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    does not make it right and I disagree with this statement. The word necrophilia is actually derived from the Greek words: nekros meaning "dead" and philia meaning "love". Firstly necrophilia is defined as being an obsessive fascination with death or corpses. However it’s now more commonly recognized as an attraction to‚ or having sexual relations with‚ the deceased. The act itself was practiced in many ancient cultures as means of communicating with the dead and many times also for ceremonial purposes

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    As I Lay Dying Analysis

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    on the way to Jefferson‚ all the family have suffered various tragedies. Every event happens must have a reason. When they started to complain all the bad things they ever suffered‚ they totally forgot what they did to cause the tragedies. Smelly corpse While Vardaman believes that " if Cash nails the box up‚ she is not a rabbit. And so if she is not a rabbit I couldn’t breathe in the crib and Cash is going to nail it up. I saw. They think it is her and Cash is going to nail it up" until

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    ANNA Dante? EXT. HIGHWAY - CARAVAN - MORNING Anna circles the caravan‚ searching for any sign of Dante. Besides

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    where everyone got their intelligence‚ memory‚ thoughts‚ etc‚ they thought that the heart responsible for those things. The heart was sometimes left in the body‚ but other times it was removed and dried with natron. Then it was either put back in the corpses body or placed beside it in the coffin. After the soft body parts

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    overwhelmed by the high number of unburied corpses infected by the plague. Initially‚ people left corpses along the streets or the seashore to rot and filled boats with corpses‚ sailing out to sea where “they were thrown overboard.” The issue became so great that Justinian allocated government funds to pay healthy citizens – those who weren’t busy tending the sick – to collect the dead‚ dig large pits‚ and place the dead in it. Clearly‚ the practice of leaving corpses out to rot and the use of mass graves

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    able to do this by describing Myop who tries to hold on to her innocence but she loses it after stepping on a black man who was hung because he’s black. At the beginning‚ Myop is shown as a happy‚ naïve and carefree girl. After she stepped on the corpse she realized the real world‚ and had matured and lost her innocence. Walker is able to do this by using imagery and symbolism to describe to the reader Myop’s strong will of trying to be a child and not being aware of the ‘adult’s world’. In this

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    Frank O'Hara's Method

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    Bibliography: Dick‚ David‚ ‘Frank O’Hara’s “Second Avenue” and the Modernist Tradition’. Colloquy Text Theory Critique‚ Monash University Press‚ 23‚ 2012. Garber‚ Frederick‚ ‘Review: Poet Among Painters’. Contemporary Literature‚ 20‚ no. 1‚ 1979. Greene‚ Roland and Stephen Cushman‚ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th. Princeton:

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    Things Fall Apart

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    “[g]un[shots]” were “fired” into the sky like fireworks‚ the “one handed” spirit came to call upon the spirit of the “corpse” (123). In order to save the soul of Ezeudu’s corpse‚ the disabled shaman spirit is called to the final rite; moreover‚ the guns blazing and the calling upon of the spirits proves their superstition revolving around the fate of this man’s soul. The spirit “call[s]” upon the corpse to speak up because “if a man caused [his death]” then he shouldn’t waste a “moment’s rest” (ibid). Since

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    mistress and giving her a corpse-like appearance. Shakespeare’s sonnet consists of similes used to describe the mistress in unpleasant ways in order to show how different she is from the typical woman one would see during the Elizabethan Age: “If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun / […] / I have seen roses damasked red and white‚ / But no such roses see I in her cheeks;” (3‚ 5-6). These similes serve a dual purpose of painting a picture that this woman has haunting or corpse-like features; the

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    between either a person and a soul or a person and a body is some form of “possession” or “ownership” signaled by the word ‘has’. Rosenberg’s argument: The questions regarding a person who dies “What becomes of the person?” and “Where does the corpse come from” cannot be answered coherently by the Having Theory. His argument: No account of the history of a person’s possessions following his death has any consequences regarding the history of the person himself following his death‚ so the

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