Safety coffin

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 people because he is afraid that they will think that he is dead. "No event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and mental distress as is burial before death." The narrator goes through other incidents of people being buried alive where some don't make it back out. Back then, being buried alive happened a lot, so it was a rational fear. Towards the end of the story, after he awakes from his dream, he becomes a new man. This new man learns to conquer his fears and eventually loses his catalepsy. Part B The theme in "The Premature Burial" is that you can overcome your fears as long as you don't focus on the dark and dreary things in life. As a gymnast, fear happens to be a daily occurrence. I have avoided, gone around, and just plain ignored my fear. Something that gymnastics has taught me is in order to escape fear, you have to go through it, not around. You have to decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. I think the narrator realized in the…

being burried alive. Coffins to me could be a symbol of beiing burried alive. I don't see them as for the already dead. I have a hard time discribing the fear of being alive when someone puts you in the ground. When I see myself in that situation I see a coffin, you can scream but noone can hear you. The air start to disipate and you slowly start to sufficate and get cabonminoxide poisoning. Not a good way to die. The coffin is always there so I desided for this symbol I would use the…

The tomb of the unknowns is a very important monument to The Arlington Cemetery. The Tomb sarcophagus was completed and opened to the public on April 9, 1932. It consists of seven rectangular marble pieces with a combined weight of 79 tons. It was furnished by the Vermont Marble Company of Danby, VT and was quarried in Yule, Colorado (from where the same Yule Marble was quarried for the Lincoln Memorial). The inscription on Sarcophagus says “ HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER…

damages the world I leave behind. As such, most of the options available after death are not appealing to me. The treatment given to bodies after death is largely abhorrent. I would like for my body to be cleaned, but otherwise, I would like contact with my body to be minimal. Having toxic chemicals pumped into my arteries in order to preserve my flesh for viewing by family and friends contradicts natural order, and does not interest me at all. This display is insensible, and in my…

potential means of expressing and reinforcing social identity and group affiliation as well as being a form of protection from the elements. However, Brooches, weapons, amulets, and clothing did more than just keep those who wore them warm, dry, and safe; the also played an ideological role in conveying aspects of a person’s identity. Burial was either in the ground or in vaults. The body was wrapped in a shroud, knotted at the head and foot. In many cases it was laid directly into the…

preposterous request, her family embarked on a journey to fulfill her wish, which will be marked by negative life changing events all in order to meet the needs of Addie who will never know if those desires have been met. While the decision to travel to Jefferson was quite irrational, it is what the family does along the expedition to Jefferson that truly makes them fools. As the family is crossing a bridge that is severely unstable, their wagon plummets over the side into a swift current…

About one hundred and fifty-five years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave “The Gettysburg Address” on a blood soaked battlefield in Pennsylvania (Brown). “The Gettysburg Address” was first verbalized months after the battle of Gettysburg at a service to dedicate the opening of the national cemetery (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Lincoln’s Address was spoken to the citizens and soldiers of the union in the wake of the second invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts…

A man dressed in a robe coat, held a large gong, walked in the front, paved the way. Followed by the deceased 's children and grandchildren, who held the spirit tablet and a portrait of the departed, and three steps a kneeling, five steps a kowtowing. Catafalque was afterwards, solemn and respectful. A white hydrangea was placed on the black coffin top. Moreover, "Eight Buddha 's warrior attendants" carried the coffin, all in the straw sandals, white mourning, a grass rope around waist,…

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

nutritional stress. This showed that women of this age group performed some the hardest laborer in the 18th century [2]. A second burial discovery unveiled a man in a casket, decorated with iron tracks creating the initials HW; burial number 332. After further research, no records were found of any African man with the letter initials HW during the time of the cemetery. This was nothing uncommon as documents were rarely produced on the lives of captives. The team also discovered various beads,…