Essays Tagged: "life and death"

Aids And You

AIDS and YOUIntroduction:AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS diseaseis at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. ... ffectedthe behavior of both gay and straight folks who formerly hadelected to lead an active sexual life that included numerous newsexual contacts.AbstinenceThe safest option regarding AIDS and sex is ... n the forseeable future, it may be that truly effectivetreatments that can indefinitely prolong the life of AIDSvictims may be found in the next few years. When science andtechnology do finally fully ...

(12 pages) 145 0 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Israel and Paletine

erson, the college professor, the taxi driver, or the merchant is sure that their solution to these life and death problems are the right decision.On Friday, May 14, 1948, after much deliberation the ...

(14 pages) 1795 31 4.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Hamlet. Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword

close with the fire, you are going to getburned. This generally means that if you live a dangerous lifestyle, then you willeventually falter and suffer the consequences. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, ther ... hakespeare's Hamlet, there are manycases where characters are killed because they lived a murderous lifestyle. Claudiusmurders his own brother and is then murdered himself. Laertes kills Hamlet but is ...

(3 pages) 62 0 2.6 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

The Epitaph by Thomas Grey

In the Epitaph, Thomas Gray shows his discontent toward the way that life and death are categorized on this planet. He speaks of earth as a place which holds people for ... hich holds people for the time being that they are going through this grand cycle of what is called life. When somebody only 'rests his head upon the lap of Earth' it is not a way of approving ... just a place where their head rests and Even 'Fair Science frowned' on the aspects of the person's life and now the incapacity that they have toward this world. Their one and only sole purpose in thi ...

(2 pages) 43 0 4.3 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

AIDS and You

it in time to take effective precautions. Given the right measures, no one need get AIDS.AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death ... the foreseeable future, it may be that truly effective treatments that can indefinitely extend the life of AIDS victims may be found in the next few years. When science and technology do finally full ...

(4 pages) 81 0 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Hamlet: the Hesitant Prince

understand Hamlet's hesitation. One reason would be Hamlet's understanding the importance of human life.Hamlet has been going to school his whole life; he is a full-time student even at the age of th ... ole life; he is a full-time student even at the age of thirty. Throughout the play Hamlet questions life and death and to let live or take life away. In one of Hamlet's famous soliloquies he touches o ...

(2 pages) 52 0 4.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

Waiting....Samuel Becket's Godot

Life is occupied by waiting. In Waiting for Godot, Samuel Becket presents the suffering of the human ... f the human condition. Godot is about two beings who talk about nothing, experience the drudgery of life, complain that they do not do anything, meet a few people, think about hanging themselves, and ... 's works. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Hollow Men are about the tormenting cycle of life and death. The connection among these three works is that people want to and should do so much, ...

(3 pages) 98 0 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

4 secrets your body language reveals

In poker, a "tell" is the life and death of a good hand. It's the way you look, the way you act; it's what "tells" the other p ...

(2 pages) 143 3 4.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Zen in the Influence of Zen Buddhism on Samurai warriors

state of egolessness." This is the ideal which the samurai warrior sought; a state of being wherein life and death were meaningless and all that he had to concern himself with was his duty to his mast ...

(1 pages) 115 0 3.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Buddhism

The Tragedy of One Man. Speaks of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

Miller's Death of a Salesman can be seen as an eulogy of a dreamer, which depicts one man's tragic life and death as he tries to bring his family into grace. Miller does, however, also uses this play ... . Ben, Willy's older brother, is another symbol of the ruthless success Willy tries to reach in his life. 'There was the only man I ever met ' Willy says, 'Who knew all the answers'(Meyer 1734). Willy ...

(14 pages) 679 1 4.6 Nov/1995

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Acquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

- Very good essay.Acquired Immune Difficiency SyndromeAIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS diseas is at present a sentence ofslow but inevitable death. ...

(3 pages) 29 0 3.7 Apr/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

AIDS: Such A Deadly Disease

AIDSAIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a senten,ce of slow but inevitable deat ... ected the behavior of both gay and straight folks who formerly had elected to lead an active sexual lifethat included numerous new sexual contacts. Abstinence The safest option regarding AIDS and sex ... n the forseeable future, it may be that trulyeffective treatments that can indefinitely prolong the life of AIDS victims may be found in the next few years. When science and technology do finally full ...

(12 pages) 139 2 2.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Analyitcally prove Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is considered a classic novel

The novel Frankenstein is about a man named Victor Frankenstein who wanted to tamper with life and death by "exploring unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creati ... otions.Frankenstein is a novel about how to defy death. Ever since Egyptians and their beliefs of a life after death, people have found overcoming death to be fascinating. Death is something that is n ...

(3 pages) 42 0 2.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Robert Frost - Birches

and interpretations may be found. A more deeper and figurative meaning to "Birches" is its theme of life and death.Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. He moved to New England at the age of ... th of Boston, and his reputation was established.Though his work is principally associated with the life and landscape of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics w ...

(2 pages) 159 1 3.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Gods and Monster; By Glen Gemeniano

qualizing effect of the hospital brings most to their knees, because it symbolizes alpha and omega, life and death.Poorly insulated walls contain shouts of death, screams of birth, and the sound of si ... tragedy of unfulfilled live. Hospitals usually spark changes in people. The realization of limited life span provides profound motivation.It was as if the image of Cronus castrating his father flashe ...

(1 pages) 101 4 2.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

Taoism vs. Buddhism a comparative essay with bioliography

ominant concept in Taoism and Buddhism is the belief in some form of reincarnation. Reincarnations, life after death, and beliefs are not standardized.The goal in Taoism is to achieve Tao, to find "th ... ate their own lives. Desire, ambition, fame, and selfishness are seen as hindrances to a harmonious life. Eventually the hope is to become immortal, to achieve Tao, to reach the deeper life. The origi ...

(5 pages) 148 0 0.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Buddhism

"The Life and Death of Cholmondeley" by Gerald M. Durrel

The Life and Death of CholmondeleyIn this essay, "The Life and Death of Cholmondeley" Gerald M. Durrel e ... me with his [finger], is a greeting, a sign of trust". (Pg. 22)Chumley seemed very contented by the lifestyle of Durrel, and even made points of adapting and learning it, for example: smoking cigarett ... need different types of environments in which to strive and grow in the case of Chumley, from "The Life and Death of Cholmondeley" It is unmistakable that this ape requires one on one communication w ...

(2 pages) 27 0 0.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Symbolism in "The Mask of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe.

t the plot and symbolism intertwined throughout the narrative is no more than a simple metaphor for life and death.A quick synopsis of the story tells the account of the affluent and overly confident ... apable.The symbolism of the colors described produces a timeline of events only equivalent to human life. The story follows the course of a human life, most likely the Prince Prospero's, and ends with ...

(2 pages) 60 1 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Shakespeare's creation Edgar from King Lear and Elizabethan attitudes toward mental illness.

rded secondary characters in his plays":"M. William Shak-speare: His True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and h ... why Edgar clings to the Poor Tom persona. As we will see later, Poor Tom almost seems to take on a life of his own. Edgar, despondent at seeing Lear in his madness says, "My tears begin to take his p ...

(17 pages) 80 0 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Life and Death in the Works of Dylan Thomas.

a metaphysical poet. He is most commonly called a twentieth-century Romantic as death and the afterlife intrigued him. However, he was not surrounded by death as he was growing up. On the contrary, " ... reminiscent of his childhood and lost innocence. However in most of Thomas' early works, themes of life and death permeate. This theme of life and death is particularly prevalent in the following thr ...

(7 pages) 80 0 3.7 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry