...Death: The New Beginning Death is the inevitable truth of life but it is not the end. Instead death is the only beginning of eternal life. The desire to live life to the fullest is a fundamental part of being alive and so it is natural to fear death. Some people consider that to be mighty and dreadful however the poet in conversation with death states that death has no reason to be proud. The poet argues death is weak and dependent on faith, chance, kings and desperate man. The poet takes a strong stance in confronting death and he communicates the central theme that death is neither absolute nor powerful. Instead of worrying about dying, people should live their life to the fullest, so when it actually comes, they don't regret it. In a dialogue with death he uses the word “overthrow”, “die not”, as a verdict that death does not perform actions and that makes it powerless, which is contributing the central theme. He uses the word “poor death” stating that death is less worth than a human, also adding to the theme that death is not to be feared of. He emphasizes by saying “Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, and dost with poison, war and sickness dwell...” In general, people perceive death as absolute and mortal but the poet claims that death as a “Slave” to poison, war and sickness from which people die. Death completes the mortality of humans and they attain immortal status. The poet continues that after one dies, the soul is carried on to live eternally...
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...The book I have recently finished is Scythe by Neal Shusterman. In Scythe, the world no longer has to worry about disease and misery. People also don't have to worry about death, unless a scythe has decided to glean them. Gleaning is to end someone's life for real. Scythes are people who are chosen and trained to end random lives to create unnatural death in a community that literally won't die. MidMerica's population is growing too large, so two children named Citra and Rowan are plucked out of this region for Scythehood. They are picked to be scythe apprentices because they have defied true scythes in the past and neither actually want to glean. You see, scythes are both sacred to people and feared. Their master, Scythe Faraday, chose them...
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...Which is worse, starting a mutiny to avoid putting one man to death, or putting one man to death to avoid a mutiny? Everyone agrees that Billy Budd was responsible for the death of the Master-at-Arms, John Claggart, and that severe punishment for this act was necessary to avoid starting a mutiny. However, some people believe that the court should have sentenced Billy to death while others believe the court should not have sentenced Billy to death. The court should have sentenced Billy to death for three reasons. It was entirely necessary that any act of killing be punished, the crew aboard the Bellipotent be controlled, and hostility amidst the crew be avoided. The first reason that the court should have sentenced Billy to death is that any act of killing must be punished. By...
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...September 30th 1949. This surge in power allowed Mao to employ his Marxist beliefs. In the eyes of Machiavelli, Mao failed as a leader in three ways. He wanted to be loved, he was not feared, and he welcomed rebellion. Mao’s army was openly cruel to people who resisted the People’s Republic of China and opposed Mao’s rule. Due to Mao’s Marxist policies, he seemed as if he wanted to be loved by his people. He also had propaganda posted and had children sing praises to him in schools. This is a blunder in the eyes of Machiavelli because in the book “The Prince” Machiavelli states, “Because this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, as long as you succeed they are yours entirely;” According to Machiavelli, Mao should not be concerned with gifting political power to the proletariat. He should be constantly asserting his power and manipulating his people....
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...After the year 1984 passed the world breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell’s prophecy of oppression by government or a “big brother” did not come true. In 1985 Neil Postman published Amusing Ourselves to Death in which he describes a takeover of a passive society using Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as the prophecy. Postman describes imminent death by comparing Orwellian fears to those of Huxley’s: “We had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another – slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing…What Orwell feared were those who ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy…In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World they are controlled by inflicting pleasure” (vii). With entertainment and technology surrounding the population everyday...
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...Raechel Huizinga Mr. Dempsey ENG 2D April 4, 2014 The Quiet Door One of the hardest tasks to accomplish in life is obtaining a sense of peace. In a disordered world that circles with fear and confusion, it is difficult to find. The concept faced and feared by all is the idea of death. It is not the act of dying that humankind desires to avoid, but the unknown beyond it. It is obvious through culture how the world fears death; movies, literature, and general behavior prove it. However, there are few who contradict the idea that death is dark and forbidding. In a poem called ‘Death is a Door,’ the author, Nancy Byrd Turner, writes, “Death is only a quiet door / in an old wall” (11-12). Some believe that death can be approached peacefully, rather than unwillingly. In the poem ‘Let Evening Come,’ Jane Kenyon uses various poetic devices, such as imagery, repetition, and symbolism, to create a peaceful mood. The peace the reader feels while reading the poem is the peace that can be adopted when crossing the threshold into death. Imagery is one of the most important literary devices a writer could use. Imagery allows the reader to become a part of the story and to interact with characters. Without imagery, there is no picture or setting, only empty words and actions that cannot be understood. The mood of a piece of writing can be created using imagery. In ‘Let Evening Come,’ Kenyon instills a peaceful mood by creating peaceful, comforting images in the reader’s mind. “Let the cricket...
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...Spiders are amongst the most feared animals by humans because many of them are poisonous and can cause great injury or even death if bitten by them. Coincidentally many people are fearful of spiders, which often time disables them with fear in the presence of this animal. Many people live their entire lives with the fear of spiders. This paper will discuss how these people can learn through exposure therapy to extinct their fear of spiders. Personally I am not afraid of spiders; however, my four-year-old daughter screams and runs out of the room at the sight of a crawling spider. Although the spider she is afraid of is not harmful, her mom, as a precaution has taught her that spiders are bad. Additionally, I believe that others like my daughter have been taught by someone close to them at a young age to be fearful of spiders because they are poisonous, and unattractive. There is evidence that offspring of a phobic individual are at greater risk for developing the same specific phobia subtype because children tend to mirror their parents’ tendencies and fears King, Muris (2004). According to the DSM-IV-TR American Psychiatric Association DBM-IV-TR, (2000), a specific phobia is characterized by clinically significant anxiety provoked by exposure to a specific feared object or situation. Exposure to the feared stimulus invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response that may take the form of a panic attack. Because of the fear of the specific object or situation, people with...
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...Thomas Malory and the Morte D’Arther. The text is a fusion of historical and pre-Christian magical elements. On the other hand, the renaissance was quiet different to medieval period, it was the rebirth of individualism, humanism and free thinking. Renaissance writing, by contrast showed interest in writing, arts and culture. One of the key philosophical elements of the renaissance was the rise of humanism and precursor to the age of enlightenment. Renaissance literature and arts became more invested in the hands of rich and powerful. One of the famous renaissance text includes a Petrarchan sonnet called the Holy Sonnet 10 by John Donne. The sonnet has a lot of religious and biblical context of god, death and eternal life. It highlights the insignificance of death that it should not be feared, it reveals human dignity and happiness and individual freedom. These 2 texts from the medieval and the renaissance had strong beliefs and valued religious/ heroic figure in society which hugely affected people’s faith and value. During the Medieval ages there was a lot of dynamic changes in belief, language, law and leadership increasing the establishment of the powerful Christian church. One of the well-known text that has some of these characteristics is...
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...the span of the essay. Weaknesses of this essay would be proper citation and paraphrasing within the writing rules. A lot of times I forget that if miss certain grammatical inserts it could be interpreted as plagiarism. I would like more feedback on structure and citations to make sure I am doing proper and within the rules. Sincerely, I Need a Hero! In the Nigerian Folk Tale: The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter by Elphinstone Dayrell there is a hero who is defined by the love of his baby girl. The father’s crime was keeping his daughter alive, in defiance of a law passed by the king, for his daughter being of stunning physical beauty which beauty was a death sentence. This father stood against the law of a king which in the times of old is considered absolute and almost divine. He risked death for his entire family for defying the king’s law but a father’s love kept him from obeying an unethical law. An unhappy king, who rules over all the beasts and animals, is not unhappy about being king but is displeased with his son. After his son turned down a gift from the king of fifty girls as wives, because none caught his attention, the king made it...
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...adopted son, was in Greece when he heard of his inheritance. He return to Rome and noticed that Antony was in control of Rome. People feared that Antony was going to take Caesar's place and keep dictatorship. The senate wanted to use Octavius to get the republic to rise and not follow into Antony's ambitions. However, Cyserro, a senator, wanted to temporarily use Octavius and get ride of him after the senate regained control of the people. Octavius had a different mindset and told the senate that he wanted to protect Rome from farther monarchy and dictatorship. The senate ignored Octavius' ideas and made him a senate. The people noticed Antony's immaturity from his criticism of Octivan. This should was on the reasons people felt he should not be a politician. The senate sent an army lead by Octavius against Antony in Northern Italy. In the following battles, Antony's army was defeated. This allowed the senate to believe they had saved the republic but they still had to deal with Octavius original ambitions. He had similarities to Caesar and kept his army with him to keep his power. This lead to him marching on Rome as if they were his enemy to ask if he could become council. Due to his power, the senate could not refuse his offer. After gaining his biggest goal, he looked to Mark Antony to be his alley because they both wanted revenge of Caesar’s death. They planned to divide the empire and eliminated any competition. They began by edging Leviticus out of relevance and split Rome...
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...Niccolò Machiavelli is a prominent civic humanist and political theorist of the 16th century. He served as an official of the Florentine Republic for many years following the French invasion of 1494, during which the Medici family fell from power. He had responsibilities in diplomatic missions and military affairs. This did not last long, however, as the Medici family soon regained control of Florence almost two decades later. Machiavelli was then arrested and tortured under accusations of plotting against the family. He was left without a job after his release and wrote various works during this newfound free time, his most famous being his political treatise, The Prince (1513). During the time Machiavelli wrote The Prince, Italy was not a unified country. Instead, it was a collection of city-states, each with its own court and ruler, each attempting to gain power over the others. Due to a lack of consolidation among its city-states, Italy also became a target for outside invaders and suffered from constant warfare. After the fall of the Medici in Florence, Machiavelli served as an ambassador and secretary to the Republic of Florence. When Florence fell into the hands of the Medici family once again, Machiavelli narrowly escaped execution and was exiled. Machiavelli lost his government position and disgraced in the countryside outside Florence. Machiavelli intended for this novel to be a sort of guide: a handbook for princes who have political power and wish to maintain it...
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...As a leader, is it better to be feared, or revered? Lynn Dean Excelsior College Abstract With every generation of leaders, the ageless debate surfaces; as a leader, is it better to be feared or revered? Leadership attributes, skills, and styles are the driving forces to lead others to successful mission accomplishment. Good leadership is based on these fundamental, unchanging qualities, such as competence, character, and a profound sense of responsibility. Styles of leadership may vary over time or may evolve with changing circumstances, but these bedrock qualities are foundations of a leaders' substance. Profiling historic leaders shows how these qualities are embodied by these leaders. Even with these qualities being present in all successful leaders, they can still be perceived as either feared or revered. It stands in good contention that successful leaders, whether feared or revered possessed the same qualities. The differences in the perception, is in how the leaders deployed their leadership philosophies. Many leaders are revered by their followers, and feared by their enemies, as where other leaders are feared by their followers. Keywords: Leaders, leadership. As a Leader, is it Better to be Feared, or Revered? Machiavelli believed that a great leader should be feared rather than loved. A midstream conservative approach is to say that it’s better to be both loved and feared, but we know in all reality that this is a nearly unattainable...
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...Gilgamesh is an epic of great love, followed by lingering grief that causes a significant change in character. It is the story of a person who is feared and honored, a person who loves and hates, a person who wins and loses and a person who lives life. Gilgamesh's journey is larger than life, yet ends so commonly with death. Through Gilgamesh, the fate of mankind is revealed, and the inevitable factor of change is expressed. Before the coming of Enkidu, Gilgamesh was a man of great power. A being for which there was no equal match, Gilgamesh boasted about his overwhelming glory and power. However, his arrogance was accompanied with an extensive abuse of power, which pushed the city of Uruk into a state of rage. Still Gilgamesh felt no despair; he lived to display to others his majestic power. The first sign of a sincere change in Gilgamesh arises as a result of the birth of Enkidu. From the beginning, a powerful link developed between man and woman. The wise Ninsun said to Gilgamesh,"You will love him as a woman and he will never forsake you". Gilgamesh had finally met his match, a friend that would serve as his life-long companion. Upon the seal of this great friendship, Gilgamesh began to change his selfish ways. Nevertheless, he shared with Enkidu the luxuries of kindness. Setting aside his great pride and power, Gilgamesh had opened a place in his heart, and in his sumptuous life, for his beloved brother. The second significant change in Gilgamesh was caused by the...
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...led Furtunato into his vault filled with nitre and left him to fall into his death. Montresor’s motivation to killed Furtunato and telling us how he was killed was articulated in several ways. Montresor illustrated his motivation to tell the reader his story through the quote, “You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.” He wanted his readers to know what kind of person he is by introducing them to his demeanor. He signified that he will no longer be able to handle the insults he was given to by Fortunato, therefore he must avenge himself by taking away Fortunato’s life. Montresor told the readers his goals and introduced us to Fortunato before he tells the story of how he got killed. He wanted to get the readers to be interested in his story before actually telling the story itself. The quote “He had a weak point--this Fortunato--although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared” foreshadows that death of Fortunato will involve in wine. Montresor is motivated to kill Fortunato because he planned to use Fortunato’s weakness against him. Although Fortunato was a man who holds great power that people “respected and feared,” he was easily lured into Montreso’s plot because Montreso knew of his weakness towards wine. We could tell that Montreso’s motif was well planned when he stated, “I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir...
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...Maddie Mueller For- 1. Nevertheless, if would-be criminals know undoubtedly that they will be put to death should they murder with premeditation, very many of them are much less inclined to commit murder. Whether or not would-be criminals are wary of committing the worst crime is an important—and probably impossible—question to answer. Murder still happens very frequently. So some criminals disregard this warning for various reasons. But the fact does remain that many criminals who ride the fence on committing murder ultimately decide to spare the victim’s life. In a larger sense, capital punishment is the ultimate warning against all crimes. If the criminal knows that the justice system will not stop at putting him to death, then the system appears more draconian to him. Hence, he is less inclined to break and enter. He may have no intention of killing anyone in the process of robbing them, but is much more apprehensive about the possibility if he knows he will be executed. Thus, there is a better chance that he will not break and enter in the first place. 2. There are many victims of a single murder. The criminal gets caught, tried, and convicted, and it is understood that the punishment will be severe. But the person he has killed no longer has a part to play in this. Unfortunately, the murderer has deprived his family and friends of a loved one. Their grief begins with the murder. It may not end with the murderer’s execution, but the execution does engender...
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