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…. He is a lost man in a society that does not care anymore. Meanwhile, the play displays a perfect example of a dysfunctional family unit. With the exception of Biff, the rest of the household is held together by lies and deceit. Instead…

…accurately?” (1) What we perceive though the senses has to be quantified constantly by the intellect. For example, a man seen in the distance is mistaken to be a woman, when the mistake is realized we do not jump to the conclusion that a woman just mysteriously…

…the “soul” actually is. The Ancient Greek philosophers referred to the soul as the “psyche”, a word that means “life force”, “mind” and “breathe”. The soul, essentially, is the essence of man. The invisible substance that exists with the body but can be conceived…

…experience.” He wrote about it later and stated, “God subdued and brought my heart to surrender. It was more hardened against such matters than was to be expected in such a young man.” Calvin knew that to fulfill his place with God, he would have to turn away…

…is both physical and emotional. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka tells a bizarre tale of a man who is disjoined from his family when he wakes up to find that he has been transformed into a giant insect. The play Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill…

…to explore this new universe, but to create its own map. We can see the day, not far off, when we will indeed be able to "boldly go where no man has gone before." This new map we will create leads not to outer space, but to inner space, to the very essence…

…long-lost love, Daisy, are washed away with the drunkenness provided by the dollar: However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was a present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip…

…, and ritual (Friedman 32). The enormous differences that exist between a completely man-made luxury car and a rather unassuming, organic olive tree show the juxtaposition of tradition and humanity as a cultural being, and globalization and innovative change…

…a businessman and cashing in on the railroads rather than providing transportation. The Americans made Carnegie popular, they were excited to steer away from Gould. "If Jay Gould was the man Americans loved to hate, Andrew Carnegie was one of America's heroes…

…of conscience was the fundamental requirement that church and state be totally separated. The reasoning for the separation is underpinned by the ambitious nature of man as summed up by Thomas Jefferson regarding their newly formed democracy, as the lack…