Notes for English II **What is culture? 1. The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social‚ ethnic‚ or age group 2. | the total of the inherited ideas‚ beliefs‚ values‚ and knowledge‚ which constitute the shared bases of social action | 3. | the total range of activities and ideas of a group of people with shared traditions‚ which are transmitted and reinforced by members of the group: the Mayan culture | 4. | the artistic and social pursuits‚ expression‚ and tastes
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years until the day he returned to the jail to see what Lucas really needed someone to do for him. When Charles returned to the jail‚ his debt to Lucas became much more and turned into respect and friendship. Lucas had asked Charles to dig up the grave of Vinson Gowrie and find out what caliber of bullet killed him. The gun that Lucas owned was a Colt .41 and Charles knew he needed to help him. In chapter eight‚ after the bodies of Vinson Gowrie and Jake Montgomery had been found‚ the sheriff concluded
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One of the most well known area visited of Arlington National Cemetery is the Tomb of the Unknowns. Many of the soldiers buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns fought in World War One. Additionally‚ millions of soldiers had died during the first World War and many American soldiers were brought home from the European battlefields and many others’ were never identified. On October 21‚ 1921‚ four coffins were dug up from the four American military cemeteries‚ which were located in France. Corporal
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Hamlet is confused as to why the gravedigger has ‘’no feeling of his business’’ as he ask Horatio why does he not feel sorrow (in mid act five scene one) in order to make some sense of what he is witnessing at the grave sight. Hamlet’s metaphysical approach to death is a result of theoretical speculative action. As in the beginning of the tale he is swarmed by constant fear and assumption of death followed by thoughts of suicide where he poses his vast inquiry‚ To
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for this eternal part of their selves to emerge. A few living people have been hovering at the back of the stage and now come to the foreground. The Stage Manager introduces Joe Stoddard‚ the town’s undertaker‚ who is watching over a freshly dug grave‚ and Sam Craig‚ a cousin of Emily Gibbs. We learn that Sam left Grover’s Corners twelve years ago to go west and has returned to town for Emily’s funeral. Sam reads the headstones‚ represented by the characters sitting in chairs. He sees his Aunt Julia
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Mr. Graves is an obvious one‚ with the name “Grave” symbolizing that death is to come. Mr. Graves helps Mr. Summers set up for the lottery‚ showing that the grave of one of the villagers is not far away. Mr. Bentham is one that is not as readily apparent. He shares a name with Jeremy Bentham‚ an English philosopher who was the father
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third and final element of a short story that Jackson uses to create a sense of horror. One of ways that Jackson use characters to create a sense of horror is through their names. An example of one of the characters she uses to do this is Mr. Graves. Grave can be used as an adjective or noun. The adjective means to cause alarm or to be serious. The noun refers to a burial place‚ typically a
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"Because I Could Not Stop For Death" "Because I couldn’t stop for death" is a lyric poem‚ composed of six quatrains. It is one of Emily’s Poems that deal with death. Here we see death personified. He is not frightening‚ scary or threatening‚ but a gentle guide who lead her to eternity. The speaker feels no fear when Death picks her up in his carriage; she just sees it as an act of kindness and politeness as if she is his date. Death is introduced as the leading character and
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parents‚ to dig a massive grave. They were then ordered to strip naked and line up. Then they were shot‚ one by one. When the firing stopped and the Nazis had left‚ Sally’s brother‚ who was thirteen‚ went back from the fields to see what happened. He saw their parents and all the others lying in the ditch that was also their grave. He ran away and Sally stayed in the fields terrified until it was completely dark. She went back to the camp the next day and saw the massive grave. Then Sally went to search
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Capulet’s party is breaking up‚ Juliet sends the Nurse to find out Romeo’s name. As the Nurse chases after Romeo‚ Juliet says‚ "If he be married. / My grave is like to be my wedding bed" (1.5.135) . She means that if Romeo is married‚ she will die unmarried‚ because she will never marry another‚ but she is also unkowningly foreshadowing her fate‚ in which her grave does become her wedding bed. [Scene Summary] ________________________________________ In the balcony scene‚ when Juliet expresses her fear for
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