The Underground Railroad A lot of people in today’s modern world don’t know that the Underground Railroad wasn’t actually a railroad. It was actually a series of houses‚ shops‚ and hotels/motels that would provide blacks a way to escape slavery in the south by going north. These buildings were known as stations and the slaves were known as cargo. Between 1815 and 1860‚ it is estimated that 130‚000 refugees escaped the south via the Underground Railroad. The railroad had as many as 3‚200 active workers
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not a single person with a smile on their face. The next day we woke up early to go to the funeral home. All except Valerie‚ Natalie‚ and Jerry attended. I was the first one to walk down the hall into the room where my grandmother was lying in her coffin. I felt weak and didn’t know if I wanted to go down there. I felt a hand grab my shoulder; I turned around and see my grandfather’s friendly face. He had a comforting smile on his face as if saying‚ “Everything will be okay” He hugged me and we walked
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the visual composition. It helps us to identify aspects of it that serve as evidence for each claim. The shot places itself very interestingly. A line down the street forms an apparent importance of the visual objects such as the protest signs and coffin. It focuses exactly on what it wants us to see. People on the streets were protesting
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with no emotion goes to Marengo to see his mother’s body. The director of the assisted living home told him that he could see his mother. When Meursault found out that she was in her coffin‚ he declined the offer to take a look at her with disgust on his face. In the night‚ he kept a watch over his mother’s coffin. Even though he did not like it‚ his mother’s care taker stayed with him the entire night talking‚ which Meursault found annoying. He attended the funeral but did not show any signs of
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William Blake’s "The Chimney Sweeper" offers a graphic portrayal of a particular cultural aspect of England in the 1790s. By examining my interactions with the poem‚ I will attempt to analyse and contrast my own belief system against that which is presented in the text. Blake’s poem was initially very striking to me. While reading the first stanza‚ I was shocked and horrified by the imagery presented by the young narrator. I felt compelled to cry for the poor boy‚ and then became angry
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event is when the body arrives and the young boy is refusing to accept that the fact that his brother is dead. Throughout the poem Heaney creates a vivid image‚ one of the most memorable moments in the poem is at the end‚ when he is describing the coffin ‘A four foot box‚ a foot for every year.’ One of the first techniques used in the poem is alliteration. Heaney uses alliteration to describe the bells and the passing of time by saying; ‘Counting bells knelling classes to a close.’ From that line
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sound of the screaming‚ almost as if these words make the screaming more fearful than usual. Another example‚ Usher’s outburst “We have put her living in the tomb!...I hear her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin… Ha! Ha! The breaking of the hermit’s door… rending of her coffin‚ and grading of the iron hinges of her prison‚” again this has a certain words that give great impression of fear‚ like rending (pulling something apart by force‚ or violently) in this case he is hearing his sister
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The holiday Dia de los Muertos celebrates life of the dead. In Mexico‚ the celebration is held from October 31 to November 2. The origins are a combination of inherited beliefs and Catholic teachings. The days are a lasting and enduring ritual when the living converse with the dead. The roots of this tradition go back to pre-Hispanic cultures of Meso-Americans. When the Spaniards invaded the country this celebration was rooted so deeply that even after 5 centuries it is still celebrated like its
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Sir Francis Drake Typically‚ Francis Drake’s life begins with a mystery - the date of his birth. 1540 is often mentioned‚ 1542 has been heard as has been 1538‚ and other years pop up here and there. Often the given date is based on a portrait which itself is dated and which includes the comment that it shows Drake at a particular age. The only safe conclusion is that he was born around 1540. His place of birth was Tavistock‚ in Devonshire‚ along the river Tavy (which eventually empties into
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Stories about mummies have been told on Halloween or discussed in an ancient history class‚ but one doesn’t usually stop and think about how real the process of mummification used to be or the process that it involved. Mummification played a large role in ancient Egyptian society. This strange and fascinating Egyptian ritual is a multi-stepped religious practice of old beliefs. Deceased people were mummified primarily because of the ancient Egyptian beliefs. The Egyptians believed that there was
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