Glasnevin Cemetery

C. Round 3 Captions B. Arlington National Cemetery, located in Arlington Virginia, has over 400,000 graves located at its site. If you are a soldier that dies on active duty, are a retired member of the armed forces, or a certain veteran or family member, you are eligible to be buried at Arlington national Cemetery. The site of the cemetery was where Robert E. Lee’s home was located until he was removed from it so that the land could become a cemetery. John F. Kennedy, William Howard Taft, Alan…

In the poem, “To Autumn”, Keats signifies the notion of life and death. He uses sequences of autumn to symbolize the undeniable truth of death. In the poem, each stanza contains its own individual moment of autumn. The first stanza emphasizes the season’s beginning stage; the stanza contains various figurative languages and rhetorical devices in which formulate how fruits are abundant and how crops are being grown. The abundant and plentitude supply suggest that autumn is a season of development…

Dante Rossetti’s, Jenny: A Cautionary Tale of Sexual Knowledge and its Destruction of Women “The whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them” - John-Jacques Rousseau England in the 19th century was wrought with the battle for women’s rights, specifically the education of women. In his poem, Jenny, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s narrator makes various references to books – those on his shelf, and how…

years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave “The Gettysburg Address” on a blood soaked battlefield in Pennsylvania (Brown). “The Gettysburg Address” was first verbalized months after the battle of Gettysburg at a service to dedicate the opening of the national cemetery (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Lincoln’s Address was spoken to the citizens and soldiers of the union in the wake of the second invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts & Summary). “The Gettysburg…

The Arlington National Cemetery- There are many people in the world that lost their lives during all different kinds of wars to keep the United States safe. Most of the people are buried at the famous Arlington National Cemetery. This cemetery is very peaceful and quiet and it is considered home to many people who visit. The heroes who are buried in the cemetery fought for the United States and made it a free country. Arlington National Cemetery is located in Arlington, Virginia, containing…

Jersey State Hospital she herself had established. After six years, July 17, 1887, at 85 years old, Dorothea Dix passed away of what her doctor called claimed was "ossification of the arterial membrane". She was later covered in the Mount Auburn Cemetery close to Boston with the least difficult of memorial…

The tomb of the unknowns is a very important monument to The Arlington Cemetery. The Tomb sarcophagus was completed and opened to the public on April 9, 1932. It consists of seven rectangular marble pieces with a combined weight of 79 tons. It was furnished by the Vermont Marble Company of Danby, VT and was quarried in Yule, Colorado (from where the same Yule Marble was quarried for the Lincoln Memorial). The inscription on Sarcophagus says “ HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER…

The reason I want to lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is to honor my grandpa who served in the Navy during the Korean and Vietnam War. This would be a great way to honor and thank him for his service. A reason why I would want to be able to lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is because of my grandpa. It would be great to be able to lay the wreath because it would be a great way to thank him for serving the country when it was a choice to fight and not mandatory.…

Disability may only be a matter of judgement. This concept appears in Homer and Langley, where Edgar Lawrence Doctorow depicts the possibilities in the life of a blind protagonist, Homer Collyer. Although Homer discerns darkness in a negative connotation, darkness can only be seen and sight is not the only sense for humans. Thus, blindness does not replace the senses or disconnect the Collyer brothers from the world. In a passage on page 159, Langley Collyer’s theory of replacement enables Homer…

Phineas Taylor Barnum, or better known as "P. T." Barnum, described as a “jack of all trades” is an understatement. As a self-made businessman (or scammer), showman (or humbug), newspaper editor (or libeler), he lived a life of exhausted passion and success. He tells his own story in his autobiography, The Life of P.T. Barnum of living in 19th century America. P.T. Barnum’s optimistic and exuberant charisma certainly helped him make a profit, yet that alone did not gain him the title of a…