Beach Burial – Kenneth Slessor 1944 Kenneth Slessor‚ author of Beach Burial‚ was the Australian Official Correspondent in El Alamein‚ the Middle East during WWII. The author drew from his own experiences to write Beach Burial‚ a poem about the aftermath of a battle during WWII. It is a realistic and somber tribute to soldiers of all nations that died in the war. It illustrates how they are all united by one common enemy; death. It breaks the conventional war poem structure‚ as it is not a celebration
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dies‚ but it all depends on what that soul during its life to determine where it stay forever. The Ancient Greeks‚ Egyptians‚ and Mayans all believed that once you die your soul goes to a place either a paradise or hellish place. They were all separated by hundreds of years and were thousands of miles away on different continents. Oddly they all share the same beliefs on the afterlife. The Ancient Greeks believed that the soul good or bad first had to go the underworld realm of Hades‚ the land of
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of us usually picture an Egyptian mummy wrapped in white clothes and buried deep inside a pyramid. You hear Egypt and think of mummies‚ pyramids‚ and all of the Egypt relics. The first mummies at Egypt were people who were buried in the desert. No one in Egypt had put them in a coffin so they turned into dust! Ever since that had happened they started putting people in coffins. Coffins are usually made out of just wood with many Egyptian writings on it. Egyptian writing is called hieroglyphs
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AWARENESS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY ORAL EXAMINATION BEACH BURIAL KENNETH SLESSOR Softly and Humbly to the Gulf of Arabs‚The convoys of dead sailors come; At night they sway and wander in the waters far under‚But morning rolls them in the foam. Between the sob and clubbing of the gunfire Someone‚ it seems‚ has time for this‚To pluck them from the shallows and bury them in burrows And tread the sand upon their nakedness;And each cross‚ the driven stake of tidewood‚Bears the last signature
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Ancient Egypt The giant pyramids‚ temples‚ and tombs of ancient Egypt tell an exciting story about a nation that rose to power more than 5‚000 years ago. This mighty civilization crumbled before conquering armies after 2‚500 years of triumph and glory. The dry air and drifting desert sands have preserved many records of ancient Egypt until modern times. The ancient Egyptians lived colorful‚ active‚ and eventful lives. Many were creative artists‚ skilled craftsmen‚ and adventurous explorers
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Egyptian Economy The Egyptian civilization lasted for more than 3000 years‚ longer than any other. This fact indicates a great economical system which‚ they had. They did not use money but instead they traded goods of equal value. An example being five sheets and a sack of corn would be exchanged for a donkey and two pairs of sandals. Many factors contributed to the economy how ever the main one was farming and agriculture. By looking at Egypt’s land‚ which is surrounded by desert
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applied to all times. The deterioration of the nuclear family is not new‚ it is only more prominent as time goes on. Relationships in the poem Home Burial and the short story Land of the Living prove that there is no significant difference between the destruction of traditional family values both in modern times and in the past. The poem Home Burial‚ by Robert Frost‚ was written in the early nineteen hundreds. The poem shows a dysfunctional couple‚ who are grieving the loss of a child. The woman
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World History Egyptian Mummies After having discussions in class‚ I’ve decided I wanted to learn more in depth about the history and process of Egyptian Mummification. The mummification process became popular in Egypt around 2700 BC and started fading away after 200 AD. This process for the dead stuck around strong for almost 3000 years and over time has had different methods and techniques added to it. In the ancient Egyptian days anyone that could afford the process could be mummified if they
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Old is not always gold With an impressive past‚ troublesome present and a fearful future: Egyptian Railway is so much similar to Egypt nowadays‚ writes Ahmed Morsy “I dream of a time when a train safely runs and reaches its destination on time‚” said Islam Shokri‚ a 29-year-old employee living in Nasr City district of Cairo and working in Aswan. Shokri‚ whose work necessitates travelling about 900 kilometres by train every week‚ said that the trip from Cairo to Aswan sometimes takes fifteen hours
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Kenneth Slessor wrote the poem Beach Burial whilst he completed his occupation as the official Australian Correspondent in the Middle East. Due to Slessor ’s observations of the war at close quarters he soon learnt about the horrific horrors of war. During Slessor ’s stay in El Alamein which is a small village found on the Egypt Mediterranean coast he wrote the poem to describe the realities of war and what realistically happens after heroes are killed. Kenneth Slessor has used imagery and various
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