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Metaphysical Perspectives of Georges Bataille

teachings concerning the Void, which is expressed in the Upandishads and the Gita (Continuity/Discontinuity). From this viewpoint,...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death'

the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...

Moral Issues Involving the Death Penalty

innocent person to be found guilty. On the other hand proponents of the death penalty look on DNA technology as a powerful safegua...

Arguing for Quick Executions of Convicted Death Penalty Inmates

as their cases are rehashed over and over again is not only expensive but allows these criminals a chance to profit from their cri...

South America's Yanomami and the Ethnographic Film Magical Death

on the day-to-day life of the Yanomami and have titles such as Weeding the Garden, A Man and His Wife Make a Hammock, and Firewood...

Aspects of the Death Penalty

In eleven pages the various factors relevant to the death penalty are considered in an argument against it along with some inclusi...

Characters by Trillin and Pham

Both Andrew Pham (Catfish and Mandala) and Calvin Trillin (It's Just Too Late), main characters die. This paper compares and contr...

Adult Grandson's Stages of Grieving the Death of His Grandmother

the Five Stages of Death. Not only does the author convey these feelings in a positive and straightforward manner, but she also d...

An Examination of Pocahontas

met John Smith in 1608 and between that time and the time she married another gentleman in 1614, she was kidnapped and raped by th...

Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng

and the murder of her daughter, were horrible factors that, regardless of their horror, could not defeat the most elemental aspect...

Causes and Effects of Obesity in Adults

an apple shape with body fat accumulate in the bellies. This is not a universal as individuals storage of body fat may differ than...

Imagery in 4 Poems by Robert Frost

is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

Life's Final Chapter

is never a simple effort. Many books that deal with this subject do so in such a way that ends up coming across as patronizing an...

Greed and Power in Characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

by killing King Duncan. But, he is hesitant about doing such a thing. It is, however, Lady Macbeth who urges him on. It is Lady Ma...

Machisma And Machismo In The Plays of Lorca and Marquez

other because they are in competition for available males. They are devious toward each other as well as toward their mother beca...

Tragedy as Defined by Aristotle

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

Human Condition as Described by Andrew Marvell and William Blake

In other words, if aging and death were not part of the human condition, that is, if there was time, her "coyness" (i.e. her modes...

The Symbolism of the Sea in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

Children's Dramatic Roles

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

Literary Classics, Knowledge of Death and Religion

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

2 Poems By Emily Dickinson

she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...

Dark Drama Macbeth by William Shakespeare

audience is presented with circumstances and relationships where there is never a truly positive outcome for any of those involved...

'The Country Girls' and 'The Dead'

village. Even though most of the protests...

Relationship Dissolution, Death, Joint Occupancy, and Joint Tenancy

In nine pages this report examines the home purchase of two couples in a consideration of such issues as joint tenancy, joint occu...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Guilt of Queen Gertrude

In five pages this paper discusses how the play's text reveals the Danish queen to be guilty of adultery and murder conspiracy in ...

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon'

The relationship between ancient sacrifice and bullfighting in Spain is examined in this analysis of 'Death in the Afternoon' by E...

Comparative Analysis of Arthur Miller's Characters Willy Loman and John Proctor

This paper consists of 5 pages and contrasts and compares the protagonists John Proctor and Willy Loman as featured in Arthur Mill...

Short Story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'

on his knee, leans over him, putting his ear first higher then lower, and performs various gymnastic movements over him with a sig...