If I am given the chance (I wonder, if it ever happen) to be born again, I will not lay down any unreasonable conditions unlike the man in the Chinese story which may embarrass my Creator. ... After I have finished my education, I should like to become a business executive. ... When I have made a few millions I will charter a plane and go round the world. ... When I come back from my travels around the world, I go for a medical checkup. ... I die without a word of protest, because I had enough of life. ...

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The Road Not Taken by: Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. ... Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. ... One ...

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The young girl gets a second chance at life when a younger man (someone her own age) enters her life and the older man is about to die. ... Welty lets the audience know it is around Easter when Cash says, "I ready for Easter" (520). ... Solomon is dying and Livvie is ready to go out and see what the world has to offer. ... Now I lay eyes on young man and it come to be somebody I know all the time, and been knowing since we were born in a cotton patch, and watched grow up year to year, Cash McCord growed to size growed up to come in my house in the end ragged and barefoot" (522). ... In the end...

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d think that with the stumps of two arms and two legs spouting blood a man could at least die,? ... I would return from day to day and from night to night to feed on his carcass until he went crazy.? ... If the place in which he lay were burning he would simply stay there and let it burn. ... (page 81) What is real to Joe is that he will lay totally helpless and hurting for as long as his miserable life lasts. ... Unable to kill himself, Joe has no say in whether he lives or dies, his pain is caused by those who made the decision for him, leaving hima stump of a body? ...

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In an article Miller states, "I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing - his sense of personal dignity" (Miller, 1). ... I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. ... That's all they have to know, and I go through" (DiYanni, 1142). ... He wants to plan something in the garden before he dies. ...

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Obviously, the want was great to die and move on to a better life. ... When a woman's husband dies before she dies it seems as though her life has no purpose to go on, and many chose to practice the ritual of burying or burning themselves alive along with their husbands bodies. ... The ceremony continued on with her husband laying in the mud she performed some tasks which included washing the body and walk around it three times. ... Before laying upon the burning site there is a two mile walk to get there. ... Some women though do not die with their husbands but instead because of their ...

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For I live in eager expectation and hope that I will never do anything that will cause me to be ashamed of myself but that I will always be ready to speak out boldly for Christ while I am going through all these trials here, just as I have in the past; and that I will always be an honour to Christ, whether I live or whether I must die. For to me, living means opportunities for Christ, and dying well, that's better yet! But if living will give me more opportunities to win people to Christ, then I really don't know which is better, to live or to die! ... He lays out his arguments as f...

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People are born, die, and catch the plague with no warning. ... Religions tend to lay blame on people, or attribute events to God's will, but the view of a chaotic, random world does not coincide with this. ... He allows himself to die untreated because of his deep beliefs in the order of things. ... He says that he realized at one point that he " had had plague through all those long years in which, paradoxically enough, I"d believed with all my soul that I was fighting it. I learned that I had had an indirect hand in the deaths of thousands of people- (251). ...

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I send you one who will be greatest of the wizards of Gont, if the wind blow true" (p36). ... Once he is recovered, he is told that nothing could protect him but the power of the Masters and the defenses that lay upon the island. ... Ged begins to say a spell to bring the fever down, but it does not take hold and he thinks the child is dying. ...

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When asked why he wrote this book he said "I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of a concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any condition, even the most miserable ones.... Inmates performed hard manual labor, such as digging ditches and tunnels for water mains or laying railway tracks, while working on a near-starvation diet. ... I do not want to go through life without a meaning, without affecting peoples lives in a positive way. ... This book has made me want to be a better person, and love every day I live on this earth. ... Even so, the entire book ...

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Instead, when an insect takes even the smallest bite of these potatoes, it will "supposedly keel over and die- (Pollan 506), saving the plant from being harmed in any way. ... They could be in the French fries that millions of people consume each day "at McDonald's or in a bag of Frito Lay chips- (Pollan 521). ... And yet as I watched then multiply I couldn't help thinking of them as existentially different from the rest of my plants- (Pollan 508). ...

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I enjoy this poem, because it displays Frost's capacity for independent thought. ... I think that the unstructured nature of this poem is a reflection on its sentiment. ... He says "die early and avoid the fate" and if you are to lead a long life then "make the whole stock exchange your own". ... However, like all of his poems, this poem can be read on a metaphorical level and beneath the cynicism lays truth and reason. ... Frost says "I found a dimple spider, fat and white on a white heal-all". ...

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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...

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