Elane Cun Prof. Schmitt Soc 3 10/27/2014 EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT 1. My grandmother passed away December 16, 2013 and she wasn’t buried right away. She wasn’t buried until January 9, 2014, because if she was to be buried before that, her spirit wouldn’t properly transition into a prosperous afterlife according to my grandfather, whom is a spiritual leader within our culture;…
Durham, a city born by the exploitation of slave labor on tobacco plantations and matured through the age of civil disobedience, sends its dead to the rural Maplewood cemetery. In her memoir, Proud Shoes, Pauli Murray described her discomforting childhood living near the cemetery and the permeating effects race had on her identity (Murray 7). While archaeologists such as Larry Zimmerman claim bones do not have "race" and question the inherent racism of academia (Zimmerman 61), Murray 's reality was plagued by the legacy of Jim Crow laws, inability to enter institutions of higher learning as an African American female, and McCarthyism (Murray 11). In sharp contrast to the touring guide, which frequently praises Durham 's appreciation of diversity…
According to records at the corner of Cherokee Street and Lemp Avenue was the location of The Baptist Cemetery. Founded in 1862, the Cemetery was officially closed in 1879, and the graves of the major portion of the cemetery were relocated in order to redevelopment the land. According to Plate 29 of Compton and Dry written in 1875, the site where the Lemp Stables and Carriage House are located today was the only part of the Old Baptist cemetery that wasn't immediately redeveloped. In 1895, the Lemp Brewery purchased the property and built their Carriage and Stable House on it.…
Touching a piece of history can be compelling, especially when combined with an equally compelling setting far from the madding crowd. Santa Cruz (sacred or holy cross) Cemetery offers an intriguing window into Gold Country’s legendary past and a pastoral foothill landscape reminiscent of early California before the world rushed in. At the entrance an interesting stone monument placed by E Clampus Vitus reveals a brief history of the place, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. It is immensely peaceful, and the softly rolling lowland hills are so easy on the eye.…
Richmond, being the capital of the Confederate States of American, was a central fighting ground during the civil war. In 1854, the city of Richmond opened Oakwood Cemetery as a public burial ground for the entire city and the Committee on Burying Grounds was put in charge of overseeing the administration and affairs of Oakwood and the other cemeteries in the area (1). When the war broke out, a lot of blood was shed on Richmond’s soil. Therefor, in 1861, the committee offered to have the cemetery opened on a greater scale specifically for confederate soldiers who had either died while in treatments at Chimborazo Hospital, a large hospital in Church Hill at the time, or had died in battle in Richmond or Henrico County (1). It was then that Oakwood got it’s name as the confederate cemetery of Richmond.…
4. When Mitford said, “How true; once the blood is removed, chances of live burial are indeed remote,” we understand she was trying to comfort those who are afraid of live burial by explaining to them that without blood, you cannot be alive. Once all the blood is drained from the body, there is no remote chance of burying the body alive. 5. The purpose of this essay is to inform readers of the process of embalming. We don’t think Mitford gave any positive suggestions to Americans, we believe she was simply trying to explain what happens in embalmment.…
Arlington National Cemetery is a lot of different memorials into one location. Inside the Cemetery there is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, Amphitheater, Arlington House, John F Kennedy gravesight. Section 60 (Afghanistan Graves) and the Challenger and Columbia memorial. The Cemetery consists of about 400,000 are buried in the Cemetery alone. Within the 400,000 graves about 5,000 are unmarked do to unknown soldiers.…
Lily Cox-Richard is a sculpture, as well as a metal-smither. Lily is very interested in metaphors and analogies. All of her works of art consist of a metaphor. She has used a variety of materials, including plaster, marble, and copper. Lily spent two months living and working in an Austrian quarry to figure out plaster and marble sculptures.…
The African Burial Ground also known as the “Negroes Burial Ground,” is home to more than 400 plus remains of freed and enslaved African-Americans. In 1991, a building projected unearthed the remains of these Africans beneath a parking lot just two blocks north of New York’s City Hall, bringing the colonials city’s lost African Burial Ground to the attention of the World [1]. Once the site was discovered and announced to the public, African leaders made their presence known by bring the excavation to halt and eventually taking it over. They felt as if the archeologist assigned to this excavation were to be of African descent. Only blacks would appreciate and be delicate when uncovering these grave sites, they would cherish the moments as they…
Everyone will have a final resting place unique to them whether they get buried or cremated. Some people will be buried alongside their husbands, some beside their parents or perhaps even their kids, but others are buried alone. Their loved ones are a mystery, as is their identity. These are the “Unknowns.” Collected altogether in one cemetery are Unknowns from World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War (Arlington National Cemetery).…
Death is inevitable and the customs that follow one 's death are representive of the beliefs and shared religion of that society. Through the scope of this paper I will discuss the death rituals and tomb burial practices of both Ancient Egypt and Ancient China. Over the examination of Ancient Egypt and Ancient China burial practices we begin to understand the complex thought process of respecting the dead, Furthermore, even though both of these civilizations have individually intricate beliefs we can also see the similarities in their ideals and rituals used to honor the dead and afterlife. These societies performed rituals for their deceased by using key components such as symbolic material objects buried alongside the dead, elaborate decoration…
One of the main reasons you would go to a mortuary, is if you have died or a member of the funeral. Simple. Although, that’s not so much the case at the Regent Street Mortuary anymore. Now, anyone is free to go and explore, and in this article, you can find out the history behind this beautiful structure. Located in Regent St, Chippendale, near Central, and the mortuary is constructed mainly of sandstone.…
Small Town Cemetery (8) In De Soto Kansas, behind De Soto high school, and near Timber Trails is a cemetery. (2) Sadly, there are about 2,748 graves of people in this cemetery. (1,10,9) Disrespectful, two young teenage boys rode four wheelers through this graveyard. (6) The police were called, luckily.…
In their wartime experience, dying became a central preoccupation; for the soldier it “assumed clear preeminence over killing” in his “emotional and moral universe. ”6 The soldier needed to be both ready and willing to die; turning to culture, codes of masculinity, patriotism, and religion to fortify himself for that possibility of death.7 War challenged rites and practices that were not to be quickly undertaken, and as many soldiers were killed suddenly in the intense action of battle, their comrades made pains to write condolence letters to the deceased’s loved ones. Seeking to make absent loved ones “virtual witnesses to the dying moments they had been denied,” these soldiers attempted to “mend the fissures war had introduced into the fabric of the Good Death” for the families of the slain.8 Condolence letters usually addressed the deceased’s professions of religion; sudden death robbed many soldiers the opportunity to have “life-defining” deathbed experiences, in which they would otherwise reveal the status of their souls in their last earthly utterances.9 To reassure theses families on the home front that their loved ones would indeed live on in spirit, comrades…
(As). Though Anse takes the journey very seriously, repeatedly, and almost ironically, stating that “It ain’t right... It’s a flouting of the dead”, onlookers view the family as one big mess that’s doing a lot more work than they need to (Faulkner 102). “The bundren narrators allow us to see the “interustin” aspects of the burial journey, while the outside narrators elevate us to Sut’s bluff, from which the adventure appears ‘sorter funny’ (Schroeder 37).…