Cypress Hills Cemetery

Disability may only be a matter of judgement. This concept appears in Homer and Langley, where Edgar Lawrence Doctorow depicts the possibilities in the life of a blind protagonist, Homer Collyer. Although Homer discerns darkness in a negative connotation, darkness can only be seen and sight is not the only sense for humans. Thus, blindness does not replace the senses or disconnect the Collyer brothers from the world. In a passage on page 159, Langley Collyer’s theory of replacement enables Homer to explore the advantages of his disability which include interacting with the world in a different perspective to maintain his valuable memories, developing positive views about his disability and adapting to other senses. Doctorow incorporates Langley’s theory of replacement to illustrate how the Collyer brothers view the valuable moments in their lives and how they want to maintain those memories. The hippies on page 159 symbolize the society as a whole that display the Collyer brother’s connection to the outside world. Homer uses a simile to describe the hippies exiting the house as flying past him “like birds from the cage”(159). The verb “fly” and its association with birds express the feeling of extreme freedom and energy. Since the house is a motif for Homer’s and Langley’s memories, the hippies exiting the house like being freed suggests that the Collyer brothers are willing to let go of the world around them. Everything the Collyer brothers are attach to goes through the…

hearing the pitter patter of his footsteps, she put her plan into action. Ponithea headed into the kitchen, and grabbed as much food as possible, and shoved it into her bag. She grabbed the pillow from her room and filled her canteen. She then ran out as quickly as possible. Once she was satisfied with her distance from the house, she stopped to catch her breath. Neighs sounded in the background, and Ponithea know she was done for. She turned, and a pitch black horse stared her down, with…

create a town belt, which had a positive effect on sustaining the green space around the city. The Settlers also took advantage of the hills beside the wetlands and reclaimed a lot of area in order to develop more flat land for the city. This had a negative impact on the environment because the landscape was dramatically…

you ready”? I respond with “Of course” We hop in the now warm car and begin our drive into the hills. We get to our destination and slowly hop out of the car trying not to make a sound, grab our rifles and begin to walk. Walking…

I’m almost there, I thought. I could see the cliff that I would soon be pulling myself over to find the secrets that “Mount. Bloodsuck” held. Only a handful of people had climbed this landmark before, but none of them have been found. We used to think that they died on the way up but there was recently found evidence that shows they made it to the top. I don’t know all the details about it but basically, they used a telescope to look at the top of the mountain and saw smoke signals. I never…

A group of people that inhabited much of Great Britain regions of what is now France, Belgium and the Netherlands, the Anglo-Saxons were a group of people from Germanic tribes that took control from the 5th century to about the 8th century. Their culture survives in many regions today and they are associated with the re-establishment of Christianity in Europe. Emerging from medieval Europe during the end of roman rule, the massive migration of the Celts, Picts, and Scots from the North allow…

It discusses the structural components of the burials found in the archeological records of the human remains being upright contained with grave goods in a chamber burial (O’Brien, 2008). They analyzed various burial grounds to compare the ritualistic aspects in Barleston Staffordshire, Oxton Nottinghamshire. Benty Grange Derbyshire, Lowbury Hill, Aston Upthorpe, and Oxfordshire (O’Brien, 2008). The article inspects the status of the remains based on the artifacts found such as the armory in the…

Career and College Research paper A Funeral director, known as a Mortician, is a highly respected job. The job, itself, is a fairly simple one. You pick up and prepare corpses as instructed by the family of the deceased, and set up the paperwork for the funeral. Most funeral homes are family owned as a common practice, where multiple family members work together, each in individual fields. Sadly, this kind of job does not come easy, the schooling and education requirements alone are enough to…

Jessie reason to leave Heart’s Content, much less Newfoundland, while she was still unmarried. For this reason, I believe she probably met John locally. They may have been married and residing in Hazel Hill, Nova Scotia by 1902. It is certain that they were married by 1906. Following their marriage, John…

It was a frigid Halloween evening, and we were standing in line for the Ruby Falls Haunted Caverns. There were people standing in front of us, behind us, and beside us because of the way the line was setup. Most people stayed in their own groups, huddled together for warmth. The line was right beside the road/parking lot where cars kept searching for spots to park in. To the right of us was a rocky face leading to a dark, concealed forest. Hunter and I sat on a rock about halfway there. Hunter…