Death Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

A popular saying goes “to err is human” which has been proven true in many instances that human beings are generally fallible. People can be wrong but contrary to many skeptics arguments, their fallibility shows that not only would they be wrong, but can also be right. Being wrong does not only carry the possibility of one being right, but implies that often he/she is. Fallibility is a mark of objectivity as it shows there is no standard other than oneself which determines what is right or wrong. Most people can be wrong in given instances but that does ...

Introduction

The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Epic of Gilgamesh are three Greek hero tales that are very popular with readers all over the world. In all the three tales, there is one common theme that stands out and this is the theme of life vs. death or in other words, mortality vs. immortality. In the three tales, the main protagonists are all somehow haunted by this predominant theme. This is indeed a very common phenomenon that occurs in Greek tales where mortality is always a burning question. The mortality human condition is seen as the definition of a true heroic life.

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Gustav Stresemann is a name familiar in Germany not only because the man who owns it was its chancellor from August 1923- November 1923 or even because he stayed on as the country's foreign minister until 1929, when he died. Although needless to say these factors contribute significantly to his popularity, he was a man known to have stood up for his country at a moment when it needed people like him the most. After the First World War, Germany was in grave trouble. It had lost its international reputation, it was blamed for the start of the war, inside the ...

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Thinking Critically with Drama- Antigone
Antigone is a tragic play written by Sophocles in or before 441 BCE. Although it is the last of the Oedipus trilogy, Antigone was written first and bagged the first prize at the Dionysia festival. The play deals with a female protagonist who acts against the order of the king, and in the process meets her untimely death. The conflicts between the two main characters Creon and Antigone, is a powerful human struggle, which is still relevant as it was during that day. It is a struggle of an individual against the establishment. Antigone by ...

Literal analysis is crucial elements that help in critical analysis of the works of literature. In the context of the play ‘Goodnight Desdemona, good morning Juliet' is an n indication of a play that can be applied with the help of the theories. A vindication of the right of women according to Mary is evident in the play. Critically, we seek to understand the cries of women in the play and their representing to find out the root causes of their problems and the best way to curb them. Her thought indicates that women should have access to education to ...

Funeral culture is about creating a community of human activities associated with death and cremation of an individual. It is a culmination of the physical, religious, psychological, ethical, and moral perspective. It includes a variety of concepts related to death, culture, funeral customs, funeral culture and other related activities. It it’s a moment to commemorate the dead and to relive all the memories associated with him/her. Buying of a souvenir is a way paying tribute and remembering people’s experiences; it is captured and saved by taking pictures. But at times the sentiments of the local people need to be respected. When people are ...

Margaret Cezair-Thompson novel, "The True History of Paradise,” is a story about Jean Landing, a Jamaican woman who is determined to escape from her motherland of Jamaica. It is in 1981, and the country is sliding into anarchy after continuous political unrest. The author intelligently injects the storyline with the whole family background of Jean and Jamaica’s whole history. This Jamaican history stretches from the pre-Columbian days up-to-the time Jean gets on her flight. The unfolding political turmoil in her country of birth causes her to make a decision to flee immediately. Even before making her final preparations, she receives piercing ...

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Culture and Society

According to Zion and Kozleski (2005), culture refers to “The system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of society use to interact with their world and with one another” (p. 3). With regard to the given understanding of culture, a person’s environment provides the essential cementing in the creation and adoption of principles in life. In other words, every human being has ideologies that navigate him or her in life and eventually, said person’s comprehension of death. The aforementioned ideologies are the ...

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“The Birth-Mark” and “The Cask of Amontillado” – A comparative study
Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two important contributors of the nineteenth-century American literature. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most celebrated authors, posthumously though, of the past century. Some of his stories are almost autobiographical, and though he lived in a previous era, his ideas were far ahead of his time. Nathaniel Hawthorne is an author, whose works are even today cited for seeking ethical guidance. His stories urge the reader to analyze his moral confusions. This essay is an attempt to compare and ...

Religion is a monotheistic form of worship or religion. It imbibes and generally covers a span of traditions, practices and beliefs which have their origin from the awakened one-or the Buddha; called Siddhartha Gautama (Emavardhana and Tori, 199). It is believed that the Buddha was enlightened on matters of life, philosophy and religion, for this simple reason, it is accredited to him the bringing about of the religion of Buddha. Records, history and empirical data point to the direction that he must have lived and taught religion in the Easter parts of India in the period of the 4th to 6th century. ...

The poem “The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton present a complex representation of death. Her personification of the trees within this dark landscape are meant to conjure images of death and aloneness. By taking a look at “The Starry Night” the reader can gain a better understanding of the emotion invested in the concepts of death.
This theme is set within the first line of the poem which states, “The town does not exist/ except where one black-haired tree slips/ up like a drowned woman into the hot sky” (lines 1-3). This line describes the tree by comparing it to a woman who ...

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Indigenous people (the Cree) vs. British settlers: How does the confrontation between Mrs. Andersen and Crow Eagle dramatize the differing values and the racist attitudes that created conflicts between two cultures?
The confrontation between Mrs. Anderson and Crow Eagle served to show just how different the Canadians and the Indians are. It also showed a question of what it really means for a person to be civilized.
In the play, Mrs. Anderson reported Crow Eagle for stealing her ‘bath tub’. Her point was that stealing ...

Issues and Problems

Introduction
Grief, distress and sadness are emotions that a person displays in case of loss. Loss can be a loss of things, loss of reputation or even loss of people. Emotional anatomy is a science which has been based on emotions and psychology of people (Schwartz, 1999). It helps in providing psychological therapies for the purpose of helping extreme depression and anxiety caused due to problems and issues. An important problem or issue that is causing a lot of distress to me is the death of my grandparents and a divorce between my parents. This is causing me a lot of stress and sadness ...

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Whether or not the right to liberty should be protected and observed at the time of death is a matter of debate. Philosophically speaking, right to liberty at the time of death ought to be upheld because the ultimate quality differentiating human beings from animals is the capacity to make decisions. Right to liberty is essentially the right to make decisions. The debate revolving around the right to liberty is the foundation for the concept of The Legal Right to Die (Palmer 87). Over the years, various decisions have been made with regard to the legal right to die. The ...

In “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” it becomes almost impossible to separate Dylan Thomas, the poet who has written this poem, from the speaker of this poem, who is urging father to struggle fiercely with death. In other words, Thomas is used the speaker of this poem to say things he was probably not able to say to his own ageing father, whose health was declining and death was impending. The fact that the speaker has several autobiographical elements cannot be denied, which makes him the poet’s alter ego, but he is still not quite ...

Law

The death penalty is a fair punishment
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Death penalty should not be abolished since it has been proven to effectively deter crimes. Although the anti-death penalty groups believe that death is a grave punishment because the calculated killing of a human being by the State is considered as a denial of the executed person’s humanity and the right to life (Mandery 167). Some lawmakers believe that death penalty is cruel and degrading which is in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. However, several crimes have been committed nowadays without due regard to respect for human ...

Introduction

The Hunger games, which is an introductory novel written by an author Suzanne Collins whose description of the girl Katniss Everdeen is of futuristic tale illustration and overcomes the odds that occurs to her. The comparison of the movie and the book of the Hunger games are portrayed in light of a totalitarian nation of Panem which is divided into twelve districts and the Capitol and in a descriptive future that is clearly dystopian.

Perspective

The Arena is sown to be controlled by Seneca Crane and it is portrayed through the highlighting displays of the day`s kills, releasing mutations, and trying ...

Criminal Law

Abstract
This paper will provide a personal response on capital punishment and its relationship for deterring crime. At the same time, there will also be a discussion on the ethical issues concerning the imposition of death penalty in relation to the Constitution. The standpoint of United Nations Committee and anti-death penalty movements will be presented as well as the discussion on the causal link between imposing death penalty against the defendants and its ability to diminish criminality in society. The recognition of the right to equal freedom and respect for human rights by adopting less restrictive means to achieve the ...

THE INNOCENT SPELUNKERS

The four spelunkers decided to go for exploration of the caves and while still at the entrance, a landslide occurred. They got stuck and decided to wait for a rescue party to come along (Suber, 1998). They were stuck for twenty days as rescue efforts were still being put in place (Suber, 1998). The four spelunkers were overcome with hunger then Paul proposed they draw straws so as to decide who to eat. Unfortunately, when Paul drew his straw it was the shortest. They then ate Paul as was agreed (Suber, 1998). The three were later rescued then sued for murder ...

The desire for a heavenly after life or immortality leads to boredom since in essence there is no real end to life. Life runs on an infinite timeline no matter our interests, habits or values. There is no climax to life no ‘grand exit’ or so to speak. Human beings are naturally inclined towards expectation and accomplishment which in essence bring about a sense of finality. Immortality or a heavenly life after death contradicts this finality concept which can be a strong motivator for greatness. Since life has no real end it loses its ‘kick’ and excitement fades away hence boredom.
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ABSTRACT

Euthyphro is not really able to answer any of the questions Socrates asks about piety and holiness, since he is looking for a universal answer about the meaning of these terms. Socrates probably does not believe in the traditional gods of Athens but rather in a monotheistic God with a universal concept of truth, justice and morality. Indeed, he is about to go on trial for impiety and instructing the youth of Athens to question the existence of the gods, and will be sentenced to death. In comparison, Euthyphro has very rigid and limited ideas about holiness, which generally involve obeying laws, ...

1). “Ted,” he said, “when all this started, I asked myself, ‘Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?’ I decided I'm going to live- or at least try to live- the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.” (Albom)
Response: This quote is a testament to Morrie’s willingness to carry on; to continue trying. It is well-known that the mouth says what the brain tells it. So, what I take from this quote is that even though Morrie was horribly disabled by his ...

Just to begin with, I would like to note that aneurysm is a terrible disease which can easily lead to death of not well treated. This particular illness always occurs especially when a particular blood vessel such as the artery or the cardiac muscle swells or if the walls of the blood vessels are weak. This implies that as the blood pressure builds up, the weak points of the blood vessels bulges outwards or swells as this disease grows, an individual is exposed to the risk of rupture. This in turn may lead to severe hemorrhagic and then eventually sudden death.
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Question 1

Do women live longer than men?
The dependent variable is death. The life span of individuals depends on several factors. As years go by the age of an individual goes up and death comes nearer. The independent variable is gender.

The gender of an individual is fixed and does not change with age.

The kind of data needed to answer this question is ratio comparing the age at which most men die to that at which most women die. This kind of information can be obtained by visiting hospitals and inquiring the records of patients who die in a year (National Institutes of Health 2000). It can also be obtained by interviewing members ...

Socrates was an orator and philosopher whose primary interests were logic, ethics and epistemology. In Plato’s Apology of Socrates, Plato recounts the speech that Socrates gave shortly before his death, during the trial in 399 BC in which he was charged with "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). The name of the work itself is a bit of a misnomer; here, Socrates is not apologizing, but merely speaking in defense of his beliefs and actions – the word apology is used in the context ...

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Discretionary death penalty laws are considered more just, fair and reasonable than mandatory penalty laws because it allowed the jury the option to impose life imprisonment instead of death (Bohm, 2012, p.9). Mandatory death penalty can be considered as contrary to justice, fairness and morality because of the theory that criminality was not freely chosen by the criminal, but the criminal behavior of such individual was a consequence of biological and environmental factors that are beyond such person’s control (Bohm, 2012, p.9). Based on this premise, the motivation and causation that influences an individual to develop ...

The Play Hamlet by William Shakespeare may have been written many centuries ago but it remains one of the most outstanding plays ever written during the renaissance. The play was written during a time when England was trying so much to suppress many of the traditions that people were practicing then, among them, traditional religious beliefs such as believe in ghosts. Ghosts were held in very high esteem and this may have been the main reason why Shakespeare chose to incorporate this aspect (Greenblat 16).
Greenbalt says that at the time when the play was written, there were very ...

Erica Jong collection, “Love Comes First” is her latest version of her poetry books. The book is useful to individuals who wish to bring Eros in their sweet life. The book is also useful for learning the diction, styles, thematic structure, and the brilliance of the poet. The literature review has helped to make a comparison with other books to show the uniqueness of the author’s piece of work. The poetry book is mainly concentrated with the death shadow. The poems in this book are speaking direct to the authors and this makes them more persuasive to the readers. ...

Michele Causse ingested 15g of powdered Nembutal, dissolved in 60ml of normal tap water, ending her life. In Switzerland it’s legal to assist someone in ending their life if it is not done for egotistical reasons. Michele Causse loved life but didn’t want it to lose form; she’s basically saying that although she loves life it’s all downhill from here because of her health. Life is only going to get worse, so she wants to end on her terms instead of slowly deteriorating into a creature that can’t feed itself. She already can’t shop ...

Tony Nicklinson suffers from locked in syndrome as a result of a stroke, he is unable to communicate verbally or physically, and he is completely paralyzed from the neck down, he is literally a prisoner in his own body.

The fifty-eight year old was denied the right to die by the high court.

“I have locked-in syndrome and it makes my life a living nightmare.
I cannot speak and I am also paralysed below the neck, which means I need someone to do everything for me.
For example, 90% of itches have to be endured because by the time someone comes to scratch it and I have laboriously explained where it is, the itch has ...

I think Wiesel is writing this essay for the dead. He talks of the great Yiddish and Hebrew poet who lost his family, and being alone, he makes words. Wiesel refers to his reluctant use of words. The Hebrew poet writes to his dead family as do Wiesel. He entered literature through silence having survived death, and he knows it is a mandate to explain his survival and escape from death since it was his role as a witness. The dead cannot give their opinions by word of mouth. The language of the dead is inhuman; it is like that of ...

Question 1: Observing a nurse manager

Having observed the nurse manager for one hour on two occasions, it was apparent that the nurse manager was a transactional leader. This could be seen from how the nurse manager related with junior nurses; the nurse manager was the one giving orders around while the junior nurses have to follow the orders. On several occasions, the nurse manager was seen complimenting some junior nurse for their good work. Despite the nurse manager exhibiting transactional leadership, the relationship between this nurse and the junior nurses seemed to be positive since for more than once, the nurse manager could be seen ...

Life imprisonment that has no parole provision is in other terms known as the “penultimate punishment”. It is the second highest punishment after the death punishment and is regarded to have even more felt and dire consequences on the offender/the prisoner than any other form. This form of punishment has had several impacts on the offenders as well as the communities in which they live in (Larry 2009).
Offenders that have been previously convicted under similar counts know that life in prison is not easy hence they are likely not become repeat perpetrators of violent crimes. When asked ...

In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” Dylan Thomas voices a rejection of easy acceptance of death. He argues that no matter what type of person is facing death, each person should fight against it, even though obviously death is inevitable for everybody. Thomas urges the reader to resist death, to fight against it until the end. Thomas uses the formal structure of the poem, a villanelle, to reinforce his message in each stanza. In the final stanza, Thomas makes the poem more personal with an appeal to his father to become passionate enough about living to ...

Introduction

This essay focuses on the William Shakespeare’s play No Fear and specifically on the part where the main character Hamlin hears and sees the players of the play he is making. It discusses the effects they have on Hamlin and the reasons for the effects coming up, what the players remind Hamlet of or what they might represent, and why in Hamlet, it initiates a response at the end like the soliloquy.
When Hamlet hears and sees the players it affects in a way that it makes him sad, it angers and it irritates him at the same time. ...

In both of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories “The Killers” and ‘The Old Man at the Bridge,” a character faces the probability of death. In “The Killers,’ a former prizefighter learns that two assassins have been hired to kill him, while in “The Old Man at the Bridge,” an elderly man stays at the likely site of an impending wartime conflict. Each of them faces the prospect of death in a similar way, seemingly calmly accepting that their death is imminent. However, the reaction of the other characters in the two stories differs. The scout in “The Old Man at the Bridge” ...

Many of us get easily depressed, frustrated and even overwhelmed by the most inconsiderable misfortunes because we are unsuccessful in finding meaning in the everyday activities of our lives. Even in the situations that make life unbearable, we can find the perseverance to continue and pursue a more fulfilling life if we understand the meaning to our life, learn to love others and find value in our suffering. In his book Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl shows us that for own our mental and physical well being it is necessary that we find our life’s meaning. What makes ...

Noah’s story in Genesis approaches the nature of what it means to live in a rather different perspective from the other two. Noah according to King James Version of the Bible was a man of diligence and respect and walked in the ways of God. “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord (Genesis. 6: 8)”. Noah lived on earth in a time when men were evil and walked in their own knowledge. They cared less about morality or any code of ethics in which they were to live with. They showed no respect to God, who had created ...

People have always had the fear of death. The issue of death was the subject of many myths, fairytales, poems, folk songs and books. Bereavement and grief, which always follow the death of someone who was very dear us appeal for possible solutions. That is why so many books discussing how to cope with grief and bereavement exist. In this essay I am going to discuss one of such books which is called “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion. I am going to analyze what the phenomenon of magical thinking meant to the author and how it ...

Biotic potential is a theoretical estimation of the highest possible reproductive capability of an organism in an environment where resources are optimal or unlimited. Biotic potential is usually expressed in terms of percentage or proportional increase per annum. For instance, a biotic potential of elephants in a part can be expressed as follows. The elephant population went up by 5 percent over the past one year. It can also be explained by the time taken for the population to double in numbers, simply called doubling time. When studying diseases, biotic potential can be compared to the infection force, which is the number ...

Death Penalty

Before Moses climbed Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, justice existed. Before 2500 BC when the first ruler of the Babylonian Empire Hammurabi gave his people the first written law, justice existed. Fairness and justice are an inherent human quality. Therefore, swift and fair justice must always exist.
Punishment is the cornerstone of justice in society. A crime should fit the punishment in an ideal society. The death penalty has existed for thousands of years. In the 21st century, emphasis was laid more on the question of humanity. Amnesty International believes "the death penalty is the ultimate ...

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia all have a common goal of voluntarily terminating one’s life by administering a lethal substance directly or indirectly assisted by a physician. In physician-assisted suicide, the physician provides the necessary information, and the patient performs the act while in euthanasia the physician performs the act that finally ends life. The practices have their proponents and opponents. Physicians who oppose the acts believe that they violate fundamental function of medicine and believe that doctors are supposed to be healers and not killers.
Before her father’s death, for over two decades Wolf totally opposed the legalization of ...

Nietzsche comment that “God is dead,” is an interesting one. By this, he implies that the decrease in importance placed on religious faith in Western society has caused, in turn, a decrease in the moral values of society. However, what he does not seem to take into account is that no moral values have been introduced to replace the old ones.
The statement “God is dead” comes up in a few of Nietzsche's works, the most famous being in The Gay Science. Furthermore, the statement is now among his most well-known comments. One the one hand, it is easy to ...

Macbeth and Oedipus are tragic heroes from two completely different periods of time. However, they have many similarities that join them together. As a first similarity, we can distinguish that they were both kings, driven by a force that lead them unconsciously to death. Even though Oedipus was in his youth and running away from his fate, he ended just like Macbeth. Both of these two tragic heroes had prophesies that needed to be fulfilled. They are on an unconscious search for their own fall and destruction. Macbeth is lead by the lust of powers that eventually lead him to destruction, ...

Analysis - Giovanni Boccaccio, "The Onset of the Black Death"

Boccaccio's Decameron is a masterpiece of early 14th century European literature; its bawdiness and its sheer wit are a wonderful, funny indicator of what life was like in 14th century Italy. However, the central framing device of the book itself - the Black Plague, which ravaged Europe around the time of the book's setting and publication - plays a somber but vital role in this important work. The importance of the plague to the story is no less evident than in the introduction, which demonstrates the awesome power of the sickness. Boccaccio's account of the plague during the time it hit Florence ...

Why this work is called the apology since Socrates isn't apologizing? What is Socrates doing?

It is called apology because it is a way of defending oneself, and making them understand that he was not guilty. In the apology, Socrates is defending himself in the case raised against him. Hence, he is not apologizing, but rather giving out a speech in his defense.
What is the oracle at Delphi and what did the oracle say that god Socrates started on his life of inquiry
The Oracle at Delphi proclaimed that Socrates was one of the wisest man. This was so because he knew that nothing could be posited as the Socratic ironic source. Certainly, ...

Question 1

Existentialism has helped to solve the despair that comes with postwar in many ways. One way is that existentialism has taught people to be more concerned with their welfare unlike the past where people were required to depend on the supernatural principles. With existentialism, people have many choices to make and this philosophy has made people to make the right choices every day. Before the war, many people believed their lives were controlled by science and they therefore had no concern for the way they lived. They did not find any reason to fight for life. With the theory ...

Grief

Grief is an emotional state of a feeling of sadness created by the loss of something or someone that a bond had been created with. One of the reasons behind this loss is the death of a person. Deaths may occur due to various reasons such as accidents, acts of violence, and war. In the event that death results from the three activities listed above, the grief experienced in each situation has similarities and differences.

When death is caused by acts of violence the grief involves feelings of sadness and anger. Sadness is due to the loss of the person while anger ...

Mexican culture undoubtedly belongs to the number of death-accepting ones, for the notion of death permeates every aspect of it without being grim or depressive one. There is, e.g., the festival called “The Day of the Dead” which may bear some resemblance to Halloween but is, in fact, completely different in its core. The Mexicans consider it to be the day of reunion between themselves and their dead relatives and loved ones, who are not considered to be some ghastly otherworldly spirits but just the same people they used to be, only on a different stage of existence. The Mexicans ...

My point of view is that the death of Osama bin Laden was a great victory not only for America but for the world as whole. This is because he was responsible for planning and executing terror attacks around the globe and turning terrorism into an organized body known as Al Qaeda.

How Can You Define Your Point of View More Clearly?

I believe the death of Osama helped the world get rid of a man who was psychotic and was willing to kill innocent people to achieve his warped objectives. He had declared a ‘Holy War’ and was responsible for being the man behind the terror attacks in various countries including ...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 and died on August 25, 1900, was great 19th century German classical philologist, philosopher, and poet. He is known for his writings on critical texts on life and mortality, religion, philosophy, contemporary culture, and science, which displayed fondness for aphorism, metaphor, and irony. His writings remain substantial influential beyond and within philosophy, majorly in postmodernism, existentialism, and nihilism. One of his writing that “God is dead,” sparked a lot of debate in both circular and religious sectors.

The statement "God is dead" appears in a number of his works; for example, in “ ...

Death penalty is a capital punishment that is used in modern days as a punishment for certain offences. It has been in use since the ancient times, and even the Bible advocated for the death penalty for such crimes as murder, adultery, kidnapping, and witchcraft (). However, the death penalty has attracted substantial debates from the two extremist sides. The proponents of the death penalty argue that it is an effective deterrence method; it effectively deters people from committing capital offences. However, the anti-death penalty campaigners argue that legalization of the death penalty may lead to a death sentence being passed on an ...

Abstract

Obesity and breast cancer are key health issues for American women. Obesity has approximately reached epidemic percentages in the United States and is more widespread among American women. The breast cancer mortality rate persists to mount in Americans. A review of the recent literature was conducted to bring into focus the relationship of these two health problems as they relate to American women. The review is separated into three subjects, obesity prevalence and incidence, breast cancer incidence and mortality and the relationship between obesity and breast cancer. The two studies reviewed are facts of a connection between obesity and breast ...

Is Death an Evil?

Death, the most bitter and debilitating aspect of human life, is also a moot question among scholars. While some view it as a 'normal' part of human existence in this materialistic world, others dread it and prefer to avoid discussing this bleak end of human life.
This paper sides with the optimistic viewpoint. It considers death as the end of only organic survival, not the suspension of the eternal soul that soon starts its 'another' journey. Even if we shun the soul immortality and consider death as the permanent end of life, there is no point in considering it ...

Precisely, most people do not realize the nature of fear and the reasons for its occurrence. The reason is that a fear deadens mind, thus, a person cannot oppose it with rational explanation. In most cases, the fear of death or thanatophobia is justified by its connection with any disease, pain, loneliness, and suffering. There is also a belief that death is not bad and people should not be afraid of it because fear is a burden for a human being. For example, Epicurus and his followers believed that a person does not feel pain or suffering at the ...

Is the Death Penalty Effective?

Is the Death Penalty Effective?
The community has always questioned whether the death penalty is effective in deterring violent crimes, or if other measures would be more effective, such as using drug rehabilitation programs, job training, or using capital punishment. Ellsworth & Gross (1997) found in 1974 that 93 percent of the proponents “agreed that the death penalty is a more effective deterrent than life imprisonment”. On the other hand, those who disagreed still opposed the death penalty, even if it turned out to be an effective deterrent to violent crime than life imprisonment (Ellsworth & Gross, 1997). It appears that ...

Difference between Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branch of Government

The legislature, Executive and Judicial branches are the three main branches of the United States government. Legislative branch of the government is composed of two main houses, which are referred as the house of congress, they are: The House of Representatives and the Senate. All the parties in both the Senate as well as the House of representative are elected leaders. The most significant role played by the Legislative Branch that is, both the Senate and the House of Representatives is to formulate or make laws; these laws are discussed and voted. Moreover, the Legislative Branch is responsible for ...

Ethical problem

Stacy (2012) reviewed a case study of an irreversible case of pneumococcal pneumonia who had become mechanical ventilator support dependent. The male patient had decided to be removed from the ventilator and allowed to die with full knowledge of his irreversible condition and the eventual death that will come upon him after all life-maintaining support were removed. Although the family did not agree on the removal of the life-support treatment, they acceded to the wish of their father and approved the gradual removal of the ventilator referred to as terminal weaning. This case, unlike most controversial cases that leads ...

Introduction

Capital punishment or the death penalty is the process by which a state puts an accused person to death for perpetrating a grave crime. The matter has been of considerable controversy over the past century in various countries and states. Human rights activists have continually criticized the states of being inhuman, immoral, and irresponsible for the welfare of its people through killing suspected criminals (Vaughn 78). Religious groups such as Christians have also expressed their disappointments over capital punishment, as it goes against the wishes and plans of God. The various reasons that state carrying out the process hold ...

Introduction

Grave of Fireflies, or ‘Hotaru no haka’ in Japanese, is a powerful and compelling animated film which was released in 1988 (Ebert). This 88 minutes long film was directed by Isao Takahata with the animation being done by Studio Ghibli, which has created a name for itself for producing quality and acclaimed animations. The movie’s story line is modeled on a novel bearing the same title, written in 1967 by Akiyuki Nosaka. Apparently, the author had undergone an experience comparable to that of Seita, the protagonist in both the film and the autobiography.
Grave of Fireflies has a growing audience of ...