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    difficult situation thus having everyone alive. However, her brother would had never gotten a proper and his soul would had never rested. Creon's actions could had played out different as well. He could had just gave both Eteocles and Polyneices a proper burial no one told him to just give only to one. Antigone would had been happy she would had never gone through those actions of her probably would had respected Creon more if he had done so but, instead he didn't which lead to her despising…

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    Antigone Vs Creon

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    Antigone is the story wrote by the author Sophocles who did great work in the Golden age of Greek theater. The story “Antigone”s theme is the one fate of royal family in the city-state Thebe. After Oedipus died, his two children fought for his throne and they both died. Priority reason, Creon took the throne of the king. He made the death penalty law to do not let Polyneikes, who attacked the Thebe, be buried. The daughter of Oedipus, Antigone, she strenuously opposed the law and after the…

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    The Book Of The Dead

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    First I’ll give you an introduction to the book of the dead. The book of the dead is a book that contains tons of magic spells that are meant to help a dead person through Duat (The Underworld) and then into the underworld. The Book of the Dead was part of funeral traditions, it includes the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts. The earlier ones were painted on objects, not papyrus. Now I’ll take you on a journey through the book’s timeline. We start at 2,670 BCE, when the concepts that the book…

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    Death In Ancient Greece

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    They had to bury him or else face the consequences. The dead body that laid before the mourning party would soon come alive and wreak havoc on the city if they did not entomb him correctly. Such were the beliefs of the ancient Greeks. These people believed that there was a large list of rules in treating the deceased. If they did not follow such rules, the dead man or woman would revive and unleash hell. This list was made ultimately out of the beliefs of the departed and their afterlife with…

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    Antigone, Ismene, Polyneices and Eteocles, Oedipus would have never gouged his eyes out and given over a shared kingship to his sons. If they hadn’t of been greedy and unable to share the kingship, then there would have been no edict forbidding the burial of Polyneices. Therefore, being a kin of Oedipus’ family, Antigone fell into a trap and was destined to fall into a tragedy. The antistrophe, which represents society and their views,…

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    him a proper burial. Antigone decides to disobey the king and give her brother a proper burial. Antigone loves the idea of a noble death and it drives her decision-making at the end of her life. Her death had a major impact on the city and her family’s legacy. So, it was justified that she made the decisions she made that lead to her noble death. Antigone’s love for a noble death is shown throughout the book. When Antigone discovers that her brother will not be given a proper burial,…

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    versus nurture phenomenon influences people within the rural landscape. The theme of abandonment is prevalent among several central characters within Gay’s Provinces of Night, and similarly within Robert Frost’s “The Death of a Hired Man,” and “Home Burial. In Provinces of Night, E.F. Bloodworth abandons his wife and children, disregarding their emotional and financial dependency, Fleming’s mother deserts both a son and jealous husband, which then…

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    Rituals After Death

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    the body of the deceased is said to be buried as soon as possible. Which can produce disagreement within a healthcare facility since it takes time and there are certain procedures the hospital has to do in order to be able to release the body for burial. The body must also be attended from the time of death until the funeral “The family may fulfill this duty or assign a “shomer”” (Judaism 2016) a shomer is a person who is outside of the family and who stays by the body and often preforms a…

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    purpose as a part of nature there for all life and its life was taken for its functional use. However in relation to the 3 Deaths complete story and the tree’s actual purpose, Sergey did cut it down for the use of becoming a cross, to venerate the burial site of his uncle Fyodor (Tolstoy 52, 55). In this case one could argue that the death of the tree could be natural because man is dependent upon wood as a resource and to serve a purpose and according to societal and religious standards that…

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    than MB IIC. In the discussions of construction dating, the research will explore the possibility the construction proceeded in two distinct phases—the first in MB IIB and second in MB IIC. In addition, the research hypothesizes that the infant jar burials represent a unique, previously unknown, cultic practice related to the city…

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