Death Summary Willa Cather

Death Through the Ages: a Brief Overview

9,938 words, approx. 34 pages

Death DEATH is a fact of life. This statement is at once banal and profound. It is banal insofar as it is common knowledge that all human life is limited in duration; it is profound, however, insofar ... Read more

4,075 words, approx. 14 pages

Death Through the Ages: a Brief Overview Strange, is it not? That of the myriads whoBefore us passed the door of Darkness through,Not one returns to tell us of the road,Which to discover we must trav... Read more

Redefining Death

2,872 words, approx. 10 pages

Redefining Death Traditional Definition of Death The processes of human life are sustained by many factors, but oxygen is key to life. Respiration and blood circulation provide the body's cells... Read more

The End of Life: Medical Considerations

9,148 words, approx. 31 pages

The End of Life: Medical Considerations Causes of Death During the twentieth century the primary causes of death in the United States changed. In the 1800s and early 1900s, infectious (communicable) d... Read more

476 words, approx. 2 pages

Death and Dying Death is defined as the cessation of all vital functions of the body including the heartbeat, brain activity (including the brain stem), and breathing. Death comes in many forms, wheth... Read more

782 words, approx. 3 pages

Death Death is the cessation of life. It involves a complete change in an organism and occurs on various levels, including somatic death, organ death, cellular death, and organelle death. Somatic deat... Read more

2,119 words, approx. 8 pages

Death and Dying Death occurs when all vital functions of the body including heartbeat, brain activity (including the activity of the brain stem), and breathing stop irreversibly. Other signs of death ... Read more

6,534 words, approx. 22 pages

Death and Dying This essay asks three questions about death and dying: 1) Why should an entry on such phenomena, which are clearly of interdisciplinary interest, appear in an encyclopedia of sociology... Read more

3,406 words, approx. 12 pages

Death and Dying Death is defined as the irreversible loss of biological life functions, and occurs in all organisms. It is the inevitable conclusion of a finite existence, and is often applied by anal... Read more

Death [addendum]

942 words, approx. 4 pages

Death [addendum] In recent decades death has garnered considerable philosophical attention in three principal areas: medical ethics, value theory, and metaphysics. In medical ethics, interest has cent... Read more

2,712 words, approx. 10 pages

Death Although most of the great philosophers have touched on the problem of death, few have dealt with it systematically or in detail. Frequently, as in the case of Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza, an a... Read more

17,783 words, approx. 60 pages

Death Timeline 1870–1899 &sim; Beginning of the Funeral Industry Stein Manufacturing Company of Rochester, New York, mass produces caskets in many styles, colors, and grades (early 1870s) /... Read more

60,588 words, approx. 202 pages

“Our society regularly looks to technology to solve perennial human problems. Such problems as suffering and death are ones that we cannot solve, however; we can only cope with them.” &md... Read more

Problems of Death

50,411 words, approx. 169 pages

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.” —Francis, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 26 Each year, over 32,000 people commit suicide in the United States. In ... Read more

Willa Cather Biographies (7)

647 words, approx. 3 pages

The American author Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) is distinguished for her strong and sensitive evocations of prairie life in the twilight years of the midwestern frontier. Her poetic sensibility wa... Read more

9,750 words, approx. 33 pages

Willa Cather is a splendid example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character. The corner of earth that she is ... Read more

2,268 words, approx. 8 pages

"I do not take myself seriously as a poet," said Willa Cather in a 1925 interview. Having by then published many short stories and six novels (of an eventual twelve) and having won a Pulitzer Prize fo... Read more

4,008 words, approx. 14 pages

The literary reputation of Willa Cather has steadily risen since her first volume of short stories appeared in 1905, but her present stature as an important American writer rests largely on her twel... Read more

7,822 words, approx. 27 pages

During the 1973 Willa Cather centennial seminar in Lincoln, Nebraska, Leon Edel--the Henry James biographer who collaborated with E. K. Brown on the first important biographical study of Cather--put h... Read more