Mourning

Australia should not celebrate its nationhood on this particular day, and should be moved to another date. Australia Day should be moved due to the increasingly large amount of the population celebrating on a day, which should instead be used for mourning. Although many of our indigenous custodians were slaughtered from the 26th of January onward, copious amounts celebrate only to journey to the beach and consume alcohol with friends. The population has forgotten the meaning of Australia Day,…

By the end of the 1940s, Lena had sued a variety of restaurants and theaters for discrimination and became an outspoken member of the leftist group “Progressive Citizens of America.” Racist, McCarthyism was sweeping through Hollywood , and Lena soon found herself blacklisted from film, TV, theater and recording. Lena then performed primarily in “posh and plush nightclubs” around the country. Lena Horne remained active in spite of her being blacklisted,…

What could have been the purpose of a Ronald W. Reagan’s speech after a catastrophic incident? On January 28, 1986, a space shuttle launched from NASA suffered a casualty when the shuttle named The Challenger was on the air, as it broke apart. This launching was showcased on national television, causing the crew’s children witness their parents’ death, and most children in the U.S. being traumatized by it. As a way of unifying the nation after a tragedy of that essence, President Ronald W.…

“Lament”, by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a poem of a mother talking to her children about their father’s recent death. The mother said she will make clothing from the father’s old coats. She will give Anne his old keys to make pretty noises with. Dan will get the pennies covered in tobacco to go into his bank. She wants the children to remember their father, but wants to move on from his death. She tells the children three times throughout the poem, “life must go on”. Death is part of life, but…

My eyes adjusted to the new and darker scene. It was the great hall in where the day before, I was made emperor at the age of 17. My hands were being held by the same barbarian who knocked me out. He led me to where my coronation took place and there seated on my throne was an enormous man in weight and who had the same beard as the man holding me. The only thing that was different was that this man had a patch over his eye and a scar on his left check. The scar ran from his forehead to his…

Quotation 7: “We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not./ Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,/ Where that same banished runagate doth live,/ Shall give him such an unaccustomed dram/ That he shall soon keep Tybalt company./ And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.” (Rom. 3. 5. 92-97) Translation: We will avenge Romeo's actions, do not worry about that. So stop crying. I’ll send a message to someone in Mantua, where the banished runaway, Rome, lives. They will give him a poison,…

manipulative woman, yet still flawed in that she gives heed to her sexual passions and marries Claudius. Gertrude’s hasty marriage to Claudius draws the most criticism of her character. In a modern sense, society generally frowns upon improperly mourning the death of your husband and then quickly turning around and marrying his brother. However,…

The poems, “Funeral Blues”, by W.H. Auden and “From Long Distance”, by Tony Harrison are about the feelings of sadness and mourning over the loss of a loved one. Both poems reflect how much death affects people, as well as how people are unable to let go of a loved one. The poet of the first poem is frustrated and expresses feelings of love as well as anger towards the death of his loved one. The second poem is about how the poet’s father cannot forget about his wife and therefore conveys the…

1898 declaring Dec. 30 as the anniversary of Jose Rizal’s death and also as “a national day of mourning”, for Rizal and other victims of the Spanish dominion throughout its three centuries rule. He issued a directive that all national flags shall be hoisted at half-mast from 12:00 noon on December 29 and all offices of the government shall be closed the whole day on December 30 as a sign of mourning. This decree appeared in the government organ, El Heraldo de la Revolucion issued on December…

Art became a political statement (and a way of protest) in a way to share their opinions about the war (WWI and WWII). While millions of young men were killed in battle, the ideas of traditional Western art had changed. Artist such as George Grosz, Miné Okubo, Otto Dix, and Käthe Kollwitz reshaped art perception, and forever changed the perception of who we view war. Though, WWII had a bigger effect in the world, WWI’s classical dispute of the modern-day, not only politically but culturally as…