At the end of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE)‚ a funeral service was given to honor the Athens who fought and served for their country’s empire. After the honorable service and burial‚ a leading citizen was chosen to deliver a memorial speech‚ and Pericles was elected. Pericles was a prominent and influential Greek orator and general of Athens during the period of the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. Pericles’ funeral oration is a well-known speech written by the historian‚ Thucydides. This speech
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In Julius Caesar‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Brutus and the conspirators kills Julius Caesar for abusing his power as an emperor. During Julius Caesar’s funeral‚ Brutus faces an outraged mob of Roman citizens loyal to Caesar. Brutus reasons with them in his speech by explaining that he killed Caesar because he loved Rome more than Caesar‚ and Caesar had abused his power by being extremely ambitious. Brutus then asks the crowd to speak out if any was offended by what he has done to Caesar by questioning
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Yesterday‚ at Caesar’s funeral‚ Mark Antony delivered a seemingly harmless speech to his dear friend Caesar after the conspirators had allowed him to. Antony’s funeral speech may not have sounded abnormal to you‚ but we noticed various techniques that he used to manipulate the crowd. His speech has gotten many of the citizens of Rome to feel disgust and hate for the conspirators‚ and they are now taking violent actions. The citizens shouldn’t be blamed however because Antony’s sneaky ways were the
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Doctor Zhivago Doctor Zhivago is a film from 1965 based on the novel “Doctor Zhivago (1957) directed by David Lean. This scene is from Yuri‚ a little boy’s perspective of his mothers funeral. Many of the shots are from the same height as Yuri. The first scene is an extreme long shot and shows us an open landscape with huge mountains in the background. The mountains seems very powerful‚ and is the first thing you notice‚ but then your eyes are dragged down to a large group of people wandering
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2/24/13 Why I Have An Interest In The Funeral Service Industry The Funeral service profession is one of the most fulfilling and rewarding service careers a person can choice to become part of. I have always been fascinated with the funeral service profession and wanted to learn more about how one becomes a funeral service director. I have always wanted a career where I could help people and also provide a valuable service to society. Moreover‚ I feel that the funeral service profession is something
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changing ideology‚ even funerals. In the article‚ Death of a Funeral Business by Sandy Hingston‚ she talks about how contemporary funeral rituals our society has taken in and the old traditions we have gone away from. By using a combination of witty anecdotes and statistics to involve the reader‚ Hingston comments on the changing culture of the funeral business. A passage from Death of a Funeral Business that shows how Hingston presents her ideas that our perception of death and funerals have
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The Ancient Egyptian Funeral Procession Opening of the mouth ceremony The funeral procession began at the deceased person’s house where the relatives begin their journey to the designated tomb. If the deceased person was wealthy‚ the family would afford professional musicians‚ dancers‚ mourners and priests to take part in the funeral procession. The procession was lead by musicians and dancers followed by the mummified person in an anthropoid coffin which was pulled on a sledge by oxen with
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“Then a Plank in Reason‚ broke” Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a funeral in My Brain” is about a funeral service taking place in the speakers imagination. Throughout the poem the reader is left to think that the funeral is the speakers own funeral. The tone of the poem comes across as depressing and lonely. The ending of the poem is left as an open thought for the readers. “And Finished knowing –then-.” (20). Most of Dickinson’s endings in poems are frequently left open ended (Poetry Foundation)
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was greatly influenced by poets of the seventeenth-century‚ who lived in England. Due to her unique style of writing‚ depth‚ and thought provoking themes she has became revered as one of the greatest female poets to this day. Her poem “I felt a funeral in my brain” expresses the feeling of loosing her normal thought processes and functions in her brain‚ simulating the same feeling a person might have at the time of death. The poem is a cinquain written in a hymn meter. The style of her writing
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Morgan Russell Shaw English 200 6 November 2012 Essay Two – I felt a Funeral‚ in my Brain 1. Part One Solitary: Deprived of the company of others; the state of being alone; a reference to solitary confinement (solitary). The use of the word solitary in line 16 illustrates how although people have been described as taking part in the funeral‚ they do not relate or understand her. Although there are others around her‚ there is no communication between them. She is described as wrecked in
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