With psychology interwoven through the passages of his novel, he makes a clear picture of the minds of the prisoners, what they, the prisoners, including himself, suffered through and how they survived. ... We must take their attitudes, their wrong perceptions of how to seek the meaning of life, and change that so they may find the truth, that life dictates what questions we answer, that we do not ask the questions of life. ... One day while I was just talking with some of my friends, I brought up the question of meaning of life. ... The second question that life asked of me was how am I go...

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With psychology interwoven through the passages of his novel, he makes a clear picture of the minds of the prisoners, what they, the prisoners, including himself, suffered through and how they survived. ... We must take their attitudes, their wrong perceptions of how to seek the meaning of life, and change that so they may find the truth, that life dictates what questions we answer, that we do not ask the questions of life. ... One day while I was just talking with some of my friends, I brought up the question of meaning of life. ... asked of me was how am I going to accomplish this goal. ...

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From that passage I got that If God is the creator of all beings and he is perfect in every way, then all that has a beginning has an end since God is perfect and good. ... That what you believe in ultimately plays a role in how happy you are. ... I will use the example of a hospital patient with cancer who believes in God and believes that there is a place after death, once you know that there is an end coming you are more likely to be prepared to go without any hesitation or question as to why it's your time or if God is spiting you for something that you did wrong. ... The cyclic exist...

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As with any of the ancient Greek myths, there are always a number of permutations and interpretations of the story that lead modern readers to question what the original intent of the story actually had been. ... Supposedly, Neptune was particularly charmed by her, and was supposed to have been sexually intimate with her in the temple of Minerva/Athena. ... The most fundamental essence of the original myth is that in which the primary character is forced to truly seeing oneself and, as a result, ask the perpetual question of "who am I?" Of course, such a question is at the core of every thinki...

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In this passage Hamlet is still talking about that death he wishes to impose on himself. ... That is how Shakespeare conveys an existential viewpoint in Hamlet's most famous speech. ... How easy it would be just to kill himself. ... Hamlet then continues by saying, "how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.... Is there really a difference between these two questions? ...

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This is the question that plagues the story's narrator, and it has plagued the readers of "Bartleby the Scrivener,"" as well. ... Ahab, who accepts no limits on man's ability to know, sums up the white whale's elusive meaning when he explains his hatred of the whale: "How can a prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? ... "How can a person exist without communication with others? " he wonders when he realizes that Bartleby neither converses with other people nor reads. ... This fails, but later in the story the lawyer tries again to reach Bartleby when he poi...

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While desperately seeking to find the answer that has been questioned. ... He was desperate to flee to his den and hide with the devil's litter, for in all his days he had never been clamped or cornered like this"(750-57).Going into to more detail about describing Beowulf, the poet talks about how Grendel "the captain of evil" couldn't overcome the strength that Beowulf had. ... However, throughout the passage, the distinction between hero and monster is very vague by the sympathy given towards him, and helps ignore the fact that he is monstrous in many ways. ... His s...

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When he spoke about his encounter with the god of Delphi, he tells of the many wise men whose wisdom he questioned and refuted, thereby making enemies of them: When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and wiser still by himself; and I went and tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me. ... Another event in which Socrates put his own life at risk with no fear of it was...

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