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    that that practice of embalming and primping a corpse for its burial has become so “universally employed in the United States” that it is often carried out without any needed approval or consultation from the corpse (pre-death of course)‚ or family. This means that it is just assumed that the family of Mr. Body would‚ without question‚ want a

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    pretty much the same thing‚ fire breathing‚ giant‚ flying beast. As much as I’d like for you just to believe the stories‚ I know that won’t happen. There is proof that Dragons are real as well as stories. Scientist/Paleontologist found an actual dragon corpse‚ and if you don’t believe that‚ they also figured out how a dragon does what dragons do (breath fire‚ fly‚ and strike terror into people). They figured out how they survived the extinction of the dinosaurs and so many other thing that *prove* dragons

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    God’s greatness. Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp uses a strong composition‚ and focal point‚ and variation in figures. The composition is tight and dramatic thanks to Rembrandt’s use of a pyramidal form. Five of the members of the guild and the corpse make up the base of the pyramid‚ two members above them make up the middle‚ and a single member completes

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    Man we see the transformation of a fishing village when a dead body washes up on shore. The story starts off children who find the body and how they began interact with a body as if it were a toy. Men living in the village notice and take his corpse back to someone house. They note that he is ordinarily tall and his was is obscure. However they concluded that these finding were the result

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    DEATH CEREMONY RITUALS IN SULAWESI SELATAN WRITTEN BY: ADINDA RIZKI NIRMALA 2012/338097/SV/02553 PROGRAM STUDI BAHASA INGGRIS SEKOLAH VOKASI UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA YOGYAKARTA 2012 INTRODUCTION South Sulawesi divided into 20 regencies. One of them is called Tana Toraja‚ which is located on plateau in the north of capital city of South Sulawesi‚ Makassar. South Sulawesi known with their various ethnic groups such as: Suku Bugis‚ Suku Makassar‚ and Suku Toraja. The latest ethnic

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    Anonymous Name lol Teacher‚ Period English 10P 28 November 2012 Night: Elie Can Not Escape His Fate In Night‚ Elie Wiesel goes through a journey as he and his fellow Jews are deported to the concentration camp in Auschwitz. There‚ for the first time in his life‚ he is tested with his beliefs as he encounters and witnesses acts of barbarity. Through this‚ Elie discovers that atrocities and cruel treatment can turn decent people into brutes. Unfortunately‚ Elie is one of those people – he does

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    Drowned Man in the World starts with a corpse washing up on shore of a small island village. Eventually villagers find the big bulky body of the corpse and take it on up to the village. While the men go and search nearby villages to ask if they are missing anyone‚ the women take over and begin to obsess about the corpse and even decide to give him a name‚ Esteban. This made the corpse more personal then it ever should be. They start to think that the corpse could have had a good life and just keep

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    Growing up‚ my parents‚ who were strict christians not only ran a church but the cemetery that came along with it. In our cellar‚ believe it or not‚ we stored the corpses which were soon to be buried six feet into the ground. It was an unspoken rule‚ I never went there — until that one afternoon. Emily‚ my best friend was going through a goth phase‚ which she portrayed by using white concealer to cover her cheeks and black‚ black‚ black eyeliner to shape her eyes. But that wasn’t enough: “Spider

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    us felt unease when we got the assignment of watching the movie Departures‚ which Chinese translation is an occupational title means “embalmer”. It sounds like a horror movie‚ something about death‚ corpse and ghost. Unexpectedly‚ it turned out to be a literary movie concerning about death and corpse indeed. It’s a Japanese movie showed in 2008‚ and earned lots of rewards including the Canadian Montreal international film festival “Grand prix of the Americas” and the Best Foreign Language Film of

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    The embalming business is a multi-million-dollar industry in the United States; however‚ “not one in ten thousand [Americans] has any idea of what actually takes place” during the embalming of a body (Mitford 270). In the past‚ embalming was strictly done upon request of the deceased’s family. Now it is done without any of the kin giving their permission for the procedure to be performed. In her essay “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain” Jessica Mitford describes in detail the process by which deceased

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