Levi Coffin

artifact each are buried with. First of all, Burial 10 contains a wide coffin. Inside the coffin is a skeleton with its head pointing…

The African Burial Ground also known as the “Negroes Burial Ground,” is home to more than 400 plus remains of freed and enslaved African-Americans. In 1991, a building projected unearthed the remains of these Africans beneath a parking lot just two blocks north of New York’s City Hall, bringing the colonials city’s lost African Burial Ground to the attention of the World [1]. Once the site was discovered and announced to the public, African leaders made their presence known by bring the…

Excavating precious gems of blue, red and translucent show extraordinary results of evidence. Furthermore, the blue gem represents female sex, red gem is the male and translucent is children. Status determination depends on the number of weapons, coffin, headstone and artifacts the person has been buried with. The relics are used to help you transitions to the next step to the afterlife because the more wealth;…

I do not remember exactly the particular day but all I remember was that it was very humid and the sky was cloudy. It was just a few days before I joined first grade and I had just arrived home from my neighbors. I was utilizing my last few days of freedom and hence was tired and hungry. I had rushed home looking forward to my grandmother’s food and playing time. This had been my routine from kindergarten and it never bored me to say the least. I was however shocked as our house was full of…

In the ninth grade my best friend attempted suicide. The doctors have no idea how she survived. When she overdosed on hydrocodone and some of her father’s prescription medicines, it had caused severe intestinal bleeding. Nobody knows how she lived from that. I remember going to the hospital to see her when she was in her near death state of being. She looked as if somebody had took a knife, cut an incision in her, and just let her blood drain out from her limp body. I was afraid to hug her. I…

With the rise of the practice of inhumation a market for the new sarcophagus was created. As with any object being created in today’s business world, price dictates luxury. With each types of sarcophagus, the price was dictated by the medium, the distance and mode of transport for the medium, and the workmanship involved to finish the sarcophagus. First the marble or stone were quarried, roughly cut into a rectangular shape, hollowed out, to save on weight, and shipped by land or sea. After…

A prince stumbles upon the glass coffin and sees the “beautiful” Snow White (Brothers 89). As time passes in the coffin, Snow White matures physically and attracts the eye of the prince which is evident when he describes her as “beautiful.” The prince proclaims that Snow White “shall be [his] bride” and carries her out of the…

Part A Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Premature Burial explores the narrator's fear of being buried alive. The theme is that you can overcome your fears as long as you don't focus on the dark and dreary things in life. Throughout the whole story, the narrator is consumed by his fears. He has catalepsy, which is a physical condition in which the person cannot move or speak. This condition can last from hours to months! The narrator does not want to be alone but he does not want to be around…

Primo Levi “The aims of life are the best defense against death.” (Levi) That is one of Primo Levi's quotes from his book, Survival in Auschwitz. Primo Levi is known for writing books about the Holocaust. He was also a chemist. As an Italian-Jew he was put in a concentration camp. After the camp was liberated by the Russians, a year later, he was finally free from the Nazis. Primo Levi was born on July 31, 1919. He was raised in a small Jewish community in Turin, Italy with his parents and…

The most apparent difference between Tadeusz Borowski and Primo Levi is that Borowski was a political prisoner in Auschwitz, while Levi was a Jew. This meant that they had markedly different experiences in the camp, since non-Jews were afforded special privileges and were not subject to the constant fear of being sent to the gas chambers. Another intriguing difference between the two books is the narrative style. When recounting his…