According to some graphs, Facebook's "crossover date"" (the date when the dead outnumber the living) will come sometime around 2065. ... In his article "Death On Facebook Now Common As ˜Dead Profiles' Create Vast Virtual Cemetery, " Jaweed Kaleem presents a new Facebook tendency to transform dead users' pages into memorial sites. ... His friend is against any activity on the dead's page, because he considers that people should respect one's privacy. ... The status "online " of a dead person makes people who know what happened feel uncomfortable if not terrified....

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Dead Poets Society is a thought provoking film as it plays with our thoughts and feelings. Dead Poets Society makes us think as it shows us themes, which relate to our lives. ... The film Dead Poets Society lingered in the minds of the viewers, as it was a realistic movie, which made you think. ... We see Todd and Charlie's reaction when they are told Neil is dead. ...

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Sizwe Bansi is Dead When we die, there is nothing we can leave behind except for the memory of ourselves. ... In Sizwe Bansi is Dead he has his photograph taken to send to his wife; we bear in mind a defined man, well, dressed posing in a distinguished manner. ...

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This man will have to either push the dead doe off the road and into the river, or leave it here and give the fawn a slim chance at life. ... And also the aspect of accepting death, in Frost's poem civilization does not care after the boy dies, but in Stafford's the man making the decision cares deeply of the young fawn inside the dead doe. ...

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The dead man appears to be a good man, and is concerned about everyone he left behind in the living world, and wants to know if they have moved on. ... The dead man's friend seems to be unfaithful, not lying to the dead man, yet not telling him the whole story of what is going on in the living world. It seems to me that the friend of the dead man is sleeping with his wife. The dead man's sweetheart is not weeping any longer and is well contented, and this gives me the impression that the sweetheart and the friend may have arranged the death of the deceased man. The poem seems ...

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There is a confusion of tenses, "the dead man lay moaning", however, the poet is using the dead man as a symbol for her own feelings of isolation; by just existing he embodies all she is trying to say and so is in effect "moaning" to her. ... The poet uses the first person narrative ambiguously and speaks on two layers using the persona of the dead man to speak her own thoughts. ... It becomes apparent that people did not realise how the dead man felt, putting his death down to a practical joke gone wrong "he always loved larking". ... The cold factual tone of "And now he's dead" shows...

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And I declared that the dead, who already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. ... However, he then changed his mind and said that it's better to be alive than to be dead. ... He states that dead people lack two important things: reward and memory. "Anyone who is among the living has hope---even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! ... The final reason the narrator believes that being alive is better than being dead is memory. ...

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Dia de los Muertos Introduction A foreign tradition that I observe the first week of November every year is Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). ... All of these wares are provided for purchase for the buyer's ofrenda de muertos (offering to the dead), an altar stationed in the living quarters to enshrine the departed. These altars can be very simple or very elaborate, full of objects that pleased the dead person in life, including their favorite food and drink. Additionally, the altars made for the souls of dead children will include toys, candies and treats. ... In Mexic...

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By now, many of the crew are dead, and most of the rest have lost all hope of rescue. ... April 2ed, 9:00 PM The Florizel spotted 6 dead sealers from the Newfoundland crew. ... April 3rd, 1914 The news of 64 dead reaches St John's via telegraph. ... The totals are 8 missing, and 64 dead bodies, all identified and tagged. ... And they prepared hot water to thaw the dead. ...

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Kemmerich is dead, Haie Westhus is dying Martens has no legs anymore, Meyer is dead, Max is dead, Beyer is dead, Hammerling is dead it is a damnable business, but what has it to do with us now "we live."" ...

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Accidentally, he finds old woman in the tower who is pulling out the hair from the dead person. At first, he finds himself extremely furious toward old woman whom he considers as desecrating the dead body. ... He grabs hold of an old woman and questions her what she was doing to the dead body. ... But when the old woman tells him that she's doing such thing in order to survive and the dead woman whom she was pulling the hair from will understand the old woman too because the dead woman used to sell snake, faking to her buyer that it's a fish. ... No body cares about the corpse, and s...

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But in myths across cultures, humans often have the ability to challenge death, to follow in its footsteps and retrieve their dead loved ones. ... As such, there is always an afterlife where the dead go to continue living after deaths in mythology. ... " The young warrior in the Algonquin myth found "an ancient wise man" who "who recited some magic chants [to make] the warrior's spirit leave his body" so the warrior could continue to search for his dead bride. ... Equally present in the myths of men are the attempts to bring a loved one back from the dead; unfortu...

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Most of those ads are either, images of body bags, or dead bodies. ... It says, "Drop Dead Day,"" "In Front of a Major tobacco Company,"" and "The Death Counter."" ... The title "Drop Dead Day"" all associated to those dead bodies lying on the floor, as if they all drop dead at once. This "Drop Dead Day"" image that I chose definitely speaks the truth about smoking and any other tobacco usage. ... In addition, the image's diction gives me a vibe that tobacco usage is a dead end for us. ...

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The jackal had gone onto the roof of his father's house, God, believing that he was dead to mourn for him. ... The resurrection dance was what consecrated the passage of the dead to the ranks of their ancestors. ... Dancing is also important because they are dancing the life of the dead person. ...

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In Act 3 Scene 2 Line 21 Juliet imagines Romeo being dead and among the stars, she also cannot help what she is feeling. ... "I dreamt my lady came and found me dead." Which is almost exactly what happens two scenes later when Juliet awakens to find Romeo dead. There are many times in the play where they dream of death, for example in Act 3 Scene 5 Line 56 Juliet has a premonition of seeing Romeo dead in the bottom of a tomb, which is also almost exactly what happens at the end of the play. ...

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Even though she is already found dead, he logically blames Peabody for Addie's death. ... He cannot bear the fact that she is dead. ... The innocence is seen through with what he relates his mother with and how he pretends to let his mother breath, even though she is dead. In his thoughts, Vardaman achieved to keep his mother alive by mentally transforming Addie from one thing to another, searching for a way to keep her alive even though she is dead, and accusing someone else for her death. ...

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Here I think that dead, mutilated people should not be shown. In many Islamic countries it is normal that the dead bodies are shown on tv, but I think it is tasteless and disrespectful towards the deceased. ... Imagine if someone was exposed to footage of dead people all day, every day. If then that person was confronted with an actual dead body it would not shock him and/or it would not even seem strange to him. ...

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He had been dead for ten years."... This leads into the passing of her father to which she believed that he was not dead even after he had died."She told them that her father was not dead. ... The town had found the body of Homer Barron in a bedroom, dead for some time. ...

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"When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes."" (34) Billy does not feel remorse or anger when he hears of the war in Vietnam because it is just a frame in time, which has, is and always will happen. ... "I, Billy pilgrim, the tape begins, will die, have died and always die in February thirteenth, 1967." (180) At ...

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Different hard to explain coincidences are many people report seeing a bright light or can remember what happened while they were brain dead on the operating table. How come there are many people that experience close to the same thing if they are brought back from being dead? ... If the brain is dead and there is not a heartbeat, the mind can't think or daydream. ... Not everyone has a positive experience, but it is still an experience they went through after they were dead. ...

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The foremost section of the poem introduces the seemingly routine task of transporting dead bodies as if it were trivial. ... Additionally the word 'them', integrated so casually, supports the dehumanizing tone intended to display detachment of the living from the dead. ... 'Bringing', 'picking', 'zipping', 'tagging', and 'giving' once again provide a horrible contrast between the living and the dead, as the verbs, as simple as they are, indicate the vibrancy and liveliness of those bringing home the dead, lifeless bodies. ... This m...

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However, Haimon finds Antigone dead, hanging from a noose that she created. ... The reader can firmly picture this image and can feel the pain and remorse of the dead son even as he struggles to stay alive when he is dead. ... Antigone tries to take care of Polyneices dead body, just like birds try to defend their young. In "Antigone"," a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles, Antigone, buries her dead brother even though the king, Creon, forbids anyone to do so. ...

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The graveyard draws the living still/ but never anymore the dead," (lines 1-4) clearly illustrates the background. ... Throughout the poem, Robert Frost uses a cheerful rhyme scheme with short and long i's (hill with still, and rhyme with time), and he talks about the theme in a mocking tone with oxymorons (grassy tread, graveyard draws the living, dead will come, men are shrinking, now forever, believe the lie). ... The author uses the gravestones as a motif that symbolizes the dead and personifies the gravestones as dead humans with the experience of death. ... "How no one dead will ...

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But now he is dead and the father cries for him. ... Now that his son is dead, his soul (his house) is crumbling, break into very small pieces. ... Apostrophe is addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or thing were present and alive and could reply. ... In fact, his son is already dead and he could not reply what his father says. We can also find apostrophe in the third stanza as the father also seems like he is talking to his son who is already dead. ...

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In the first stanza Stevens gives the descriptions of all the characters but the dead, which due to the customs of the times were most likely neighbors of the deceased. ... The only reference to the dead woman in the first stanza is in line 7, "Let be be finale of seem", which not only reveals the unimportance of the deceased, but shows the indifference of the characters to her death. ... The second stanza contains the description of the dead woman and a couple of her belongings (not to mention a much darker undertone). ... Still, the dead woman is covered with a sheet of her own making, show...

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