Death in Venice

From the beginning, the world is taught that death is the worse and most fearful thing to exist. In Mitch Albom’s, Tuesdays with Morrie, it is the opposite, death is portrayed as the way one can learn to live by accepting its presence for it provides many opportunities of a good life. This will be proven by the most useful lessons taught: the importance of family, the meaning of love and how to deal with death itself. To begin, Morrie explains to Mitch during their fifth lesson that family is…

In the podcast, “Bad Medicine, Pat 3: Death by Diagnosis”, Dubner talks with many researchers and people involved in the medical field about the irony of the enduring effects of medicine. Dubner shockingly reacts to a conclusion mentioned in the podcast that states medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States behind heart disease and cancer. How has medical error earned its place in the number three position and what can be done to analyze and understand this ranking?…

A Story Without Animals In the book Life of Pi there are two different stories as to what happened after the sinking of the Tsimtsum, one with animals and one without animals. The author leaves it up to the reader to decide which story is true and which story is not. When looking at the facts in the story it should be obvious to the reader that the story without animals is the true story and that the story with animals was made up as a way for Pi to cope with the horrific events of the…

Two amazing authors with very different writing styles have written about the wilderness and its many unknowns. One of the authors, Jon Krakauer, is the writer of the article, Death of an Innocent, which is a non-fictional piece about an adventurous boy who met his doom in the Bush of Alaska. The other author is Peter Stark, the writer of Thirst, a story about an abandoned man in the Sahara desert stricken with dehydration. Although they both wrote about the outdoors, their writing style is what…

1.During Dunstan’s war years, he feels bored and scared. He was a part of the infantry and during that time, he is excruciatingly bored, so much so that he is “bored till every bone in my body was heavy with it” (Davies). Later on when he sees a fair share of action, his loneliness is replaced with fear, he describes his fear as this, “I was, in a mute, controlled, desperate fashion, frightened for the next three years” (Davies). This gives the reader an understanding that Dunstans war…

Dorian is quickly won over by Lord Henry's argument that everyone must face the horrible fact of aging, and he takes the implications of the inevitability of aging grimly. Following this realization, Dorian comments on his self-portrait “Why should it keep what [he] must [lose]” (26)? This is particularly poignant because it illustrates the transition that comes with age, one whereby the individual loses their purity. Youth, for Wilde and for Dorian, is where we maintain the sense of purity.…

Bridging the Gap An Analysis of the Generation Gap Through World War II The past and the present often conflict. In life, young people tend to disregard history and past events labeling them as old and outdated. Conversely, older people tend to get stuck in the past and cannot keep up with the ever-changing present. This ‘generation gap’ creates a constant inner struggle to find a middle ground; living in the present but acknowledging both the past and the future. The ultimate challenge is not…

home for our spirits. I touch his shoulder for the last time. Goodbye. I feel myself being pulled towards the light. Goodbye World. I feel closer to him. I’m coming Patrick. I was on a motorcycle. Why? I was a Lily right now. I I had to relive Lily death to make it back to the slice. It was a beautiful day until I saw the storm clouds. I tried to tell him to turn around but it was too late. The fraction of a second that he needed to see me was when the van was in our way. I was flung through the…

Slow Death Outsiders are considered to be those who are isolated and disconnected from others. Isolation can result in different tragic outcomes, such as one being depression and in other cases even worse like committing suicide. In the Modernist short story, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka portrays a character who is treated like a bug in his day to day life and continued to be treated this way into his actual physical transformation, which lead him to make a decision that ended his life.…

main points is we cannot measure the worth of a patient by disease or long term death diagnosis. The author is really trying to appeal using only moral point of views no logical attempt is…