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The second essay addressed what Freud called the peacetime "protection racket" whereby the inevitability of death was expunged from civilized mentality. [5]Building on the second essay in Totem and Taboo, [6] Freud argued that such an attitude left civilians in particular unprepared for the stark horror of industrial-scale death in the Great War. [7]
Bittersweet is based on the premise that "light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired". [1] Cain encourages the reader to accept feelings of sorrow and longing as inspiration to experience sublime emotions—such as beauty and wonder and transcendence—to counterbalance the "normative sunshine" of society's pressure ...
Connie Willis's inspiration for Passage came in part from her mother's death, when Willis was 12. Willis felt frustrated that relatives and friends tried to comfort her with platitudes, so she wanted to write a novel that dealt with death honestly and could help people understand the process of death and mourning.
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.” “If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.” Maya Angelou quotes
De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time , namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.
Betty (Jean) Eadie (born 1942) is an American author of several books on near-death experiences (NDEs). Her best-known book is Embraced by the Light, (1992) describing her NDE. It was followed by The Awakening Heart (1996).
Model mother! Gisele Bündchen is one of the most famous women in the world, but to her children, she's just mom.. The supermodel shares son Benjamin (born in 2009) and daughter Vivian (born in ...
The essay opens with a description of Camus's father's reaction to witnessing the execution of a convicted murderer. At first Camus's father fully supported the decision, but after witnessing the event he was left in a state of shock for several days. Throughout the essay Camus expresses his own shock and disgust at the brutality of the guillotine.