Eulogy

Keegan Cody English 1 Rough Draft “All The World’s a Stage” “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts” (As You like It, Act II, Scene VII). William Shakespeare, himself, knew these many parts. In his life he played an actor, a husband, a writer and some say he even played a thief and a fraud. “For today 's public, of course, Shakespeare is to literary genius what Mozart is to music and…

William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a very popular play that is studied in schools all over the world. Due to the play having historical background, there is often confusion of the how true to actual Roman life were to the events that offered in the play. The social events in the tragedy of Julius Caesar were very important to the flow of the plot. These events also revealed small details about characters like how Calpurnia, who is Julius Caesar’s wife, is actually infertile.…

Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, grant mercy and healing upon us, who grieve. Amen.” DAY 21 "Eye: 'I'" Read: Ecclesiastes 12 On a "Community Walk" we stopped to enter a local historical tourist promotion company, and inside is embedded on the wall, the world’s shortest poem written by Muhammad Ali, the famous United States of America’s former heavyweight champion of boxing. Ali authored: "Me: We." How profound? I was reminded of our visit, when I asked my assistant to interpret my…

Hazel who is a sixteen year old teenager, has thyroid cancer and doesn’t really have many friends at all. Her mother makes her go to a support group with many other teenagers with illnesses. These support groups are ran by a man of the name Patrick, who is a survivor of cancer himself. Here, at these support groups Hazels begins to become friends with this boy named Augustus. Augustus is a amputee, which means he has lost one of his legs, one night after support group Augustus asked if she…

Is pessimism simply brutal honesty? Readers of the novel The Cloud Corporation, by Timothy Donnelly, are given a string of poems that seem to insinuate a bleak future for society. The author repeatedly points out the ignorance and backwardness of the human race. What is reality and how has the human race come to shape this reality? Donnelly conveys the impression that humans are their own worst enemy; they are the problem and the solution. The world is turning over a new leaf. This new side of…

There is a saying that if you do one good thing and one bad, people will always remember you for the bad. A possible cause for this being that humans would rather see the bad in others versus the bad in themselves. This is especially true for many world leaders who often have the possibility of “messing things up” on a much bigger scale. A good example of this is Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors of Rome. Nero’s legend was truly a product of his mother. Telling Nero’s story would be…

others who believed that it is best to stay within the continent and keep a policy of isolation. While this is occurring, George Washington passed away in December 1799. His death caused a nationwide state of mourning. Mock funerals were held and eulogies and other pieces were written in his honor. This state of mourning lasted for months and the country was on a temporary pause. While in this state, Thomas Jefferson was elected the third president of the United States. During his Inaugural…

In the eulogy for the honorable reverend Clementa Pinckney, President Obama shows us the good use of the rhetorical analysis. In this analysis of the speech I will be discussing the use of ethos, pathos, logos. Obama starts the speech showing us that there is an emotional connection between him and his audience, this creates pathos. Obama adds “scripture tells us,” this part makes him credible for the audience because he is talking to people in a church and he brought a citation from the bible.…

Have you ever began to read a book and wondered how it relates to the author’s life? Well I am sure many readers wonder the same thing as they are reading the novel, Pet Sematary by Stephen King. Most of the time when an author puts a large portion of time into a novel, it is because it has a very deep meaning to them. Many times this deep meaning relates to something traumatic that the author experiences, which makes it’s way into their book in some form. Stephen King’s personal experiences…

* Not wanting to bring attention to herself, Sarah sat at the back of the chapel. She listened to the eulogies, the Ashleigh they spoke about was bright and spirited. A little wild and prone to taking risks, but no one said that directly. Over all, you’d think, if you listened to the stories they told that she was a good kid – kind, considerate but then, in Sarah’s experience – and she had been to her share of funerals now – people didn’t speak ill of the dead, especially when the dead were…