Part one of term paper
It is a universal and woeful reality that every living thing must die eventually. What places us, humans, apart from any animal, insect or living thing on this planet is our awareness of our inevitable demise. Death is something dreadful, no one knows when it could happen or how to gain control of it. When it comes it takes away one's life ...

Part two of term paper
... above them all, but can also be thought of in another perspective that we are a level lower instead. Abundant amounts of explorers jeopardized their life in search of the so-called "fountain of life". The reason of this can be explained by the fear of death. As death is such a mysterious and frightful matter, in Don Delillo's , he agrees that "[at] some level everyone fears death" (p. 197) and this powerful fear can easily influence a person's behaviour and actions. The depiction of how a man ...