Cemetery

story…" but what if there’s something beyond mortal life? What if ‘dead’ is a trivial concept and the soul lives on? These are only few of the many questions that linger worldwide, but most prominently behind the gates of Dublin 's Glasnevin Cemetery: a Cemetery in Ireland which holds as a domicile for people – of all ages and religions – in the ‘afterlife.’ Aoife Kelleher archives the souls of over a million Dubliners in her heart wrenching documentary One Million Dubliners. Glasnevin is not…

What is Arlington National Cemetery? Why does it matter to us in present-day American civilization? Many people ask these questions, and others that are similar, when the topic is brought up, because they lack an understanding of, or knowledge of, the answers. What those people don’t see is that Arlington is much more than a large patch of land filled with hunks of rocks and chunks of stone buried in the ground. Arlington is actually many other, more important things: a place of rest for some, a…

getting ready she gets a text from Shawn saying, " Is it okay if i get there earlier? and my friends want us to go to the cemetery; they want to test the old "legend of Cemetery Hills." The Legend of Cemetery Hills is one of the greatest legends in all of Hills city. On Halloween night the old witches come out and eat you alive. In the early 1800s 3 witches were hung in the cemetery and buried their. Its always just been a place for them, restricted and everything, but now 100s of people are…

In the poem, “To Autumn”, Keats signifies the notion of life and death. He uses sequences of autumn to symbolize the undeniable truth of death. In the poem, each stanza contains its own individual moment of autumn. The first stanza emphasizes the season’s beginning stage; the stanza contains various figurative languages and rhetorical devices in which formulate how fruits are abundant and how crops are being grown. The abundant and plentitude supply suggest that autumn is a season of development…

Dante Rossetti’s, Jenny: A Cautionary Tale of Sexual Knowledge and its Destruction of Women “The whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them” - John-Jacques Rousseau England in the 19th century was wrought with the battle for women’s rights, specifically the education of women. In his poem, Jenny, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s narrator makes various references to books – those on his shelf, and how…

I arrived at the Calvary Cemetery with my advisory following a short walk from Bard High School Early College Queens. To be honest, I didn’t expect anything much from the cemetery, as my head was filled with one apprehension, “What am I going to write for my polished piece of prose?” I, in fact, have never planned to write about the trip. Given the opportunities to explore the vast graveyard, I decided to turn left and vectored toward the quietest part of the cemetery, which also appeared to be…

years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave “The Gettysburg Address” on a blood soaked battlefield in Pennsylvania (Brown). “The Gettysburg Address” was first verbalized months after the battle of Gettysburg at a service to dedicate the opening of the national cemetery (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Lincoln’s Address was spoken to the citizens and soldiers of the union in the wake of the second invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts & Summary). “The Gettysburg…

matter of moving dead for a supermarket on 2800 block of Forbes Street. By: Roman Anisimov Romeoville-Developer Carl Eskrine is pushing for the relocation of the graves to Peaceful Rest Cemetery, which is a mile from the current location. Eskrine believes that rezoning and building a supermarket in place of the cemetery is in the best interest of the city and the neighborhood due to no supermarket being within a mile and a half range. Traffic pattern studies were shown to support his mission.…

Path Through the Cemetery” by Leonard Q. Ross, a man named Ivan has a daily routine where he, every night, stops at a saloon at the edge if a cemetery in the village. His home is on the other side of the cemetery and every time, even in broad daylight, he walks around the cemetery even though the path through the cemetery would make the walk home extremely shorter, but one winter night a man challenges him to walk through the cemetery and stick a sword in the middle of the cemetery to prove that…

narrator from “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” and Murphy from “Murphy’s X-mas.” Each of them ran away from their fears for a long time, and it wasn’t until the very end of their stories that they decided to face them. The narrator ran from her fear for two months and faced it for only one day. Murphy ran from his fear for much of his adult life, and only in the end does the audience understand that Murphy has a desire to face his fear. The female narrator from “In the Cemetery Where…