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    solo voices‚ chorus‚ and orchestra; similarto opera but without scenery‚ costumes‚ or actions. This specific oratorio is different because this composition is in three parts but is compilation of biblical verses from Old and New Testaments. The text for “Rejoice greatly” is actually from the New Testament itself. The soloists for the live performance was Sarah Laurence‚ the soprano was Jamie Van Eyck‚ the mezzo-soprano

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    The Importance of Burial in Greek Religion For the most part‚ the Greeks did not believe in a different afterlife for the good or bad—i.e.‚ no heaven or hell. In their view‚ the afterlife was almost universally grim; the important detail for the dead was whether they were buried or unburied. Those who did not receive proper funeral rites were doomed to wander by the river Styx‚ the entrance to the Underworld‚ for eternity; their souls could never be at rest. Thus‚ denying burial to a corpse not

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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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    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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    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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    In Frosts “Home Burial” the speaker helps illustrate a theme about Death that reflects their tone of sadness. Of course‚ we don’t know much about the genuine child who’s dead in the couple’s backyard‚ yet we know a mess about that couple’s response to that passing and internment. Truth be told‚ the couple appear to handle their child’s demise in inverse ways‚ which reveals to us that this ballad is as much about misery as it is about death.The husband and the wife represent two very different ways

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    Beach Burial- Kenneth Slessor The 1944 poem “Beach Burial”‚ was written about Kenneth Slessors experience during World War II in El Alamein‚ Egypt. Kenneth Slessor was an Australian poet and journalist‚ who was the correspondent reporting from North Africa. Unlike other poems written about war‚ “Beach burial” is neither nationalistic nor patriotically written and does not commemorate heroes‚ as it tells of enemies uniting in death. The poem is a tribute to the masses of soldiers who died in the

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    The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (henceforth Three Burials) is a resonant pictorial‚ which deliberates upon male friendship‚ loss‚ retribution‚ crime‚ and cross-border contrasts that incidentally‚ are lightly mirrored by the collaboration of director Jones and screenwriter Arriaga. The are subtle allusions of political commentary regarding the state of Mexican labor‚ border patrols and the lawless abuse Mexicans face when trying to make a new life for themselves. The film brings story elements

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    ‘Beach Burial’- is poem about the soldiers that loss their life through war. From the begging the hype is built up throughout the story‚ paragraph by paragraph the tension builds which is done in such away it’s quite confronting for the reader. In the begging of the poem Slessor sets a quite a soft and calm mood but blunt where “convoys of dead sailors come’. The image of the beach is set out to represent beauty and purity. Slessor uses a subdued choice of words to describe the effects of war like

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    ugly past and the resulting landscape. To accomplish this tremendous task‚ Walton incorporates stories from the black and white perspective including his family‚ civil rights workers‚ authors‚ and strangers. Unlike the rest of the novel‚ “A Sort of Chorus” is not written by Walton in the conventional sense that he is present in the story. Although

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