The Premature Burial

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    Boneyard Garden Exploration Cemeteries do not frighten me; they are serene places that are frequently neglected until a new tenant comes to reside. Unlike some individuals I know, I would not mind if I lived next door to one. It is not as if the occupants are going to be climbing up from their plot and banging on my door asking for a cup of tea with a bit of sugar. The notion of my demise does make me uneasy, but no one can elude death. Sooner or later (I hope a lot later) my final abode will…

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    method of burial. Cremation also is considered simpler and provides more flexibility in a memorial service according to the Cremation Association of North America. Cremation allows you to locate your body wherever you chose. Here there are more details provided about all the benefits of cremation. According to the Cremation Research Council, the average cost of a direct cremation is about $1,000 (Cremation Resource). When you crunch the numbers on the cost difference between burial and…

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    services before the burial here in the US; it is done in the same way in my country. For the Catholics, we also have funeral mass or service lead by a catechist. All the family members, relatives, and friends come to the church or home to pay their respects to the dead and to comfort the bereaved. In some religions and non-Catholics, special prayers are offered for the welfare of the soul of the deceased. After the religious service, a procession starts to go to the cemetery for the burial. In…

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    Jars of Red Germanium In all the years since Maycomb was first established, many different changes have occurred, but the one place that remained the same, was the cemetery. The place had a gloomy and dilapidated feel to it, nobody had the money to fix it, and nobody had the will to do it. The bushes were overgrown and weeds spewed out from cracks in the pavement. On the day of Bob’s funeral, the sun was hidden from us behind the curtain of grey clouds. We were never tempted to venture near the…

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    ties in Greek society were known to have held positions of great importance. Therefore, Antigone purposefully used this to create her next appearance. Her brother’s “unburied corpse … would have been an agony” for her, which led her to attempt the burial twice (18). Out of love, she wanted to “lift up his body with [her] bare hands” and prepare a grave or mound, something more meaningful than just a prayer (3). Antigone made it seem like her attention calling efforts were only to give proper…

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    why I chose this passage from Beowulf is because of the burial ritual itself. When I was in the process of annotating, A couple questions came to mind: Was this ritual only done for a specific social class? If so, what are the burial rituals for lower classes? And what was the Anglo- Saxon’s view on the “afterlife”? In this essay, I will be explaining the true historical connection between the burial in the epic poem, Beowulf, and actual burials performed during the time of the Anglo-Saxons.…

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    Gender Bias in Antigone In Sophocles ' Antigone, gender biases are quite prevalently used to portray the inequality between men and women in a misogynistic society. Sophocles used the major conflict between Kreon and Antigone to demonstrate this ideology. Kreon, who was Antigone’s uncle and the ruler of Thebes, would not listen to her reasoning simply because she was a woman. To this effect, the community viewed Antigone as a rebellious, headstrong woman for the same reasons. However if she…

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    emphasizes Antigone’s unexpected masculinity, her determination to correct a wrong, and her defiance of the patriarchal system led by Creon in order to show that society is hostile to deviant females. When Antigone takes the role of executing the burial of her brother’s body, she is unexpectedly assuming masculine traits, as Ancient Greek women were not the first ones to bury their loved ones, and is receiving societal backlash when she does so. When Creon questions the sentry about Antigone’s…

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    A group of people that inhabited much of Great Britain regions of what is now France, Belgium and the Netherlands, the Anglo-Saxons were a group of people from Germanic tribes that took control from the 5th century to about the 8th century. Their culture survives in many regions today and they are associated with the re-establishment of Christianity in Europe. Emerging from medieval Europe during the end of roman rule, the massive migration of the Celts, Picts, and Scots from the North allow…

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    Anglo Saxon Burial

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    type of burial found during the Anglo Saxon period: chest burials (Atkins, 2012). Atkins specifically analyzes the chest burials structure of craftsmen wooden inclusion of metal hinged lid (2012). This specific paper focuses on the types of burial containers accompanied by the type of funeral practices and how each individual are entombed. It compares the different type of chest burial found and the technique used in creating it (Atkins, 2012). By analyzing the structures of the burials, it can…

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