This is the first part of Dante's poem "Divine Comedy,"" describing nine circles of people's sufferings on the Earth. ... After the person dies, his or her soul searches for some place in eternal life, whether in hell or paradise. ... First, the author wanted to give some clue on the existence of afterlife after death, and second, people got to know about terrible sins experienced by the majority of them. Thus, when the person dies, his or her soul undergoes a certain kind of judgment on the part of God. ... These people were placed in the first circle of Hell called Limbo. ...

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A healthy person has an accident/contracts a disease, and then has to be pushed around in a wheelchair, has to be fed and toileted, and so on, loses status as an adult, and, being treated like a baby, that person gets the 'respect' or lack of accorded to a 'dependent' or 'useless' person. ... Such a person can lose self-respect to the point of committing suicide--directly or by withdrawal into a drugged state, a degraded state. ... Or, by some extraordinary circumstance of character or support from a near one, that person manage to not only retain/regain self resp...

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• Grade Level: High School

If the patient is incompetent, then the closest living relatives have the power to make "substitute judgment" - the guardian or surrogate "attempts to reach the decision that the incapacitated person would make if he or she were able to choose" (Quinn 289-290). ... That the self-deliverance is not made at the first knowledge of the life threatening illness and that reasonable medical help is sought. ... His point of view applies only to an emotionally healthy person. ... In his book Dying With Dignity, Derek Humphry says: "Helping another to die in carefully considered circumstances is part of...

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Change Essay For every person who welcomes change, there is someone who wants life and experience to remain unchanged' Did you find this true of the texts you studied? ... In the first part, barn owl' we are introduced to a mischievous child who sneaks out to kill a barn owl. ... Firstly, The use of a first person narrative allows the responder to empathies the central figure. ... From the first word I' the poem becomes personal. Robert has created a nostalgic tone in the first part Of the story expressing the positiv...

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Though the first prohibitions separated a man from his animal condition, others can be more harmful. ... The extent to which coercion has become internalized shows the moral level of a person. ... Adding on to the moral level are the assets of such a culture, where the first achievements are to be held ideal, and to be used to look down on other cultures. ... Eventually God turned into a single person, and one to where the man could relate to it as his father. ... Freud negates the first reason with the fact that many other things that our ancestors did and believed we do not accept today....

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We never talk about ourselves in the third person. We refer to ourselves as I or me, in the first person. ... When we are first born do we have knowledge of self? ... Thus we are not a single person but a collaboration of people placed inside one. ...

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Therefore, the life expectancy of a person living in the nineties is about twenty years more on an average from that which people enjoyed at the start of the last century. By the virtue of medicine, not only does a person live longer but also lives his life to the fullest in the best of health. ... Now although a person could be declared dead, he could have willed his usefulness beyond his mortality. ... However, by donating his or her organs to give a new lease of life to someone else, the person found a meaning not only in his lifetime but also in his death. ... It is a question of ethics of...

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One of the first impressions we are given from the speaker is the feeling of unity and happiness between the two lovers, represented by "two swift-winged pigeons". ... These first four lines of the poem are written in ABBA style, and this is used by Rosetti to show the orderly and undisrupted happiness of the birds. ... The first is the refusal to separate from each shown by the two pigeons in the poem. ... The first theme shown is the speaker's evident awareness of her mortality. ...

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"Dylan Thomas's poems are exuberant, often florid and occasionally obscure". a) How far do you agree with the above assessment of the collection in "Selected Poems"? Dylan Thomas's "Selected Poems" offers a wide magnitude of poetry, ranging from poems that are filled with exuberant, elaborate, florid words to poems that offer obscure, mysterious insights into metaphor and imagery. We are bombarded with lots of emotion and dropped into an overwhelming world of Dylan Thomas's language to describe his peculiar thoughts of life from his retrospect. Thomas uses this device...

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The furthest his self examination has went, has been to the formation of an ideal that Chandler wishes to be, without him even realizing that neither is he this idea of an admirable person, nor does he know the real reasons why such a thing is so attractive. ... When he meets Gallaher, one of the first ways in which he is given welcome, is by Gallaher good-naturedly pulling off his hat and jesting as his own inevitable aging process by the thinning hair on his head. ...

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But if these continued to procreate children inferior in moral, intellectual and physical qualities, it is easy to believe the time may come when such persons would be considered as enemies to the State, and to have forfeited all claims to kindness." ... And the evening and the morning were the first day.6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.8 And God called the firmament ...

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• Grade Level: High School