Coffin

As I lay here in this dark coffin, I slowly start to realize how close I am to death. My breathing slowly becomes exceedingly shallow and rigid and I feel as if every breath I attain is my last. As my breathing slows down so does the beating of my heart. The faith and hope I once had in someone finding me seems to be disappearing. I now truly understand what hopelessness feels like. While I lay here Ican’t help but recall the events that led me here. It started one night while walking…

gods, Atum, Osiris, and Re (gods of creation and regeneration) in order to harness powers of the masculine gender so to be reborn into the next world; and in order to assure the rebirth, deceased females’ names are combined with the gods’ names in coffin inscriptions so to offer regenerative powers (Cooney 2010, 228). The prestige that the male gender receives in regards to the creation and maintenance of life conflicts with the contemporary gender norm that is given to females. In this day and…

Abolitionist view slavery in a whole different perspective than whites did. Sinning against the nation, whites were tearing these innocent humans down for their benefit and abolitionist would not stand for such acts. Frederick Douglass had strong view on slavery and disapproved of all the treatment given out to such innocent people. In Douglass’s speech, in 1894 he stated, “”To deny education to any people is one of the greatest crimes against human nature. It is to deny them the means of…

figurine that is designated to serve the deceased in the afterlife in Ancient Egypt from around 2000BC. They are servants that answer “Here I am” when called by the wealthy owner, who continued their afterlife in the netherworld. Placing shabtis in the coffin is a method to indicate the power and wealthiness the departed owned. Through the appearance of the turquoise faience shabti, social status of the shabtis can be revealed. Most of shabtis were produced in either late period or Ptolemaic…

Mourning rings were also a part of Elizabethan funeral tradition, made to memorialize death, they often featured skulls, coffins, or crosses (“Shakespearean Era Funeral Customs.” ). The testament (or will) was a legal document witnessed by a notary that gave binding instructions about the testator's wishes. The will was both an instrument of personal expression and a way to…

fascinated with the seemingly dead body of Snow White in the glass coffin. This action portrays the prince to have some sort of pathological fascination with the dead body. In the Grimm Brother’s version, the necrophilia is more symbolized as opposed to more literal in Gaiman’s version. In “Little Snow-White” by the Grimm Brothers, the prince sees Snow White lying in a glass coffin, presumed dead and asks the dwarfs for the coffin stating he, “cannot live without being able to see Snow-White”…

New World on Enlightenment Thinkers”, Joshua Cole, Carol Symes, Judith Coffin and Robert Stacey, Western Civilizations Volume 2 (N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 2012), 411. Michel R. Matthews, “Aphorisms from Bacon’s Novum Organum”, Joshua Cole, Carol Symes, Judith Coffin and Robert Stacey, Western Civilizations Volume 2 (N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 2012), 394-395 Rene Descartes, “A Discourse on the Method”, Joshua Cole, Carol Symes, Judith Coffin and Robert Stacey, Western Civilizations Volume 2 (N.Y.: W.W.…

that night to town, and in a sense it was the value of the horse that Darl tried to burn up.” At this point in the story Jewel had saved Addie’s coffin from the river and traded his most prized possession. By burning the barn, Darl would have diminished what Jewel did and stop him from continuing to do it. Darl even distracts Jewel from saving the coffin when they first enter the burning barn by reminding Jewel of all the animals. Darl’s rivalry for Addie’s affection is more intense than with…

Queen asks the mirror again who is the fairest and again it answered with Snow White and so she plots to kill Snow White. She prepared an apple covered in poison to kill her with. So when Snow bites the apple she dies and the dwarfs put her in a glass coffin in the forest where a prince discovers her and then kisses her. Snow then suddenly wakes up and she goes to live with the prince and they lived happily ever after. This version is very different from the original and has a very different…

Exhausted and tired of making funeral arrangements for her son. There are beautiful flowers and a fancy coffin in front of the stage. The church is decorated with plants and flowers to honor the son that passed away. Two gentlemen stood in front of the coffin and started shutting down the coffin slowly. The mother started crying loud, and other family members cried too. The closing of the coffin felt like the son was saying good-bye. It is a sad day; the atmosphere was surreal. People were…