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- 1681: Frankenstein: Rights and Responsibilities
- ... world, he didn't have to consult anyone, answer any questions or think into the future. With no monitoring, one scientist not only caused four unwarranted deaths, he endangered the lives of many more. "The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife; even at that moment I knew not my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the fiend; my ... and loss during the age of "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." Since Mary Shelley's birth there have been numerous loss's in her life. One extremely dominating event in Shelley's life was the death of her mother. Only ten days after Shelley's birth, Mary Wollstonecraft, died of an acute fever. Soon after her father Charles Godwin remarried and Shelley entered a battle as the victim of a fight ... because after all the beast is supersensitive. "But it is true that I am a wretch, I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept, and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing. I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have ...
- 1682: Abortion, The Pope And Peter S
- ... is doing the exact opposite. Not only are they killing an innocent human being, but they are killing a child of God. Also, man is not the final judge in matters such as life and death, he is only a ‘minister of God’s plan’ (Humanae Vitae, Paul VI). Paul II goes on to explain how human life is ‘sacred and inviolable’. Life is sacred because it is a gift from God and man was created in the image of God. God overlooks our lives from birth to death, and no one else has the right to destroy an innocent human being, especially one as innocent as an unborn child. Man is suppose to be the defender of the innocent, not the destroyer. He explains how the man who kills the innocent is one who has been deceived by the Devil, because only Satan delights in the death of the living. “You shall not kill” represents the extreme limit which cannot be exceeded. It is meant to encourage man to see life with respect and lead to the promotion of life with ...
- 1683: Bigger Thomas
- ... that has been building up since the first time the two races ever met has finally gotten to the point where a black person’s only hope of real freedom lies in his or her death. Conditions were much too cruel for the achievement of the American dream for most people, even in the rare instance that one did acquire his or her own home and family, prejudice kept him or ... threw her. Rage and fear abided inside of him and took control of him, the direct result of repression by whites. He killed two people, and even though he was not charged with Bessie’s death, a man who killed by accident and is thrown in jail has no hope of achieving the American Dream. The color of his skin, not the reasons for his actions, mainly determined his fate. Finally, in the third book, Fate, Bigger is sentenced to death by electrocution. Shortly beforehand, his lawyer Max came to visit him in his cell. Bigger explains: “When a man kills, it’s for something. … I didn’t know I was really alive in this ...
- 1684: Billy Budd
- ... dead with one blow to the head. In an effort to uphold military law and regulation, Captain Vere holds a trial in which he manipulates the reluctant court into convicting Billy and sentencing him to death. But his death was not agonizing or tortuous. It was instead, majestic. "At the same moment it chanced that the vapory fleece hanging low in the East was shot through with a soft glory as of the fleece ... Lamb of God seen in mystical vision, and simultaneously therewith, watched by the wedged mass of upturned faces, Billy ascended, and, ascending, took the full rose of the dawn"(80). Such glory and beauty in death can only be achieved by those who are truly ready and without regret, as Billy was. The question, then, is presented. Innocence or wisdom? Which philosophy, which way of life is more correct? Claggart, ...
- 1685: Unions
- ... often taken selfishly and taken for granted today. There were many successes and failures in organized labor; the successes were often obtained through the loss of the worker, often through lost wages, jobs, or even death. The organization structure of the union during 1870 through 1900 went through different cycles and strategies to achieve what they wanted. One of the first effective regional organized unions was the Knights of Labor formed ... on million by 1900. With these strengths in numbers they often preferred striking over political action. The struggle for workers rights, wage increases and protests against wage cuts were often unsuccessful resulting in violence and death. Chicago workers were agitating for the eight-hour work day for months. On May 1st and 2nd 1886 were eighty thousand workers went on strike, bringing most of Chicago’s manufacturing to a standstill. On ... known to this day threw a bomb that killed seven policemen and injured 67 others. Even though no evidence was ever found about who threw the bomb four anarchists were found guilty and sentenced to death. Ever since the Haymarket square symbolized for radicals and trade unionists everywhere the injustice of a capitalistic society but also associated negatively unions as un-American, criminalistic, and violent. Many other activists died or ...
- 1686: Prince William
- ... England, Prince Charles of Whales, and the late Princess Diana of Whales. In addition, he has a nanny named "Tiggy" who is not famous but very prominent in Prince William's life especially after the death of his mother. Queen Elizabeth is, of course, the Queen of England and the richest woman in the world. She is the grandmother of Prince William and sole protector – in her own thoughts – of her ... expected them both to follow his lead – and to be brave little soldiers. "Diana loved those boys so much," says one royal insider. "They were the most important thing in the world to her. He death is a senseless tragedy. But nothing is more senseless than the two of them now having to grow up without a mother." Princess Diana showed Prince William what life was really about – love – and one ... he will have her job. Becoming a part of history is hard enough, but to rule his country successfully he must learn from mistakes and the right way to do things. With Princess Diana's death, Prince William will need a mother figure and he may look towards his grandmother for it. Once, Prince William decided to go horseback riding instead of staying with the royal family and threw his ...
- 1687: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... give up on her when little Eva shows her how to reach Topsy. Tom and Eva study the Bible together and share a belief in a loving God. But Eva becomes ill and dies. Her death, and her example, transforms the lives of many of the people around her. Even her father becomes more religious. Unfortunately he is accidentally killed before he can fulfill his promise to Eva to free Tom ... slowly alters his life. Eva's persistence makes St. Clare finally realize that apathy is an evil equal to active abuse. With this in mind, St. Clare makes movements to emancipate Tom after Eva's death. In contrast, Eva's mother, Marie St. Clare, “represents the stubborn people of society who refute all change”(Fiedler 82). She is the “opposition” and people such as she enflame the Civil War and make ... does no good. Despite her mother's ambivalence, Eva continues to worry. She believes that “Jesus loves all alike”(Stowe 410), and in another respect, she serves as a Jesus-figure on Earth. On her death-bed Eva plays the role of a savior to the black slaves, just as her ideas, transmitted through the novel, will serve as their savior in the real world. Eva tells Tom, “I would ...
- 1688: Empress Wu
- ... she was recruited. Soon after she was recruited to the Tang court, she went from a low-ranking concubine to his favorite concubine. When T ai Tsung died in 652 AD, Empress Wu mourned his death and traditionally, she shaved off all her hair and became a nun. Meanwhile, in the Tang court after T ai Tsung s death, T ai Tsung s son, Kao Tsung, became the emperor of the Tang court. Kao Tsung s empress, Empress Wang, was jealous of a new concubine that Kao Tsung gave much affection to. Her name ... village commoners. Using the title of Empress, she sent people to kill them. Also, she used the title of Empress to easily destroy anybody who dared to go against her. Eventually, she has ordered the death of hundreds of imperial family members and many others that have gone against her. When Empress Wu was 70 years of age, she was in very bad health and there were a lot of ...
- 1689: Fate in King Lear
- ... he and she will watch the changes of the court, see "Who's in, Who's out" but they will outlast the various "... great ones that ebb and flow by the moon". In Lear, the death of hubris that gives rise to the humility of love This is as much a cycle in most of literature, Lear included, as is birth to death. In short death of the old precedes birth of the new. For Lear, it is a death of self-ignorance that gives rise to the birth of self knowledge. As the play progresses, it becomes more and ...
- 1690: Gods Grandeur
- ... would grind Him down as He bore His cross up the hill of Calvary, the pain that would come from being nailed through His hands and feet, and the slow suffocation that would precede His death (Landow, "Typological" 6). George P. Landow acknowledges the significance of Christ’s suffering. He describes one of Hopkins’s "basic and generating conceit": . . . higher beauty and higher victory can come forth only when something . . . is ... omnipotent, omniscient God chose to come down from the heavenly realm and take on the form of a mere man, subjecting Himself to the limitations of humanity, in order that He might die a cruel death to save men who were "yet sinners" (Rom. 5.8). The brilliance of lines one and two of Hopkins’s poem contrast with the crudeness of lines three and four to reveal God’s amazing ... could become for them a rod of comfort. If they would but trust in God’s Rod, they too, like the psalmist, might say, "Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me" (Ps. 23.4). But "[i]nstead of recognizing the authority of God’s majesty and grandeur ...
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