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Sitting Bull's Life from Dakota to Wounded Knee

In five pages this paper discusses the life and death of Sitting Bull which include such topics as his Little Big Horn battle invo...

'Master and Man' Short Story by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...

Frankenstein as a Reflection of the Life of its Author Mary Shelley

In five pages this paper discusses how Frankenstein reflect the life of Mary Shelley in its characterizations and a plot that mirr...

Meaning of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

sons, one in particular, following in his footsteps, not necessarily as a salesman, but as a working class man such as himself. Wi...

Underlying Issues Behind the Ford Explorer and Firestone Tire Deaths

This paper addresses the recent tragedy caused by the defective Firestone tires on Ford Explorers that blew out causing over one h...

Nationalism in Canada

In eleven pages the ways in which the First World War contributed to Canada's nationalist stance are examined through the theses p...

Egypt's Sacred Forces of Nature and Afterlife

In five pages this paper considers how life, death, and afterlife were perceived by the peoples of ancient Egypt. Three sources a...

Death and Eskimo Rituals

In six pages the Eskimo death ritual is examined within the context of Purnell's Model for Cultural Competence. Seven sources are...

Dying and Death in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe and The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

These works are considered in five pages in terms of the protagonist's perceptions of dying and death in a contrast and comparison...

Stage and Setting Significance in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

deal of understanding in this particular line. We note that the staging is "smart" which tells us that the staging is perhaps cris...

Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death Revisited

of the funeral industry we turn to examining a few conditions presented by Mitford. This particular writer noted that in the fi...

Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death

is the final destiny for man" (Becker, 1973, p. ix). While the basis of his theory may explore that mans anxiety stems from his fe...

Carter Beats the Devil by Glenn David Gold

At the time that Harding insisted volunteering to be in the performance, Secret Service agent Jack Griffin did not like the idea ...

Link Between Death Theme in His Poems and the Personal History of John Keats

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

Dying, Death, and Sociology

of life has been a standard for measuring a patients outcome. Indeed, while there may be medical procedures still to be applied t...

Overcoming Death Through Comedy

unusual observances and ultimately lightens its impact. David Ives "All in the Timing" is a series of one act plays which t...

Gun Deaths and Public Gun Availability Correlation

an assailant. It is because the person who is carrying it is sending out a message that if used, it will be to kill. Any person ...

Henry Clay Frick's Art Collection

In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...

An Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba

the story it is without the elements of death and resurrection. It is through this simple connection to their son, to life, that t...

A Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guttierez by J. Breslin

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

Terry Kay's To Dance with the White Dog

with his daughters, who think hes gone off the deep end with grief. She becomes his companion, gives him a reason to get out of b...

Dark and Death Themed Comedy Plays

David Ives "All in the Timing" is a series of one act plays which tell the story of different situations all with a comical and...

In Support of Capital Punishment

penalty is used rarely and for only the most severe crimes. But in 18th- and 19th-century England and America, the death penalty w...

Ancient Greece and Death

death (Religion and Death). According to Greek philosophy, the god Hermes led the soul of the person to the river Styx which sep...

The Field of Forensic Entomology

the skin. The field of urban entomology can be of importance because the forensic entomologist can be a crucial part of civil jud...

Boxer Benny Paret

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how prizefighter Benny Paret's death was presented in two essays by Norman Cousins...

Understanding Death Through Rituals

within some of todays Chinese societies include wailing and white banners placed upon the home to indicate death; wearing all whit...

Willy Loman and Blanche Du Bois

bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: ""Oh no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (...

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...

Metaphysical Perspectives of Georges Bataille

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