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Four Insights into the Meaning of Life

responsibility. He feels stifled by his Louisiana environment and longs to leave. He knows that this involvement will strengthen h...

Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

In three pages the life's meaning Victor Frankl, a concentration camp survivor, searches for as represented in his book is examine...

Meaning and Symbolism of Ancient Egypt's Shawabtis

This is the function of a shawabti, but does it really describe the way in which one was lovingly carved, placed, or the perspecti...

The Cultures of Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome and Athletes

"The crews are straining at the oars; the crowd on shore is cheering wildly. Each boat must sail out to sea, swing around...

Virtue and the Good Life According to the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

so morality, for Aristotle is defined by mans choices towards ethical virtue (1098a16). In Book II of "Nicomachean Ethics," Ari...

Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines life's meaning in a consideration of such philosophies as Albert Camus' French existentialism, s...

Historical Analysis of Edward Gibbons' 'The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' and Tacitus' 'The Annals'

In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...

Viktor Frankl's Theories and Meaning in Macbeth and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines how life's meaning and human suffering's relationship is represented by these William Shakespeare...

Executing the Condemned by Cruxifixion

Crucifixion as a means of execution served a number of purposes in the ancient world. This paper discusses the origin of the pract...

Mechanistic and Teleological Views of the World

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...

Life, Meaning, and Meursault in Alfred Camus' The Stranger

In six pages this paper assesses whether or not Camus' character Meursault lived a meaningful life with criteria contained within ...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

In five pages the author's naturalist perspective is applied to life's questions including the place of humanity, God, and what th...

'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 ...

Popular Religion Conceptually Defined

In five pages this paper conceptually defines what is meant by popular religion in an historical overview of ancient Greece and We...

Overview of the Theories of Austrian Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl

excused them, did not live to see them practised in the gas chambers of Auschwitz (Freud died in 1939). Dr Frankls father, mother,...

Human Morality

correct, or is it morally superior to allow a twelve year old rape victim to have an abortion? The problem with morality is that i...

Creative Writing Paper Sample

you keep me around." Okay, so Im a pushover where hes concerned, but I have to say in my defense that I still wasnt sold on the w...

Ancient Egypt's Civilization and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines the meaning of civilization in this Ancient Egypt consideration that discusses its socioeconomic...

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

"beetle" and the "moping owl." The narrator walks beneath "rugged elms," where the turf is rounded into "many a moldering heap" (...

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Aristotle's Table of Virtues

the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...

Hero’s Quest in the Film The Fisher King and in Epic of Gilgamesh

quest for the Holy Grail that were considered by filmmaker Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese in the 1991 movie Th...

NDEs and Religious Ministers

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

Affirmative Action, Racial Profiling and Morality

is a rather difficult concept to explain. In essence, what Himma is saying is that "pervasive stereotypes cause even the most tale...

Nutrition and Exercise in the Treatment of Mental Illnesses

is vast, the most common being depression and anxiety. There are few comprehensive definitions of mental illness, one of the best ...

Political Theme in Zhang's Hero

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

Ancient Kingship in the Sasanid Empire

by C.E. Bosworth, offers a considerable insight into how the ancient Sasanid civilization of Persia (modern day Iran) perceived ki...

Ismene as the Foil in Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

Ancient Egypt and the deification of kings

to punishment after death: Budge (1905) comments that many later religions derived their concept of a fiery, demonic hell from the...

Isolation: How It Leads To Altered Behavior

of something he never anticipated to occur. When he did see the undesirable transition his "guards" were taking with regard to tr...

Ancient Poems and Love Songs of Egypt and China Compared on Love and Sex Attitudes

war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...