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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...

Government and the State, Good and Evil, and the Individual According to Philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

from mans knowledge of truth; Aristotle believed that all men pursued happiness which came not from wealth but from contemplation ...

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...

Life's Ultimate Questions by John P. Newport

The knowers reaction to truth is important, but the truth is not dependent upon that reaction" (Newport PG). Newport sugge...

Anne's Story and a Shaken Life's Structure

that she had organized her wards to the utmost efficiency. At the same time, her best friend Jessica had written to her brother in...

Life Analysis of This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff

- Toby and his mother are escaping an abusive situation (one that, ironically enough, Tobys mother was used to, having dealt with ...

Human Life's Economic Value

mother who works outside of the home would also have earning potential for the duration of her life, and may also contribute to ho...

Civilian Life v. Military Life

many businesses have embraced the concept as well, or at least have used it to an extent. The contemporary workplace has within it...

Giuseppe Verdi and His Life's Influence on His Music

its pointless...misfortune rules the world" (Rosselli, 2000, p. 30). In later life, Verdi admitted that in a "sudden moment of des...

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...

Sanctity of Life versus Quality of Life

have the discretion to terminate their dependents lives" (Woodward, 1995). Defenders of Latimer points out that if the surgery tha...

Product Life Cycle of VADs Ventricular Assist Devices Product Life Cycle

better suited to the needs of many consumers, rather than only to those at the low end of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kena...

Life Span vs Life Expectancy

secure and safe. Bowlby believed that all animals, including humans, are born with the desire to be close to their parents in orde...

Life's Journey, Basho and Bugbee

This essay takes quotes from both Matsuo Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior and Henry Bugbee's The Inward Morning and then discus...

General Overview of Life's Origins

In five pages this paper examines life's origins in this general overview. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Personal Morality and Life's Meaning

In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

Analysis of John O'Brien and Herbert Lovett's 'Finding a Way Toward Everyday Lives'

One of the first things that struck this writer in this work was the following: "Too often, however, the inertia of service system...

Life's Absurdities and Thomas Nagel

In six pages this report considers how Nagel regarded life as absurd in this overview of his thoughts about life. Five sources ar...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

Interpretation of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...

The Film 'Regarding Henry'

be his wife and daughter. Even with the unrelenting encouragement of Sarah and Rachels recollections to help him remember his fam...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Answering Questions Science Cannot Through Religion

authority in all human action and interaction. But it is important to understand that regardless of the passage of time and the a...

American Dream as Represented by Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper examines how these important men's lives reflect the concept of the American Dream as depicted within Nar...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Social Values

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

Film Representations of the Holocaust

of Train of Life (or its original French title - "Train de vie") is that the "village idiot" of a tiny Jewish community learns th...