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- 491: Christian Evidences
- ... completely sheltered from all forms of misery in the world, and he was given all of the pleasures that the world could offer. He was to be shielded from any contact with sickness, decrepitude, or death. However, one day, despite the best efforts of the servants of the king, he saw an old man who was decrepit, broken-toothed, gray-haired, and bent of body, leaning on a staff, and trembling ... lying by the road, and later, a corpse. On a fourth occasion he saw a monk and he thus learned the possibility of withdrawal from the world. He said, "Life is subject to age and death. Where is the realm of life in which there is neither age nor death?" He became acutely aware of the evanescence of the things of the world. At the age of 29, he secretly left his father's kingdom to begin a search for enlightenment. He learned from ...
- 492: Analysis of Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
- Analysis of Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from Earth, loosed rom its dream of life. I woke to the black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell is a poem about a soldier dying in the ball turret of a fighter plane during what was most likely World War II. The poem tells of ... being told by a soldier who has been taken from his childhood and thrown into war. The soldier describes the fear of awakening from the naive state of childhood into the preeminent likelihood of his death during the "State" of war (line 1). He describes the disconnection he feels from Earth and what he calls it "dream of life" as if life only existed in birth and death (line 3). ...
- 493: Taoism
- ... is the belief in some form of reincarnation. The idea that life does not end when one dies is an integral part of these religions and the culture of the Chinese people. Reincarnation, life after death, beliefs are not standarized. Each religion has a different way of applying this concept to its beliefs. This paper will describe the reincarnation concepts as they apply to Taoism and Buddhism, and then provide a ... the deeper life. This is the after life for a Taoist, to be in harmony with the universe, to have achieved tao. To understand the relationship between life, and the Taoism concept of life and death, the origin of the word tao must be understood. The Chinese character for tao is a combination of two characters that represent the words head and foot. The character for foot represents the idea of ... means the beginning, the source of all things, or Tao itself, which never moves or changes; the foot is the movement on the path. Taoism upholds the belief in the survival of the spirit after death. "To have attained the human form must be always a source of joy. And then to undergo countless transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to, what comparable bliss is that! Therefore it ...
- 494: Hippolytus
- ... Hippolytus, Hippolytus does object to his banishment, but eventually he stops arguing with his father. At this point, he prays to the gods that he be killed in exile if he is guilty of the death of Phaedra. It is also possible he may be expecting Artemis to help him out, though she does nothing until he is on the verge of death. The characters however, do worry about how the gods react to them at times. Hippolytus does not seem to concern himself much with how Aphrodite reacts to his behavior. At the beginning of the play ... the rape of Phaedra. Even as he is dying , he does not expect Artemis to help him. Interestingly, he even apologizes to his father and to Artemis for causing them to suffer because of his death. Phaedra wishes that her judgment had not be interfered with by the Aphrodite, because she is the one who caused Phaedra to fall in love with Hippolytus. The gods treat human beings more or ...
- 495: Differences in "Ode On Grecian Urn" and "Sailing To Byzantium"
- ... animals and life. Yates uses vivified examples such as "An Aged Man is but a patty thing, a tattered coat upon a stick." (9,10) Yates is describing a scarecrow or what you might call death. He also talks about a maniacal bird in lines thirty and thirty-one. This is something that isn't dying and will go on forever. These two images life and death help insure the complexity of these poems. The images of life and death is also repesented in Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn." "What leap-fringd Latin haults about they shap of deities or mortials or both." (5,6) As you can see through reading these lines ...
- 496: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... for whole concepts. Gray, for example, describes the both the literal image of a dead soldier and Henry Fleming's vision of the sleeping soldiers as corpses and comes to stand for the idea of death. In the same way, red describes both the soldiers' physical wounds and Fleming's mental visions of battle. In the process, it gains a symbolic meaning which Crane will put to an icon like the ... initial injury, he does not receive the metaphorical badge he wants; his wound is never described in terms of red. In fact, Fleming finds his courage in the end with out bodily injury. He avoids death in battle and dispels his fear of flight from his regiment: "He had been where there was red of blood and black of passion and he was escaped" (209). By the end, "He had rid ... sickness is not an angry emotion, but rather a fear. Red works, here, towards a new meaning. He finds courage by overcoming his fear of the "red animal, war" and therefore being able to face death. It has been the red sickness that had previously kept Fleming from his red badge of courage. Although the acceptance of death comes with the red badge of courage, the text acknowledges that death ...
- 497: All Quiet On The Western Front: Life In The Army
- ... soldiers can suffer due to a lack of supplies. Soldiers of war also run a chance of being imprisoned by opposing forces. Lastly, the soldiers lives are at stake since they risk injury or even death. Because army life proves to be dangerous, the soldiers are negatively effected. First, the soldiers hold a great chance of running out of supplies while in war. A dearth of adequate food, clothing, ammunition, and ... chance of being imprisoned by opposing forces. Throughout the story, Paul and his comrades talk of imprisonment being the worst possible outcome in war. Imprisonment is constantly described by the soldiers as a drawn out death and the torture never wished to be experienced. While stationed outside a Russian prison, the soldiers realize the difficulties and penalties of captivity. With the prisoners food comes scarcely and they must beg with mercy ... sustenance. Due to the fact that soldiers of war run a chance of becoming held in captivity, army life is a perilous environment. The soldiers constantly find their comrades in piles, all wounded and near death. This site frightens the soldiers as they realize that it could have been them. In war, injury usual is for a short time since the soldier soon die or the army ships them home. ...
- 498: Taoism
- ... is the belief in some form of reincarnation. The idea that life does not end when one dies is an integral part of these religions and the culture of the Chinese people. Reincarnation, life after death, beliefs are not standardized. Each religion has a different way of applying this concept to its beliefs. This paper will describe the reincarnation concepts as they apply to Taoism and Buddhism, and then provide a ... life. This is the after life for a Taoist, to be in harmony with the universe, to have achieved tao (Head1, 65). To understand the relationship between life, and the Taoism concept of life and death, the origin of the word tao must be understood. The Chinese character for tao is a combination of two characters that represent the words head and foot. The character for foot represents the idea of ... beginning, the source of all things, or Tao itself, which never moves or changes; the foot is the movement on the path (Harts 9). Taoism upholds the belief in the survival of the spirit after death. "To have attained the human form must be always a source of joy. And then to undergo countless transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to, what comparable bliss is that! Therefore it ...
- 499: Homosexual Persecution In The
- For most of the medieval and early modern times death was the penalty for homosexual acts. Due to the impact of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, many German States, starting with Bavaria , decriminalized homosexuality. Prussia was the exception. It heightened legislation concerning this issue which eventually was ... in fact castration) of homosexuals.' A special section of the Gestapo dealt with them. Along with epileptics, schizophrenics, and other "degenerates", they were being eliminated. Yet homosexuality was still so widespread that in 1942 the death penalty was imposed for it in the army and the SS (Kogon, Eugen 38). In concentration camps, some pink triangles became concubines of male kaposor other men in supervisory positions among the inmates. They ...
- 500: Capital Punishment
- ... our legal system, as well as everyday life. Just as a toddler needs to be disciplined when he or she has a tantrum, a murderer needs to be punished for his or her actions. The death penalty solves many problems. It is a threat to any conspiring criminal-murderer. It promises the inescapable condition. It frees up jail space and cuts money spent on the inmate. The death penalty is also the closest thing to justice for the family and friends of the victim. If nothing else, capital punishment scares women and men of committing a serious crime that might put them ...
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