That makes people unhappy and they become regretful and more and more surround themselves with the dream world rather then reality. When in fact they should be working on making there dreams a reality. ... It is also thought that the more one has been reincarnated the more knowledge is imprinted or carried in his genes. ... Because if we are the only things that limit our own dreams, what is holding us back from becoming the most important. ... So he puts down his deepest yearnings into this hole immortality bid, which gives insight of the common bond of all living thin...

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Kane was depicted as a rich, cold-hearted man, relying heavily on materialistic things as a means to cope with his inability to form relationships with other humans. ... Kane's lifestyle was filled with such exuberant and expensive things, he used it as a way to hide his extreme loneliness. Kane also had a wife and some friends, but they were all seen as more of acquaintances, including his wife. ... There was no one, no son to carry on the family name, no friends to remember him. ... The inability to form relationships with actual humans then led to his complete reliance on materialistic...

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They choose how they will carry themselves through life and with that choice they create opinions that will be used to make the decisions that are best for their lifestyle. ... Their lives will have been a pointless struggle and in the end they will only cease to be with no prize awaiting them. ... The man imagining that God will come and carry him to heaven, he speaks foolishly of what others do wrong, even though his own life is full of pestilence. ... The man says that all men, no matter how they live, will receive the same truth. ... After everything you learn there will always be an...

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Godot can be understood as one of the many things in life people wait for. ... The fact that none of the characters retain a clear mental history means that they are constantly struggling to prove their existence. ... When Ben comments on how they will receive their orders Gus answers "He might not come. ... He is a god-like figure, integral to the story but absent Wilson keeps the men waiting always in suspense, they never know what their next job might be, only that the orders will come sooner or later and they must carry them out. ... Ionesco wanted the audience to wish they had stayed at h...

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The divine to me is Brahman, making all things sacred and holy. ... It is with that outlook that we see all things connecting. ... That I carry the same traditions and views of my parents and my grandparents and my great grandparents. ... I find encouragement and find guidance in the life of the guru they are truly wise and just. ... I hope that one day I can teach my own children the true meaning of what it means to be Hindu, that we don't take life for granted, and take respect in all living things no matter what they are. ...

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It begins with the factual claim that we do make judgments about the relative perfection of ordinary things. ... "Things in the world move toward goals, just as the arrow does not move toward its goal except by the archer's directing it. Thus, there must be an intelligent designer who directs all things to there goals, and this is God"(Lowder). ... This means that pretty much everyone believes that there soul has now been released and they are just seeing there physical shape. ... The positive things we do in this life will be the things that carry on for eternity. ...

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All the different parts of euthanasia are part of good medical practice, endorsed by law, when they are properly carried out. ... There are laws that can penalize people for what they did not do. ... Just because they have some authority to help the sick, does not mean they have the right to call the shot on rather or not someone should live or die. ... Some things are just left up to God. They should stay focused on preserving life not taking one. ...

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The first purpose is to carry on the memory of a beloved professor Morrie Schwartz and to teach a lesson. The lesson trying to be taught is the meaning of life and also that sometimes, even if you have not talked to someone in many years that you can still go back to them and things will still be as if you never left. ... Every Tuesday they would meet to discuss the meaning of life and discuss different aspects of it. ... The book begins with death and then goes back to the first time they met and gradually back to the present. ... It made the reader feel as if though they were getting...

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This short phrase, which was found by Offred in the cupboard in her bedroom, not a notable place at all, carries an ironic meaning. ... By looking at the titles they are given, we can see that the titles of the women are closely connected to their sex, to be more precise, they are derived from their sex. ... Once they have lost their financial independence and other ways to be independent, the only way to survive is to rely on men. ... We know Offred does not like Gileadean society and she "constantly rebels" by doing things which are forbidden like reading and singing, but she dares not an...

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We need to know how to do this, how to live in freedom, not being imprisoned by the future, and not being carried away by things in the present. ... Before the doctor tells the person they had cancer, they had the capacity to enjoy themselves with their friends. However, once the doctor informs them of the tragic news, they have lost all the capacity to sit and enjoy a cup of tea, or enjoy a meal, or watch the stars, because they are so afraid of the moment when they will die. ...

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The myths that were carried on from generation to generation were very imaginative in an attempt to get the interest of young listeners. ... Often as individuals told the stories, they were changed slightly in context or meaning. ... As in every culture, the people of it have the individual that they believe is responsible. Each culture has a myth explaining how man was created that they believe is correct based on their oral tradition. ... Present day myths deal with issues that have factual evidence that can explain why things occur. ...

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After that, things become different for Vito and his mother. ... (Ricci, 74-75) "I spent my time alone now, waiting for something to happen that would restore the normalcy of things, for the festival, for school to begin in October." ... They say that if a woman goes with another man and gets bitten by a snake, then the next baby she has will have the head of a snake. ... His father is in America and everybody in the village knows that the child Christina, Vito's mother, is carrying is from another man. ... He becomes defensive and starts fighting with the other boys in denial of what th...

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They also stress how the context or situational forces determines how we perceive our environment and how interaction will proceed. Context carries much of the meaning of speech usage and behavior. ... Without understanding these things a machine will not truly be able to decipher what the conversation was actually about. ... A person outside of this gestalt would not know what a Do A was but they would know that they were not good just from how the speaker said it and how the audience reacted. ...

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They feel they leave behind no legacy. He seems to be saying they know they were really not as important as they thought they would be. ... They feel there are many things they have not done because of the way they lived their life. ... Perhaps he wants this because of fear of being alone or perhaps he feels there are many things he wants to say and do before his father dies and he knows he will never have the time. ... The whole poem carries a deep and powerful message. ...

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By having family created or recreated, this allows people to hold onto things for purely selfish reasons, instead of putting their faith in a higher power. ... Because human clones would be raised in a special environment, they would cease to be human beings and would become objects. ... The value of a person would switch from what they can contribute to not only his or her family, but also to society as a whole, to with cloning be whether or not the new person exhibits the proper characteristics. ... They would also have demands and expectations placed on them by the parent or genotype donors...

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Kress (1993, p. 30) builds on this idea arguing that in a society that has "regularly recurring situations" where the citizens are required to carry out certain tasks and interact with other people, students need to understand that texts are produced to do "some specific social and cultural things." ... Explicit language must be used so that students know and understand exactly where they are going, what they are doing, and why they are doing it. ... They must be a text participant, to work out the meanings of the text. Also, they are text users, identifying and exploring what this particular ...

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This would entail possibly giving up life, in order to pursue something, or carry out duties that accompany a certain occupation. ... They rushed into the towers when they were first hit to rescue anyone that hurt. While they were in there, the towers collapsed, leaving them no place to go. ... In their final hours they showed the ultimate dedication. ... Time is set aside, and certain things are done, all in the name of dedication. ...

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The town doesn't exactly care about Emily, but yet at the same time they do in means of their curiosity, wanting to know what is in the house. " When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant-a combined gardener and cook-had seen in at least ten years."" ... As the story progresses, the house begins to decay and grow old as stated in this excerpt "It smelled of dust and disuse, a close dank smell ...

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At times the narrator feels as though his wife tells Robert too much, they exchange countless voice tapes, where they tell each other of their lives and situations. ... Carver consistently characterizes the husband as the real blind man because he is ignorant of so many simple things in life. ... The narrator is shocked that this man does not walk with a cane or wear dark sunglasses, amazed that he has a long beard and actually dresses and carries himself well. ...

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