Mourning

When we first hear that Grendel has a mother that seeks to get revenge for her son, I immediately thought about my own life. We all face problems that, at the time seem to be big and complex. However, as some continues, we all face bigger and harder problems. I thought of the time in which I had broken my leg. Before that point, I had only trivial problems, that in retrospect were pretty easy to overcome. However, I was faced with the inability to walk for months, reliance on others for…

The word “Alleluia” is a Latin translation of “Hallelujah” (Hebrew for Praise the Lord). It sounds odd for us to omit a word when we gather for worship giving thanks and praises to God. Alleluia is traditionally used as the chief term used for the gathering of angels, archangels, saints, and etc. to praise God. We use Alleluias as a way of joining in this gathering but, why do we give it up for Lent which is the only time it is typically not used within the Church Year. The practice of…

die young. The oxymoronic title signifies that the war was so barbaric, death was an inevitable outcome of it. Another example of Owen’s bitter and slightly aggravated tone is when he poses the rhetorical question - where are the ‘passing-bells’ mourning for those who ‘die as cattle’ in the battlefield? Owen continues to say that only the firing of the guns and rifles ‘can patter out…

Penelope and Telemachus are absent to Odysseus because they are back in Ithaca and Odysseus is deserted to travel back alone. Odysseus longs for the family reunion, mourning and grieving over the fact that family is not whole. Ever since the beginning of The Odyssey, Homer constantly pushes the plot by providing motivation for Odysseus: Penelope and Telemachus. Despite the years spent with beautiful nymph Calypso, Odysseus never fails to grieve over the absence of his beloved wife Penelope.…

"The Ministers Black Veil" is short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne about Mr.Hooper who lives in small town called Milford. He is a thirty year old minister wearing a black veil. He is the main character in the story. Here, in the story, people are mourning about a death of a young woman in the church. All of a sudden, Mr Hooper comes to the scene with a black veil. His dressing sense garners the attraction of everyone in the room. He is looking darker than his normal self and there is change in…

Born February 18, 2002. Son of Filmore and Dawn, brother of Miriam, Husband to Matilda, Father of 3 children, 10 grandchildren, and 7 great grandchildren. Josiah Pacheco was a friend to everybody he met. We are here today to remember the legacy he leaves on this earth. It was a simple life: never complex and always with good intentions. I would like to reflect on the person Josiah Was. I could stand here for the better part of the day and think about all the stories he told, and for those who…

was always interested in show business and became an actress at the National Theatre in Weimar. She married actor Karl Köstlin in late 1916, but they later divorced. Through Hitler, Emmy met Hermann Goering in 1931. He was a widower who was still mourning his first wife who had died a year earlier. Emmy was his mistress for four years until they married in April 10, 1935. Their daughter Edda was born in 1938. As wife of Hitler’s second in command and one of the richest and most powerful men in…

The artwork I have chosen is the non-representational work of art titled, Dark Continent III. The media used is acrylic on paper and it is 42x 30 in. It is a work of art created by the artist, Robert Colescott in 1989. Colescott was an African American artist born on August 26, 1925 in Oakland, California. He died on June 4, 2009. The exhibition was a very large and spacious room with dim lighting. And a light shining down on the works of art, almost like a spotlight. The exhibition is very…

The Impact of the JFK Assassination On the morning of November 22, 1963, Janice Tainter was sitting in her sixth grade class along with other fellow students. When asked what were some vivid details about where she was she said “I remember what direction and even the color of the black board inside the class”. She later explained the color of the blackboard was green. She also explained how she and her classmates received the information. She clearly states “The P.A. system (intercom)…

“I was a hair’s breadth of the last opportunity of pronouncement”(Conrad 106). During this time in history many European countries were in a race to colonize, what they would call savage parts of the world. Many men traveled from all over Europe to the deep parts of Africa in an attempt to obtain rare supplies and to civilize the savages. In Heart of Darkness one sees how European companies sent white men to Africa to collect ivory. One truly witnesses how hollow the European’s civilization was…