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    Eternity after death. Perhaps Death isn’t such a scary concept to embrace at the end of one’s life. These are the kinds of thoughts that reading this poem conjure up‚ and sure it shows that Dickinson certainly had a rather interesting view of the afterlife in general. That she was able to build such an interesting imagery about such a morbid topic shows just how much of a skilled poet she was. She will be continue to be lauded for those skills far into the future‚ perhaps even into

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    Hamlet disregards morality and conscience in favor of his own personal gain‚ leaving misfortune in his wake. Hamlet’s negative attitude towards conscience arises in his “To be or not to be” soliloquy. Conscience allows people to think of the afterlife‚ or the possible lack thereof. In doing so‚ fear of what awaits after death consumes humanity. The soliloquy acts as a debate on Hmalet’s future. He argues whether not kill himself following the outrageous troubles that have come to pass. Hamlet

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    Aristotle’s Notion of Eudaimonia According to Aristotle everyone first and foremost wants a eudaimon life‚ a life in which he does well and fares well. Aristotle thinks there is one good that is sought for not for the sake of anything else: the summum bonum (greatest good). The greatest good is eudaimonia (living well‚ doing well‚ flourishing). In the well-ordered personality the parts of will function together under the leadership of the rational element. The goal we all seek is eudaimonia.

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    philosophy should be organized around Socrates and Plato. But the three main ancient Greek philosophers were Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle. The Pre Socratic philosophers were more about the natural life philosophies while these three philosophers were more into the people. These three philosophers are intertwined together because Plato was the student of Socrates‚ while Aristotle went to the Academy that Plato founded. Plato used a lot of Socrates teachings and lessons he learned and when he opened his

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    A metaphor is defined as being “the transfer of a quality or attribute from one thing or idea to another in such a way as to imply some resemblance between two things or ideas” . The key features of metaphor ranges from exaggeration and extension to the resemblance and connection between ideas within the poem‚ as well as symbolism. Traditionally‚ the conventional interpretation of ‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou lies within the concept of race relations in America‚ in particular the struggle of Black

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    with a rhyme scheme of aabb and a recurring refrain. Although written in a ballad form‚ William Dunbar’s poem is actually a meditation on serious moral and religious issues‚ including what for his time would have been the most important of all‚ the afterlife. The poem is about mutability and transition‚ including the transition from life to death‚ and what the human response to those changes should be. Death is a central concern because‚ as Dunbar notes in his repeated refrain‚ “Timor mortis conturbat

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    Death is probably the most feared word in the English language. Its undesired uncertainty threatens society’s desire to believe that life never ends. Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise tells the bizarre story of how Jack Gladney and his family illustrate the postmodern ideas of religion‚ death‚ and popular culture. The theme of death’s influence over the character mentality‚ consumer lifestyle‚ and media manipulation is used often throughout DeLillo’s story. Perhaps‚ the character most responsive

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    Life after death known as afterlife is believed that when a person dies that the essential part of their identity continues on. The possibility of life after death has been talked about since the ancient times. Different religions‚ cultures and civilizations make up our existence and we must understand that everyone had different belief on immortality and were never the same. Homeric and Platonic conceptions of immortality were the two different ideas that the civilizations of ancient Greece believed

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    should not automatically be read as autobiography. She insisted on the distinction between her poetry and her life. But it is the reflection of her state of life‚ how she treated life with death. Life is a journey to death and death is the road to afterlife. It can be said that the journey towards eternity. In the poem “Because I Could not stop for Death”‚ Emily Dickinson wrote: Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me: The carriage held but

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    Si Lola Isyang at ang Matandang Puno ng Kaimito Chary Lou Navarro 1. Author Biography (PPT) Full name: Chary Lou Navarro-Defante she has been writing poems since her high school days in Aklan College (Aklan Catholic College) Her Works has been published in Hiligayon‚ Yuhum‚ Home life Patubas (1994)‚ In Time Passing there are Things (100 Hime Life Poets) (1999)‚Mantala 3 and in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (2002) A PhD Graduate Maried to Ricardo S. Defante II and had a child‚ Kaanah Miyax

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