...taught by Professor Pigg. The purpose of this essay is to explain the mystery behind “the mummy’s curse.” I will first explain a theory that predates the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb. This concept by An Egyptologist Dominic Montserrat after a comprehensive search concluded that the concept began with a strange “striptease” during the 1820s where state mummies were unwrapped. This inspired a little known novelist named Jan Loudon Webb to write a book called “The Mummy”. This book was set in the 22nd century and featured an angry, vengeful mummy who came back to life and threatened to strangle the books here. Other novelists also developed stories along the lines of the mummies curse in both England and America. A second theory some believe to be “the curse of the pharaoh” which I believe to be an urban myth. There was a message outside of the tomb that was translated to say “Death Shall Come on Swift Wings to Him Who Disturbs the Peace of the King.” Legend has it that anyone who dared open the tomb would suffer the wrath of the mummy. There were a series of unfortunate events that suddenly began to affect the men who entered first. Some became ill, others died. Even as late as the 1970’s the curse remains active. While the exhibit was on tour in San Francisco, one policeman guarding Tutankhamen’s gold funerary mask claimed he had a mild stroke because of the curse. A judge dismissed this claim, but visits around today’s internet still provide some wildly...
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...| The “Mummy’s Curse” | HUM 111 − World Cultures I | | Franceda Coleman | January 28th, 2012 | Professor Pettigrew | The “Mummy’s Curse” The “Mummy’s Curse” is explained as a series of unexplainable, unfortunate or tragic events that happened to people who were present at the opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb. Unable to explain why many people present during the opening suffered such loss and the mix of media hype and facts, people started to speculate that the curse was real. “Legend has it that anyone who dared to open the tomb would suffer the wrath of the mummy, because mummies have been associated with many magical powers throughout history” (http://www.kingtutone.com/tutankhamun/curse/). Another possibility is that “New findings are showing that bacteria on the wall of the tomb might have been the cause of the curse” (http://www.kingtutone.com/tutankhamun/curse/). From all that I have read, I believe that the “Mummy’s” most likely is the real thing. I say this mainly because I do believe in things such as “curses” and magic, but also because the likely hood of the mold or bacteria found at the tomb ( Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus Flavus) can cause congestion and bleeding of the lungs, but scientist have confirmed that they are not. In fact, “F. DeWolfe Miller, professor of epidemiology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, concurs with Howard Carter's original opinion: Given the local conditions, Lord Carnarvon was probably safer inside Tut's tomb than outside”...
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...Exploring Mysteries Surrounding The "Mummy's Curse" Heidi Mozina Dr. Richard Foster Strayer University Humanities 111 May 5, 2014 In the movies, mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a frightening curse that brings fortune and treasure hunters to a bad end. But Hollywood didn't invent the curse concept. The mummy of King Tutankhamen gets credit for the curse of the pharaohs, but the myth's origin has been traced to a London stage act performed a hundred years before the boy king's tomb was excavated in 1922. In opening King Tut’s tomb, a phenomenon began all around the world. In research for this paper, I considered theories behind the “Mummy’s Curse,” a series of unexplainable, unfortunate, or tragic events that happened to the people who were present at the opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb. The first theory is that of Richard Carter, an archeologist, who is famous for discovering Tutankhamen's tomb. He is also famous for surviving the mummy's curse (at least until his death in 1939). He believed that tomb inscriptions sometimes contained protective formulas, messages meant to frighten off enemies from this world or beyond, but usually just wished the dead well. Another theory is that of scientist Mark Nelson of Australia, who assumed that because the curse was a "physical entity," it had power over only those physically present during the opening of a chamber or coffin. Nelson defined several specific dates of exposure: the...
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...Assignment 1: Essay “The Mummy’s Curse” HUM 111 – World Cultures I Mini Session August 24, 2014 When it comes to curses and mummies, it almost seems like they go hand in hand, like PB&J. Whenever we see a mummy in movies or any type of storytelling there has to be a curse, it just wouldn’t seem right without it. Legends about the "Curse of the Pharaoh's" first was first stated by the Arabs sometime in the 7th Century when they stumbled on to their first tomb. Because they could not read the hieroglyphics and, everything was so strange things became more mysterious and magical to them. There was also the fact that the Pharaoh’s were so well preserved and looked like they could and would rise at any moment, and so began the legends of mummies. The Arab’s believed that if they entered the tomb and uttered an incantation, they would be able to make treasures appear that had been hidden by the ancient Egyptians. But if they entered the wrong spell or incantation than the pharaohs or kings would come to life once more. The Arabs also believed in curses and saw them as a way that the Egyptians protected their tombs. One of the greatest curses that are known is the “Mummy’s Curse”; this curse occurred in 1923 when King Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered by Howard Carter. A Lord Carnarvon from England was Carter's patron and sponsor of the excavation, and was one of the first to enter the tomb. The tomb was virtually intact and had never...
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...King Tutankhamen’s Tomb: A Mummy‘s Curse 24 July 2014 Humanities Strayer University Do curses really exist? Louis Sachar stated, “A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not (Goodreads, 2014).” Many people believe that the death of King Tutankhamen generated a curse. The speculation of the curse originated when people began to die after finding his tomb. The newspapers published the text of the alleged curse: "Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of a pharaoh” (The Curse of the Mummies, 2014). However, some people do not believe that such a curse exists because there is not enough evidence to support this claim. King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered by Howard Carter between 1922 and 1923. He and Lord Carnarvon, Carter’s supporter, were the first to enter the tomb. Several weeks after entering King Tut’s tomb, Carnarvon died due to a mosquito bite that led to pneumonia. By 1929, eleven people connected with the discovery of the Tomb had died early and of unnatural causes (The Curse of the Mummies, 2014). This included two of Carnarvon's relatives, Carter's personal secretary, Richard Bethell, and Bethell's father, Lord Westbury (The Curse of the Mummies, 2014). Westbury killed himself by jumping from a building (Howard Carter and the Curse of Tut's Mummy, 2014). This sparked a lot of rumors. It did...
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...After attending a Christian church conference in Kansas City, MO, the summer of 2014, I returned home with my Christian beliefs strong and on fire. At the church conference, I never heard a curse word or disrespectful comments. Two weeks later, however, I arrived in Seattle, Washington, to attend the National Student Leadership Conference in healthcare and stepped into a different world. It was common to hear f-bomb, other curse words, and sexual jokes among the guys; occasionally, I heard these among the girls. One average-height, blonde, freckled-face boy from Seattle, a high school wrestler, greeted me with a friendly f-bomb as I unpacked my clothes in my dorm room—he was to be my roommate. My face burned with shock and discomfort. I didn’t know what to say and wondered what kind of experience lay ahead for me. I normally hear the type of commentary at my school back home, but I had spent most of the summer involved in church activities with my Christian friends, so I was not prepared to my sudden return to the typical teenage world. I couldn’t help but feel that all the curse worlds and sexual commentary were unnecessary and even childish and immature. I put up with it and didn’t reveal my feelings to anyone. But every time we were not attending a meeting or gathering and just hung out in the hallways or dorms, the students joked around with each other in that crude teenage language. Don’t get me wrong—these students were not bad kids, just normal teenagers living the teenage...
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...The Lady of Shalott The Lady of Shalott is cursed to stay in her tower, weaving the sights she sees in her mirror. The appearance of Lancelot prompts her to turn and look directly upon the world. She leaves the tower and, as she floats down to Camelot in a boat, dies. What does Tennyson make you feel about the Lady in his poem The Lady of Shalott? Support your ideas with details from the poem. What does Tennyson make you feel about Lancelot in The Lady of Shalott ? Refer to details in the poem in your answer. How far does Tennyson make you feel sympathy for the lady in The Lady of Shalott ? Support your answer with details from the poem. In what ways does Tennyson capture your interest in his poem, The Lady of Shalott? Support your answer with details from the poem. How does Tennyson make The Lady of Shalott such a memorable poem for you? Support your answer with details from the poem. How does Tennyson’s writing make the story so intriguing for you in either The Lady of Shalott or Mariana? Support your ideas with details from your chosen poem. How does Tennyson make the setting so vivid in The Lady of Shalott ? Support your answer with details from Tennyson’s writing. PART I On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And thro’ the field the road runs by To many-tower’d Camelot; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below...
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...finalRhetorical Analysis Essay English 110-133 09/14/2015 A Critique of Alexis Sacarese's “Why the #$%! Do We Curse” In Alexis Sacareses's essay, “Why the #$%! Do We Curse” she explores the reasoning behind why we curse and argues the positive attributes cursing can play in our daily lives. By adding in facts and research done by professionals, she can argue her belief in a variety of different ways. Throughout this essay, Sacarese makes a strong essay by addressing despite the controversy, cursing can help us express our emotions, improve mental health, improve communication, and add creditably to our stories. Although, she makes a strong argument, and her paper is well written she fails to add statistics, lacks in pathos appeals, and uses a lot of redundancy throughout the essay. Alexis Sacarese is successful in getting her argument across in her essay because of the structure of her paper. Sacarese begins by grabbing in the reader with a hook in the introduction. She says, “Fucking Bastard!” My eyes grew wide and my muscles tightened as I heard my dad utter these words for the first time.” Immediately we are tied in and want to continue reading what she has to say. After getting the reader's attention she sets up her essay in a way that flows well. Sacarese first addresses where cursing came from and how it originated. Giving the reader background information about the topic helps us understand whether or not cursing really is a “bad” thing. Throughout the essay, Sacarese...
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...Undying Hatred A curse can change a person. It can drive them insane. So insane where the agony is too much to bare. They have hatred, evil within and no true love from a single soul. The hatred is what comes out the most and transfers over to the people around them. Many say they don’t have hatred or evil but, there is always a little somewhere deep down. Queen Revenna has undying hatred because of the curse of beauty that lives forever. Her hatred was conveyed to everyone around her no matter how closely related they are. The enchanted mirror is Queen Revenna’s only satisfaction to her beauty. When the Queen stands in front of the mirror and says, “Mirror, mirror on the wall who’s the fairest of them all?” A figure will appear in front of her that only she can see. It tells her what she wants to hear. She always goes to the mirror when she needs the confidence that her beauty is unique and will never die. The second time she goes the mirror in the movie, she doesn’t get the answer she was hoping. The mirror tells her, the way only she will be able to keep her beauty forever is by killing Snow White and taking her heart. Revenna couldn’t stand that someone was standing in her way of forever being beautiful. She felt hatred towards Snow White and wanted her heart so that nothing else could stand in her way of being alive and beautiful forever. Especially, since Snow White is the only one who can kill the Queen because her beauty is much greater than her’s. Revenna trusted...
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...For Marie Laure it is seen as a negative, and curse that has taken away her family. I is something to fear because of the damage it can cost just be laying in a person’s hand. She returns it to its home so that no one else can abuse what power other people think it might have. To Von Rumpel the stone means life or death. It is seen as a beacon of hope for his life. He searches for it with determination because he wants to hold its power in his hands and live forever not really thinking about what it might do to the ones he loves around him. For Werner it is just some rock that Marie Laure set down into the ocean. He has no idea of the curse or the life he could live if he were to just keep it in his pocket. He does not realized that it could get him back to Jutta safely but it also could have ended her life so maybe it was for the best that he did not know about what it could do. The Sea of Flames can be thought about in many different ways it just depends on whose perspective you’re looking at it...
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...FORM 5 Novels The Curse Table of Contents Introduction Synopsis Elements Activities Assessment Answer Key Glossary Panel of writers THE CURSE NOVEL What is a novel? Only in a novel are all things given full play – D. H. Lawrence (( A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. Novels tell stories, which are typically defined as a series of events described in a sequence. The novel has been a part of human culture for over a thousand years, although its origins are somewhat debated. Regardless of how it began, the novel has risen to prominence and remained one of the most popular and treasured examples of human culture and writing. There have been stories and tales for thousands of years, but novels must combine a few unique characteristics in order to be defined as such. First, a novel is written down, rather than told through an oral account. Secondly, novels are meant to be fictional in form, differentiating them from myths, which are said to have their basis in reality or theology. Although some modern scholars argue differently, there is no truly established guideline for length, point-of-view, or even establishment of a moral or philosophical point in novels. Sources : http://www.wisegeek.com Date accessed : 5th July 2010 : http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel Date accessed : 5th July...
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...the gaze is a poisonous arrow from the arrows of satan”. Take heed my friends! After having seen one woman you turn to another and then another and are not satisfied and so you move onto magazines. But, the lust in your heart remains unfulfilled so you move onto pornographic images on the television and video. The truth is always bitter and hard, but one does not need to conduct a survey to find out what people think when they are spending hours, watching naked women and men on the filthy ‘box’. The viewing of films that inflame sexual desires is definitely questionable. It is reported on the authority of Hasan Basri (R.A) that the Apostle of Allah (S.A.W.S) is to have said “the curse of Allah is on the who sees and on the one who is seen”. When a man looks at a non-mahram woman, then Allah’s curse descends on that individual for as long as he keeps on looking. We are glued to the television for 2 to 3 hours, some even more, at a...
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...him. At first she doesn't trust him, but gradually, she begins to trust and possibly love him. Adrian, Kyle's new identity, takes Linda out to his families country house so she can enjoy the freedom. He shows her the mirror, and through it she see's her father, now ill. Adrian lets her go so that she may care for her father. He believes she has made her decision, so he ignores all her attempts to contact him. On the night of his two year deadline to find love, Linda gets in trouble. He rushes to rescue her, not even caring that everyone can see his beastly appearance. When he arrives, Linda's attacker shoots Adrian, causing Linda to confess her true feelings for him. As his life is slipping away, he asks for one final request; a kiss. The curse is removed as the clock strikes twelve, and Adrian and Linda are able to live out their lives, beautiful inside and out. In this book you see Kyle go from being a conceited jerk, to a perfect prince. In the beginning of the novel he rejects the "ugly" people and feels that the only way to make it far in life is to be "beautiful". He gets this idea from his father, who treats people very much the same. When Kyle becomes cursed his father locks him away, after all Kyle doesn't want anyone to...
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...traction is imprecatory prayers or “cursing” prayers. These prayers of cursing are found throughout the Bible but the most notable examples are found in Psalms. Christians struggle, however, with whether or not praying these prayers is in keeping with the orthodox teachings of Christ whose teachings involved mercy, grace, and forgiveness. So can and should Christians utilize the imprecatory psalms as part of their regular prayer life or not? This paper will attempt to answer this question by first briefly examining an example of an imprecatory psalm and the context surrounding it and then comparing it to the New Testament teachings of Christ. IMPRECATORY PSALMS According to The Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible: Psalms which contain curses (imprecations, maledictions) against enemies. These elements do not make up an entire psalm, but verses of this nature appear in more than a dozen (5, 17, 28, 35, 40, 55, 59, 70, 71, 79, 80, 94, 129, 137, 139, 140). A number of other psalms express the same ideas as future or...
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...Harrison Loew Bob Walters HS Writing 1 4/11/14 Malkai For centuries I have watched as this once beautiful land was enveloped in darkness. Trapped in a rough bark casing of a massive oak tree I no longer feel the wind as it passes by my body or the water as it flows over my hand. Now I feel the wind pass through my branches and leaves and the water flow past my trunk. My name is Malkai, and I have the gift of immortality and the power to control fire. I am cursed to live inside a dark, hard, oaken prison. The power of immortality is a curse and a blessing. I have watched as the world burns and as it thrives. I will not sit idle as all of the worlds beautiful bounty burns in the presence of the uncaring humans. Now I wage war on their insolence! Now I wage war on the people who took this beautiful land and polluted it with sickness and violence! Now I wage war on the world! As I come to village after village of these barbaric creatures, I was void of pity as I made the world burn. Roaring flames engulf large sections of the world. Wiping the unworthy from the planet, while only a few survived! I protected those few who were deemed worthy to consummate the human race once more. In my blind anger and hatred, I burned my own people my own forests. Disgraced by my own emotional inadequacies I was prepared to do anything to help the humans become reborn. I was a charred, distraught creature of a once mystical land. I gathered my strength and my expansive knowledge...
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