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- 3991: How The Great Pyramid Was Real
- ... mummification ("Funeral Rites and Customs"). Tombs, temples, and statues had been built, constructed, molded, and painted to be worshipped by the Egyptians. Religious life coincided with every day life because the Egyptians believed life after death was eternal, and that the soul rested in the body of the dead, and that the soul traveled between earth and another world. Tombs provided houses for their souls to live. "It was designed to ... try to steal the gold and precious objects placed in and around the coffin" (Taseos 11). At a time around 3124 B.C., King Khufu came to power in Egypt. He believed that at his death, he would become a god. He had the man power and knowledge at his hands to build a temple and stairway to the gods for himself. It is awe inspiring to believe that any man ...
- 3992: Lord of the Flies: Essay on Jack Merridew
- ... of the book Jack was afraid of the blood, afraid of his knife, afraid of the hunt. He was scared of killing pigs, scared of what he would become if he chose the path of death and destruction. You cut a pig's throat to let the blood out, said Jack, otherwise you can't eat the meat. Why didn't you-? They knew very well why he didn't: because ... eagerness; in this case it is their eagerness for hunting. The knife, on the other hand, has a totally different symbolic meaning. For Jack and his entourage it represents the hunt, which eventually leads to death, which it also symbolizes. Jack tries to influence the knife and the hunt onto others by brute force, by painting their faces and creating a mask of deception. This was effective, because they believed that ...
- 3993: The Key To Greatness (great Ga
- ... Fitzgerald 16). Everyone knew about Tom's woman, including Daisy. Daisy would not let he feelings about the situation show through to Tom. Tom and Myrtle's love would soon bring Myrtle to her own death. Myrtle thought she saw Tom and was hit by a car as she ran into the street to flag him down. The car that hit Myrtle was being driven by Daisy Buchanan. Daisy and Tom ... 162). This is the way Gatsby felt after failing to succeed in gaining the one thing he would give his life for, Daisy's love. This great failure brought the great man to his own death. In conclusion, mistress, marriage, and true love are all very common in The Great Gatsby as well as in our world today. Gatsby never considered himself to be great because he never could obtain the ...
- 3994: Hinduism
- ... less, the "Big Bang" phenomenom. Which means hindus unlike "apocalyptic" religions think that the universe will be destroyed one morning, but instead that nature will renew itself with destruction. Human life, too, is cyclic: After death, the soul leaves the body and is reborn in the body of another person. This condition of endless entanglement in activity and rebirth is called sam-sara. Hindu believes may be divided into two groups ... god or goddess, of whom Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma and Devi are the most popular. Shiva embodies the apparently contradictory aspects of a god of asthetics and god of the phallus. He is the god of death and it's cult. An example are the many Shiva sects that imitate him: Kapalikas, who carry skulls to reenact the myth in which Shiva beheaded his father, the incestuous Brahma, and was condemned to ...
- 3995: Henry Thoreau
- ... friend and fellow scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson, keeping house and doing chores in exchange for rent and board. In 1843, he journeyed to the home of Emersons brother William to tutor. Soon after the death of John in 1842, Thoreau went to live at Walden Pond, partially as a tribute to his beloved brother. When he returned from Walden in September of 1847, he again performed an assortment of jobs ... she was 36. These events left him saddened and partially caused his retreat to Walden. Thoreau wrote many things while he was alive, and many of his stories and essays gained much acclaim after his death. He began writing Journals, a day-to-day recording of many of his ideas and observations. It would go on to span approximately 14 volumes and become a storehouse of innovative ideas. During his life ...
- 3996: Analysis of Pearl in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... the governors to allow Hester to keep Pearl, he gives the child a kiss on the forehead. This kiss hints that Dimmesdale is Pearl's father. When Hester and Pearl return from Governor Winthrop's death bed, they join Dimmesdale standing on the town's scaffold. Pearl asks Dimmesdale "Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, to-morrow noontide?" (Hawthorne 131) twice. Realizing that Arthur is her father, Pearl wants ... from her mother. Finally, at the end of the novel Hester, still wearing the scarlet letter, returns to Boston without Pearl. Although Hawthorne does not tell what happened to Pearl, the reader learns about the death of Hester. Before Hester died, she continued to wear the scarlet letter. While all alone in Boston, one can reason that Hester wore the letter to keep Pearl a part of herself. Since Pearl symbolized ...
- 3997: The Grapes Of Wrath 3
- ... rest as he passed away. It was thought by the ex-preacher, Casy, that Grandpa was dying since the day they left the home, that land was Him and without it he was dead. The death of Grandpa didn't fully hit the Joads. The only one who was effected severely by this tragic experience was Grandma. For now, after all, she was left alone. She went into fits of crying ... California, Grandma's depression became worse and worse, not effecting her already poor health. Once crossing the guard station, the Joads were faced with yet another loss to their now rapidly declining family, Grandma's death. Their next stop at a camp called Hooversville, another member of the family decided to up and leave for his own. Cassie, the husband of the soon-to-be-expecting, Rose of Sharron, decides that ...
- 3998: 1984: Summary
- 1984: Summary Nineteen eighty four is a tale of future society, a society in which independent thinking is a crime punishable by death. This is also a society who's leaders are self serving and don't set their goals for the common good by which all of the society will benefit. The party doesn't need to ... character broadcasted "criminal" thoughts for two minutes each day and enraged the citizens to the point that they gladly went to war. The Partys goal was achieved. This calculated deception lead to senseless suffering and death of numerous Party citizens and Proles. At the end of this novel the reader is left with the decision of where the crime lies. This decision is subjective. Democracy is a model of government which ...
- 3999: The Grapes Of Wrath 2
- ... The next morning they headed west again fully aware of their good fortune. After that things did not go quite as well. Grandma started to get sick, even more than her depression over grandpa's death. Their money situation was starting to get grim as well. But soon they crossed the border into California. When they got across they stopped near a river to relax. They set up camp and the ... was left of the family, except for Al, left to find a dry place. They came to a barn and went inside. In the barn was a boy and his father who was starving to death. Then Rose of Sharon agrees to feed the man. She asks everyone to leave, opens her shirt and begins to feed the starving man. The Grapes of Wrath is clearly a classic book. I enjoyed ...
- 4000: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... Tobin, Wright divorced her in 1922; the following year, he would enter into a brief, disastrous marriage with Miriam Noel. Meanwhile, he found himself with little work and few clients. In 1923, he suffered the death of his mother, and in 1924, the death of his former employer and mentor, Louis Sullivan died, and Miriam left him. In the years between the separation and the final divorce, her behavior became increasingly erratic and disturbed; her accusations cause a lot ...
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