Tolstoy's War and Peace evokes powerful contemplation about the meaning of life, of the nature of the human soul, and of the nature of suffering. In these excerpts alone readers can understand what Tolstoy was trying to convey through his characters' experiences. Both passages address the motif of h...

In general, living organic beings will always have a material dependence. Human beings may have a dominant form, but because they are "higher" in the scale of things, there is an even greater dependence upon a "material element". Take money for example. What other creature roams...

Coming Back: The Science of Reincarnation A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Coming from a Western background, all the logistics of reincarnation were unclear to me. Does the human soul only reincarnate into other humans or does it spread into animals as well? Where did the soul originally ...

Do we have an immortal soul? The point of the matter is that we never questioned the fact as humans in regards to what happens to our souls when we leave this earth. When we die many have wondered will my soul die or live on to some other place. The Bible states that when a person dies, "The s...

Almost everyone dreams of living forever. It seems so appealing to be able to live life for a very long time, happily and healthily, and going out and enjoying everything that life has to offer once or twice. A lot of people think that it's a gift from God to live a long time. But what happens ...

The article, "The Biologist Who Extends Life Spans", is an interview with biologist Cynthia Kenyon on the subject of extending life spans. She has extended the life span of nematodes, as they had lived for more than 125 days, about six times more than the usual life span of the worms, whic...

In the beginning there was darkness. A single point containing all the matter there ever was and will ever be. It was extremely dense, weighing several hundred billion tons. It was also the hottest temperature imaginable. An outside will was keeping it stable, however, it could not last for long. A ...

Our environment has been bombarded with toxins since the Industrial Revolution. Everything from cigarette smoke to the plastic factory down the road contaminates the air, water, and land causing harm to all living organisms. Monitoring and controlling toxins is the first step to removing them. Afte...

The earth is facing a lot of environmental problems today, and humans cause many these problems. In the search for the technology, humans begin to improve their lives without giving attention to what this development has caused to the other types of life on the face of the earth. Everyone is so caug...

"The Death of the Moth," written by Virginia Woolf, explains the brief life of a moth corresponding with the true nature of life and death. In this essay, Woolf puts the moth in a role that represents life. Woolf makes comparisons of the life outside to the life of the moth. The theme i...

Throughout the years, many unknown questions have been answered through the use of science. The atomic bomb, which ended World War II, was explored through physics, and other discoveries such as the atom, DNA, and photosynthesis have facilitated technological advancements for society. While all typ...

The picture, that I have drawn, is representing the poem \"Beach Burial\" by Kenneth Slessor. In this picture I have concentrated on the lines \"the convoys of dead sailors come\" and \"Unknown seaman - the ghostly pencil waver and fades, the purple drips\" which is in the first and the fourth verse...

The concept of justice has been the subject of many philosophical inquiries. The question of why and how justice is to be attained in the life of an individual and in the management of society has yielded many answers. Plato\'s \"Republic\" and \"St. Augustine\'s City of God\" are two related views ...

The Life Processes The best way to distinguish a living organism from a non-living organism is to determine whether it does or does not have a metabolism. A metabolism is "the ongoing interrelated series of chemical interactions taking place in living organisms that provide the energy and nutr...

Blade Runner is the story of a future world in which genetically engineered "replicants", artificial life forms designed to be indistinguishable from humans, are used as slave labor on off-world colonies. The only way to distinguish a human from a replicant is to administer a complex psychological t...

Like many people today, Plato held the belief that the human being was both dualistic in nature, namely comprising of two separate entities; body and soul, and possessing a soul that would survive its embodied state. Plato saw the soul as immortal through being cyclical in nature and having this cy...

We are living human beings, one species out of a million others that exist simultaneously on this planet. Life is something that has been a mystery to us higher beings since the beginning of our existence. Are we merely living beings, or do we have an afterlife existence? The precision of the bio...

In the novel Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy, it makes you think about life, people, and human events, and what could happen if people decided to do something unnatural and go against God's word and make something that was never meant to be happen. This novel illustrates such a thing ab...

"Bring out yer dead!" cried the cartmaster, ringing a bell as he walked through the streets. "Here's one," said a man, who walked up to the cart, carrying what appeared to be a dead body. "Nine pence," demanded the cartmaster. "I'm not dead," spoke the body. "What?" inquired the cartmaster. "No...

Frankenstein Frankenstein is a story about a doctor that tried to give life to a combined died body. Dr. Frankenstein and his servant collected a number of body pieces. Such as: head, hands, legs, body, etc. Dr. Frankenstein made the monster, and kept him in the dungeon. They were treating the...

The Svetesvatara Upinashad in Hinduism states, "The quality of the soul determines its future body: earthly or airy, heavy or light. Its thoughts and its actions can lead it to freedom, or lead it to bondage" (Novak 19). The Hindu religion heavily believes in reincarnation, and the fact...

Salmon The preservation of natural habitats is of capital importance to the preservation of the species it holds. The preservation of wild rivers and streams are the key to avoid the salmon's extinction. The salmons' struggle for surv...

In his article "The Columbian Voyages, the Columbian Exchange, and Their Historians", Alfred W. Crosby seems to think that much of the Columbian voyages and what came out of them was detrimental to many cultures, most of all the Native Americans. Crosby brings up many institutions and ide...

Euthanasia Imagine a woman who is ninety-five years old. She can't walk, she can't see, and she can barely breathe let alone speak. Her life was well lived those past ninety-five years. This woman is in such unbearable pain that she can't even cry. Her arthritis is taking over her...

Miracle The Afterlife is an area of human consciousness we all enter upon leaving the physical world at physical death. Throughout history we've questioned if there is a life after death. Along the way, our religions and various philosophers offered beliefs and opinions to answer this commonl...