Headstone

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in 1830 and died in 1886. There was one major experience that influenced her writing; according to ReadPrints.com, “Emily’s relationship with her mother was very distant,...later Dickinson wrote a letter that she never had a mother.” Therefore Emily Dickinson is a depressive but passionate author in her poems, she focuses on uncomfortable themes like death and immortality, and affected society with her way of writing. In particular, Emily wrote “Because I could…

man’s effects, and a couple feeling relieved for the death of their moneylender. Anxious and wanting to know the reason behind that scene, Scrooge asks the spirit the name of the man who had just died. The spirit’s only response was to point at the headstone who showed Scrooge’s name. Desperate, Scrooge begs the spirit to change his terrible fate with the promise of changing his greedy and bitter self, and to honor Christmas with all his heart. After this, he suddenly finds himself safely lying…

Beloved, one of the numerous prestigious books written by Toni Morrison, is popularly known for its implicit depiction of the African American experiences during slavery. One of the numerous and predominant agonizing experiences was the sexual abuse of the slaves. Most of the whites (slave masters) used their superiority and power to overwhelm the opinion and wish of the slaves especially sexually. These actions exhibited by the whites had a lot of consequences on the slaves. The slaves were…

Empress of The Blues The 1920s were an exciting time to be alive, the economy was flourishing, everyone was throwing extravagant parties and the music industry was booming. There weren't many black singers of the time period but those who were, made their presence known. One of the best blues singers of the 1920s or maybe even of all time, Bessie Smith. She has set the stage for not only African-American singers but female black singers who came after her. Although Bessie Smith may have…

“So may every humiliated mouth, teeth like desecrated headstones, fill with the angels of bread.” (62-64). “Angels of Bread” is a quotation from the Bible, Psalms 78:25, “man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.” Condensed, angels of bread is a miracle. The speaker is urging us to imagine…

I read a study last week that described middle children as the most forgotten. It didn’t use those words exactly, but with phrases like “least talkative”, “least bold” and “lack of attention” it’s easy to get the gist. As the second oldest in a family of four kids, I originally agreed with this sentiment. I’ve had more than my fair share of being forgotten by my parents at shops. Twice the amount of all my siblings combined. But, in Charles Bukowski’s poem “Betting on the Muse”, he describes…

Career and College Research paper A Funeral director, known as a Mortician, is a highly respected job. The job, itself, is a fairly simple one. You pick up and prepare corpses as instructed by the family of the deceased, and set up the paperwork for the funeral. Most funeral homes are family owned as a common practice, where multiple family members work together, each in individual fields. Sadly, this kind of job does not come easy, the schooling and education requirements alone are enough to…

JESSIE EMMA COOK was born in Heart’s Content at the end of 1880 or the beginning of 1881 and was baptised at St Mary’s Church on the 14th of January 1881. At some point during the early 1900s, Jessie married a man by the name of John Carmichael Dunning. Born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire in Scotland in 1882 to parents William and Janet (née Carmichael) Dunning, John was a telegraphist like Jessie’s father. Few reasons would have given Jessie reason to leave Heart’s Content, much less…

you to your bed until you get better). Then, Mozart got better for a day, then died two days later (Britannica). Even though he held a major role in the Classical era, and even later on in history, he was buried in a common unmarked grave with no headstone, also they did not really give him a proper funeral. According to the BBC for famous people, they state Mozart left us 41 symphonies, funny operas, serious opera, formal church music, and other amazing pieces.…

New York Burning book by Jill Lepore winner of the Bancroft prize, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2005. Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard University. In this book she reconstructed the events that took place on the spring and summer of 1741 which have been called the New York Slave rebellion of 1741, New York conspiracy 1741 or The Negro Plot of 1741. Jill Lepore research, and reorganized into words the cultural, political context, population eighteen century Manhattan.…