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- 1461: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
- In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", the immense beauty and power of nature is used to enhance the sense of procrastination that is felt towards death; leading to the complete abolishment of time. The indescribable beauty of nature has the ability to control the responsive state of an individual, whereby a loss in the sense of reality heightens the complete awe ... things, and their worlds cannot be intertwined. The choice between the two is a difficult one, but the everlasting peace that nature presents is often turned to. This imagery of nature is used to parallel death, whereby the solemnity and peace that depicts nature, in turn, depicts death. The power of procrastination is strong enough to destroy even the strongest of wills. The man is pondering whether or not he should succumb to the "sleep" he desires, which symbolizes ending his life. ...
- 1462: Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
- ... crossing, the road of trials, the supreme test, a flight or a flee, and finally a return. There are more parts they do not necessarily fall into the same order, examples of these are symbolic death and motifs. The Cosmogonic Cycle is an interesting way to interpret literature because is Universal or correlates with any time period and any situation. The Call to Adventure is the first of the Cosmogonic Cycle ... is often associated with a character change or an appearance change. An example of this is in The Wizard of Oz, when the movie goes from black and white to color, showing a visual symbolic death. A symbolic death is another part to the Cosmogonic Cycle of which the character goes through a change and emerges a more complete person or more experienced. In The Adventures of Huck Finn, a symbolic death is ...
- 1463: Abortion: Birth Control or Legal Murder?
- ... features, eye color have already been determined. The baby's heart begins beating regularly at 24 days. Babies in the womb hiccup, cry, play, and learn" (Factbot). Life continues from the day of fertilization until death. Nothing is added to a person during a lifetime. "'Conception confers life and makes that life one of a kind,'" said Dr Landrum Shettles father of in vitro fertilization (Factbot). Abortion is wrong because it ... abortion is okay to them. They believe abortion is saving the child from abuse. Abortion, however, is the most severe case of child abuse. The procedures are painful to the child and intentionally end in death (except in cases where the procedure results in a living child. "About once a day, somewhere in the US, something goes wrong and an abortion results in a live baby" (Factbot)). The fetus is alive ... general anesthesia, so they're not painful for the mother. Of course we know the child feels pain'" (Whitney 94). Another method that is not performed much anymore is the saline injection; a long slow death process of poisoning the baby. The saline injection was developed in the Nazi Concentration Camps (Factbot) The most controversial form of abortion is the partial-birth abortion. Using an ultra sound the abortionist grabs ...
- 1464: Achilles’ Actions Bring His Eventual Doom Closer To Reality
- ... question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them.” Though written centuries after the death of Achilles, this quote from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” speaks honestly of his life. The epic poem, “The Iliad” of Homer, is a story of the journey of his soul, and his attempts to escape his ... his own. He leaves the army because he feels that the king has disrespected him. Thus begins the onset of his doom; by not fighting, and continuing to refuse to do so until after the death of his best friend, Patroklos, he defies his fate. Once having decided to leave the fighting, he goes to speak to his mother, Thetis. He asks her to ask Zeus to allow the Trojan army ... the Trojans forces, kills him. Achilles watches the war patiently, awaiting the tide of change to pass by, from the Trojans to the Greeks, but it is to no avail. Then, the news of Partroklos death comes to him. Achilles is overcome with grief and pain. He calls to his mother Thetis now, in Book Eighteen and bears his sorrow to her. She says to her son, “Why then child, ...
- 1465: A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... this quotation symbolizes. Blanche left her home to join her sister, because her life was a miserable wreck in her former place of residence. She admits, at one point in the story, that "after the death of Allan (her h usband) intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with" (Williams, 178). She had sexual relations with anyone who would agree to it. This is the first step in her voyage-"Desire". She said that she was forced into this situation because death was immanent and "The opposite (of death) is desire" (Williams, 179). She escaped death in her use of desire. However, she could not escape "death" for long. She was a teacher at a high school, and at one point she had ...
- 1466: A Midsummer Nights Dream
- ... I think I am not in the night;" This proves that Helena is a fool because Demetrius does not love her, but she still persists. Lysander is a fool because he persuades Hermia to avoid death and run away with him. Hermia must marry Demetrius or she will be put to death. (I i,line 83-88) Theseus says, "Take time to pause, and, by the next new moon- The sealing-day betwixt my love and me, For everlasting bond fellowship- Upon that day either prepare to ... remote seven leagues." (I i,line 164- 165) "Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night, And in the wood, a league without the town." Lysander is a fool because he convinces Hermia to risk death and run away with him. Hermia is a fool because she risks death for love. Hermia is to marry Demetrius, or be put to death. (I i,line 95-98) Egeus says, "Scornful Lysander, ...
- 1467: Childhood Is The Kingdom Where
- ... lines she writes, "Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is" (3, 4). I feel she is stating here that the chid is inoocent from adult feelings. When your a child death does not have a real meaning to you. She writes, "mothers and fathers don't die" (22), and for that matter brothers and sister do not either. When you are young death does not seem to have a impact unless it happens to someone that is in your immediate family. She even writes of the impersonal relationships that a child has with relatives. You can imagine how if the relative died the child might not even notice. In lines 9 through 16 Edna writes about how a child might first encounter death first hand when the family cat dies. But the way she writes, " You fetch a shoe-box, but it's much too small, because she won't curl up now: So you find a ...
- 1468: Comparative Harms Of Legal And
- ... depression in women nicotine dependence and depression did not vary between the sexes. All of this means that both nicotine dependant men, and women are at a greater risk for major depression. As far as death from cancer, smokers are at a two times greater risk than a nonsmoker, and a heavy smoker is at a four times greater risk than a nonsmoker. Of the 400,000 deaths that are accredited ... substances can interfere with the process of cellular replication; often cause genetic damage and mutations. Smoking also has another way to kill, second hand smoke. Second hand smoke or passive smoking also has a large death rate. It is estimated that somewhere around 53,000 deaths are caused each year due to second hand smoke (Skaar 2). Another disease that smoking has a great toll on is cardiovascular disease. Smoking results ... are a few concerns that are associated with smoking and being pregnant. There is an increased risk of pre and prenatal mortality, placenta abruptia, placenta previa, low birth weight, preterm delivery and SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) (Skaar 3). One other problem that the United States is currently having with smoking is paying for all of the people that are in the hospital with smoking related illnesses. The states are ...
- 1469: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- ... Tess of the d'Urbervilles was a great example of this. In Hardy's Victorian age novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, he illustrates casual wrong, the will to recover, the growth of love, and death. Almost everybody has done something casually wrong and not think much of it, many call this indifferent nature. Tess is no stranger to casual wrong. Throughout her life indifferent nature has occurred. Her parents were ... and yet the wrong is not made by her. Tess' true strength is her determination to overcome her misfortunes. When the Durbeyfields' horse, Prince died, Tess took control of the situation of the horse's death and the beehive delivery. She takes care of the kids and she had done well in school, even though Tess seems to go nowhere. Also when she leaves her job of taking care of the ... for Angel to feel better about the old situation, but it was not a good plan, because now they are wanted. The growth of their love seemed to go to far in this case. Although Death is a natural part of life, it is not a pleasant one. When the Durbeyfields' horse died, it seemed to foreshadow worse things to come. Tess' own death and Alec's who was murdered ...
- 1470: Return To Oneness
- ... to live this ideal to a great extent by employing the image of doppelganger into his tales. Poe believes that the human body and the psyche follow the same pattern manifested in the birth and death of a universe. His doppelganger corresponds to the individualized and differentiated, and therefore unnatural stage of universe. Like the universe at its abnormal stage, his doppelganger instinctively wants to rejoin the body, to return to ... with and intolerable of his double, he murders his conscience in a nasty way. What¡¯s left is a living dead. The malicious killing, in which the doppelganger is destroyed, echoes Poe¡¯s belief that death is the return of spirit to unity and that this return to unity parallels a grand universal consistency. Another tale, The Fall of the house of Usher, is most readily intelligible as a fable of ... himself with his victim:¡± I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart.¡± But what he did not know was that through his crime he was unconsciously seeking his death. The shuttered lantern in his hand chanced to symbolize the thing he hated, the pale blue eye of the old man, the eye with a film over it, and in this way the executioner ...
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