"(Line1-5) Shakespeare uses personification and metaphor to describe the struggles Hamlet is facing at that time, the question that Hamlet asks himself is that: "Is it better to live with all the bad or is it better to take his life and end his troubles?... In this quote parallelism is the major figurative language being used, Hamlet was talking about all the negative of life, he thinks there are just too many of these negative things in one's life, why would anyone choose this suffering. This is a serious question being shown from this quote, Hamlet is deeply depressed about al...

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There are some ways of living that do not require understanding of some aspects of life. We are connected with certain relations among us, that we don't try to understand but still manage to communicate and spend our life with them. ... Simplicity of inner soul is not the same as the simplicity of our outside life in terms of our character and personality. ... The only way that we can be really satisfied and live in peace and harmony is by making our inside soul simple and peaceful. ... However, one solution is that, such a person can live close to natural resources that can produce everl...

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In "How Are We To Live," Peter Singer suggests that people should take an ethical approach to find deeper satisfactions in life. ... These people reject Rand's Objectivism philosophy because they are not independent thinkers, unable or unwilling to see the truth of new ideas, who make real life decisions based on what others think about their perception about life. ... Roark achieves the ultimate commercial success and happiness in life by devoting his own thinking and judgment. Rand believes that moral virtue is a requirement of practical success in every endeavor of life. .....

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Relaxation is comprised of refreshing tranquility, achieved by removing the accumulated tensions of life. Many studies confirm that this balance in life is good for the body as well as the mind. ... Learning to live with the stressors of life is often thought to be a normal part of our human development and a function of maturity. ... While escaping life's hassles, expenses can be reduced on the home front as well. ... Live a new life where the mind and body are at equilibrium with the stimulating forces of your surroundings and enjoy the new relaxed state of refreshing tranquility....

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Dostoevsky makes numerous references in his novel concerning the direct impact one's living quarters can make upon their life and it is these specific references that further illustrate Dostoevsky's themes and characters. ... I could never live with such a cluttered state of mind nor could I live in a single room that only furthers the despair felt by its inhabitants; it is simply amazing how Raskolnikov can hold in his thoughts and guilt for the sake of his own pride. ... Then God will send you life again [ ] Suffer and expiate your sin by it, that's what you must do" ...

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In both Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Hall of Fantasy" and Robert Frost's poem "Birches," we are guided through a fantastic description of a world where the actual must merge with the imaginative, where our dreams are a sort of therapy for the concerns of daily life. ... Hawthorne goes on to list several artistic masterpieces and inventions to serve as examples of the magnificence of things that can occur when we play in the imaginative world but live within the actualities of each day. ... The imaginative world alone does not satisfy our need for love, relationships with others, and...

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Of course it was, the whole reason King couldn't decide to escape from jail is because, "I would rather die having spoken after my manner than speak in your manner and live." ... Socrates speaks of living a life in jail for what he believes of expanding the minds of Athenians to treasure " the improvement of the soul" while King's beliefs reflect the same idea with, "the willingness to go to jail for conscience's sake." ...

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Wollstonecraft did not believe a woman should center her life on her husband, for she said that women who act in such a way will "fade", having lived their vane ambition for a short time, rendering the rest of their lives meaningless and pointless. ...

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Because of how we live, true reality is not obvious to most of us. ... Initially, one does not want to give up the security of his or her familiar reality, just as Oedipus did not want to give up his life and how far he had come in his life. ... Oedipus was at all times capable of seeing a true reality, a reality in which Oedipus had the prospect to accept the life fate had left him, instead of failing to divulge in the truth. ...

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Edward's became highly regarded through his many sermons and treatises that were shaped by his childhood, education and the time in which he lived. ... Jonathan Edwards" childhood, education, and family had a profound impact on his life ergo his work and way of thinking. ... After graduating in 1720 he stayed on for 2 years to study theology, during which, "he experienced an intensely emotional religious conversion, which determined the course of his life and career" (unknown), most notable were his new beliefs modeling John Locke's (Dematteis). ... The time in which Jonathan Ed...

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To live without routines and values and to have pure experience, we must live spontaneously. ... As depressing as this may seem, admitting that the world is absurd and life is ridiculous is rather liberating. ...

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In modern society, dreamers are often described as idealists who search for romantic visions of life rather than confront life's true nature. ... Berenger proclaims that "Life is a dream" and is later scorned by Jean for being this unconcerned with reality . ... Biff could not live up to his father's dreams and deemed himself a failure. ... It is through his dream and failure to accept reality that Miller is able to convey to the reader his criticisms of the American way of life. ...

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We live in a world which invites challenge, the necessity of which allows us to improve. ... Coining the phrase, "As the twig is bent, so grows the tree", Locke emphasized the importance childhood development has on behavior, forewarning that the ways a child is brought up will have life long lasting implications. Freud, whom lived in the 19th – 20th century, thought similar to Locke, and believed that children's personalities were shaped by their parents nurturing (MacDonald, Kevin) however; unlike Locke, Freud believed we are born with a certain level of innate inclinati...

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After Linda's death, O'Brien describes himself in fifth grade imagining Linda as still with him and using his imagination to simultaneously bring her back to life, and to cope with his loss. ... O'Brien comes to the conclusion that in stories, the dead live again. ... O'Brien adds new details to give people that died in his stories new life that he could experience as he was creating it, almost as if the person that had died was alive and making new memories with him right at that very moment. ... The general ambiguity in the truthfulness of stories in the novel personally ...

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In prior centuries, following the rules established by the church was a traditional way of life, but scientific breakthroughs were beginning to alter this way of living. ... No one dare challenged this system because it was the only foundation on which to live until the ideas of scientific reason were developed. According to religious beliefs, every planet, including the sun, revolved around the earth because it was the only planet created by God to be inhabited by life, but Copernicus opposed this idea by criticizing the original idea and stating that the earth revolves around the sun. ... Hi...

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Since life normally encounters numerous displeasures, the imagination "[compensates] what is lacking in the sphere of reality- by allowing individuals to conquer their desires by transforming them into actuality (Freud 5). ... Both Whitehead and Freud proclaim the imagination as a vital element for an individual to make use of appropriately in order to prosper in the course of life, but for different motives. ... Under those circumstances, an individual chooses to either completely turn away from realism and live in a fantasy world or move onto another dream. ... A person can time after tim...

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Indeed, most of us cannot live without our cell-phones, and what they can help us get done. ... Even though as we develop more and more intelligent machines, we might lose our humanity, the foundation of our community, I believe we cannot undermine the significant role machines have played in our daily life and in scientific development. One of the reasons why scientists are obsessed with machines is that they are definitely an enlightening input to our life. ... Intelligent machines are what make consumer goods that we use in our daily life. ...

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We live in a system, domestically and internationally that employs violence as a solution to violence. ... Our culture deals with morality so much in the history, that it explains what we lived. ... Cultural form are the external world that we live in, it describes and identifies us. ... The overwhelming human experience of pain and fear motivated by violence, can penetrate social life, and distort culture and its relation to body. ... The symbolization of violence for victims is "formative", it shapes their perception, self-image and outlook on life. ...

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My interest is to study the relationship between metaphor and imagination in the sonnet "Sonnet (Lift not the painted veil which those who live.)... Shelley's definition of poetry not only presents the central thematic concern of English Romantic Poetry –imagination– but also deals with the concept of poet, as we will observe as well in "Sonnet (Lift not the painted veil which those who live)". ... Here, the veil, illusive and transitory as it is, is all we can distinguish and, in this sense, the veil is not only a metaphor of Life but also of perception itself....

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Instead of turning left, returning home to a life set out by the expectations of his parents, he turns right and embarks on a road trip that changes his life, a road trip that makes him less conservative and more impetuous. ... Towards the end of the trip, Hugh learned to be more tolerant and forgiving, he learned that everyone has their imperfections and not everyone is blessed with a successful life. ... He was now in control of his life and made his own decisions. Hugh dismissed his opportunity of a fortunate life so he may live freely and spontaneously. ...

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In my own life, I have found that people do tend to have stronger skills that are either more aligned with favoring the left-side of their brain or the right. ... Unusual stories, such as a man whose brain was split in railroad accident but was able to continue to live without major medical complications and was reported by family to have a completely different personality after the accident, illustrate how much is still unknown about the brain and about how our personalities are tied in with the physiology of our brain. ...

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While both works have similar theories about the soul and the universe we live in (though the wording of similar ideas may be extremely different in each case) Plato's example of Socrates brings to life a character who embodies the wisdom he his unwillingly teaching, while Aristotle's pursuit of ultimate truth excludes any personal anecdote from the text. Plato's character helps the ideas on the page come to life in a way an intellectual discourse with the students of the world cannot. ... Another way Socrates brings to life Aristotle's words through his character is...

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Nelson questions, "Do we really live under the aegis of these opposing threats, or is it the very reiteration of them as our two primary ontological options (and our unthinking acquiescence to such a formulation) that acts as a truer threat to our enlivenment, to our full experience of the vast space between these two poles- a space which, after all, is where the great majority of many of our lives takes place?... The cadets were also forced to help dress each other and were provided less space for an independent life. ... She quotes this just after saying "women hear that they ought...

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The psychodynamic states that personality can be divided into three facets namely Id, ego and super ego and that it is shaped as the sex drive & life instinct(eros). ... Maslow's hierarchy of needs can improve one's self esteem motivating them to make social contributions to the community and society they live in (Mcleod, 2007). ... The approach has limited impact on some cultures because Eastern people who are used to a certain lifestyle for instance, less comfortable than the Western lifestyle, can still achieve and live fulfilling lifestyles regardless. ...

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" According to Kurzweil in his book, The Singularity is Near, directly stated that Artificial Intelligence is mankind's friend, and that the measures to develop more sophisticated machines and robots is to make the world a better place to live (Kurzweil). ... These examples portray scientists who created life and played God, and, eventually, not being able to completely control their own creations, ended up giving them life without a true purpose. ...

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