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    getting engaged, she goes and tells her father, the reverend. Elaine is now out of the scene, and as Mortimer was about to tell both of his aunts that he intends to marry Elaine, he finds a dead body in the window seat of the house. He originally thought his brother, Teddy, killed the person whose body he had found in the window seat, and immediately alerts his aunts of his discovery. When he told his aunts they said that they were the ones who killed that man not Teddy, and they did it…

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    To Live While they wait, she walks around the small living room again, lifting up the corners of the blinds and peeking out into the darkness. All the windows are closed, but she pushes down at each pane a little to be sure. She feels Timmy’s eyes on her back and she wants to scratch her neck with her torn nails. There aren’t many people around anyway. This was never a populous town, true, but now it’s practically empty. Mr. Wilson, a few houses down, left for bigger cities long ago with…

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    Do you know how it feels to be alone? If yes, you know it gets very depressing when you have no one to confide in. Can you imagine what Emily was going through? I cannot even fathom what she was going through, but I can try to see why Emily was so single-minded and scared to try new things. In the short story “ A Rose for Emily” we are introduced a character named Emily Grierson, right at the beginning of the story author William Faulkner, tells us Emily is dead and everyone from the town is at…

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    from for toxicology and biological reasons. The medical examiner also cuts a piece of each organ and places them in a small container; the other pieces of the organs are placed in large, clear plastic bag. After all the organs are pulled from the main body cavity, the head is next. The medical assistant scalps the hair and pulls back the scalp, there is a drill used to open the head if needed. In this case, the victim’s skull was fairly cracked and fell apart revealing the brain. The brain is…

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    Personal Identity Theory

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    situations in which bodies and brains are switched, and then asks the question, whose well-being ought I to be concerned with. By invoking concern, Williams is able to make the reader directly interact with the thought experiments, and, as Nozick points out, tend to come the conclusion “that the people have switched bodies” (Nozick 93). Robert Nozick…

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    hour. Still after two weeks of fighting in France one thing that haunts me one the numerous corpses littered around the trenches. It’s the smell that stays with me; the mixture of faeces and decaying bodies seemingly blinding my nostrils from anything else. If only the French were to have moved the bodies away from the trenches before they buried them. The corpses have become a part of the trenches. It really doesn’t help the state of mind being reminded you could die and be tossed away like…

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    because it consists of things many people fear. According to Freud, “Many people experience the feeling [of the “uncanny”] in the highest degree in relation to death and dead bodies, to the return of the dead, and to spirits and ghosts” (Freud 13). In other words, it is common for people to have a fear of death, dead bodies, the return of the dead, spirits and ghosts. Many people fear death and do not want to die, but biology has not been able to come to a conclusion as to whether death is the…

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    Scarlet Letter Book Report

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    The bodies were up shore and it looked like no one touched them since last night. He came back but on his way back, he saw Aunt Scarlet standing there, like he just got busted. Eli said "Hi Aunt Scarlet, why are you out here?"Aunt Scarlet said " Did you see the dead bodies in the lake?" Eli said "What dead bodies? I haven't seen anything." Aunt Scarlet said "First Warning. Did you see the dead bodies?" Eli said "I didn't see anything." Aunt Scarlet said…

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    deal with, i think, and then realize - their son is dead. they're busy people, but they're bound to notice soon. that's when i crack. i have a family. either they'll see me like this - roadkill in the middle of nowhere - or - where do they put dead bodies, anyways? i can hear the ambulance rushing down the road. they'll definitely pronounce me dead on the scene. how long will it take till they find out who i am? how much longer till my parents find out? how will i get home - can i get home? or…

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    correct when he says that it is better to be free from bodily desires than to indulge them. The term free refers to acting as one chooses without being restrained by an authority figure. A bodily desire is defined as a want taking control of a person’s body. Indulge means to give into desires in an overly disproportionate way. Cephalus’ best argument for my thesis is that leaving bodily desires behind brings peace. Cephalus states, “the majority of our members lament, longing for the lost…

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