Giving Birth V.S. ... If anything, giving birth is more human, because we can choose to avoid it, whereas death, eventually, is inevitable." ... Most people paid more attention on abortion, however, I think that the decision will be more reliable and more reasonable by taking a serious concern on the issue of giving birth. ... We always talk about abortion, but fail to exam the fundamental concepts of giving birth. ... after you gave his/her birth. ...

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Since female plants and animals were directly responsible for the birth of new life, people worshipped female deities to ensure that the earthly cycle of life was maintained in proper balance. In the myths of the ancient world, a great deal of importance is placed on the rhythmical cycle of birth, maturity, death and rebirth. ... Since female plants and animals were directly responsible for the birth of new life, people worshipped female deities to ensure that the earthly cycle of life was maintained in proper balance. In the myths of the ancient world, a great deal of importance is placed on ...

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If they do end up giving birth to unwanted child, it would lead to the problem of desertion or the mother neglecting the child and leading to its death. There are some women who have health problems that prevent them from being able to go through childbirth and for the reason that any form of birth control is not 100% effective, these women may at some point call for an abortion. ... However, if the child were to survive the birth, and not the mother, it would be forced to live a life without a mother. ...

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Centre on themes such as love, time, birth, death and the purpose of life in these poems. ... What Judith Write is talking about when she says time brings change which means that when she gave birth to her daughter she slowly over the years she changed and developed, Then she left home and moved into her own house with her boyfriend. ... In the second poem Woman to man she expresses ideas and feelings about pregnancy, birth, love, past, present and future tense and the purpose of life. ... She also used more techniques in this poem such as a paradox, eyeless labor to describe the growing up ...

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Rousseau conveys to the reader that because his mother died while giving birth to him, he is directly responsible for her death. ... Rousseau views his birth, and the subsequent death of his mother, as a grave misfortune. ... His birth is not the celebratory occasion for Rousseau as it is for others. He sees his birth as "the first of my misfortunes" (19), and he "could never forget that I robbed him of her"(19). The foundation of shame lain at the moment of his birth follows him throughout his life, causing him to develop masochistic urges. ...

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At the time of birth, when the fetus is out of the mother's womb and breathing on it's own, then it is to be considered a living being in my opinion. ... 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. ... Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 If a man begats 100 children...and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say that an untimely birth [a miscarriage] is better than he. ... The suggestion here is that a terminated pregnancy (o...

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People have knowledge before birth but lose it at birth; by seeing objects they acquire their own knowledge, so they recollect. ... It can be said that the "knowledge of the equal must have [been] possessed before birth" (75c ). Humans begin to see and hear at birth, but before humans begin to see or hear, they must have acquired the knowledge of Equality. ...

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The poem, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," descried how a boy walking on Long Island beach hears the cry of a bird. The bird is a "visitor form Alabama," mourning his lost mate. At the beginning of the poem, Whitman "Taking all hints to use them," the descriptions were only the observation o...

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Beginning the story in the farthest room and ending it in the room opposite also help symbolize the transition from birth to death. ... Beginning with blue, representing birth, the trail continues on with stages of life, growth, the sowing and reaping of ones work, old age setting in, and finally, death. ...

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The monster's behavior was directly related to, his experiences with society and its treatment of him. All behavior is learned, therefore if the monster was to be good or evil depended on societies reaction to him. Even though the monster had a fully matured body, he was like a child becau...

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The east represents birth- the first stage of life, while the north is the last stage-the elder stage. ... The circles are part of the natural order of creation, from water, to the seasons, to the circle of birth and death. ...

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This is why here, the destiny isn't a burden like in the ancient tragedy, there are no heroes or heroines, only simple people with lives confined between birth and death, people who cannot deviate from their written course of life. ... Before "Our Town," the reader considered himself unique and special and now he becomes aware of his pettiness and of the fact that he is only a character with a predefined course, as if he had received at birth a chart of do's and don't's. ...

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"Bless Me Ultima" In the book "Bless Me Ultima", by Rudolpho Anaya, there were two families represented, the Marez family and the Lunas family. These two families were very different, but were brought together by the marriage of Gabriel Marez and Maria Lunas. Through the eyes of their son Antonio ...

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Conversely, Pro-Choice advocates maintain that the woman should have a right to choose if she wants to give birth as it is her body and her life. ... They believe that as the foetus cannot live unless in the mother's body, life does not being until birth. ... But still if they kept the baby then they would have to cope with given birth, with paying for the baby's cloths and food etc. ...

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This portrays the natural life cycle of mankind, which is that of birth and death. ... According to Gilgamesh, the power of immortality belonged to women for the sole reason that they are able to give birth. ... Unable to accept the natural life cycle of birth and death, mankind looks out for eternal life. ...

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Not everyone believes that Christmas is the birth of Christ in "Separation of Church and State: A War on Christmas and Other Misguided Notions"," Melanie Springer Mock spoke on this subject. The author herself is a Christian, and felt very strongly that the celebration of Jesus' birth should not include the government. Mock felt that it actually cheapened the whole thing, pointing out that Christians really don't need baby Jesus on the steps of the Courthouse to be reminded of his birth. ...

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She again seemed very cold because after she gave birth to Jewel she thought of him as her favorite. ... I understood this as he fertilization, birth, and growth of Addie herself. ... In reference to her passage about her giving birth she said, "It was her duty to Anse-. ...

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Actually, it is believed that there are three births of humans: an animal birth, spiritual, and death, and since the universe and its contents function on the basis of a rhythm, as you were born rhythmically you will die rhythmically. ...

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After the first chapter on Cobain's death, the biography has a fairly chronological birth to death structure. The second chapter starts off talking about the birth of Kurt Cobain in Hoquiam; a small logging town 110 miles southwest of Seattle. ...

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From the story "But a Watch in the Night."" There is planet called Copernicus beyond our solar system which came into existance before the birth of our Earth . The Capernicans are very intelligent people . The Copernicans had developed a time-lapse camera and also superpowered telescopes that...

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After watching Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, one can notive there are many differences between the movie and Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. There were many little differences that probably went unnoticed, but there were two huge differences that were very apparent. One of the differences betwee...

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In my eyes, Indian Camp is about ways of life and death. In the beginning there are Nick, Nick's Father (the doctor), and Uncle George. There is a woman in the camp that has been having difficulties with her child's birth for two days before the arrival of the doctor. The father has also been dea...

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CYCLES A situation so misunderstood. Is life logical, an orderly factual reality? Or is it chaotic, much like the act of conceiving, sperm in search of an egg. I try to make some sense of it all. I search for God in my own way. I believe in his being. Yet I cannot with all my will follow the d...

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We deal with various natural aspects, such as our birth, death, universe, sun and moon with great deal of harmony and regularity, but still as a whole, even if we don't have a clue about them it still doesn't bother us. ...

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Setting is used in stories to develop the mood and the surroundings of the characters in it. It can also symbolize different things that help us understand a character better. This is greatly portrayed in "The story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, the setting helps dramatize the change within Mrs. Mal...

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