separate funeral homes. My father owned one and my grandfather owned and lived in one. There was not a day when someone wasn’t dying. Many of my childhood memories lead me back to the funeral home. Heck‚ I even learned to ride my tricycle in the area where all the caskets were kept! Many of my friends would find it neat that I knew all about the place and would always ask me to take them around for a tour. There is a story that I always tell people that happened at my grandpa’s funeral home one unique
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“Refugee Blues” by WH Auden‚ is a ballad and‚ as such‚ has a sense of musicality that is created by both its structure and the repetition of certain phrases. The poem contains twelve stanzas of three lines each. The first and second line of each stanza rhyme. The two rhyming lines of each stanza tell the story‚ while the third line contains a repeated phrase (like a chorus) that develops the theme of the poem. For example‚ the first stanza ends: “yet there’s no place for us‚ my dear‚ yet there’s
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The Funeral Oration of Pericles and The Melian Dialogue are two primary sources that present us the true nature of Athens. The evidence from the two primary sources states to us that Athens are a people that don’t look upon others and that they only care about themselves. Surviving and making sure that their people history stay alive is Athens main agenda and they will stop at nothing to make sure they reach their goal. Athenians true nature is survival. Doing the war against Sparta‚ they held
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The two different short stories titled respectively "Sonny’s Blues" and "This Is What it Means to Say Pheonix‚ Arizona" maintain several similarities throughout their particular lengths. Both observant tales of changing times and cultures‚ the novellas incorporate themes of brotherhood‚ loss‚ and the rekindling of relationships. Due to the resemblance between the themes and atmospheres of the two stories‚ an analyzation is necessary to draw assessments associating these particular tales. One of
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The Blue Lagoon Explores the Garden of Eden The Blue Lagoon is often ridculed as a fluff piece of adolescent nudity. However I believe The Blue Lagoon raises interesting questions about human sexuality. How did we discover sex‚ and what about our sexuality is innate? The movie presents the case of an innocent boy and girl from the Victorian Age‚ shipwrecked on a beautiful tropical island. They are soon without any adult guidance whatsover. As children‚ the two are inseparable‚ but the movie presents
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Chapter 27 – Empire and Expansion America Turns Outward America started looking expand and get into international markets because of population growth and more wealth. Farmers were also looking for new markets to sell their crops. Josiah Strong’s book Our Country encouraged people to spread their religion to the people that didn’t know better. Theodore Roosevelt believed that Darwinism meant that the fittest country (U.S.) was entitled to the entire world. Africa was colonized by Europeans
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I’m a caterpillar. Crawling around with not a single idea what my future holds for me. I have always felt I was different from all the other insects. They all seem to know who they are and what their purpose is. But not me‚ I don’t have the slightest clue. I have always felt that I’ve been trapped inside the completely wrong body. And that somehow when I was just a little larvae‚ I was mistaken and introduced as something I knew I wasn’t. Well they were correct about who I was physically but mentally
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of the “Blue Piano.” In scene 6‚ the Varsouviana Polka music is introduced‚ resembling aspects of emotion as well. Firstly‚ The Blue Piano embodies fear. As the scene starts to foreshadow a future occurrence of domestic violence‚ the music appears to reach a crescendo. Similarly‚ this also occurs when the characters enter a scene of panic or anxiety. As a prime example‚ the opening of scene two states “Stanley enters the kitchen from outside‚ leaving the door open on the perpetual “blue piano” around
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Sita Sings the Blues: Four Connecting Movies in One Sita Sings the Blues is an animated version of the epic Indian tale “Ramayana”. The movie was released on February 11‚ 2008 and directed‚ produced‚ and written by Nina Paley. Sita Sings the Blues uses images and art covering two thousand years of history and culture. The movie is not just an average movie with one plot‚ but‚ instead‚ it is four stories each connecting and showing how ideals about gender roles have changed over time. Paley uses
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to expierience our true nature by entering directly into our conscious. The poem is a deep seeking of the nature of death‚ the death that is a process of expansion and transformation from solidarity to a spaciousness. When she says: "I felt a funeral in my brain‚ and mourners to and fro‚ kept treading‚ treading till it seemed that sense was breaking through... " She focuses on the sensation of being in the body‚ feeling the body’s substantiality and solidity‚ and the heaviness caused by gravity
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