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  2. Dying Young - Wikipedia

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    Dying Young is a 1991 American romance film directed by Joel Schumacher. [3] It is based on a novel of the same name by Marti Leimbach , and stars Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott with Vincent D'Onofrio , Colleen Dewhurst , David Selby , and Ellen Burstyn . [ 4 ]

  3. A Shropshire Lad - Wikipedia

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    Continuing this theme, the athlete who died young was lucky, for he did not outlive his renown (XIX). The poet exchanges a glance with a marching soldier and wishes him well, thinking they will never cross paths again (XXII). He envies the country lads who die young and do not grow old (XXIII). Seize the day, then, to cultivate friendship (XXIV ...

  4. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    The lead section should summarise with due weight the life and works of the person. When writing about controversies in the lead section of a biography, relevant material should neither be suppressed nor allowed to overwhelm: always pay scrupulous attention to reliable sources, and make sure the lead correctly reflects the entirety of the article.

  5. Because I could not stop for Death - Wikipedia

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    Dickinson's tone contributes to the poem as well. In describing a traditionally frightening experience, the process of dying and passing into eternity, she uses a passive and calm tone. Critics attribute the lack of fear in her tone as her acceptance of death as "a natural part of the endless cycle of nature." [6] In 1936 Allen Tate wrote,

  6. Sociology of death - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of death (sometimes known as sociology of death, dying and bereavement or death sociology) explores and examines the relationships between society and death. These relationships can include religious , cultural , philosophical , family , to behavioural insights among many others. [ 1 ]

  7. The Decay of Lying - Wikipedia

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    The Decay of Lying – An Observation" is an essay by Oscar Wilde, included in his collection of essays titled Intentions, published in 1891. This version of the essay is significantly revised from the article that first appeared in the January 1889 issue of The Nineteenth Century .

  8. A Lesson Before Dying - Wikipedia

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    A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel is based on the true story of Willie Francis , a young Black American man best known for surviving a failed electrocution in the state of Louisiana , in 1946.

  9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Wikipedia

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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the second novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus , Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus , Greek mythology 's consummate craftsman.