Objectively, one must consider posing the question "how far?" How far are we as humanity prepared to exhaust our God-given rights and manipulate our destiny? ... I feel terrible and I want to die." ... Keeping someone who wants to die, someone who's family has agreed for them to die promotes more discomfort than the death itself. ... We are living in the age of the most rapid social development ever experienced, a time where we should really listen to what the wise elderly have to say, because after all, they are the reason why we are here and the least we can do is offer them the choi...

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That shows us how treacherous and devious Juliet had to be to be with her Romeo. ... It is a big failure, how she just decided to end her life. ... Later, we meet Ophelia and she is frightened by Hamlet's actions. ... Ophelia died because she loved Hamlet, and finally Cordelia died because she loved King Lear. ... But if death is the only way to die, then death is the best way to die....

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In The Song of Roland: Shame and Honor, we are presented with the moral tensions that a noble hero must face. ... His courage allowed him to be willing to die at the site after sounding the horn. ... It was better to die, than to live shamefully being looked upon as a coward. ... In the selections on Charlemagne we see him portrayed as a man who took interest in the lives of those that surrounded him. ... We have seen how Roland, Beowulf, and Charlemagne were classified as nobles by possessing one if not more than one of these characteristics. ...

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Despite how he feels, David goes to the barn and shoots the pigeons. ... This makes him feel comfortable in believing that there will be life after death, and he says "maybe we don't die." ... I believe that Updike is trying to convey that questioning what happens after we die is not truly important, but believing in god will rid you of any fear you have. ... Noticing how beautiful god's creatures are gave him a sense of comfort in believing in life after death. We are too significant for there not to be a heaven. ...

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In the end, both men lived and died for what they believed in. ... Jesus died so that we may live and Daniel's death resulted in a new heart and eyes for another. ... Another story we read was, "Atticus •by Ron Hansen. ... During the holiday, Atticus realizes how bad off his son is but still shows great love for him. ... The last two stories we talked about were by Flannery O'Connor. ...

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He first states that this poem is an actual story of Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara whose young wife died mysteriously died in 1561. ... He emphasizes how charming the late wife was and how selfish, possessive, and demanding the Duke seemed to be. ... When describing this dramatic monologue he says, "as if we turned on a radio and, having selected a frequency, overhear a very private conversation (Priestly, p.3)." ... Priestly makes an even better point that the whole time the Duke is talking to the agent, he is discussing a painting so, "(possible we are being silly) (Priestly, p.4)". ... He...

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How does the reader see this? How do we know it was fate, their destiny that triggered these events? ... How did Romeo and Juliet meet? ... When he does, Tybalt strikes Mercuitio and he dies. ... Here Romeo is saying how really alive Juliet looks. ...

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Well I think we do, just that we don't know how to look. ... You, the real you, the inner light you, never dies. ... But in my view your soul dies with you. ... How do we know who we are? ... How do we understand? ...

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"Napoleon once said that he could make men die for little pieces of ribbon. ... The pills made the men's skin have a jaundice color and there were two men that died due to black water fever. ... The battalion was the only American unit in Vietnam at the time as they expressed, "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers." ... In the reports Caputo wrote how artillery shells occasionally fell on friendly units, tanks ran over people, helicopters crashed from friendly fire, marines shot other marines by mistake. ... The military gave him the medals because he continued to lead his men un...

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"We make a profound mistake in attributing to Moses extraordinary qualities of courage, and strength of body or soul. ... We saw in the book, the story of Moses unfold, born into a family of amazing faith; he died a man of amazing faith. ... Meyer died in 1929 yet the publication date of Moses: the Journey of Faith dated 1954. ... A repeating organizational feature of the book is the example of a faithful act by Moses; then an explanation of how this faith, if applied to our modern lives will bring about change. ... One such idea, "And out of the whole story there comes to us this lesson: we...

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It was a right handed guitar and because Jimi was left handed he switched the strings and flipped it upside down and taught himself how to play. ... (VH1) On September 18, 1970 Jimi Hendrix died. ... The night he died, he had been working on a new song. The closing lines were: The story of life is quicker, than the wink of an eye, The story of love, is hello and goodbye, Until we meet again. ... It was a tragedy that he died at such a young age. ...

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In the novel, A Lesson Before Dying, discrimination is a major predicament throughout and the story takes place during a particularly racial time period, but is there an even greater problem that the two men are faced with? ... Jefferson is charged with a crime he did not commit and does not know how to deal with it. The people are asking a lot from a man who knows he is going to die shortly. ... He knows how heavy the burden is and how hard it must be for Jefferson to take on the burden of stopping the cycle black people had been repeating for generations. "We black men...stay here in the Sou...

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Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not." ... Mathew 24:37-39 provides a good example of how Jesus used this method. ... Jesus knew all along that he would be dying for the people that would eventually kill him. ... When asked if the mothers would die for a stranger, the answer probably changes. If they would be asked to die for a criminal, the answer would be no. ...

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Act I Scene 3 shows how important reputation is and how they see each other. ... "Now I see, I see in Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be" She turns everything on its head, leaving Antony dumbstruck, not knowing what to do or say. ... Antony is taken to see his Queen one last time before he dies and even when faced with her lover's death, Cleopatra cannot not stop performing. ... And even as Antony begins his dying words of: "I am dying, Egypt, dying. ... She is able to manipulate Antony easily and her play-acting often means that one questions who the real Cleopatra is an...

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The two characters meet for the first time at the beginning of the play and one dies at the end of the play, so there would be no point in having any scenes before or after the scene that is already there. ... He may not have known when exactly he was going to die, or how exactly he was going to die, but he knew. ... I don't think he simply wanted to get it off his chest before he died, to tell anyone. ... PETER - We call it north. ... The format of having just two actors in one scene shows what a simple thing life is, yet in the play we are shown how complicated life is. ...

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While reading the novel, the reader can picture how savage the Europeans seem. ... Many Africans lie dying, their bodies frail and starved. ... When Marlow reaches the main building he encounters the Accountant, dressed in nicely starched and ironed clothes, a complete contrast from the dying Africans outside. ... We can't even fathom how a person can be that ignorant. ...

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But some things are just too strange to ignore, and we must dig deeper to find the true answers. ... Why would Tupac all of a sudden take an extreme interest in a war hero who died hundreds of years ago without having a specific purpose? ... The actual cremation itself is questionable because of the way that Tupac expressed himself about his burial before he "died". ...

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Accepting this outcome with remarkable grace, Socrates drank hemlock and died. ... I like how he kept digging until he found the answer he was looking for. ... Few of us are presented with the same stark choice between what we belive to be true and death, but all of us are daily faced with opportunities to decide between pleasing the crowd and our devotion to our beliefs. How we choose determines whether we, like Socrates, deserve to call our lives philosophical. It is hard to say how the world today would accept a man like Socrates. ...

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Larkin was an example of such expressionism, and writes his poetry in such a persuasive form that we feel we have to accept his views as our own. ... Although Larkin was an Agnostic, describing religion as "the moth-eaten musical brocade created to pretend we never die", the persona in "Church going" has taken time to visit the church and Larkin seems to be well acquainted with the religious terms of the various furniture within it, suggesting he has some sort of respect for it. ... He talks of how the store "conjures" an element of illusion. ... The persona patronises and criticises wome...

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We soon learn that he is plagued with voices as if he is being followed he feels as if he is being watched. ... Jesus becomes torn not knowing how he should handle himself and what path he takes. ... He is taken from the temple and tells Judas to turn him in so he may die on the cross to fulfill his destiny. ... At these he crawls from his bed to the top of a hill and begs forgiveness from god and with that it cuts to him dying on the cross. ... The film showed a Jesus who sinned just as any other man, one who is subject to anger as well as love, one who wants a family as we all do, and one ...

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In his autobiography, Rumor of War we begin to learn the horror and tragedies of the war and what impact the war had on his life. ... His background had taught him that whatever the cause we must protect the country. ... His job was to keep the ratio of how many United States me they lost compared to how many NVA that the army killed. ... They wanted the ratio to be high they didn't care how many men were lost as long as more NVA were killed. ... By this time Caputo was beginning to gave nightmares of the people he had watched die in Vietnam. ...

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It is human nature not to believe in something that we did not see or something that cannot be proved with hard evidence. ... My daddy died in nineteen ought nineteen of the epidemic flu- (130). ... This is very much so like the story of Jesus and how he was killed by the very people he was trying to save. ... The grandmother then called him one of her children right before she died. ... She is always talking about how things were so good back in the old days and how safe it was. ...

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We are taught to hide negativity at all costs. We can't talk to others about it, we can't expose it, we can't even think about it. ... Without certainty, how did Goodman Brown proceed? ... He showed how much kindness and bravado he had by saving his master's, Dr. ... Hagenthorpe quotes, "No one wants to advance such ideas, but somehow I think that poor fellow must die." ...

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As we see in the stage direction Eddie gets insulted by the way Beatrice speaks to him. ... Catherine does not realize how Eddie feels and even though she realizes she does not accept it until the end of Act 1. ... After Rodolpho's comment in the stage direction for Eddie we can see his dislike for Rodolpho is starting to turn to hatred. ... At that point we start to understand that Eddie is not just being overprotective he is actually jealous of any man that is attracted to Catherine. ... He denies his feelings but from this talk and from his actions before we can see that they a...

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Through Elie Wiesel's gritty depiction of the treatment towards Jews in his homeland of Hungary we learn that much of the oppression inflicted by the Nazis began before the transportation to concentration camps. ... Towards the end of their stay, we learn that Elie has moved on to loading heavy stones onto railway wagons (p. 70). ... It was this foreman that had learned how to get to Elie. ... The same cannot be said for the father and son who died for a scrap of bread. ... Through Elie Wiesel's gritty depiction of the treatment towards Jews in his homeland of Hungary we learn ...

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