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Happiness, Compassion and Religion

study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...

“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...

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...

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

William Shephard described his horror at witnessing this. "Thud-dead; thud-dead;...sixty-two thud-deads" (Leap for life). Shephard...

Leo Tolstoy’s Alyosha the Pot

is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...

Religion and Death in A Farewell to Arms and Slaughterhouse-Five

a sense of belief and stability. However, one is never really sure if the priest is really that devoted due to the general nature ...

Freud And Malaparte

stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...

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 ...

Point of View: Atwood and Ford

her youth she experienced the suicide of a friend in the woods while camping. The body was never found and this woman, Lois, was n...

Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians

is believed to be around 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, ...

Alexander the Great’s Successors & Hellenistic Culture

311, Cassander held 13-year-old Alexander IV, Alexander the Greats only surviving heir and his mother captive and he had them both...

Sharing Grief

did you wonder about your stepfather being alive or dead? What you write may resemble the following: I was considered too young to...

Responsibility for Carnage in The Iliad

great deal of loss and death in his wake. But, he is not the power, the real power, behind the war and he really only seems to ser...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

Comparative Analysis of Oedipus and Willy Loman as They Relate to Aristotle’s Definition of a Tragic Hero

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

Death in Emily Dickinson’s Poem ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death (712)’ and Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’

turn brown; leaves drop from the trees in late autumn; butterflies soar for a short span of time; predatory animals kill their pre...

African “AIDS Orphans”

2008). To make matters worse, the psychological problems experienced by AIDS orphans are exacerbated if they are separated from th...

Linda in Death of a Salesman

not going to happen, and she wants her sons to be good sons, which they are not, at least in her eyes. Perhaps she knows that ther...

Death in a Promised Land

At the same time, in the early 20s, "opportunities for young black men in Tulsa...were severely circumscribed, regardless of educa...

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 ...

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...

Comparative Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

Virginia Woolf and E.B. White: Essays

a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-und...

Comparative Poetic Explication of Death in Emily Dickinson’s “The Bustle in a House (#1078)” and Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...

Story of the Religious Leader Joshua

learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...

The Saver

could serve to sever Fern from her First Nations heritage. Fortunately, that turns out to not be the case. Fern actually grows s...

Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

entire novel is the childrens experience with love. Rahels relationship with her twin brother goes far beyond love; despite the fa...

PAUL SMITH, STEROIDS AND THE SPORT OF JAZKE

This 5-page paper provides a fictitious scenario about a sports player admitting to using steroids on his death bed. The paper dis...

So It Goes: Vonnegut and Death

one critic notes it does not matter if many are killed or one very close personal individual was killed, the truth was that "so it...