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The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

What Being a Writer Means in Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

demonstration of Alice Munros unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women" (Codys Books). This illustrates that Munro i...

The Meaning of Life According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...

Socrates on Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper evaluates Socrates' perspectives on what life means. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Ninth Chapter of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and What it Means

on a large truck, often driven by hired men they do not know. It is scary to have to leave everything one owns in one place and ha...

The Meaning of Life: Existentialism

for those who would adopt the notion of existentialism it is important to note that their perspectives and faith in religion and G...

Jewish Calendar, Life Cycle And Meaning Of God Is One

instructions, Moses told the people to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the outside of their homes (Oakley, 2006). When God...

The Meaning of Life

The media can have a direct impact on our understanding of the science...

The Many Forms of The Seventh Seal

The writer examines the development of Ingmar Bergman's classic movie The Seventh Seal, tracing it from a series of acting exercis...

Leisure Lifestyles of Women and Cassandra by Florence Nightingale

In five pages this paper discusses women's rights and giving meaning to life as conceptualized by Florence Nightingale, the founde...

Narrative of David and Goliath

his victories against large predators to his faith in God. Scholarship points out that many features of this narrative relate to...

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death Of Ivan Ilyich'

In five pages this paper examines how the characters of Emma Bovary and Ivan Ilych struggle to give their lives in decline meaning...

'The Mean' Meaning According to Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's concept of 'the mean' is discussed in terms of a balanced universe comprised fo form and matter and the ...

Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral' and the Symbolism of Blindness

In a paper consisting of 8 pages the symbolism of blindness in this short story by Raymond Carver is discussed in terms of insight...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and 'Seeing Into the Life of Things'

issues regarding his position as an adult, presenting us with a serious and introspective perspective: "To them I may have owed 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...

In Admiration of Job

substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty o...

'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and a Dissection of John Keats's Prose

In eleven pages this essay explicates Keats' nineteenth century poem in a consideration of life experiences, language, and poetic ...

Reflections: Exercise in Conscious Living

order to focus on that which is most important not only in sustaining an individuals own life, but can make a positive difference ...

"The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" - Leadership

a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...

A Civic Project

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

Marine Ecosystems

(Juda and Hennessey, 2001, p. 43). The LMEs are large areas, approximately "200,000 km2 or larger, characterized by distinct bathy...

Adult Undergraduate Learning

by in large, adults such a Emerald require instruction that shows them how their life knowledge relates to areas of academic study...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and the Lack of Hidden Meanings

Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...

The Sweet Herafter

In this six page report the writer provides an overview of the movie and book renditions of the school bus accident that took the ...

Pride and Prejudice, Candide, and the Important Things in Life

being respected. She begins to see that it is nobility and integrity which provide the foundation for a worthy individual. This is...

Common Denominator in Works by Walzer, Bellah et al, and Etzioni

exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...

An Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity Overview

or what is referred to as tauba in Islam, is able to save a man (Salvation and the Afterlife, 2002). Therefore, Islam invites man...

The Plague by Albert Camus and Human Meaning Struggles

been used, similar to George Orwells "1984" to describe the impact and the reaction of the Nazi invasion on France during World Wa...