We are so aim-oriented as to forget the purpose of life; we have so advanced the technology as to ignore the regeneration of our mentality. We labor, we sweat, we worry till we are toiled to death, but we rarely ask ourselves for what purpose. ... The author condenses two years of living into one entire year in the book to show the unimportance of calendar time and call for attention of the significance of the symbolic time. ... But by cultivating beans, Thoreau's purpose, as I feel, is more spiritual than economic "to reap his soul harvest. ... Thoreau takes much attention to des...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The authors of these novels are writing about what they know, conflict and human suffering. ... Both authors try to portray the distress and torture a person can feel, although the situations are quite extreme the emotions and lessons that need to be learned are the same. ... This is one of the purposes of human suffering among many others. ... Religion is used as a bridge between the two, raising the fundamental question about what God's purpose is in unleashing the plague. ... The way the humans suffer in both novels One Day in the Life Ivan Denisovich and The Plague are to...

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• Grade Level: High School

His purpose was to inspire their youth minds and 'open their eyes', however he uses his personal opinions and history to prove his point. ... In the other hand, Amanda Ripley, an american journalist and author, puts merit into her writing. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In our modern day world, the technology of genetic engineering and human cloning for the use of asexual reproduction has reached a point to where we must ask ourselves if it is a good practice for medical purposes, or if it presents issues of ethical and moral concern. ... There are, however, individual benefits of using genetic engineering for medical purposes. Such purposes include gene therapy and asexual reproduction. ... Scientists, bio-ethicists, doctors, lawyers, professors, and authors join in the debate over human cloning and its medical benefits versus moral and ethnical concern...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although it is defined a poetry of fragments, there is throughout the poem a theme linearity, due to the cycle technique used by Tennyson in order to illustrate certain fundamental laws behind human time and natural time, nevertheless it is a non-linearity structure that prevails in the poem, reflecting the author's concept of non-linearity time. ... Anyway, in section 22 it is described a sort of experience of the author and Hallam that consists in a fall out of natural or seasonal time, they coexist with the natural passing of the seasons and at the end this cyclical time changes int...

• Word Count: 5237
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

Gilderhus, author of History and Historians and expert on the subject, states in his book "History as a field of knowledge is broad given that there are virtually infinite possibilities to history inquiry...you can fill in the blanks that's what makes history come alive is that you may seek to research your interests. " Professor John Ulloa, instructor of history and anthropology, states "History is like a multifaceted diamond. ... Priests accompanied each military expedition for the purpose of Christianizing the natives. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...

• Word Count: 5369
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School