Day of the Dead

Clean Up day It was the third Thursday of September in 2014. My community called Elmo has a community crime watch meeting every third Thursday of the month. The main problem was our community was getting dirty so we decided to have a clean up day 1 month later. My little brother wasn’t looking forward to it but I was ready to clean up my town! So that one month rolled around and it was a record breaking 120 degrees! Or that is how it felt. But I didn’t care. I Had the job of picking up dead…

The Crimson sun rises to the sky as the loud construction begins to roar through the streets, as it is an alarm clock just for me. However to be a late sleepers drilling is what you should fear, drill drill is what you will only hear for hours to day to months the noise will never escape your mind when you try fall asleep for this is the city that never sleeps. With a view that defines beauty, different buildings are something I see. Some made out of brick others with pointy tips. Brown, red…

The girl is obsessed with her mother throughout the whole book. The girl’s obsession with her mother is almost unhealthy. “Immediately on wishing my mother dead and seeing the pain it caused her, I was sorry and cried so many tears that all earth around me was drenched,” (Kincaid 53). The girl doesn’t want to cause her mother any pain, just wishing pain on her mother makes the girl very upset. What the girl…

of immortality is to live forever, to have eternal life. Kevin Brockmeier, the author of The Brief History of the Dead, uses the city and the many people within the city to express the theme of both mortality and immortality. The city is the afterlife of the dead and the theme uses memory to keep the people alive in the after world. The lives of the dead is irony within itself. The dead live in a city where people from the living world come after death. Immortality is present throughout the…

passed away it is natural to feel shock and sadness. What makes matters even worse is when we hear that they died alone and were only discovered a few days later… A woman, who had been separated from her husband, received a phone call from the police informing her that he had passed away. They had found him in his flat and concluded that he had died two days earlier. Minutes after receiving this terrible news her phone started to ring but when she went to answer it she saw it was coming from her…

religious practices every day throughout the course of their lives. It was common for them to perform rituals for these gods including burial rituals and ceremonies involving animals. Egyptian religion stood as a unique belief system that shaped the way Egyptians lived their day to day lives and impacted the rituals they performed. The belief in or the worship of more than one god is known as Polytheism. Polytheism played out to be the…

He was in love with a girl who left him due to his obesity. That heartbreak has turned him into an alcoholic and whenever the ship reaches a new destination to halt there for a few days, Rahul does not do anything accept drinking during that period (he never drinks while on duty, i.e., on the high seas with the ship). He tries to drown his heartache into the alcohol being consumed by him and comes to his senses only when the time…

different pieces of literature and was able to connect them in a variety of ways. Using Thomas C. Foster’s ideas of “pattern recognition” and a literary lens mentioned in the “Literary Perspective Tool Kit” packet, I was able to connect The Matrix and Dead Poets Society. I also found connections between The Catcher in the Rye, “The Flowers”, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” through the theme of coming of age. All good works of literature can be boiled down and placed into several…

crash follows. Jiro and Taro, who were friends, took the same flight one day. Unfortunately, their plane had a problem and needed to make an emergency landing, but the landing was not successful. Although most of the passengers died, Jiro and Taro survived. They found themselves on a snowy mountain with no way of communicating with anyone. Jiro was seriously wounded, and Taro tried to save him, but Jiro died during the day. After burying Jiro in the snow, an exhausted Taro returned to the cave…

In 1804 when the French colonialism came to an end the zombie became part of Hati’s folklore. It was in the voodoo religion and Hattians were believing that dead bodies were brought back to life by shamans and voodoo priest(wade). In the Hattian culture it was believed that there were 2 types of death which was sickness and Gods will, unnaturally death was usually murder and before their time. The people who…