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"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

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...

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

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...

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...

same crime, although clearly the crimes and criminals were different. This is not necessarily fair. When one looks into the trut...

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

death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...

there will not be the endless appeals that follow the death sentence (Neumann, 2009). In addition, Wanzenreid notes that capital...

on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...

30). Cheated out of his greatest desire, Troy works now as a garbage man and in middle-age, is growing increasingly bitter (Bloom)...

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

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

path in life. His father had died when he was only five, in fact, and the Chinese military seemed to offer him the most immediate...

flogged rather than killed (Acts 5:27-42). It is through the writings of early historians like Eusebius of Cesarea and Origen that...

light and dark, and sweet and sour. Some may see this phenomenon metaphorically as a dance. The point is that death is a part of l...

and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...

researching this subject it seems that studies are scant at best. Also, there is a practical problem in researching the topic as m...

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

for consumer to avoid the capsules until "the series of deaths in the Chicago area could be clarified" (Tifft, 1982). The fall out...

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

car accidents). In light of how diverse murder can be deemed in the courts of law it seems important to note that the death penalt...

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

history of Arkansas, the first Republican governor for some time, almost a hundred years, and he was a man who believed in many po...

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

the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...