Day of the Dead

On the day of January 13, 1999 something strange happened. A girl by the name of Hae Min Lee was murdered. Her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was convicted of the murder. Adnan went on trial, but it ended quick as the judge already declared him guilty of the murder. Adnan says that he is innocent and and a lot of people from Woodlawn High School say that he was a good student and a star athlete. Adnan has been in jail ever since, but in the podcast Serial Sarah koenig a detective has been gathering all…

souls of lost family members and friends. Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead was originated in Southern Mexico. The celebration itself dates all the way back to the ancient Aztecs. These natives were unaware of the traditions they were beginning. The Aztecs held a festival for the goddess of the underworld, Mictecacihuatl. It has also been discovered that the Mexican Culture uses the festival to honor the Lady of the Dead, La Catrina (Dennino). She is now represented by a skeleton…

beginning, middle, and the end of the novel, Night. In the beginning of the novel, Elie was very faithful to God. He studied the Kabbalah and visited the Synagogue almost every day. He even prayed so deeply, he cried while doing it. He thought nothing could go wrong with God by his side. In chapter one, Elie states, “By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the Synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple.” (Wiesel 3). This quote explains how deep Elie is with his religion,…

was dead from the way the dried blood plastered on its mottled gray fur. The long tail and feet glistened a pale pink hue in the twilight. The whiskers were stained in a deep red, almost black color. “ALANA! After I’m dealing with this mysterious rat, I’ll deal with you!” What did I do to deserve this? Well, I did my fair share of transforming her into grouchy Squidward, a character in Spongebob Squarepants, but I didn’t exactly deserve a dead rodent on my pillow! Looking back at that day, I…

trauma. In the beginning of the movie Paul Baumer, the main protagonist, explains how the young men were classmates with bright futures ahead of them just months before, now most of them will come out if not dead then severely traumatized. In the first war scene we see the men casually walking over dead bodies and finding fighting would be more important than saving their friends. As Paul's good friend Kemrich faces death, his fellow platoon focus on the boots he can provide now that he is no…

For instance, Catholics have the funeral vigil which usually takes place the day before the funeral where the family gathers around the body and prays in reflection of the dead life. Muslims also do this practice as they all gather around the sick before they pass and pray that they will be placed in the right hand of Allah. As catholic pray during funeral mass, Muslims also…

Although fate played a role in the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet, if they had not made such deplorable decisions, such as marrying on their second day of meeting, or Romeo committing suicide right after discovering Juliet’s “dead” body, their end could have been much less catastrophic. Romeo and Juliet uniting in marriage on their second day of knowing each other was a very rushed and unnecessary thing to do. An opposing viewpoint that many scholars believe is that Romeo and Juliet got…

never grows up. With Peter Pan’s story there’s scads that goes into it, some of these points are where he originated from, why he never seems to grow up, and why Captain Hook wants to see him dead. I know it may seem captivating that Peter doesn’t age, but that’s not all of his “talents”. At just seven days old Peter Pan fell out of his crib and just flew to a mystical place called Neverland. Yes folks he can fly, not only that, but he is also the leader of the Lost Boys and they look at life as…

The definition of “brain death” according to the US national library of medicine is. Someone who has irreversible loss of function of the brain(link 11).This brings in something called the dead donor rule. The dead donor rule states that patients be declared dead before the removal of organs (link 12).Once a person dies there organs can be donated. Before the person dies he/she gives consent to donate there organs. When Brain death occurs that person can stay on life support…

first day was going great. My friends and I were on our way home from school. My friends name our Riley and Jaylin. On our way home to work on a project we saw this strange thing coming toward us. We thought it was another kid trying to pull a prank on us. We were dead, I mean Dead wrong. Like the thing was limping and saying weird things. We tried to ignore it, but it keep following us. Riley (trying to be brave) started to head toward the weird thing. He came back screaming, “ It’s Dead, IT IS…