They are stuck believing that because they live in poverty no one in their family will be able to succeed in life. ... Whether individuals live in poverty or not, there is always a way to escape depending how your perceive life. ... They need someone in their life to succeed and eventually lead them out of poverty. ... The Chinese family seems to rather want to live in ignorance then have someone in their family to continue school. ... The environment that the Chinese family lived in affected the way they ran their lives. ...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Furthermore, his soldiers were taught the golden rule- to behave to others the way you want them to behave to you, which is the basic law of life. ... The Minor Edicts is a summary of Asoka's instruction of dharma, which talks about the purity of thoughts, kindness, truthfulness, reverence, and other good morals of life. His concept of Dharma provided his people with a common, compassionate way of life and curtailed war and suffering. ... These rulers were very different in the ways they lived their lives and how the...

• Word Count: 613
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The freedom is there throughout the novel to stay and discover or live in ignorance, which is in contrast to Achebes Things Fall Apart where the reader is not given the freedom to choose, only to accept how it is, whether they ethically agree or not, thus showing the arrogance of Achebe. ... As I read on and followed his journey of life, the power and glory that he has is brought into question, as to whether he deserves it or not. ... Okonkwo did not give Ikemefuma the same right that was given to him by his elders, regarding his fathers bad ways, that "if a child washed his hands he could ...

• Word Count: 1884
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This tendency to fail to recognize what is true and his narcissist personality disorder are two major factors that have led to the tragic end of Paul's short life. ... In popular beliefs, a red carnation, when worn on Mother's Day, honors your live mother, while a deceased mother is remembered with a white carnation. ... He has spent the last week living the life he thinks he was meant for, and his father is coming to take it all away from him. ... (Cather, 224) Paul, distressed, chooses to remove the living part of himself rather than going back to the living-dead life he hope...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If, as Existentialists argue, existence precedes essence, then it is logical to assume that one can live and entire lifetime with out essence or meaning. ... Like Sisyphus, Lucky does nothing in life but perform seemingly simple tasks. ...

• Word Count: 597
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It brings hope because it was the catalyst in creating a cultural revolution which would benefit all citizens and help America live up to its name as "land of the free." ... King also gains sympathy by giving first hand experiences, so one can directly see the effect of segregation on an individual's life. ...

• Word Count: 600
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Towards the end of his life Wagner became concerned with the discrepancies within his work and sought to tidy it up' so that it could be passed on to future generations in the way that he desired it to be. ... Chamberlain also lived to greet Hitler as the saviour of Germany during the latter's visit to Bayreuth in October 1923'#. ... He would write quite abusive propaganda on England, condemning all aspects on English life. ...

• Word Count: 2346
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Virgil, whilst living an exemplary life was born and died a pagan, he was not baptised and lived in the absence of Christianity "ch'ei non peccaro; e s'elli hanno mercedi, non basta, perché non ebber battesmo, ch'e porta de la fede che tu credi; e s'e' furon dinanzi al cristianesmo, non adorar debitamente a Dio :- This ignorance of God and lack of baptism however involuntary merits his exclusion from Paradiso and gives reasoning to why Dante is better than these classical poets. ...

• Word Count: 862
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
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O"Connor suggests to us, not only in the title but, throughout this short story that people often resist to growing away from egoism towards self-awareness and love for all humankind that is so necessary for life to converge in equality. ... He takes refuge in dreaming of his grandfather's magnificent old plantation house because "all the neighborhoods they had lived in had been a torment to him-" He gloomily proclaims, "Some day I"ll start making money", even though he knew he never would, so that he might buy his mother silly hats whenever she liked and they could move where "the neare...

• Word Count: 806
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Each collection shows comparative images of children, babies, religion and the general world in which we live, and how we see things differently when we are first in a state of innocence and when we reach maturity. The poems are presentations of a contradiction between innocence and experience, two areas of life through which we all must pass and are, in initial appearance at least, very similar to the genre of late eighteenth-century children's poetry, in terms of theme, title and simplicity. ... Ironically, the Songs of Experience are somewhat simpler in the way that the speaker of t...

• Word Count: 1564
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. The Soviet economy had made advances under Lenin's semi-capitalist N.E.P with its slight capitalist elements, but Stalin's five-year plans were far more ambitious and so far riskier. Did the Soviet Union need to industrialise so ...

• Word Count: 5589
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate