In the book When Breath Becomes Air, Dr. Kalanithi devotes a portion of the book to his journey from the child of devout parents to a man of science to a cancer patient re-embracing "the central values of Christianity" on his deathbed. Certainly he
is not the first person to detach from the practices of his parents nor the first doctor to decide "all
knowledge is scientific knowledge", as he put it. And of course he is not the only man to embrace religion
at the end of his life.
This appears to be an intellectual issue for him as much as a spiritual one, and he seems to
acknowledge both scientific and faith-based systems are left wanting:
Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to
do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love,
hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue. Between these core passions and
scientific theory, there will always be a gap. No system of thought can contain the fullness of human
experience.
How does one negotiate this? Is it simply belief vs. answers? Are religion and science really even at
odds? Does Dr. Kalanithi's grappling with these questions as he approaches death give them more
resonance? Can the metaphysical yearning of the quote above be satisfied by marrying science and
religion? Finding it elsewhere? Adding something else? Use specific examples from the text in your
response.

i would say that these are the two thesis statements best for a literary analysis essay on recurring themes in shakespeare's romeo and juliet:

1.  in romeo and juliet, shakespeare demonstrates that love comes in a variety of forms, be it romantic, familial, or between friends.

2.  shakespeare explores the struggle for identity through the character of juliet in his play romeo and juliet.

the other theses aren't reoccurring in this play. 

explanation:

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!

you wright a 3 paragraph on vincen van gogh's life using textual evidence from the biography as support for your claims.