Coffin

I do not remember exactly the particular day but all I remember was that it was very humid and the sky was cloudy. It was just a few days before I joined first grade and I had just arrived home from my neighbors. I was utilizing my last few days of freedom and hence was tired and hungry. I had rushed home looking forward to my grandmother’s food and playing time. This had been my routine from kindergarten and it never bored me to say the least. I was however shocked as our house was full of…

In the ninth grade my best friend attempted suicide. The doctors have no idea how she survived. When she overdosed on hydrocodone and some of her father’s prescription medicines, it had caused severe intestinal bleeding. Nobody knows how she lived from that. I remember going to the hospital to see her when she was in her near death state of being. She looked as if somebody had took a knife, cut an incision in her, and just let her blood drain out from her limp body. I was afraid to hug her. I…

With the rise of the practice of inhumation a market for the new sarcophagus was created. As with any object being created in today’s business world, price dictates luxury. With each types of sarcophagus, the price was dictated by the medium, the distance and mode of transport for the medium, and the workmanship involved to finish the sarcophagus. First the marble or stone were quarried, roughly cut into a rectangular shape, hollowed out, to save on weight, and shipped by land or sea. After…

A prince stumbles upon the glass coffin and sees the “beautiful” Snow White (Brothers 89). As time passes in the coffin, Snow White matures physically and attracts the eye of the prince which is evident when he describes her as “beautiful.” The prince proclaims that Snow White “shall be [his] bride” and carries her out of the…

is a man incased in a coffin struggle to both hold his sanity and find his way out of the dark, dank, depths of some unknown location in Iraq. Harnessing a lighter, phone, flask, a pen and pencil, and various other ineffective tools for someone stuck underground, Conroy’s connection to the world above isn’t secure in the least. Call after call, he begins to realize the severe inconvenience of his situation; not only is he stuck in this coffin, but he is stuck in this coffin in the middle of…

The coffin of Ta-Mit, from Luxor in the 26th Dynasty, stands in a room dedicated to the artistic standards of Egyptians. Bestowed to the Toledo Museum of Art in 1906, the coffin of Ta-Mit is on view with many archetypal pieces analyzing the cultural values of Egyptians. The daughter of a priest was to rest in the exquisitely detailed coffin; she went by the name of Ta-Mit or She-Cat. The text and imagery contains formal information about her whereabouts, but neglect to express what type of…

construct by only one scene, in the coffin buried deep down under the sand in a desert within a human Paul Conroy with limited resource. Most of the shots using a dark tone to shape a tense atmosphere, in order to increase the disturbed mood and project to the audiences. The first few capture of the shots is all about showing the narrow space inside a coffin, the unfamiliar environment, the heat and the emotional of Paul as well as how limited action can do in a coffin. Beside, this film using…

Part A Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Premature Burial explores the narrator's fear of being buried alive. The theme is that you can overcome your fears as long as you don't focus on the dark and dreary things in life. Throughout the whole story, the narrator is consumed by his fears. He has catalepsy, which is a physical condition in which the person cannot move or speak. This condition can last from hours to months! The narrator does not want to be alone but he does not want to be around…

interpretations) of Egyptian, Roman, and Greek origins state that the Earth came before mankind, coinciding with what the majority of scientists believe to be true today. However, not all these accounts agree on what happened afterward. In the Egyptian Coffin Texts, the creation of humans almost always has to do with tears wept by the Lord of All. In one retelling, humans are created when the sky and Earth are separated, but other versions of the creation do not specify the time frame. Greek…

Levi Coffin and Direct Action: A Historical Analysis of the Important Contributions of North Carolinian Quakers in the Smuggling of Slaves in the Underground Railroad I.Introduction: This historical study will define the importance of the North Carolinian Quaker movement to apply “direct action” to the smuggling of salves in contrast to the more ideological and political abolitionist movements of the Pennsylvania Quaker movements. Initially, the Pennsylvania Assembly of the 18th century had…