preserving her corpse for a fortnight” (Poe 716). Then they bury Madeline who is still alive so she has to scratch her way out of the tomb. This causes both Madeline and her brother to drop dead at the same time as told by Poe‚ “There did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline . . . she remained trembling . . . with a low moaning cry‚ fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother‚ and in her violent and now final death-agonies‚ bore him to the floor a corpse” (721). At the
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lonely‚ and moves on to talking about insects. “Her little outfit reminded me of a moth I helped kill” (Norton Sampler‚ p. 2) she says when she is making an observation of a spider that inhabits her bathroom‚ and then moves on to talking about the corpses of bugs that litter her bathroom floor and manages to come across as completely indifferent to the deaths of animals. The quotation about helping to kill the moth sounds like an achievement from her side. The way she approaches death has a tone
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for. Teiresias uses pathos where his emotional tone is set with vivid imagery‚ and makes Creon truly feel regret his decree. It is when Teiresias says “Then take this‚ and take it to your heart! The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse‚ flesh of your own flesh‚” that Creon truly sees what has happened. This is when it has become
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That memory makes the narrator give some bitter advice to readers about the nature of warfare and the outcome of blind patriotism. Owen describes his experience of walking behind the wagon in which the dead man has been placed‚ seeing the corpse frozen in the twisted agony of its death. That sight‚ he says‚ would prevent any man from adopting convincingly the notion that dying for one’s country is somehow righteous. When I read “Dulce et Decorum Est” I noticed the intensity of Owen’s
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Immediately after Caesar’s murder‚ Antony was emotionally distraught and conflicted‚ thus prompting him to speak directly to the bleeding corpse that once housed his beloved king. He begs for forgiveness for being gentle with the malicious conspirators and allows his anger to outpour freely‚ shouting at nothing that can respond. Firstly‚ the problem addressed by Antony’s outburst is the war and destruction that he predicts will overcome Rome in the event of Caesar’s murder. He cries out that
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When the SS were executing some Jews‚ they were not allowed to live until the execution. “ That night the soup tasted of corpse” (62)‚ It meant that the soup tasted like dead bodies from all the hangings‚ after he saw that catastrophe had new taste for him‚ because in his mind he was thinking that that had been him in the ropes. In addition‚ after the soup tasted like corpse‚ it also had another signification‚ that he could one more time eat soup alive. The soup started to bee like venom for Elie
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Other Reformation Ulrich Zwingli was the leader of the Swiss reformation. Influenced by Erasmus. Rejected indulgences. Did not support mercenary service. Supported clerical marriage. Zurich‚ which was his hometown‚ supported him. The Marburg Colloquy was a meeting between Zwingli and Luther brought together by Phillip of Hesse‚ one of the most powerful protestant rulers. They disagree over the Eucharist. The Tetrapolitan Confession shows Zwingli’s theological views The Augsburg
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travelled to the sea and dove underwater to see what was there to discover and he found an ancient shoreline with several tools‚ corpses and a village to prove to the water levels had rose higher and flooded a whole village. This flooding dated back 7460 to 15500 years ago. There is also evidence of the flooding occurring and evaporating away where there are different corpses‚ tools and historical artefacts found far away from their original ancient ground which proves the event of a Great Flood..
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poke fun at the other topic. “War is Kind” uses sarcasm to explain the horrors of war‚ and the effect it has on those related to those in the war. “Great is the battle-god‚ great‚ and his kingdom a field where a thousand corpses lie.” Obviously a field littered with a thousand corpses isn’t a great thing. But the sarcasm changes how the the words are perceived. The sarcasm explains the big impact the war has on the soldiers. These soldiers were ordered to fight and die‚ or‚ “die for the cause‚” because
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Medical Team transfusing blood from corpses into living people who were trying to save their lives. Kervorkian teamed up with another medical terminologist named Neal Nicol‚ who assisted him in this experiment. This experiment was very successful and Jack believed that this could be the difference between if someone lives or dies in the battlefield. If blood from a blood bank was unavailable‚ doctors could use Kervorkian’s experiment to transfuse the blood from a corpse
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