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    People build sort of altars which include food‚ beverage and other objects dearest to the dead person. Different generations of the deceased get different presents - dead children ("los angelitos" or "angels" get toys‚ beverages are very commonly given to dead adults. Sweets are dear to everyone. So‚ dead people of all generations have them on their graves. Plans for these altars are made a year ahead. Flowers are put on graves too. The most popular flowers for the occasion are orange marigolds

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    A magnificent case of the utilization of foreshortening‚ the ’Lamentation Over the Dead Christ’ is a Renaissance painting made by the Italian Renaissance craftsman Andrea Mantegna in around the 1480s. This gem is not at all like other masterpieces (for instance‚ different Lamentations) made at the time. Mantegna’s utilization of foreshortening just lifts his work of art from the crowd. The Lamentation of the Dead Christ is an oil painting on canvas‚ unlike most artistic creations of the period.

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    That is one way that could be the start of someone’s life in the event of a zombie apocalypse. Blood‚ guts‚ and disfigurement is basically what defines a zombie. Most of today’s generation has seen The Night of the Living Dead‚ The Walking Dead‚ Zombieland‚ Shaun of the Dead‚ and many more. One topic that is discussed most is “what would someone do?” The topic of zombies ending the world has become so popular there are underground bunkers‚ survival guides‚ and storage containers full of food. So

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    in television shows‚ video games and movies. ‘The Walking Dead’ is an American horror drama series developed by Frank Darabont. The main character awakens from a coma to a post-apocalyptic world infested by zombies. The survivors fight to live in and adapt to a world full with zombies and some humans who could be considered even more dangerous than the zombies themselves. According to information from tvbythenumbers.com‚ “’The Walking Dead’ has the highest total viewership of any series in cable television

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    Anyone can prepare themselves to become a stronger writer. It takes practice and self motivation to proceed in the process to get better. It’s not easy‚ but with determination it can be accomplished. In the film‚ Dead Poets Society‚ a new English teacher‚ John Keating‚ uses atypical methods of teaching to reach out to his students at an all-boys preparatory academy. Through his lessons‚ his students learned to overcome the pressures from their families and school and tried to pursue their dreams

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    Dead Poets Society and A Separate Peace are similar stories in many ways‚ both stories are also very different in multiple ways. Both stories exists a secret club. The club in A Separate Peace is the Super Suicide Society the equivalent to that in Dead Poets Society is the Dead Poets Society‚ both of these clubs were the basis of rule breaking in the stories. For example the Super Suicide Society went to the tree that was off-limits at Devon in A Separate Peace‚ the only member of this group

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    Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead presents the audience with Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ as seen through the eyes of two characters whose actual tragic roles are so minimal; they can hardly be considered important parts of the original play. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are involved in a drama the meaning and import of which they can hardly grasp. Indeed‚ they cannot even manage to secure their own identities in the work. Stoppard specifically creates these characters in this manner

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    The Dead Sea Scrolls In 1947 in a cave near the Dead sea in the Jordan Desert‚ a fifteen year old boy chased after one of his goats that wandered off. This boy’s name was Muhammad adh-Dhib. While going after his goat‚ the boy stumbled upon perhaps the greatest religious discovery of the modern era. Inside the cave‚ he found broken jars that contained scrolls written in a strange language‚ wrapped in linen cloth and leather. These scrolls would later become known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. This first

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    “The Dead” is a short story written by James Joyce about Gabriel‚ a man who is facing troubles with his wife‚ Gretta. Gabriel stumbled upon Gretta in an intense trance‚ while a certain song is playing. Gabriel soon finds out that Gretta had a past lover who had died for her‚ and he understands that she still shows emotion for him. Gabriel feels alone and troubled for the first time in his life. This story shows his great suffering in the marriage and how it came to be. “The Dead‚” written by James

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    The Egyptian Book of the Dead was almost a guide book for the deceased containing various spells and incantations that would aid in ones travel to the afterlife and the process of becoming immortal. The ancient Egyptians strongly believed in the afterlife and that each mummified corpse was expected to resurrect in another world. The Book of the Dead gave the Egyptians insight on what obstacles one would face reaching the afterlife. The origins of the Book of the Dead have been traced back to the

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