Werther and Crime and Punishment

    The relationship between death and freedom is a common thread throughout Sorrows of a Young Werther by Goethe and Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. The relationship illustrated in both works is that one cannot achieve true freedom until they are dead. Until death, Werther and Raskolnikov will always feel the restrictions that society places upon them. Werther feels restricted due to the unrequited love of Lotte and Raskolnikov feels restricted by the moral code that

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Anna
  • Death with Dignity

    Death with Dignity

    Dying With Dignity Presented to: Professor M. Shane Heard In Partial Fulfillment of Credit for; English 108: College Writing and Research Missouri Western State College March 9, 2005 On Tuesday, March 24, an elderly Oregon woman, acting with the aid of a doctor, dosed herself with potent chemicals and died. The woman had lived with breast cancer for more than 20 years. By all accounts her final hours were private and peaceful, as she became

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: July
  • The Death of Antigone

    The Death of Antigone

    In Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone saw her action of burying her brother as a just one. It may not have been just in the eyes of Creon and the people of Thebes, but she was not concerned with the laws that mortals had made. Antigone saw the divine laws of the gods to be much more important than those of mortals. She felt that if she died while upholding the laws of the gods, that her

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Yan
  • Analyzing Emily Dickenson in "because I Could Not Stop for Death"

    Analyzing Emily Dickenson in "because I Could Not Stop for Death"

    Analyzing Emily Dickenson In the poem, “Because I could not stop for death,” Emily Dickenson personifies death as a gentleman who had stopped to pick her up in his horse-driven carriage (18th century). She relates her death and funeral procession to that of a carriage ride with the man, death himself. It is really interesting how in this first stanza she rhymes the two words “me” and “immortality,” for she is immortal and the entire

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Life and Death of Ernesto Guevara De La Serna

    The Life and Death of Ernesto Guevara De La Serna

    Ernesto Guevara de la Serna the future Che Guevara was born on June 14 in Rosario in Argentina. At the age of two Che had his first asthma attack, a disease that he had to suffer with right up until he was shot to death by Barrientos’ troops in the forests of Bolivia. His father Ernesto Guevara Lynch, an engineer, was from a family of Irish descent, and his mother, Clia dela Sena, was an

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Wendy

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