...The Cemetery Once upon a time, on a dark, quiet, and almost eerie night, there were two girls walking past the cemetery on the way to a friend’s Halloween party. When all the sudden the two girls heard screams of help. Startled by this they decide to go into the cemetery. The fog rolled over the tombstones, just barely visible by the full moon. Towards the middle of the cemetery a dark and ominous figure stood staring at us. It looked like a man but when we took a second look the figure was gone, and then out of nowhere came a warlock from behind a tree, and swooped down. His screams were ear piercing, and his eyes glowed like fire. We ran for our lives. As we ran through the cemetery in hopes of finding the exit, we notice all the graves had been dug up. We didn’t know what we were going to be up against. Our only hope was to find our way out. We walked further into the cemetery and came up upon a tomb. We were about to walk past it when a huge group of bats started coming at us. We decided to take shelter in the tomb. As we entered the tomb we could smell death. I looked down only to notice a trail of bloody footprints. When we looked around we couldn’t see anyone. Then there was a loud bang on the tomb door that made all of us jump. The door was closed; the only option was to walk through the tomb. We were so scared. After walking for what seemed to be an eternity, we notice a light at the end of the tunnel. We all had a moment of hope. We rushed to the end to find...
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...From my elevation, I can barely discern the words. “...he cannot catch little Pearl!” Taking the woman by the hand, she bounds gleefully down the path. The breeze quickens, and my long stagnant soul is buffeted along helplessly. The little girl lets go of her mother's hand and runs to a small grove of trees. There, she stomps rambunctiously in the leaves. Very suddenly, the wind spirals downward, and I plummet to the ground among the leaves. The child freezes and turns to face my ghost with a peculiar expression. It is almost as if she knows I exist. A deep voice rumbles from behind me. “Art thou little Pearl?” It says. It occurs to me that the child is staring through my being and onto something else. I have no control over my movements, so I cannot turn to look at whatever is behind me. The child assumes a petulant and mischievous air as she stomps a foot on the ground. “I shall not tell thee unless I know who thou art.” The...
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...DEALING WITH POWER OF THE GRAVE "Power of the grave must die" The grave is a terrible place. It is a place where glorious lives and destinies are buried on a perpetual note. A place where virtues and riches are forgotten. Many glorious children, born to manifest glory in life were slaughtered and buried before the day of their glory could come. I decree into your life, ANY POWER ASSIGNED TO SLAUGHTER YOUR DESTINY SHALL REPLACE YOU IN THE GRAVE IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. The grave is a pathetic place, you don't belong there neither does your destiny. When the power of the grave is in operation in your life, enemies no longer worry their head concerning you, they know that the real thing that should make you somebody has been buried. No matter how beautiful a lady may be, if her husband has been buried she can never get married, barrenness is inevitable if the womb of a woman has been buried, she can never conceive. Enemies don't care about the grade you got from the university, if your certificate is buried, a master degree holder can never get any good employment... If the fingernail of a man is buried in the grave, his hand can never prosper. If the hair is buried, his glory is gone. If they bury an image with your name written on it, then you're a walking dead, the real you is not here but beneath the ground level so you are restricted to attain greatness in life... God says in Ezekiel 37:12 " I will open up your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves...
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...system. Every business is likely to be different. As an example, business transactions at a supermarket, bank, and hotel require information systems that are different and Unique. A systems analyst applies a technique called Business Process Modelling to Represent company operations and information requirements. A systems analyst works in an information technology based department. This person is Responsible for planning, analysing and implementing information systems. 1.1 Background of the Study Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of surviving friends and families. The funeral home often takes care of the necessary paperwork, permits, and other details, such as making arrangements with the cemetery, and providing obituaries to the news media. Nova Funeral Homes, giving you the best service for the last journey of your love ones for over five decades is now in its new image. Nova Funeral is a duly accredited morgue of the Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation, aside from being an accredited with the Eternal Plans Inc., and the St. Peter Life Plan. If you are in the Almar-Zabarte area, you can use your...
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...Joshua Berman Professor Wenxin English 102 3 March 2015 Foreshadowing To Tell A Story Many authors illustrate a literary technique called foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a device that author’s uses to hint at what is about to come. In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” The author uses foreshadowing through certain symbols to hint what is to come in the story. Some examples of foreshadowing in this story are the dress and the graves. In each of these examples of foreshadowing, the author try’s to convey what is to come. The first example of foreshadowing used is the grandmother’s dress. She was wearing a “Navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. And her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet” (O’Connor 428). The strong use of imagery tells the reader that she is dressed in her Sunday best. Many times when a person is buried they are dressed in their best outfit. The way she is dressed almost symbolizes what one would wear to be buried in. This is a very strong point of foreshadowing because the grandmother seems to be in her most prominent and best looking outfit. Possibly symbolizing her funeral may be upcoming. Another example of foreshadowing is the number of graves in the plantation numbering 5 or 6 (O’Connor 428). This is a strong point of foreshadowing because...
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...public oversight of the corporate and business activities which in their pursuit of profits will not hesitate to desecrate the tombs, rebury corps, let alone sell something that is not their own. To cut the long story short, Galilee is one of the many cemeteries in Tennessee, and it would have remained unknown and unpopular if not for the recent scandal. The owner of the cemetery, Jemar Lambert chose to make some extra cash and thus used the cemetery beyond its current capacity for which he is now charged with theft of property and abuse of a corpse. Jemar sold many of the pre-need plots and ended up selling more than the cemetery could currently hold. Therefore, he chose to ultimately bury corpses outside the cemetery, on the lands that did not belong to him. Furthermore, after finding out that some graves were too old and unattended, and he expected that no relatives would ever know, he dumped multiple bodies in the same graves, apparently freeing up some space that can be resold, but without proper permission to do so(Jacobson, 2014). From the publicly available information one finds out that the state ordered Galilee to stop operations in 2011, yet the cemetery continued to operate till 2014 in a usual manner....
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...Nestled within suburban London is a picturesque necropolis housing the graves of both the famous and the forgotten. Spanning over 12 acres and containing thousands of graves, Highgate Cemetery is perhaps most popular for its celebrity residents, such as philosopher Karl Marx and novelist Douglas Adams. The cemetery has wormed its way into pop culture with rumors that the recently deceased George Michael will be buried there alongside his mother. However, the park itself boasts a rich history, and has been a striking piece of London for nearly two centuries. Highgate Cemetery’s overgrown flora, beautiful graves, and thriving wildlife makes it a breathtaking destination for anyone interested in rethinking their relationship with death. London in the 19th century was a minefield of dead cholera patients and plague victims. After a population boom in the early 1800’s, an already corpse-ridden London faced a dilemma: more living residents means more dead bodies. As a result, “Graveyards and burial grounds were crammed in between shops, houses and taverns — wherever there was space.” (“History,” Highgate Cemetery) Eventually, the stench became so unbearable and the health risks became so great that Parliament...
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...Danielle Norman Professor Smith AMH 2020 01T 01, December 2015 Lagrange Cemetery In Titusville, Florida there is a small white church on Old Dixie Road. Old, decaying graves surround this picturesque church. While it certainly has a haunted feel to it, the cemetery also has a certain beauty. It’s old and falling apart in places, but there is so much history to be found in the headstones. From the founders of the town of Titusville to everyday people who just happen to call this place their eternal resting place. An early community, Lagrange’s founders can be found among the headstones. The church first started all the way back in 1869 and is the oldest church from New Smyrna Beach to Key West. It’s also the oldest church from St. Augustine to Key West ("The Historical Lagrange Church"). The Lagrange church was a protestant church. This community was usually mostly surrounded by water then, and there were little other people in this area besides a few Native Americans ("The Historical Lagrange Church")....
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...construction for a housing development, Windover Pond in Florida is one of the world’s greatest archaeological finds (The Brevard Museum). Located near Titusville in Brevard County, Windover Pond is an ancient, shallow bog pond that was a burial ground for more than 200 Native Americans who lived in the area about 8,000 years ago. (The Brevard Museum). Radiocarbon dating tests indicated the oldest skeletons were buried 8,100 years ago, and the youngest was placed in the ground 6,900 years ago, 3,000 to 4,000 years before the Egyptian pyramids (Suriano, Robert). Windover dates an advanced culture in North America that precedes any previously discovered anywhere else in the world (Suriano, Robert) and the burial site is a planned community cemetery (Nielson, Paula J.). Most significant of the discoveries at Windover Pond are the cloth fragments, the oldest cloth ever found in the Western hemisphere (Suriano, Robert). The cloth was made from the leaves of sabal palm, and the pieces reveal five different methods of fabric making, although no evidence of a loom was found (Suriano, Robert). Some of the fabrics are woven as tightly as a cotton T-shirt, and others are made more loosely twined into blankets, capes, and toga-like garments (Suriano, Robert). A total of ninety-one brains have been recovered from the site, the first time that intact human brains had been preserved, and these brains hold what would seem to be the oldest group of human DNA ever found anywhere in the world...
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...O O L Xo\\3i*L ^ 9-201-082 REV: MARCH 4, 2002 The Loewen Group, Inc. (Abridged) In March 1999, John Lacey and the management team at the Loewen Group, Inc., had to decide what course of action to take in light of the company's imminent financial difñculties. On January 22,1999, Lacey, a renowned turnaround specialist, was appointed chairman of Loewen, the second largest death care company in North America. Headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Loewen owned over 1,100 funeral homes and more than 400 cemeteries in the U.S. and Canadá; it also owned 32 funeral homes in the United Kingdom. The company had come a long way since its modest beginnings in Canadá, where Ray Loewen, the founder (and, until recently, chairman and CEO), started out helpinghis father run the family funeral business in the late 1950s. During the last two decades, Loewen Group had grown explosively, mainly by acquiring small independent funeral homes and cemeteries in densely populated urban markets; in recent years the company had also acquired several large established funeral chains. Over the last five years alone, Consolidated revenues had grown by nearly 30 percent a year, on average, from $303 million to over $1.1 billion. Despite its impressive growth, the company faced a major financial crisis. It lost $599 million for 1998, compared to earning $43 million the previous year. Loewen's on-going acquisitions program had been aggressively ñnanced with debt. At year-end 1998...
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...Nathan A. Pareaux Professor Perdiue English 1302 21 March 2011 Rabbithead I found the symbol of the flower to be used sparingly and dramatically by our heroine Rabbithead. I noticed it used sparingly in the comic and for dramatic prose when Rabbithead places it at the grave in the beginning of the story. This is a comic that has many symbolic characters and events that can be interpreted any number of ways, but one single event struck me as odd at the beginning of the story. People generally place flowers at the tombstones of their loved ones for symbolic reasons of mourning. Rabbithead places the flower after she fills the grave herself and then rides away on her horse. To many this would mean she is mourning someone recently deceased close to her but this story can lead many to believe the flower is a different type of symbol. If you look further you will notice different flowers take on different roles throughout the comic. You see the one flower grow and get eaten by a pig while another grows and eats the head off another creature. In this regard it seems that flowers and plants signal impending death and retribution. A small unstoppable force against what initially appears as overwhelming odds. This story in generally carries a very strong 'circle of life' type theme and I found the flower to be symbolic of Rabbithead's understood fate, as if she was saying to the graveyard that she will soon be returning, maybe even digging her grave with the task she is about to embark...
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...Bloodline- CrimeLove/Family Relations Jamal Rowe. Golden rays of sunshine peeped through the cracks in the musty apartment’s windows; Mother Nature’s early morning alarm clock. Disgruntled, he got up out of his battered leather couch and headed for the old-motel-esque bathroom. A quick flick of the light switch revealed his reflection staring back at him in the dirty bathroom mirror. His hair was the opposite of the regular. His black locks were ragged. Blue eyes stared back at him as he examine himself. Below his arrow-like nose was a 5 o’clock shadow shave with stubs. He looked like the end product of a 3 night hangover after spring break. Ignoring his appearance, he headed into the shower and soon emerged looking 5 years younger. Throwing on his clothes and pocket up his gun and NYPD badge, he emerged into the early morning bustle of New York City. After consuming his usual coffee and donut ‘Breakfast’ he hailed a taxi and after a few minutes he was at the New York Police Department. “Jack Talbott!” and a warm smile and handshake came from Police Chief Ezra Collig. Jack acknowledged him and was shown to the chief’s office. “Come here boy, it’s really important, hell, it’s dire business, dangerous to say the least.” Said chief Collig woefully. The look on Jack’s face could show that he was intrigued about it. “We have 4 cases that we believe might be linked to the same person” Said Chief Collig, “Four murders all executed the same; legs and arms bound, throat slashed...
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...February 23, 2014 Funeral Homes Losing a loved one is a heartbreaking experience. Experience, that sooner or later we all will go through. When your loved one dies, the last thing you want to do is to have to take care of paperwork and the details of the burial or cremation. That is where the funeral homes steps in to help you out in this difficult moment. I chose to visit Evergreen Memorial Gardens Funeral Chapel and Cemetery which provides complete funeral services, graveside services, complete cremation services, immediate cremation services and offer personalized services as well. This beautiful building is located in south Vancouver, Washington. It is surrounded by green grass and tall trees. It has big parking lot to accommodate everybody who comes there. I liked it because of the variety services and support this business provides. I was very interested in embalming. Embalming is a process which is used to temporary prevents body from decomposition. Embalmer injects chemicals, embalming fluid, into arteries and stomach areas to keep body looking as natural as possible for funeral services. This process allows relatives to make necessary arrangements for final ceremony. In a state of Washington embalming cannot be done without permission. Also, embalming is not required by the law. If embalming is not done on the body, body has to be refrigerated. According to Evergreen Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, if the family chooses not to do embalming on deceased person, there...
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...“In 2002, arrangements for 22 percent of all deaths in the United States included cremation, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. By 2010, the association expects that to nearly double†(Conner). There are many reasons why cremations are going to take over the industry down the road. This causes funeral directors to create other services and opportunities to make their businesses profitable. The first main reason why cremations are gaining popularity has to do with the environment. This is probably one of the most apparent and obvious reasons. Cemeteries are starting to run out of land causing people to develop a concern. However, there are measures currently taking place to help conserve land. For example, Highland Cemetery in Northern Kentucky has dedicated a whole portion of there land to lawn crypt vaults. These vaults are eight to ten feet deep and keep two caskets in them. The cemeteries stack two caskets on top of each other with a cement vault shelf in between. The lots are often sold to older couples where they may see death occurring in the next ten years. The younger population is hesitant to purchase them due to the uncertainty of...
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...The Indians and the Dam The Indians and the Dam I.Title Page: The Indians and the Dam II. Introduction: Indian burial ground being flooded by dam when at high level III. Body. A. Is this dispute cultural, racial, or ethnic? 1. Why it is not racial 2. Why it is not ethnic dispute 3. Why it is cultural (DeVry, 2014) This section will attempt to label the dispute. Define from a social stand point what is at the heart of this struggle. Asking is it ethnic, racial or cultural? Why is it important to solve? B. The political and economic affect 1. Loss of recreational use 2. Loss of hydroelectricity 3. Possible damages from Flooding 4. Possible political reactions from Indian communities (CNN, 2008) 5. Possible political reaction from the dependent communities This section will look at the possible effect on both the Indian and local communities that use the dam. What the actual ramifications of keeping the dam at low water levels would mean. Also explore the political drama that it could create of nothing is done. C. Possible Solutions 1. Monetary settlement (NY Times, 2009) 2. Relocation of site 3. Building Protective Structure 4. Leaving alone, status quo This section will look at possible solutions. The feasibility of each solution given. Also who would be responsible for the cost? IV. Conclusion: Address the need for mutual respect among different cultures and the importance of compromise...
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