Death in Venice

and after having the debate I honestly felt like it would have to be up to that person or that family member. Although I feel this way I think that there would be the issue of someone feeling guilty because they feel responsible for that person’s death. It is just so many factors that can go into this subject, but if I had to pick a side I would say that killing is worse than letting…

“The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her.” -Unknown Author. Dealing with the loss a parent, especially a mother, can put a lot on a girl who is just starting her young life. It can affect you many ways emotionally and mentally. I’m still struggling to manage my feelings being my mother is gone. I often find myself complexed now how to express my feelings because I’ve never been able to be and open person. I’ve always battles with bottling my emotions, not knowing how to react…

I lost my dad and my family lost their uncle,cousin,brother,and son. Many of my family members grieved for very long and some became depressed over his death. In my family I would like to say that our religion/culture is very god oriented and all my family did for the next months/ years after his death was pray and ask god so many unanswered questions. Even after his funeral I still had a difficult time believing that he was dead, that he was gone. Sometimes I feel like the…

Wilfred Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est from 1917 paints a gruesome picture of a gas attack during World War I. He begins with “bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge.” Owen is referring to the misery of trench warfare. He compares the soldiers to hags pointing out that there is nothing fabulous about being in the war. Soldiers in the Great War were constantly wet, filthy, and getting sick. He continues with “till on the haunting…

Taylor Jordan English 102 C782 Caroline Mayes-Cooper Essay 2 Synthesis 17 October 2017 Suicide and Its Effect on Others Suicide is a very serious matter, and is a topic that one should not simply let go in one ear and out the other. The subject of suicide should not be taken lightly no matter what the context involved or what situation it is mentioned in. Simply because, most people who commit suicide often do not show any reason for concern or warning signs. Others may reach out, but not…

got his poetry published. Morrison was a unique individual with how he was and through his lyrics. Jim was seen as a sexy revolter of authority whose music involved “somewhat freudian symbolism, poetic but not pretty, filled with suggestions of sex, death, and transcendence.”(Pg. 155) He also came across as a drunk and a drug addict who also abused woman yet they were still in love with him and fans were mesmerized…

Hope Life is like a burning candle, lite with a dancing flame throughout the night and day; the candle burns out and you are left in an aphotic room with no emotion. I looked up to my father for everything, comforting me with assurance, he would never leave my life. For thirty minutes, life would leave my father. This would change the way I valued life forever. At no point in my life would I have ever expected to have such a tragedy hit me like a kick to the heart. A normal day in the Turner…

of the story, Mrs. Mallard said "The goddess of victory" which symbolizes the awakening of "super-ego" at the spirit of Mrs. Mallard. "Super-ego" and "id" can be the inner angels and evil. The angel ordered Mrs. Mallard to be sad for her husband's death but the evil let Mrs. Mallard recognized herself and made her feel free. This is her spiritual level of victory, so she called herself like a goddess of…

It is this message that Virginia Woolf conveyed in her essay, The Death of the Moth, detailing the struggle of a moth against the inevitability of death. The moth’s earnest efforts to live in its last moments turns the meaning of life into a matter of choice: a choice between wholeheartedly living or passively surviving; a choice between taking control of your life or letting death take control of you. In the face of inevitable death, Woolf relayed the importance of this choice in an…

Again the speaker reminds us of our inevitable death with the symbolism of a "crack in the tea-cup" (43), once useful, but eventually gets old and decays. Additionally, the speaker reminds the lover that one day he will have "A lane to the land of the dead" (44) with his love alongside him. Throughout…