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- 2131: Binge Drinking
- ... their violent feelings (Kaufman 2). Alcohol makes people feel as if it is ok to act on these feelings of violence. It makes people loose their common sense and it damages their judgement (Kaufman 2). Death is also a possible consequence of binge drinking. Driving under the influence of alcohol is one of the leading causes of death of teenager’s ages 16-20 (ICAP 3). Binge drinking is also associated with alcohol poisoning. Students may drink so much alcohol in a little time that their blood alcohol level rises to risky heights ... possibly die ( ICAP 3). If students continue to drink over a long period of time, their liver can suffer dramatically. Alcohol can soak into one’s liver and eventually shut down. This can cause immediate death. The consequences of binge drinking branch from a mere hangover to possible death. Still, college students indulge themselves in binge drinking all over the world. Why do they do it? There is no single ...
- 2132: Dantes Inferno 2
- Michel De Montaigne, a fifteenth century French essayist once said that, "The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. (21st Century Dictionary of Quotation, 1993) In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri conveys the concept that actions throughout life determine the quality of the afterlife. In various instances throughout his work, Dante shows the correlation ... is both hateful to God and Satan. Their lives have been without purpose, and their punishment corresponds to their actions. Virgil explains the fate of the soulless to his follower, "They have no hope of death their miserable lives have sunk so low that they must envy every other fate. No word of them survives their living season. Mercy and Justice deny them even a name." (42-47) The soulless have nothing for which to hope. Their suffering cannot be ceased by death. They must reside in Hell, in anguish, with the knowledge that no one on Earth misses their presence. Another crucial belief of the author is the inability to understand the purpose of various occurrences. ...
- 2133: Buddhism
- ... and then give a brief explanation of what each means. 1. All existence is suffering The first belief All existence is suffering explains what if suffering in life. For instance birth, old age, illness and death are all elements of suffering. These elements of suffering would be considered non-fulfilling desires in suffering. The suffering of lamination, grief, pain and affliction is connecting with being unloved. This is usually means that ... looking at this idea subjectively. This is just bringing out the sense of realism in religion. 3. The Cycle of Rebirth and Karma One thing fairly unique about Buddhism is the concept of birth, life, death, rebirth and on and on and on. In Buddhism only the kind goes on to re-birth as a human the rest can go into re-birth as an animal, denizen of hell, or a ... humans and Hindu Gods can go on to teach Buddhism in their new life. Buddhism is also different from other religions in that one can go to hell for a short period of time after death. This can be used as a punishment, so you can do well to go to heaven for the rest of your next life. It is totally your decision where you go to in your ...
- 2134: Tuat, The Gods, Ceremonies, And Preparations For Coming To The West
- ... be completed before entering Tuat. The land of Tuat has mant gods, ceremonies and myths surrounding it. Tuat was originally a place through which the sun god Ra passed each evening after his setting, or death, on his journey to that portion of the sky where he would appear the next morning. Thus, came the phrase of "coming into the west". The sun sets nito the west as does Ra. Tuat ... Where upon each peice she found she constructed a temple. That is why Osiris has so many temples throughout Egypt. Thus ends the Osiris myth . The myth is important because it explains how Osiris conquers death . Paul Hamlyn summarizes in his book Egyptian Mythology"The Osiris myth was one which appealed powerfully to the basic human emotions, was founded in the first instance ont he pathos of a good man being ... murdered by his evil brother, but eventually attaining eternal life through the unceasing efforts of his loving and devouted wife".The burial preparations also derive from Osiris’s burial. Osiris takes on the personification of death and ressurrection throughout Egypt. The jackal-headed god of the dead, Anubis. According to the Osiris myth he was the son of Nephthys and Osiris. Anubis was abandoned by Nephthys ay birth, and he ...
- 2135: A Review of the Essay "Rose Schneiderman and the Triangle Fire" by Bonnie Mitelman
- ... ten-story Asch Building in Greenwich Village, it usually employed 900 workers. On the day of the fire, only between 500 to 600 workers were there. When the fire was out, 146 were dead. Each death was avoidable. Minutes of a Women's Trade Union League meeting held a day after the Triangle Waist Company fire refers to the public indifference to the deplorable working conditions and the pleas for safety ... once the fire broke out. The effect of the fire and lost of so many young Jewish women created a "determination and dedication" to reform. And, had changed the socialist rhetoric to a life and death struggle for the community. The details of the tragedy define what the 1909-1910 strikers meant by "safety and sanitary reform." Around quitting time, approximately 4:45 p.m., on March 25, 1911 the fire ... helping a girl onto a streetcar. The last girl the reporter witnessed being added, put her arms around the young man and kissed him. He repeated the action of dropping the willing girl to her death. Then he, too, dropped to his. His actions saved them from a terrible death by fire. In a sad and peculiar way, the young man's actions were chivalrous. Windows that were sealed shut ...
- 2136: Frankenstein
- ... positive effect. Disease could be banished and self glory could result. "what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death"(40)! Shelley characterizes Frankenstein as a modern a mad scientist. One who fails to look at the moral and social implications when attempting to play god. Frankenstein gets obsessed with the power to master nature ... creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me"(52). Frankenstein believes that there may be little end to his power. "I might in process of time renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption"(53). In order to create the new life Frankenstein must look beyond moral obligation and dehumanize the act of life. He exploits natures resources in his obsession to manipulate nature. For Frankenstein death and decay have no morality. The process is merely scientific, "I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye ...
- 2137: Religion in Ancient India and Rgypt
- ... Sea and Red Sea by a canal. Ahmose II was the last pharaoh of the 26th dynasty to rule Egypt. He had a long and prosperous reign between 570-526 BC. Six months after his death, Persia invaded and took over Egypt. The period around 560 BC in India was ruled by the Maghuda dynasty which was known to develop a caste system and yet have a laid back lifestyle. It ... when he was going around the city, he noticed many miseries of life including an old man crippled with age, a funeral procession of a dead person, and a wife mourning for her husband’s death. This made him lose interest in worldly life, and he left the luxuries of the palace , left his wife and son, and went on a search for a way of escaping from the miseries of ... the 4 Noble Truths of Buddhism. Nirvana refers to the cooling, or blowing out of the passions, especially the extinction of the selfish passions, a state of enlightenment that can be achieved in life or death. The 4 Noble Truths are the laws that Buddhists abide by. These ideas are what Buddha learned by sitting under the tree. The first truth states that suffering is universal: everyone suffers from pain, ...
- 2138: Hamlets Procrastination And Co
- Hamlet s Procrastination and Cowardice In William Shakespeare s play Hamlet, Hamlet is a loyal prince who vows to avenge his father s murder. When Hamlet discovers the painful truth about his father s death, he is left with feelings of hatred and resentment in his heart towards the murderer, Claudius. Although Hamlet is a very noble and sophisticated man, he struggles with the issue of avenging his father s death. He swears his revenge will be quick, however, this is not the case. Since Hamlet is more into philosophizing than action, he thinks about his intention to kill Claudius. The more he thinks about his ... to know t; that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge. (Shakespeare, p. 67) This passage shows how Hamlet decides to avenge his father s death. In fact, he declares that he will be committed to nothing else but the revenge against Claudius: I ll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, ...
- 2139: Frakenstien
- ... life he is living. The creature's inner disorder leads him to start a snowballing effect of destruction. His conscious goal of ruining the life of Frankenstein is clear. "I will glut the maw of death until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends"(80). Frankenstein has violated his boundaries in playing creator. His monster, although filled with hate and revenge, is more human then himself. We sympathize ... 158). Rejected by physical deformities, and fear, the creature lives a painful life that he should of have never lived in the first place. The creature's term has come full circle upon Frankenstein's death. He states, "In his murder, my crimes are consummated; the miserable series of my being is wound to its close!… I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst. Alas! He is cold, he ... destroyed my creator, the select specimen of all that is worth of love and admiration among men, to misery. I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin. There he lies. White and cold with death" (161). Upon death for the two of them, happiness can only be found. And so, the total destruction of lives has been complete. The creature is brought down alone with his creator. Frankenstein's ...
- 2140: Crime and Punishment and The Outsider: Self Discovery
- ... on society's principles but their own. After they committed their crimes, Raskolnikov and Meursault were forced to question their beliefs. Before the murder, Raskolnikov had a dream. In it, a mare was beaten to death by it's enraged master, while a boy tried to defend it8. Now after his guilt “had begun already”9, Raskolnikov questioned whether he was the man who could “step over barriers” 10 without being ... was now beginning to see that he was not “like everyone else, exactly like everyone else”26. Yet, unlike Raskolnikov, he was not affected by this. He did not want to change. To him, his death was inconsequential. He believed whether he killed the Arab or not, “given that you've got to die, it obviously doesn't matter exactly how or when”27. Although Raskolnikov choose salvation, while Meursault refused ... paroxysm of joy an danger”33. He expressed that he would not use religion as a vehicle to avoid facing the fact that he must die34. Also, he would not look forward to life after death; “he wanted to know how I imagined this other life. So I shouted at him, ‘One which would remind me of this life'”35. It was during these final pages when Meursault became truly ...
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