Eulogy

Brutus’ short speech has a limiting effect on the crowd versus when Mark Antony voices his long oration, using props such as Caesar’s body and will, it ultimately stirs the crowd into a mutinous rage. Antony having the last word is a helpful advantage also. Antony using Caesar’s corpse as a prop is described by scholar Agnes Teller, “But Antony prepared the great spectacle: the presentation of the corpse. The body is first presented in his mantle to show the places of the stab wounds… The…

The 15th of March 44 BCE, also known as the Ides of March marks an important moment and turning point in history as the day of Julius Caesar’s assassination and the fall of the Roman Republic. At Caesar’s assassination, the 500-year-old republic was severely destabilised in a series of civil wars, executions and political conflict. Caesar was reportedly stabbed 23 times by approximately 60 members of the Republic Senate, who had feared his growing power and recent title of dictator. By the act…

minister, my mom, my uncle, my grandma, great-uncle, and great grandpa all took their turns to spill out their emotions and share memorable experiences with the wonderful man. I for one had nothing to talk about. None of the kids did, to be honest. The eulogies finished and we all gladly left the funeral home. We got in the cars and slowly drove to the cemetery where all of my great-grandparents had been buried. I was very fortunate to be able to meet all of them. Slowly again we got out and…

Hazel 16 years old and has had cancer since she was 12, and more particularly lung cancer. She spent a few days at home with her mom and read as much as her heart for her, until her mother persuaded hazel to a cancer support group. There, she met a 17-year-old boy named Augustus Waters who has leg amputated. Augustus have expressed interest in carrying oxygen tanks, lung cancer has, and embarrassment Hazel Grace Lancaster community. For Hazel and Augustus began to approach, pushing Hazel…

Last week, the Module Two discussion prompt asked students to post their own topic and working thesis for a narrative essay after working through the learning resource guidelines on choosing an appropriate topic and working thesis statement. I posted my chosen topic and working thesis on the Blackboard classroom discussion board together with a short paragraph that set the scene for the event that I hoped to describe in my narrative essay. The feedback I received from my instructor and fellow…

Anytime a person runs for political office, they are essentially risking their life. There will always be a certain person who does not agree with a set of opinions a politician has and that can have dire consequences not only for the politician but for everyone around them as well. In history, there have been countless assassinations for this reason alone. Senseless acts of violence against innocent people affect our society negatively like in prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Roman politician…

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” In Cesar Chavez’s speech, he had the daunting task of simultaneously writing a eulogy in remembrance and love of Dr. King’s immensely influential life, and the job of delivering their shared message of promoting nonviolent action to oppose discrimination. Both Dr. King and Chavez had spent their lives fighting racial inequality, and both brought about major changes for Americans (and the world) due to…

this poem is almost like that of a heart because of the constant “I” in the beginning of the almost like thump, thump, and thump. It connects to the speaker of if the rivers are in the speaker body. In the poem “Song for a Dark Girl,” sounds like a eulogy for the speakers lost lover her husband that got lynched and she tries to pray at a “white” savior, but what is the use if he is white. In the end love is naked and blind. The poem “Harlem,” sound like it all over the place it sounds like a…

My favorite constellation is Pegasus. In the second century, it was listed as a constellation along with forty-seven others by the astronomy Ptolemy. I choose Pegasus because of the mythological legends behind such a magnificent organization of stars. Also, Pegasus particularly interests me because of the near perfect arrangement of four stars in a square: Markab, Scheat, Algenib, and Alpheratz/Sirrah (to use their Arabic names) are the four corners of the square asterism. In Greek mythology,…

I was ten when my grandmother died. On her deathbed, my grandmother looked like an angel shrouded by darkness. Her last words was something only for my ear. “Black cannot exist without white my boy, and good cannot exist without evil. There is always one to counteract the other. When an angel appears to someone, a demon appears to another. Your grandfather’s death my boy happened in order to allow you to live. The day before your sixth birthday, you were in a car crash which damaged your brain…