Mummy

How Howe and Macfarlane Describe the Undescribable In her heart wrenching poem, “How Some of It Happened”, Marie Howe tackles the effect that illness had on her arguably hypochondriac brother. He struggled with his health even before he had health issues to struggle with, and faced an ever present fear of harm. However, upon realizing he was sick and undergoing less-than-pleasant procedures to treat it, he learned to “lean into it”. As a counterpoint, Elaine Macfarlane also addresses the…

The sounds of gunfire were abundant like an intense hailstorm. The bullets crackled into the air, oblivious to their actual purpose. Each bullet fired eventually penetrating something, whether it was living or non-living. I wonder if the person pulling the trigger felt any emotions of compassion, sorrow, guilt or even regret. There was another death in my hometown of Ramadi, a father trying to protect his family from the jihadist group ISIS. Feeling threatened and defenceless I lay awake at…

side of the body an opening was made with a knife to take the organs out. Then the body was cleaned and covered in linen strips (Bingham 22,28). When the funeral finally came the mummy was brought to the mortuary temple in its coffin and, the mummy got all its senses back when the ceremony started. So when the mummy was in the afterlife he would be able to move, speak, and eat. When the ceremony was done the coffin was dragged up a rap into the pyramid. When the pharaoh had finished…

majority of the guest were dressed up in their halloween costume. At the begginning of the dance there was food, pulled pork, baked beans, coleslaw and lots of desserts. After food was served they had multiple activities for the kids mostly; they had mummy rap, a cake walk, hoola hoop, and a costume conteset. At the end of the dance they gave out awards for the oldest generation, the youngest generation, and the family who had the biggest generation. The biggest generation that was there was 4…

something he dead set against. Sean is given of Dr. Van Helsing's diary a gift, but his dismay learns that it's written in German. While this is going down, Dracula (Duncan Regehr) comes to town and starts gathering his monster allies including, The Mummy (Micheal MacKay), Gill-Man (Tom Woodruff), The Wolf-Man (Carl Thibault) and the Frankenstein Monster (Tom Noonan). Dracula also changes a trio of girls into his classic Brides. Sean takes the diary to the only person he knows that can speak…

protected it as it made it harder for bacteria to eat away the monk as he slowly became mummified. For the next 1000 day the monk would bury himself alive. He would seal himself in a giant stone tomb. The monks would give the ‘mummy to be’ a bamboo pipe for air and a bell. The ‘mummy to be’ would ring the bell every day to let his fellow monks know that he was still alive. When they didn’t here the bell ring, they knew that he had died. After the tomb was sealed, other monks in the temple would…

Why Communism doesn’t work Communism was an idea that spread rapidly throughout the twentieth century, most do not have a full understanding of what happened or how it happened. It was invented in the year 1848, when Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published the Communist Manifesto . Many have claimed throughout the years that it would lead to a utopia, no poor and no oppressed, no rich and no oppressors. In reality, Communism was not a good idea gone wrong, It was a bad Idea from the start.…

This documentary covers the most important events that happened in the century following the Columbian American exchange. Significant issues are addressed; Native american slavery, and exploitation of people for resources, such as the ”8 million slaves died working in silver mines.” After the new world was founded in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, the “two worlds” collided in a massive exchange of ideas, diseases, agriculture, animals, beliefs, and traditions. It really was like discovering an…

Edgar Allan Poe ¨Manuscript Found in a Bottle¨. ¨Some Words With a Mummy¨. ¨The Tale Tell Heart¨. ¨The Fall of the House of Usher¨. ¨The Angel of the Odd¨. What do these five stories have in common? These were all written by the famous author: Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 and he passed on October 7, 1849 ( Poe Stories, Robert Giordano). Through the forty year span of Edgar Allan Poe´s life, though tragic as it was, he wrote amazing stories as an outlet for his…

being at that particular location, with hope that someone may notice it. Having the opportunity to learn about previous artworks, one of them really stood out to me from ancient Egypt. When an individual hears Egyptian art they mostly think about mummies, pyramids, or Pharaohs. But I came across The Great Sphinx, which had not met the expectation of Egyptian art. After taking a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City I came across another artwork that looked similar entitled The…