Seeking to avoid death, Gilgamesh strives to learn the secret of everlasting life Being two-thirds god is not enough for Gilgamesh. ... It is on this great journey that Gilgamesh learns of a secret plant, which restores the lost youth of a man: "Let me disclose, O Gilgamesh, a matter most secret, to you I will tell my mystery of gods. ... He proclaims that he will return to Uruk and share the plant with his people: "This plant, Ur-shanabi, is the "Plant of Heartbeat", with it a man can regain his vigour. ...

• Word Count: 1445
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The taboos are the major reason why Monique fails to divorce her husband making her have a secret an affair with the man that she loves. ... Therefore, Monique decides to reveal her secrets to the author, who is a foreigner, regarding her helpless situation since she believed that the author would understand her. ... They deserve to get help from their families and share the type of abuses they encounter in the society among others. ...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cottard's behavior, and his comment that "secret grief" led him to attempt suicide, indicates that something is making him suffer internally. ... Thus, for example, a feeling normally as individual as the ache of separation from those one loves suddenly became a feeling in which all shared alike and -together with fear-the greatest affliction of the long period of exile that lay ahead (part 2, p. 67) The Plague is a novel that has a little bit of a religious perspective on human suffering. ... Solzhenitsyn and Camus share their view on surviving when suffering. ...

• Word Count: 1505
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• Grade Level: High School

Fastloe is accused of deactivating Jander, another humaniform robot, so competitors wouldn't get the secrets for creating that type of robot and to prove its shortcomings. ... Aristotle believed people could use art to cleanse the souls by shared experiences with the artists. Tolstoy felt art should be used to unite humanity through shared feelings. ...

• Word Count: 1671
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

It is no secret that much of the world's population lives in poverty today. ... When we are young, we do things naturally to please others such as picking up an item that is dropped, opening doors for others when their hands are full or simply sharing toys. ...

• Word Count: 1702
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Zarathustra constantly talks about the main goal of human beings: reaching the overman. The overman is a state in which one has evolved beyond the humanistic characteristics that each person possess. There is no right and wrong or good and evil because true happiness is defined by each person. Throu...

• Word Count: 1593
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In her quest of "trying to learn the white folks secret (p.41)", the normal, usual activities of a nine year old child were disrupted by societal issues of race that were prevalent in the neighborhood environment. ...

• Word Count: 2352
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate