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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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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第十届 杯翻译竞赛原文（英语组） Path Robert Macfarlane Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow‚ sand‚ mud‚ grass‚ dew‚ earth or moss. The language of hunting has a luminous word for such mark-making: ‘foil’. A creature’s ‘foil’ is its track. We easily forget that we are track-makers‚ though‚ because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete – and these are substances not easily impressed. ‘Always‚ everywhere‚ people have walked‚
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Arlington National Cemetery As the birds are singing their sweet melody‚ the terrain of Arlington National Cemetery is filled with sadness. Although the brilliant rays of sun are shinning through the thick colossal treetops‚ there is a chill in the air. While watching the mourners‚ the feeling of their sorrows is all too real. Thousands of headstones in the far distance create magnificent mazes against the horizon. The immense land has very little room to spare as it is overflowing with graves
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Leading Change When assigned as the Director of Long Island National Cemetery (LINC)‚ I came into a facility with an abysmal organizational culture. The Cemetery Staff‚ Union‚ and Management were in turmoil. My challenges were to change the negative organizational culture at Cypress Hills National Cemetery (CHNC) and (LINC). I worked to improve management’s relationship with the workforce and union officials to reduce or eliminate the House Veterans Affairs Committee‚ Congressional‚ Unfair Labor
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Arlington National Cemetery‚ one of the most visited cemeteries in the United States‚ contains many interesting features (World Book; Vol.1; pgs.716-717). Some of the features consist of: the National cemetery‚ the Arlington House‚ the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers‚ and the Changing of the Guards. The National cemetery covers six hundred and twelve acres for the burial of many honorable people (Kane‚ Robert S.; pgs.53-54). In amongst the cemetery‚ Arlington House sits upon a hill. The location
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Dual career path What is dual career path? A dual career path system enables employees to remain in a technical career path or move into a management career. Noe pg 485 Objectives of dual career path systems: To attract‚ retain and develop outstanding technical talent. Dual career path involve the creation of alternate advancement paths for technical and managerial employees. The primary goal of this type of development approach is to enable advancement possibilities for highly skilled technical
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Carlo Scarpa – Brion-Vega cemetery (completion‚ 1978) INTRODUCTION In San Vito d’Altivole near Treviso in Italy‚ Scarpa was commissioned by the Brion family to design an extension to the families’ cemetery. This designed to be Guiseppe and Onorina Brion’s final resting place‚ the people who lived in the town were originally going to share the cemetery‚ but this never happened. The aim was to create architecture‚ a design that would evoke the hearts of the viewer in a poetical manner (Saito
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Arlington National Cemetery Nick Kobaladze 4/6 Arlington National Cemetery was originally a living memorial for the Washington’s (George Washington’s) family. It was constructed by George Washington Parke Custis‚ George Washington’s adopted grandson. Custis hired George
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An Evaluation of Criticism on Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” Delta State University student‚ Susan Allen Ford‚ wrote a poem and entitled it “Chiromancy”. Chiromancy is defined as the prediction of a person ’s future from the lines on the palms of his or her hands. Her poem expresses this journey of an African American woman in the Alabama March of 1965‚ but what intrigued me the most were the last few lines of the last stanza: It plunges fearless into hot water‚ Gently crumbles
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