falling and the wind that brushed past my body made me shiver. It felt as though the spirits in the spooky‚ dark and gloomy cemetery were disrupted from their rest and were awakening. I could feel their presence hovering above us‚ flying around restlessly. I tried to put away my scary thoughts‚ not wanting to frighten myself any further. “We shouldn’t have come to the cemetery so late at night‚” I told my friends‚ angrily. I kept trying to reassure myself‚ telling myself that maybe it was just an imagination
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Tranquility of a Cemetery As we come in to a cemetery‚ we might be filled with fears or have some sort of dreadful feeling. Our first impression may be of dark cold nights and ended lives. What is a scary and dreadful place for some people; it is a very meaningful place for me. This place is so meaningful to me because my father is buried there. Cemeteries are important to bringing perspective and serenity‚ because they bring us a connection to where we came from‚ it helps us realize
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Will a dare go sour and come back to haunt them? The author‚ Lenord Ross‚ gives this story a title that puts a chill in your spine‚ "Cemetery Path". That tells you what the story’s about. The purpose of this ‚ is for a plot development summary‚ and getting out the word of the theme. Don’t give into peer pressure. First of all‚ in the exposition‚ there is a man named Ivan. He’s a timid man. All of the villagers called him "Ivan the Terrible"p.1. (Verbal irony). Every night‚ Ivan went to the
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Dehumanization of the War and the Desire of the Dead shown in “Leningrad Cemetery‚ Winter of 1941” When we think of war graves‚ the image that comes into mind is the spatial area full of white tombstones interred with the remains of deceased people. Because we did not experience war‚ it is hard to imagine how disastrous the war is. In that sense‚ Sharon Olds’ poem‚ “Leningrad Cemetery‚ Winter of 1941” vividly portrays the harsh reality of the war on the historical background of the Siege of
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The Abydos Cemetery was a burial ground for the ruling elites of Abydos in Predynastic times. “Umm el-Qa’ab”‚ which means "the mother of pots"‚ is the modern-day Arabic name of the site. (Bard 2008: 109) The cemetery is located in the desert between Abydos and the edge of a mountain range. The burial ground was used from at least the Naqada I period in 3800 B.C. It was the royal cemetery during the 1st Dynasty and was also used by the two last kings of the 2nd Dynasty. The area has been divided into
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The forgotten ones “at the cemetery‚ /walnut grove plantation‚ /south carolina‚ 1989” The poem at the cemetery‚ walnut grove plantation‚ south carolina‚ 1989 by Lucille Clifton is a six stanza poem with many repetitions throughout the poem conveying the idea of how the slaves that worked in the walnut plantation were forgotten and not honored. The speaker of the poem‚ who is taking a tour around the plantation and cemetery‚ expressed anger throughout the poem as the tension slowly escalates ending
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Anthropologists can learn about different cultures and generations by visiting cemeteries worldwide. Tombstones can be observed‚ compared‚ and analyzed so we will have an idea how different cultures buried their dead. I visited the Live Oak Cemetery and the Greenville Cemetery in Greenville‚ MS. The Live Oak Cemetery is a predominately black cemetery and the Greenville Cemetery is a predominately white cemetery. Both cemeteries have a lot of history behind them by containing tombstones from the 1800s
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Corrina Bryceland ‘Dark Encounters’ Imaginative Essay The wind howled around me like a pack of starving wolves as I entered the cemeteries rusty iron gates. Yet it seemed so wild and chaotic that it reminded me of home‚ so it didn’t bother me at all‚ I was used to it. My brother’s headstone was only a ten minute walk away so I let myself drink in the moonlight and the memories the cemetery held. I remembered the first time I went there with my mother‚ just after Jason died... She led me down the now familiar mud
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The cemetery that I visited was the Benedictine University Cemetery. It is a cemetery on campus where all of the reverends‚ pastors‚ and important religious idols affiliated with the school‚ are buried. The cemetery has a path that runs through the middle of it and it leads up to a statue of Jesus Christ on the cross. This is not a grave‚ but more a religious centerpiece that the eyes can focus on. Around the centerpiece are many rows of crosses. In front of those crosses are head stones in the ground
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this paper‚ I am studying the design and use of space at Evergreen Cemetery‚ an African-American garden style cemetery‚ as a communicative landscape. I am using Hollywood Cemetery as the standard expression of a garden style cemetery in the South‚ and place the similarities and differences seen in Evergreen within the context of the society in which it was created. By doing this‚ it is possible to understand Evergreen Cemetery as both an attempt at acceptance and assimilation into white society
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