Life extension

Biodiversity of Coral Reefs By: Ganesh Balaji Ecology is a macro-scale science that encompasses all biological life. However, in order to fully understand the depth of ecology, and its significance in relation to life on earth, one must study the biodiversity of the species living in this planet. Although the history of modern human civilizations has largely ignored the importance and complexity of biodiversity, understanding the many layers of biodiversity will provide us with richer knowledge…

Introduction The presence of death in human life concern all the nations and all the countries of the world. The existence of rituals, customs, beliefs, and ceremonies of death proves global fear and respect to the death act. The majority of poets fail to perceive death as a regular event that would inevitably come to the life of every individual. Poems accordingly conveyed the necessity of either fighting back or the necessity of death’s acceptance. The observed four poems: “One Art,”…

The termination of breathing and physically expiring does not frighten human beings; the idea of being forgotten does. Ceasing to exist on this plane of reality leads to a frantic search for identity or a physical marker venerating an individual’s life for future generations. Exploring this idea in her Pulitzer-Prize novel Gilead through her terminally-ill protagonist, Reverend John Ames, Marilynne Robinson demonstrates one of the most effective methods to surmount…

Stages of Grief Introduction The focus of this paper is to analyze Wolterstorff’s reproach in Lament for a Son; which is a true life story of a personal reflection of a father’s grief over his twenty-five year old son during a mountain climbing accident. His son’s life was suddenly cut off at a very tender age. It will also reveal Wolterstorff’s worldview concerning grief, the paradox of death, it’s indignation and fear, his spirituality and how he systematically outlived Kubler-Ross’s…

foremost on human life. And with climate change becoming an ever-pressing reality in human life, it is imperative to change our thinking. Our belief of our supposed moral superiority over the Earth must end now. The clearest solution to save…

blood on the trauma bay floor…” (Kalanithi 84). Kalanithi was a fan of literature, so comparing his experiences to those the reader can understand was his best effort at complete explanation. Analogies aided Kalanithi in describing the toll patient life has on everyone involved, and how truly devastating death can be on so…

The latter might be even tickled to find cognitive estrangement at work here as life/reality/existence here has been fashioned into a startling and startlingly effective novum. And, given the synthesis of machine and body (to the point where the protagonists have literally become ‘ghosts in the machine’) a satisfied Sterling might…

for things such as the telephone to make long distance calls and cell phones which allow us as humans to talk wirelessly to people in another country. It allowed for sturdier infrastructure, cars, and electronics. Copper allowed for the evolution of life. Copper is high in most organic foods. That means this food was able to support early organisms. Copper is an important element in agriculture. It is in all soil and is key to the plants growing in this soil that allows crops to grow. Copper is…

recollection of what was said by Socrates. Plato covers multiple themes, the most important of which being his idea of the “realm of the forms,” arguments for the mortality of the human soul, and a broader theme of a philosophical life being characteristic of a good life (Connolly 1). Being a dialogue, Phaedo is characterized as a conversation between two men: Phaedo and Echecrates. Echecrates is a philosopher who wants to know the story of Socrates’ death, thus he asks Phaedo to recollect the…

“Live or die, the choice is yours” (Saw VII: The Final Chapter). This is a very familiar quote we have all heard from any Saw film, and it really emphasizes the harsh reality of life. In the movie, Saw VII: The Final Chapter, a deadly conflict rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, as a group of Jigsaw survivors gather to seek the support of a fellow Jigsaw survivor Bobby Dagen, who wrote a book on his survival from Jigsaw and whose own dark secrets unleash a new surge of terror. Kevin Greutert’s,…