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Life's Meaning in 'Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In eight pages this paper analyzes Tolstoy's protagonist and considers how this short story explores the value and meaning of life...

The Differences Between Art for Life's Sake and for Art's Sake

In seven pages this essay considers differences between art simply for the sake of art and as a representation of life and discuss...

Mike Rose and Young Children's 'Possible Lives'

In five pages this paper examines public education's future and children as perceived by Mike Rose. There are no other sources li...

Comparative Analysis of Philip Levine's 'Animals are Passing From Our Lives' and Charles Simic's 'Butcher Shop'

Contrasts and comparisons of these two poems are drawn in this paper consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed....

Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism on Life's Meaning

eyes of the Islam and the Christians and he is the one who will take us to a better place when our time on earth is done(Dalrymple...

Critical Review of How We Die Reflections On Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland

to follow through with the patients final wishes. In acknowledging that these situations exist, the author also shows how people ...

Big Industry Determinations of Human Life's Value

In five pages environmental contamination and the Ford Pinto cases are examined in this overview of how human life's value is ofte...

Comparing Bell I. Wiley's The Life of Billy Yank with The Life of Johnny Reb

Southern young men, war was an opportunity to travel to other parts of the country that they had never seen. War seemed glorious a...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

LIfe's Basic Properties

bound up in the behavioral aspect of lifes properties. A number of variables play integral roles in how life forms propel themsel...

Adjusting to Life’s Challenges

and then we will get on with our lives. Numerous theories have been postulated about why some people seem to...

Human Life's Economic Value

In seventeen pages this report examines human life in terms of its economic value with value determinants assessed along with comp...

A Life in Art: How Kate Chopin’s Life Influenced Her Feminist Writings

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

Life in Art: How Stephen Crane’s Life Influenced His Writings

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

A Life's Significant Event

three full revolutions. Just then his entire body lurched forward out of the wreckage, he staggered and fell, his bloody face daz...

Pornography, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity

was the reaction of Europeans to many aspects of Eastern culture when they first encountered it. However, Parrinder indicates that...

Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism

the quest for atman , the knowledge of the self" emerged (Hinduism History, 2005). This took place between 400 B.C. and 600 A.D. (...

A Comparison of Sex as Embraced in Christianity and Buddhism

Yet, this movement includes many who are in a minority. Today, regardless of religion, sex is everywhere. This was not always the ...

Free Will and Determinism in Buddhism

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

Islamic, Buddhism, and Christian Architecture

In nine pages this paper examines and compares the architectural styles of these three world religions. Nine sources are cited in...

Zen Buddhism Philosophy, Suzuki Roshi, and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines the philosophical similarities and differences between Suzuki Roshi's and Immanuel Kant's theorie...

Zen Buddhism Philosophies of D.T. Suzuki and Hu Shih

This paper consists of nine pages and compares and contrasts the Zen philosophies of D.T. Suzuki and Hu Shih. Seven sources are c...

Buddhism, Western Culture, Consumerism And Disharmony

notes how this continual desire to control keeps people anxious and powerless to their own misery, which is exactly why so many pe...

Differences Between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism

18). The words of Buddha were not written down until several centuries after his death and the first divisions within Buddhist b...

Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

Pilgrimages in Buddhism and Islam

that the political, social and revolutionary benefits of Hajj have been overtaken by mass production of ritual mismanagement" (Hae...

Evaluating Two Buddhism Texts

or Ego" (Rahula, 1986, p. 23). Conze s (1959) Buddhist Scriptures is another book that is rather comprehensive as well. Conze is ...

Zen Buddhism Term Satori and its Meaning

In one page this research paper defines the Zen Buddhist concept satori as heightened enlightenment comprehension. One source is ...

Discussing the Mutual Goals of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism

In five pages these religions are examined in terms of their similar goals to provide mankind with an ultimate sense of purpose. ...

Buddhism and Mencius Concepts of Violence and War

This paper contrasts and compares the Mencius and Buddhist concepts of war, violence, and use of military force. Four sources are...