It is my personal belief that an unborn fetus is not a living being. ... Later, the "man became a living soul" only after God "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." ... It is translated as "living soul" in the above passage. ... He argues that during Old Testament times, "Living creatures are in this way exactly defined in Hebrew as creatures that breathe." ... A child was only given a value after the age of one month; boys were worth five shekels; girls three; below that age, (and presumably before birth) they were assigned no monetary value. ...

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Alcestis, the Queen and tragic figure of Euripides" Alcestis, is not an exception to all those people who refuse to keep living in order to let her husband (the king of Thessalia) live. ... His plays contain, hidden below the popular surface, an appeal to men to stop deceiving themselves about the benevolence of their institutions really involve (Vellacott, 10). // "His study of this, the most insistent and universal problem of human life, achieved a radical profundity, a freedom from conventional assumption, which was rare in his day as it has been in every century since. .....

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When were we ever given the right to destroy any living thing? Abortion is the legalized killing of the most innocent living things in our world. ... At the first week of conception a living being has already been created. ... Hence, listed below are the approximate points at which certain features appear on a child. ... It is living no matter how many people say that its not. ...

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The one thing that unifies all livings is that they die. ... Below, I will outline attitudes towards death in Egyptian, and Mesopotamian cultures. ... Where as the Mesopotamian's were so afraid of death they were perhaps living there life to a fuller agree. ... In Mesopotamia their underworld was gloomy dark and filled with goast from the ones living previously before them. ...

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Socrates represents the notion that the "unexamined life is not worth living", thus, the examined life is worth living because it leads to more questions; his death is peaceful and uncertain. Ivan, on the other hand, considers the "examined life not worth living". ... The remaining informal charges included: studying things in the sky and below the earth, as well as being accused of always making the weaker argument the stronger one. ... An example Ivan "living up to par" with his associates is the uncomplicated nature of his marriage. ... This Greek philosopher believed that the unexam...

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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! ... Hume argued in response that in the grand scheme of things, a human life is of no greater importance than that of any other living creature. ... These values could well be affirmed in a persons final moments of living. ... On the other hand, Immanuel Kant argues that suicide is wrong because it degrades our inner worth to below that of animals. ...

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"[Ethan] seemed part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters." ... The effect of living in such an environment is noted by the narrator, "The effect produced on Frome was rather of a complete...

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The Impossible Utopia A Utopian society is defined by Webster's dictionary as an ideal and perfect place or state, where everyone lives in harmony and everything is for the best. In my opinion, this would be a very bland and ordinary being. How can one know how to fully experience happiness if th...

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James Joyce's famous collection, "the Dubliners", is a novel that "shows the emotional paralysis in the disillusion of love, fetters of marriage and obstacles in communication."1, among which 'A Painful Case' is one of the most impressive short stories. The protagonist, Mr. James Duffy, lived ...

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In it they fixed sparks and molten slag from Muspell to make the stars, and other sparks they set to move in paths just below the sky. ... Finding her in the darkness, he called to her and asked her to come back to the land of the living with him. ...

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