What sets humans apart from any animal, insect or being on this planet is our awareness of this inevitable end. ... It could be human nature alone that creates a preoccupation with death, a fear that probably reaches back to our country's beginning. ... Ahrensdorf states, in his article in The American Political Science Review, that "the modern state was based not on humans' hopes for salvation or their desire to fulfill their political natures, but on their fear of death and desire for self-preservation- (579). ... "The Tell-tale Heart- is not the only Poe story that confronts thi...

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For romantics, the imagination, spontaneity, individual feelings, and nature were of greater value than reason, logic, planning, and cultivation. ... The transcendentalists, writers of this period, optimistically believed in human perfectibility. ... Transcendentalism influenced writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is responsible for the writing of NATURE and SELF-RELIANCE. ... Realistic novelists often relied on the emerging sciences of human and animal behavior-biology, psychology, and sociology-as well as on their own insights and observations. The most well-known writer of this tim...

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Richards relates the story of how, when she was young, she always said she wanted to talk to God. ... A dominant theme in this series is "the belief in the supernatural [as being] part of the human soul..."24 These books are romantic, realistic, and supposedly written by various vampires to the mortal world. ... King's readers are fascinated by the mind that can produce such horrifying stories, and they see him as a sort of preternatural being. ... Arthur Miller's The Crucible best illustrates this hypocritical attraction-abhorrence nature of the Puritans. ... She is also ...

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The term capital punishment is derived from the Latin caput, meaning "head". It originally referred to death by decapitation, but now applies generally to state authorized executions. Crimes occur in every society around the world. Historically, criminals convicted of these crimes were dealt w...

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HISTORY: in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. ... Thus the early historical sections of the Bible are concerned with the manifestation of God's will in the events of human existence, while they show the same genealogical interests as the king lists of other peoples. 3 Western Historiography Greek and Roman Historiography It was not until the time of the Greeks that historiography, the writing of organic history, emerged. ... In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chrono...

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Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. ... The man who actually shot Thompson escaped punishment, and only a few of the guilty members were imprisoned at San Quentin for a short period"(Smith 14). ...

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Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. ... Because the people in power and wealth tend to promote people who agree with them or have some other common bond is no conspiracy, but human nature (www.acts17-11.com/conspire.html). ... Never in the bible are we encouraged to imagine that conspiracy is the grand explanation of history or the overarching issue of causality in human affairs. ...

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