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...* Nell’s mother was found dead one day by the man who was bringing her groceries. That same man found Nell after she made a noise in the back room. He went back to town and told the policeman about her. The doctor (Lovell) followed the policeman and then met Nell. * Genie was found after her mother escaped her house and found the police and brought them back to the house. They found her sitting on a potty chair. * Why were they isolated? * Nell’s mother isolated her and her sister because she was raped when she was younger, and didn’t want her girls to grow up in the same terrible, hateful world that she grew up in. She wanted her girls to be safe. * Genie was isolated because her father thought she was mentally disabled. He didn’t want people to know about her, so he locked her up. * Nell’s mother was found dead one day by the man who was bringing her groceries. That same man found Nell after she made a noise in the back room. He went back to town and told the policeman about her. The doctor (Lovell) followed the policeman and then met Nell. * Genie was found after her mother escaped her house and found the police and brought them back to the house. They found her sitting on a potty chair. * Why were they isolated? * Nell’s mother isolated her and her sister because she was raped when she was younger, and didn’t want her girls to grow up in the same terrible, hateful world that she grew up in. She wanted her girls to be safe. ...
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...For decades, the undead has been used as a metaphor to depict cultural and social issues. The period of 1960 was marked with assassinations of the leader, cold war, the Vietnam War, and civil right movement and these were among the American history’s most turbulent years. During these political churning, the modern zombie was born. In the midst of it all came a movie that entirely changed the zombie film: Night of the Living Dead. In the movie "Night of the living dead", Barbra and her brother, Johnny drove their car to a cemetery to offer prayers and flowers at the grave of their grandfather. In the graveyard, they encounter an unusual dead human who stumbles towards them. In their chase Barbra escapes the dead creature and finds refuge,...
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...Death flies in with the Bird It is believed that superstitions began with Neanderthal man, because they were the first people to bury their dead. It is said that they believed in an afterlife because they buried the dead with food, weapons and other items to be use in the afterlife. Superstitions surrounding death have always lurked in my mind as far back as childhood. My Grandmother was the family member that filled my mind with the fears that still haunt me to this day. She would tell me things like if a bird fly into your house it had to fly out the same way that came in; if not then someone within the family would die. We had this happen once when I was about 9 years old. We didn’t have air conditioners back then and we would leave the windows and doors open with a big box fan in the windows and on the floors in front of the open doors to cool the house. We were having a birthday party for my baby brother, Tony, when a bird flew in through the front door. My grandmother screamed out for everyone to close all the windows and door except the front door; leaving the bird with only one way out. The bird flew towards me, and I ran to the back door thinking that the bird was after me. When I went out the back door, the bird did too. My grandmother was very upset and she told me the reason why it was not good that bird flew out the back door. I didn’t really believe her, but within two week my mother received a phone call informing her of the death of my uncle. Right away my...
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...Death flies in with the Bird It is believed that superstitions began with Neanderthal man, because they were the first people to bury their dead. It is said that they believed in an afterlife because they buried the dead with food, weapons and other items to be use in the afterlife. Superstitions surrounding death have always lurked in my mind as far back as childhood. My Grandmother was the family member that filled my mind with the fears that still haunt me to this day. She would tell me things like if a bird fly into your house it had to fly out the same way that came in; if not then someone within the family would die. We had this happen once when I was about 9 years old. We didn’t have air conditioners back then and we would leave the windows and doors open with a big box fan in the windows and on the floors in front of the open doors to cool the house. We were having a birthday party for my baby brother, Tony, when a bird flew in through the front door. My grandmother screamed out for everyone to close all the windows and door except the front door; leaving the bird with only one way out. The bird flew towards me, and I ran to the back door thinking that the bird was after me. When I went out the back door, the bird did too. My grandmother was very upset and she told me the reason why it was not good that bird flew out the back door. I didn’t really believe her, but within two week my mother received a phone call informing her of the death of my uncle. Right away my...
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...The Creepy Night By Bling Dog The night was cold and windy. The moon was a full moon tonight. The trees looked haunted and scary with their big shadows. The sky was completely pitch black. There was a haunted house. It had a purplish-blackish roof. The house was painted completely pitch black. The door was an indigo color. The lights were out, but the chimney was puffing out black puffy smoke. On the roof there were some very scary looking bats. They even looked real. On the front door there was a skeleton, and it kept on repeating, "Don't enter! Save Your Soul!" There were vines and plants growing over the haunted house. On a windowsill there was even a fake Chucky. When I started walking up to the door I felt like I was going to explode! I was so freaked out. I started sweating and started to shake. I was there, all alone. I wanted to scream, but it wouldn't come out. I was getting more freaked out by every step. I actually felt like I should turn back and run. But, the haunted house made me feel sort of drawn to it. A bat flew overhead and shrieked "eek!" I went to the doorknob and reached for it. It felt slimy and gooey. I looked and saw it had red stuff on it. I took the red stuff off my hand and then the doorknob. I felt the doorknob and it felt like soft wood. It was a dark maroon color and looked big compared to my little hand. When I opened the door it creaked louder and louder until I finally opened it the whole way. In the inside I smelled something burning...
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...1. The idea illustrated by the breakup of the Pervin household was an atmosphere filled with death and hopelessness. The Pervins are a family of horse dealers, who have recently lost their father. This circumstance has left them grieving and in debt. While this situation alone is depressing, Lawrence uses words such as “desolate” to describe the breakfast table, and “dreary” to describe the furniture to reinforce the hopelessness of the atmosphere. 2. Joe was having the hardest time dealing with the fact that they would have to leave their house and their lives behind. He was said to have thought of himself as one of the horses. Joe’s fate was to marry and survive from the employment provided by his father in law, who was a steward of a nearby estate. I believe that Joe was thankful that he had somewhere to go, but was regretful that he would have to sacrifice his independence and freedom, and have to become a “subject animal now.” He would be assuming the role of one of his work horses. 3. The events of Mabel’s life have molded her into a determined and strong willed woman. Her strengths are not apparent, because the story also reveals her weaknesses. Through much of the story, Mabel is suicidal and depressed. However, Mabel has been the glue that has held her family together since the death of her father, and she took great pride in that fact. Stability was the only thing that she lived for since the passing of her mother. The depression starts to...
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...nephew) appears and picks a fight with Benvolio. At length, officers try to break up the fight, even while Lord Capulet and Lord Montague begin to fight one another. The Prince of Verona (Escalus) appears and stops the fighting, proclaiming sentences of death to any that renew the fighting. At Montague's house, he, his wife, and Benvolio discuss how melancholy Romeo (Montague's only son) has been lately. Benvolio vows to find out why. Speaking with Romeo, Benvolio finds Romeo is in love with a woman who has sworn to stay chaste (Rosaline). Benvolio suggests pursuing other women, but Romeo refuses. Separately, Paris (a kinsman of the Prince of Verona) talks to Lord Capulet about wooing his daughter Juliet for marriage. Capulet responds that she is too young (nearly 14 years old) and must wait two years to marry, and then only to the man whom she chooses. Still, Capulet invites Paris to a party in the evening. Capulet's servant is sent to invite guests, but he can't read the list so he entreats Romeo to do so. Upon hearing of the party, Benvolio convinces Romeo to attend and compare his unattainable love Rosaline to more beautiful women to get his mind off Rosaline. At Capulet's house, Lady Capulet speaks to Juliet about her feelings for marrying Paris while Juliet's Nurse listens on, telling stories of Juliet's childhood. Juliet, although hesitant, promises to be courteous. Masked, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio head to the Capulet party. Romeo is still depressed, saying he dreamt a...
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...was only ten at the time; she was an innocent little girl. Myop was free-spirited and didn’t have a worry in the world, “nothing existed for her but her song.” She loved to be outside in the fresh air, “It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house that the days had never been as beautiful as these.” Myop always seemed to go into the woods behind her home. Emily was a miserable old lady; she was miserable due to her father’s death, and after her sweetheart went “missing”. Emily seemed to hardly step foot out of her house, “After her father’s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all.” She preferred to stay indoors. Myop was an innocent little girl that ran into a dead person. Since things started to look unfamiliar to her she started to head back home. As she was heading home she walked right into a dead body, “It was then she stepped smack into his eyes, her heel became lodged in the broken ridge between brow and nose, and she reached down quickly, unafraid, to free herself.” After Jefferson 2 Myop took her foot off, she realized it was a dead body, and became worried. Now Myop had every worry in the world, she was scared and in disbelief. Seeing the dead body changed her entire perspective on life, “Myop laid down her flowers. And the summer was over”. The outside was not so beautiful to her anymore. After the death of Emily’s father, she seemed to be miserable, and...
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...become christians. However, they still follow certain rites of samsarek. Most santals are christians now but they observe their own tribal rites. The periods of the full moon and the dark of the moon are of special significance to the oraons, manipuris and buddhist tribes. Many religious and cultural rites take place during the full moon. The oraons believe in the sayings of dak and khana. They have many superstitions regarding journeys. For example, oraons will not undertake a journey if they stumble at the start, someone beckons from behind, a house-lizard calls out, a message is delivered about someone's death, a corpse appears on the way, a crow caws on a dry twig, or an empty pitcher comes in view. When oraons start tilling the field, they will do so from the east. They will wait for an auspicious day to begin building a house. They believe that it is inauspicious to comb hair at night, to throw women's hair outside, to sweep a house at sunset, to give something to someone after dusk, to hear an owl hooting, or a dog weeping at night. Oraons also have certain superstitions about cows. Thus they give away the first yield of milk from a lactating cow, and will not let a menstruating woman or a woman who has not completed the period...
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...bags carefully, otherwise it will kill you. It is an autumn day, 2 years after his mother’s dead, he returns to Japan. In the car ride home, his father tells him the circumcisions of his mother’s dead and the story of how a man in the company killed him self. When they come home, they go to the tearoom and waits for his sister, Kikuko to come home from her university. Kikuko is happy to see her brother, but becomes very nervous around their father, and answers all questions with short answers. The father starts making the Supper while Kikuko and the boy goes out to the garden and down to the well. Here they talk about thow Kikuko has a boyfriend that want’s to go to America, but she isn’t sure if she should go with him or not. They also talk about how Watanabe killed him self, and his whole family. They go back into the house and the father tells Kikuko to make supper, while he shows the house to the boy. While showing him the house, the father keeps on saying that his sister is a good girl, and he can come back and live in the house. At the supper they eat fish, and the boy sees a picture of his mother, but doesn’t recognize her. After the supper Kikuko makes them a pot of tea, while the father and his boy goes into the tearoom. Here they talk about how he can come live in the house, and that the father is sure that his son will return to America. The father also says that the mothers dead wasn’t a coincidence, she died because she had many disappointments and...
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...had left police baffled and the townsfolk frightened for their lives as they did not understand why something like this happened in their tiny town. The thing that scared them the most were the words. For the meaning of the words were unclear to the people and the only person who understood language like that was now dead. Dead on the night before the Winter Solstice. And death before the Winter Solstice meant bad luck for years to come. For all. Vision 1 : The Mortician's Daughter The snow cracked under his feet as he walked through the forest. It was eerily quit. No wind, No noise, nothing. Dead trees lay alongside the pathway as he slowly made his way up to the house. But something here was not right. No lights were on, no voices were to be heard, all signs of LIFE were missing. He looked around. The only thing he could see was a raven perched on a nearby branch. A raven?! Not possible, he thought. All the birds had already migrated south to escape the harsh hands of winter. His eyes were playing tricks on him. But the closer he looked, and the harder he focused, he began to realize that the raven was quite real. Shivering, he continued his way up to the house. He had a bad feeling about this place. He was very superstitious and since black meant evil, he knew something would happen. *ploink* He jumped at the noise. Only a drop of water from an icicle. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, he reached the front door. Opening it, he quietly slipped inside. How odd. There...
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...his decaying body. The story deals with a murder caused by possessive love, and it elucidates the face of death which results in repulsion and compassion. “A Rose for Emily” represents Southern Gothic literature through descriptions of Emily, her house, necrophilia, and the theme of death. To begin with, the narrator portrays Emily Grierson as a once prominent member of the community. However, after the death of her father, she is pitied and often irritating, demanding to live life on her own terms. In the beginning of the story, the author describes her as looking “bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, [look] like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough” (Faulkner 53). Being isolated from the outside world since her father died and Homer Barron, her lover, went missing, Emily becomes a muted and mysterious figure. She begins to enforce her own sense of law and conduct, such as when she refuses to pay her taxes or state her purpose for buying the poison. Lu Ying Qian of Baidu Library states that Emily “was an unrealistic stubborn woman” (Qian 6). She continued to ignore the law, refuse to pay taxes, and not dispose of the dead. Emily’s eccentric...
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...We start off with a little action: a duel between the servants of two enemy families of Verona: the Montagues and the Capulets. Exciting! After the swords are sheathed, Verona's Prince shows up to say that the next person who fights is going to get killed, and he means it this time. Along comes Romeo Montague, mooning over some chick named Rosaline. Meanwhile, Juliet Capulet, age thirteen, has just heard that Verona's most eligible bachelor Paris has his eye on her. They're going to check each other out that night at a masquerade ball at the Capulets' house. (At least it's parentally sanctioned child abuse.) Romeo and his friends have decided to crash the Capulet ball—in costume—because Rosaline is on the guest list. Things take a turn when Romeo meets Juliet. They fall instantly in love, obviously, but then—gasp!—find out they're from rival families. It's all very dire, but, being two crazy kids in love, they have a secret meeting and decide to get married. Vegas road trip, wooooooo! Oh wait. No Vegas. Instead, Romeo meets with Friar Laurence to arrange the marriage, and Juliet gets her nurse to be a go-between. The Nurse meets Romeo and his friend Mercutio (who thinks the whole situation is hilarious), and they arrange to get Juliet to Friar Laurence. Get ready for some more names: Benvolio, another member of the Montague posse, runs into Tybalt Capulet, who is angry about the Montagues crashing his family party the other night. Romeo, freshly married, strolls into...
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...normal events; different cultures have come up with ways of coping with death and honoring the dead in the most respectful way possible at least according to them. Interferences with these cultural practices would alter the way people would normally deal with the passing of a loved one. While the health care fraternity are not expected to know the different traditional practices of cultures concerning death, and how best to honor the dead understanding the basic concepts about how to respond and prepare for death is important. However, it poses a challenge to the doctors and the entire health department to ask those crucial questions concerning death. Questions that would board on the understanding of what happens after death, that is in relation to their cultures. What is the families’ role in handling of death? What are the changes that as a medical practitioner one has to follow when handling the family? The Hindu culture is one such community that has developed different ways of coping with before and after death. The firm doctrines that they operate on are considered strict on how to handle and deal with the dead. The paper examines the Hindu culture in respect to the way they handle death, and how it has affected the community and its practices. Description of culture Hinduism just like any other culture has a specific way of handling the dead and specific rituals of honoring the dead and handling of family’s grief. It is customary that the procedures are conducted within twenty-four...
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