Essays on Death

Death is a serious thing that everyone experiences. It kills many people knowing someone else killed himself, or cancer has taken them over or they have some type of disease. Death and the mysteries of the afterlife have been talked about in literature ever since...

‘The Apology” (originating from the Greek word ‘apologia’ meaning explanation) begins with Socrates defending himself in court by concisely and systematically dissecting and refuting all the accusations put forth by his accusers. In this essay, I shall attempt to expound and evaluate some of the...

Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven was published in September 2014. The novel was a National Book Award Finalist and a Pen/Faulkner Award. The novel starts and ends with Arthur Leander’s death on the stage from a heart attack. Arthur got married three times and...

The United States falls far behind the rest of the developed world in terms of its infant mortality rates. Infant mortality rates are, “associated with a variety of factors such as maternal health, quality, and access to medical care, socioeconomic conditions, and public health practices’”....

One of the biggest movie stars every was found dead on August 5, 1962(10). What was the cause of Marilyn Monroe’s death? No one really knows it’s an unsolved mystery. Marilyn Monroe was a very famous actress, model, and singer. She was a role model...

Cameras flashing, people yelling, dazzling gowns twirling around as if they had a life of their own; the world seemed to spin around as she took in the sights that were her life. Once the noise faded and lights dimmed Marilyn Monroe slowly closed her...

Man’s inspiration for the harnessing embryonic stem cells could be taken from nature where certain animals regenerate severed body parts. The closest human counterpart to that would be the idea that a person comes from just two cells. Cultivating embryonic stem cells would necessitate an...