Blind Desire Desire: it drives you, pushes you forward in life, and only by satisfying this yearning will happiness be possible. ... When examined closely, the main characters in A Streetcar Named Desire each have individual desires, and each exhibits a type of blindness. The theme of A Streetcar Named Desire is the search for fulfillment, but these searches are misguided, because the characters are unable to grasp reality. Blindness to reality and desire for fulfillment play a crucial role when analyzing A Streetcar Named Desire. ...

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Another comparison made by Larkin is between his desire for isolation and modern society's desire for material goods. He is uncomplimentary towards these people suggesting that they are shallow in their desires. ... This desire for the isolation of the natural world isn't something he shares with other people. ... Larkin describes the desires of the occupants of the city as 'cheap suits.....driers'. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pensioner', 'dying smokers' and 'going dark' to describe a progression from young to old age. ...

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"The Right to Die" movement is influenced by cases that look at the rights of a person in America to die the way he or she wishes, regardless of loved ones and caregivers' desires to protect that person. ... "So I claim the right to die," said Mrs. ... "Compassion in Dying" vs. ... When it comes to situations where feeding tubes are keeping a patient alive, friends and family members typically state that the patient would rather not be kept alive through a feeding tube, so why shouldn't his or her desires be met? Legal Issues Regarding Euthanasia Three legal means are us...

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"10 The American dramatist‟s concept of family is centered on his dream of the ideal family and his desire to make peace with it rather than understand it. ... To briefly consider O'Neill‟s concept towards paternal relationships, one can notice that the fathers, in his works, represent the powerful old patriarchs who rule over the minds if not always the wills of their families, reflected by Ephraim Cabot in Desire, Abraham Mannon in Mourning, and James Tyrone in A Long Day's Journey, while the mothers are used by their men like their lands. At the same time, the mother re...

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How soon before a person who has no terminal illness, desires to be assisted in taking their own life? ... The first is where the person choosing to die is conscious and has requested to do so. ... The person has not died and will not die at that time. ... It should never be left up to another person to determine when you can live and when you can die. ... It discussed the idea of having rights and that not everything we desire can be considered a "right." ...

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The reason for his radical behavior is the fact that there are two sides to Claude as Susan Rosowski points out; "On the one hand there was Claude, a sensitive youth burning with desire to find meaning; on the other, there was his world-intractable, immediate, alien" (Rosowski 97). ... The full, uncut, cherry tree represented Claude's fulfilled desires and fantasies. However, his father cut down those desires before Claude had a real chance to experience them. ... After the scene with the couple Claude's curiosity with the soldier does not die out. ...

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Don't you ever wonder how, when, and where you are going to die? ... Usually, family members decide whether the patient should live or die, not the patient himself. For example, a person in a coma is unable to choose whether he or she wants to live or die. Therefore, his or her parents can take off the plug and allow him or her to die. ... Euthanasia and the right to die 23). ...

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(303) Ginny develops such a desire for revenge that she plots her sister's death. ... Pete shows a similar desire for vengeance to that of Ginny. ... After Pete dies, Rose states to Ginny, "His response to the news that I was going to leave him for Jess Clark was that he was going to kill Daddy, and if Harold got in the way, he would kill him, too... Rose exemplifies one of the strongest desires for revenge. ... They have an innate desire to seek revenge that arises when they feel threatened. ...

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Every species desires that their genes be transferred to the next generation. ... An individual's desire to date the opposite sex is compelled by their ultimate desire to meet a compatible partner and to procreate with them to produce viable offspring. An individual's desire to eat is compelled by their desire to stay alive so that they may transfer their genes onto the next generation. ... The desired outcome of fitness maximization is essentially the same between the two. ... The underlying motivation behind not killing a person and dying for the sake of loved ones is in fact fitne...

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Director of ""Romeo Must Die"" Andrzej Bartkowiak reveals his thoughts behind the transformation of the Shakespearian classic, """Romeo and Juliet""". ... The ancient grudge that is presented in ""Romeo and Juliet"" is never openly identified, however in ""Romeo Must Die"" it is obvious from the opening scene that the hatred between the two family groups is fuelled almost entirely by the desire from wealth, power and ultimately, the land on the waterfront. ... In ""Romeo Must Die"" there is no overruling power figure to inflict lawful order in the society, as the Price do...

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Christ allows each of us the very same opportunity to declare our faith, with a gentle reminder such as, "If you desire a further witness, cast your mind upon the night that you cried unto me in your heart, that you might know concerning the truth of these things. ...

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It has often been said that "instead of shaping our desires to fit reality, modern man tries to control and shape reality to fit our desires"" (Keller). ... In his book Desiring God, John Piper writes, "Men do seek God. ... A dying man can do nothing to revive himself. ... When Jesus died on the cross, He died for His sheep who "know his voice"" (John 10:24-29). ... Paul makes it very clear that Christ did not die for everyone; Christ died for God's people. ...

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This story shows us that God desires not just any offering, but our best offering. ... " (Gen. 4.7) God desires everyone to do what is right and good to keep sin from creeping in. ... God desired to destroy the people, but Moses pleaded with God and He relented. ... After Moses died, Joshua became the leader. ... Both Naomi's sons and her husband died. ...

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She loved them, but said that while she was willing to die for them she couldn't give up anything essential for them. ... When Emma commits suicide and Charles dies, Berthe is sent to live with Charles' mother. When Charles' mother dies, Berthe is sent to an impoverished aunt, where she is forced to work in a cotton mill. ... They do not really like each other, but they have a deep understanding of each other's passions and desires. ...

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Amongst the "indelicate" themes interpreted within Goblin Market are homosexuality, incest, drug addiction and the pain of rejected sexual desire. ... It is her subconscious desire for her flamboyant brother Dante Gabriel; because of this universal emotion, this incest-driven reading is possible. ... Since Rossetti spent most of her life as a professed invalid she must have known the effects of certain kinds of opium; in the very least, she certainly would have observed the effects of opiates upon her sister-in-law, Lizzie Siddal who died of an overdose of laudanum. ... Jeanie, who had givin...

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Abstract Modern medical technology has made it possible to extend the lives of many far beyond when they would have died in the past. ... In the United States, Charles Potter began the movement, under the name "Society for the Right to Die". ... As one who is dying, I have especially come to appreciate the gift of life. ... Starting with the moral analysis of the patient who desires to go through euthanasia, we could say that his or her wish has some logical arguments. ... The cost of letting a person die is close to nothing when compared to the cost of keeping them alive. ...

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It explains that when we spend a lifetime wanting and desiring and even more when we desire to continue to exist we are reborn. When we are reborn, we have a body and the body is at subject to injury and disease; it can be exhausted by work; it ages and eventually dies. ... Desires should be diminished. ... Dukkha begins from attachments, craving or desire. ... We may desire physical pleasure, or fine possessions. ...

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Yeats sadly concludes that the sacrifices of those heroes were in vain since they certainly did not die for the type of selfish cylical society of which he is so critical. ... He was driven to volunteer by his passion for adventure, and by a desire to confront his faith: 'A lonely impulse of delight/Drove to this tumult in the clouds' Having taken account of every aspect of life ( 'I balanced all') the speaker views the future as meaningless and futile: 'The years to come seemed a waste of b...

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By leaving home, Victor had separated himself from all feminine influences, focusing his attention on his quest and repressing all other desires. Thus, it seems that the awakening of the monster represents the expression of his repressed desires, including his longing to satisfy his mother's wishes for his and Elizabeth's union. ... With these words, it seems that Victor desires to be the object of the monster's desire. ... William, Justine, and Henryothey all died by my hands (176). ... In his second letter to Margaret, Walton writes that he truly desires a friend, the absence ...

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INTRODUCTION Social work in pediatrics (the care of sick and dying children) is both a fascinating and difficult field. In almost no other realm of social work is there the imminent and very real possibility that your client will die. ... When dealing with sick and dying children, the first question is always, "How much do I tell them?" ... Since they are already so well informed and seek out the knowledge about their illness so readily, it would only make sense to tell them everything they desire to know. ... While the child is the primary client, and the desired result of treatment is ...

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As we look at the life of Walter White, is there a correlation we can make to prominent businessmen and their desire for power and money. ... Walter entered the meth business under the guise of making money for his family because he was diagnosed with cancer and when he died he would be able to give this fund to his family. He was making plenty of money for his family but Walt's need for power overrode his desire for family. ... Deep down inside us all there is a desire for power, because we all like that feeling of control over our life and those associated with us. ... This desire event...

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Such a confession would dishonor his fellow prisoners, who are brave enough to die as testimony to the truth. ... Throughout the hysteria, Abigail's motivations never seem more complex than simple jealousy and a desire to have revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. The language of the play is almost biblical, and Abigail seems like a biblical character "a Jezebel figure, driven only by sexual desire and a lust for power. ... The other seven died before they were a day old, and Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means. ...

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This has meant that those animals that were sick or maimed would eventually die out as they were less prepared to face those challenges that were presented to them in the wild. ... By utilizing and ingesting different substances, we have found a way to prolong and the save the lives of those weak and dying members of our species which has perpetuated "bad- genes and "dirtied- the gene pool. ... Craving as a conscious desire to use drugs may be more readily perceived by the abusing as opposed to the dependent individual, because once a person! ... The individual, knowing from experience tha...

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For example, letting a patient die because he/she is an organ donor and an organ is needed would be ok as compared to one person killing another for personal reasons between the victim and the killer. ... This is because, contrary to John Mill, Kant believes in why the person must die, be it to make one person happy or ten. ... He claims, "The sole evidence that it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it". ... He then tries to apply the argument to society as a whole, saying that if an individual desires what would cause him the most individua...

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Nabonidus, the fourth king after the death of Nebuchadnezzar in 562 BC, himself died in 539 BC, after a seven-year reign. Belshazzar, his son, had evidently been coregent; but in fulfillment of Dan. 5:25-28, he too died. ...

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