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  • Death

    Death

    Death makes us uncomfortable. We don't know how to act around someone that has a terminal illness. We don't know what to say to someone that has lost a loved one. Society struggles to find the right thing to say to comfort the dying and to console those left behind. Are consoling words really necessary? Why can't we face death as Patch did in the movie Patch Adams; with humor and last wishes granted? Everyone

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    Essay Length: 714 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Separate and Alone: Alienation as a Central Theme in Tolstoy’s the Death of Ivan Ilyich and Kafka’s Metamorphosis

    Separate and Alone: Alienation as a Central Theme in Tolstoy’s the Death of Ivan Ilyich and Kafka’s Metamorphosis

    Like death or abandonment, alienation is one of the deepest-rooted fears experienced by human beings. As social creatures, humans have the need to identify themselves as one of a group, whether that group is a family, a culture, or a religion. The experience of alienation is one of violation of a person's need for acceptance. Both Leo Tolstoy in The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Franz Kafka in Metamorphosis use alienation as a central theme

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    Essay Length: 1,517 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Anna
  • Death for the Crimes You Commit

    Death for the Crimes You Commit

    Mrs. Flamenco English 3 March 19, 2005 Death for the Crimes You Commit “If men were angels,” wrote James Madison, “no government would be necessary.” However, since neither men nor women are angels, governments establish and enforce laws and impose punishments when those laws are violated. The severest of all these punishments is the death penalty (Egendorf 9). Typically, when one thinks of capital punishment, one tends to place it into a moral realm. Whether

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    Essay Length: 995 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Victor
  • Death

    Death

    Death Death has a great impact on people's lives in such a way that they learn to value life or even live it to the fullest. But what happens to us after we die? Many religions have answered this question for us according to their faiths. Buddhism is a religion where Buddhists believe in the concept of death and reincarnation or rebirth. On the other hand, Christians believe that after you die you go into

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    Essay Length: 1,653 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jack
  • Death of a Salesman & Oedipus the King

    Death of a Salesman & Oedipus the King

    An overwhelming desire for personal contentment and unprecedented reputation can often result in a sickly twisted distortion of reality. In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, a man well-known for his intellect and wisdom finds himself blind to the truth of h life and his parentage. Arthur Miller's play, The Death of a Salesman, tells of a tragic character so wrapped up in his delusional world that reality and illusion fuse causing an internal explosion that

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Andrew
  • United States Healthcare: A Medical Death Wish

    United States Healthcare: A Medical Death Wish

    America’s Medicaid program provides medical assistance for individuals and families with low incomes and/or few resources. The program began in 1965 and is now the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with limited income. Today, the program covers 53 million people, nearly one in every six Americans, and costs $300 billion a year in federal and state funds. In fact, Medicaid in some states accounts for more than one-third of

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    Essay Length: 780 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Capital Punishment - Legal Punishment of Death for Violating Criminal Law

    Capital Punishment - Legal Punishment of Death for Violating Criminal Law

    CAPITAL PUNISHMENT The definition of capital punishment is the legal punishment of death for violating criminal law. The person who gets capital punishment is the ones who committed serious crimes. Methods of capital punishment throughout the world are by stoning, beheading, hanging, electrocution, lethal injection and shooting. The two most common methods capital punishment use in the United States are lethal injection and electrocution. The lethal injection is the most used form of capital punishment.

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Vika
  • Life’s Influence on Death, in Art: The Middle Ages

    Life’s Influence on Death, in Art: The Middle Ages

    LIFE'S INFLUENCE ON DEATH, IN ART: THE MIDDLE AGES 25 million Europeans died in just under five years between 1347 and 1352 due to the epic plague known as the Black Death. The great plague swept over Europe, ravaging cities causing widespread hysteria and death. One thirdthe population of Europe died. Simply mentioning the bubonic plague sends shivers down ones spine as it was one of the deadliest epidemics in history. It was originally transmitted

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    Essay Length: 262 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Tragedy of the Black Death

    The Tragedy of the 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: November 28, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Black Death

    The Black Death

    The Black Death, or The Black Plague, was one of the most deadly pandemics in human history. The Black Death erupted in the Gobi Desert in the late 1320s.The total number deaths worldwide from the pandemic is estimated at million people which was about two-thirds of Europe's population. It reached Paris in the spring 1348 and England in September 1348. 1348 was the worst of the plague years. It took longer to reach the

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Yan
  • Capital Punishment - the Legal Infliction of Death

    Capital Punishment - the Legal Infliction of Death

    Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. It has been around for thousands of years and still continues to execute people today. Capital Punishment is inhumane and in some cases sentences the innocent to death. It is obviously the most severe form of criminal punishment. Being morally unjust, the purpose of it has no significance. Killing a person for their wrongdoings does not in anyway help our

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    Essay Length: 481 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • Romeo and Juliet - Death by Coincedence

    Romeo and Juliet - Death by Coincedence

    The play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare tells the story of two very young lovers who die. It just appears that fate controlled the outcome of the story. But if you really study and interpret the story you will realize it is a series of a few simple coincidences, which made the outcome so tragic. It was just a coincidence that Romeo happened to meet Juliet. Near the beginning to the story Capulet

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Psychological Importance in the Death of Ivan Illych

    Psychological Importance in the Death of Ivan Illych

    Psychological Importance in The Death of Ivan Illych In The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy conveys the psychological importance of the last, pivotal scene through the use of diction, symbolism, irony. As Ivan Ilych suffers through his last moments on earth, Tolstoy narrates this man’s struggle to evolve and to ultimately realize his life was not perfect. Using symbols Tolstoy creates a vivid image pertaining to a topic few people can even start

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Yan
  • Collection of Death Poems

    Collection of Death Poems

    Death By APOORVA tomar I know it's natural And can't be stopped. It is mastered by thee And has to be But I still cry When the dear ones die It's their love and company And the sweet memories of their smile& tears Which remain in the heart for years & years It's their whispering in our ears Which makes me cry When dear ones die Death Desired By Johnson Cherian The glint of tear

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Steve
  • Hemingway’s ’the Handle’: Death and Deliverance

    Hemingway’s ’the Handle’: Death and Deliverance

    The labyrinthine structure of what is perhaps Hemingway's least-anthologized novella, "The Handle," belies its peremptory dismissal by many critics as a hastily written jumble of vacuous dialogue wrapped around a poorly-contrived plot. "The Handle," a posthumously published novella that Hemingway penned in the frustrated years following his Nobel prize in literature for "The Old Man and the Sea," is the story of a farmer, set in a sleepy fictional province of rural Ohio, whose yearnings

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Discuss"home Burial" and "death of the Hired Man" by Frost

    Discuss"home Burial" and "death of the Hired Man" by Frost

    In Frost's "Home Burial," a married couple are mourning the death of their son, and they don't appear to possess enough  communication skills or not comfortable with each other to console one another in order to cope with their child's passing. The husband wants to talk to his wife, but she is aloof with him and avoids any confrontation. The two could be so stricken with grief that even speaking of their dead child could be hard to swallow, and

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Janna
  • Death of a Salesman - Happy Lowman

    Death of a Salesman - Happy Lowman

    Harold Loman (Miller 79), or Happy as one may know him, never truly saw the epiphany of the ‘American Dream.’ He was just “blown full of hot air,” he never knew what was reality and what wasn’t (105). From the day that Happy was born, to the day his father died, and most likely till the day he would die, he never once saw the truth behind his ‘phony’ of a father. Happy, not only

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    Essay Length: 571 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Top
  • Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death

    Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death

    Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop For Death Collamer M Abbott. The Explicator. Washington: Spring 2000.Vol. 58, Iss. 3; pg. 140, 4 pgs People: Dickinson, Emily (1830-86) Author(s): Collamer M Abbott Document types: Feature Publication title: The Explicator. Washington: Spring 2000. Vol. 58, Iss. 3; pg. 140, 4 pgs Source type: Periodical ISSN/ISBN: 00144940 Text Word Count 1077 Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=000000056709394&Fmt=3&cli entId=43168&RQT=309&VName=PQD Abstract (Document Summary) Once one realizes that Emily Dickinson is talking about

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop

    Death Comes for the Archbishop

    Death Comes for the Archbishop By Willa Cather Willa Cather is the author of the award winning novel Death Comes For The Archbishop written in 1927. She was born in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia and soon moved to Nebraska (Cather, 1927). During her childhood she was surrounded by foreign languages and customs. Even at her young age she felt a connection to the immigrants in Nebraska and was intrigued with their connection to the land.

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Emily Dickinson's Obsession with Death

    Emily Dickinson's Obsession with Death

    Emily Dickinson's Obsession with Death Death is a major theme in the works of Emily Dickinson. The poems of Emily Dickinson show an obsession with death. The poem Because I Could Not Stop for Death,"This is oneof the best of those poems in which Emily triumphs over death by acceptiong it,calmly,civilly, as befits a gentlewomen receiving the attentions of a gentleman" (Sewall 125). In one of her poems "Because I Could not stop for Death,"

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Top
  • Near Death Experiences

    Near Death Experiences

    It seems like lately every time you turn on your television you hear about someone having a near death experience. So what exactly is a near death experience? A near death experience can be defined as “an experience that is reported by people who clinically die, or come close to actual death and are revived. These events often include encounters with spirit guides, seeing dead relatives or friends, life review, out-of-body Experiences (OBE), or a

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Mrs. Mallards Death

    Mrs. Mallards Death

    When a woman hears the terrible news of her husband’s death, one would think that the woman would be devastated and lost as to how to live the rest of her life. In The Story of an Hour, this is exactly what the reader presumes will happen to Mrs. Mallard. On the contrary, Mrs. Mallard turns a unfortunate situation into a joyous one. When Mrs. Mallard went to her room, her reaction was just

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!

    Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!

    In 17, Patrick Henry introduced a proposal to the Virginia Convention to form a local militia to be prepared to fight the British. In order for his proposal to pass and for his vision to become a reality, he had to persuade the members of the Virginia Convention to arm themselves as patriots to fight the British if they did not meet their demands. To do this, he had to appeal to their emotions, logic

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: July
  • The American Dream - Death of Salesman

    The American Dream - Death of Salesman

    There is something magical and sometimes overpowering to the majority of mankind: It is the thing that allows people to live in mansion's with helipad's as well as underground society forced to live in the many tunnels and passageways under New York City and to beg for their meals. Although this is definitely the extreme that I have described. It is sometimes indescribably cruel and other times very gracious. This thing that I write about

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Death on the Highway: Quality Problems at Ford and Firestone

    Death on the Highway: Quality Problems at Ford and Firestone

    On August 9, 2000, Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. officially announced that it was recalling 6.5 million of its Wilderness AT tires, most of which had been installed on Ford’s popular SUV, the Explorer. It was reported that Explorers equipped with Wilderness AT tires had been involved in a large number of rollover accidents on the USA high way leading to more than 170 deaths and over 700 injuries, and more than 40 deaths in the other

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike

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