Particularly at the end of the book, O'Brien explains that in Vietnam, the soldiers created ways to make the people they were close to that died seem less dead – they kept those people alive in their head with stories, like those O'Brien wrote of his friends Ted Lavender, Curt Lemon, Kiowa, and Linda. ... O'Brien comes to the conclusion that in stories, the dead live again. ... You make the dead talk" (O'Brien 231). ... The ending of The Things They Carried was effective at finishing the novel to me, as it gave a sense of finality to all of the stories, the fina...

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At the very last moment when it could be stopped Clerval and Frankenstein had a full on fight only to finish at the beginning of a new age a super human race, Frankenstein sat down in thought of the reality, the future of the monster, it was ugly, it was dead made to the living, wouldn't be understood and so he must leave it in terror. After six hole years of isolated experiments on making the dead be reborn he"d done it and then the first two found out and rejected it with out seeing it, this is what made Frankenstein change his mind but it was too late it had come alive and so it ...

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Victor wants to cure disease and raise the dead: perhaps, he wants to reunite Elizabeth with her parents and regain his own mother's love. ... Victor spends time alone with the dead, seeing himself dead at some unconscious level. ... He is isolated continually, very similar to being a pre-verbal child, there is not language being used either by him or the dead. Victor has an insane fondness for the dead; he surrounds himself with death, projecting the love for his mother onto all of the bodies and bones that are his constant companions day and night. ...

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A global study was done years ago by the New Economics Foundation to find out the long pondered question, which country is the, "happiest". Costa Rica, surprisingly, is ranked first as the world's happiest country. Costa Rica ranks 71 in the World's richest countries so how can they be so, "happy," (Greenfield)? According to the New Economics Foundation, "Costa Ricans report the highest life satisfaction in the world and have the second-highest average life expectancy of the new world (second to Canada)" (Kristof). Despite the perfect climate, and la...

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The other aspect of the Imagination, which Coleridge uniquely emphasizes, is that "it is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead" (750). ... Thus, just as objects are "fixed and dead" until someone conveys meanings on them, the Imagination is always to be valued highly, whether or not it is being applied properly. ...

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Throughout the novel "Swerve," by Phillip Gwyne, Hugh develops a totally new character when he returns to Sydney after his trip. Hugh is a bright child and his future is mapped out for him by the expectations of his parents but when he goes onto a road trip with his grandfather Poppy, it's the peopl...

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Dostoevsky uses this creative metaphor to describe Raskolnikov's physical environment as a place to hold the dead, suggesting that Raskolnikov will never be able to reconcile his conscience or organize his thoughts after committing the murder. ...

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Hamlet finds himself so dead-set on this plan, that when he orders his friends to "Never make known [tonight's occurrences] "(1.5.158), he fails to even consider that the Ghost's order to "swear "(1.5.167) to this may in actuality be for he himself to heed, playfully ordering the apparition to leave, and remaining blissfully ignorant of reality in his euphoric ecstasy. ...

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Mankind's" history was dominated by violence, whether its political war, domestic violence, social violence or personal violence, violence had abided in our culture visibly and invisibly. In a general accepted point of view, violence and its implements on the body is a cognitive immoral act. Unfortunately the society as a whole has utilized it immensely. The impact of violence depicts physical and psychological injury to its victim. By invasion on body, allowing the experience of physical pain to obliterate the mental pain. ...

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Today we have a unique opportunity to have a conversation with the founder of the psychoanalytic thought, the most frequently cited psychologist of the 20th century, and one of the great geniuses in human history whose name stands in a raw with those of Darwin and Einstein - Sigmund Freud. This Grea...

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I was thinking of something that interested me very much and my mind was suddenly flooded by one of those luminous waves that sweep out of consciousness all but the living sense and overpower one with joy in the rich, throbbing complexity of life, when suddenly I looked up at Nurse, who was dressing me, and saw her primitive, rudimentary [removed]so common here) as of no inherited quarrel with her destiny of putting petticoats over my head; the poverty and deadness of it contrasted to the tide of speculation that was coursing thro' my brain made me exclaim, 'Oh! ...

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Sartre, although he developed some of his ideas from Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, probably could not have expounded those same ideas of existentialism in their times; Nietzsche, who popularized the idea that "God is dead;" could not have been written in the time of Descartes; and Descartes could not have expressed his radically individualist ideas during the time of Plato. ...

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My first experience with subliminal messaging was a few years ago when my family and I watched a documentary on The Beatles. The movie was about secret messages that The Beatles reportedly put into their music. Upon playing specific songs backwards, you could hear the verbal backmasking messages be...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

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