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    Hawthorne’s literary style is imbued with the aesthetics of Romanticism, often tragic and gloomy, however, always touching and moral. The three chosen short stories by the author - “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “The Birthmark,” and “The Roger Malvin’s Burial” - focus on the the human nature and its extreme susceptibility to such inherent features as sin, guilt, and shame. “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a masterful insight into the sinfulness of the human nature and, specifically

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    Visual Imagery in Frost's Home Burial Frost, within his poems, seems primarily concerned with the reader’s ability to comprehend the psychological “landscape” of the person (or persons) that he is depicting. This aspect of his works, as well as his great love of nature and landscape depiction, both contribute to the environment that he has created within “Home Burial”. The reader of “Home Burial” does not achieve a comprehensive view of the psychological landscape of the two characters

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    What was the emperor's purpose for such an elaborate burial place? On the surface, there is no mystery as to why an emperor would construct an elaborate burial place. People in positions of power with access to the means by which to create commemorative places, spaces, and objects to preserve their memory and immortality will execute their desires simply because they can. Moreover, the creation of an ancestral tomb is in keeping with prevailing Chinese practices and worldviews. As Moskowitz (2012)

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    The book “Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality” by Paul Barber discusses the scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends we here all the time. Barber focuses on pre-literate cultures and how their lack of knowledge helped spark the vampire folklore. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker whose ghost terrorizes everyone in the city of Breslau, to the testimony of a doctor who “conducted a exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires,” Barbers

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    Ancient Egypt is memorialized for its opulent history and culture along with the unique and defining burial practices. Ancient Egyptian religion was a very intricate yet complex way of belief. Egyptian religion was based on the worship and fellowship of many God’s who were believed to have a constant and ever being control of all earthly elements. The legends of these gods were to foretell and explain the influences of the forces they represented. The actual practice of Egyptian religion was an

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    Introduction On Saturday, November 19th I attended the production of Burial at Thebes, written by Seamus Heaney; an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer. Mr. Heaney is widely recognized for his 20th century poetry. The director, Steve Earle, adapted this piece into a 21st century production, partnered with ODUREP and presented it at the Goode Theatre. Burial At Thebes was a prosperous stage rendition of the 5th century play Antigone, despite the challenges of altering the century it was

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    years later the situation can be reflected on and the meaning potentially can be easily seen. Often poets make use of ambiguity to move a poem or story forward by leaving a little mystery to be pondered. Robert Frost uses this in the poem Home Burial effectively. “She was staring down, looking back over her shoulder at some fear.” (Frost) He discusses an impasse in a relationship by sing an example as mourning the death of a child. The death of a child can put a strain on any relationship and

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    You Need A Proper Burial Homer repeatedly proves that a proper burial is the only way to make it to the next “world” rather than floating a miserable life above in the “alive world”. The use of a proper burial is seen repeatedly throughout the entire book and is one of the main cultural values/themes. This adds to the story because you see what people want more than anything and this is what they fear most, missing out because they want to go to the next world. Homer demonstrates the cultural value

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    in life. This is evident in Robert Frost’s poem The Tuft of Flowers, where an altered perception of our ever-changing world is revealed through interactions with the physical, natural world. Similarly, unseen text shows that… Finally, Frost’s Home Burial reveals the limits of communication in creating distance in a relationship, and in doing so, reveals the effects when discovery is inhibited. As a result, discoveries can be both

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    Paul based his life and teaching on the life, death, burial and resurrection of the Lord. He said that all of his teaching was for naught unless Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead. (I Cor. 15) And today, without the Lord’s resurrection the Gospel is nothing. The resurrection of our Lord became the “first fruits” of all whose physical bodies lie sleeping; awaiting the resurrection upon the Lord’s return. (I Cor. 15:20-23). The phrase “first fruits” referred the earliest portion of the crop;

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