Eulogy

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…

About the daily life choice, second chance and values The premiere of the performance "The soul must be sighted" based on the Leon Agulansky play "Grandmother's dream" took place on the stage of the Smolensk Drama Theater named after A.S. Griboyedov. The history of what is more important in everyone's life: money or love? family or complacency? rapport or benefit? Genesis A great friend of the Smolensk Drama, Israeli playwright Leon Agulansky (known for a solo performance "Conductor" and…

COMPARE AND CONTRAST HAMLET In many different ways, typically the story is much different than the movies that are based off of the stories. That being said, Hamlet is no exception to this theory. The movie starring Mel Gibson follows the story line pretty well for the most part. However there are some major changes to make the movie attract to more of a variety of audiences. It shows many things in which the play does not. Hamlet is a story of a son of the son of a king that is trying to…

The speech, “Funeral Oration”, was a eulogy written in the winter of 431-430 B.C.E. by Pericles who was the Athenian leader. Pericles delivered this speech to the survivors of the fallen who lost their lives fighting in the Peloponnesian War. Between 431 BC and 404 BC, the Peloponnesian War was fought between the Peloponnesian League, led by the Spartans, and Delian League, led by the Athenians. Sparta feared that Athens was becoming too powerful, leaving them no choice but to invade, defeating…

typical for Bento to compare his situation to others who suffered betrayal and/or a form of humiliation. Furthermore, out of this affair, as Bento proposed, came a child by the name of Ezequiel. Later, Escobar passes away, and Bento is asked to write a eulogy. In that situation, Bento felt uneasy because he was commemorating and honoring his enemy. Bento’s accusation…

The National September 11 Memorial, or “Reflecting Absence," is a eulogy built in loving memory of the thousands of American lives that were lost on September 11th, 2001 due to a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. The construction of the memorial began on March 2006, and the doors to the memorial opened on September 11th, 2011, in celebration of the 10th…

influences (in the case of African cultures) are preserved, kept alive through the media databanking, and then transmitted across continents. This is the power of the media in regenerating and communicating the substance and plausibility of a culture. Eulogy of Cultural Values: The media promote and transmit cultural values toward social integration. They play major role in implementing cultural policies and in helping to democratize culture. In modern times, the media is a channel to…

Most who witnessed the sitting president of these United States, sing the spiritual hymn Amazing Grace at Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, SC, during his eulogy of falling spiritual warrior Rev. Clemmenta Picknecly would probably agree that it was overwhelming. It appeared to stir a feeling of connectively to all who sang along. Including, it is surmised, those around the world that identified with the words, reason and necessity for such a song at that moment in time. How ironic to…

the freedom of slaves, but he also believed that a multiracial nation would be worse off as he describes his ideas on colonization “that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.” (Eulogy of Henry Clay) In order to be referred as The Great Emancipator you must be a figurehead or example for others and his support of colonization directly opposed this. He also has been quoted as saying "I as much as any other man am in favor of…

Rose by Li Young Lee and Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith are two collections of poetry that include poems centered on losing a loved one, with long eulogies written out of respect to those who have passed on. They are also written as a way to keep them in the authors' hearts and minds. People say that they will always have the memories of those they cherish, and no matter how many years pass and as they grow older, memories of loved ones will stick around to keep those loved ones around. However,…