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A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral.Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
High school class valedictorian Alem Hadzic was unusually somber before delivering his commencement speech on May 16. “People were coming over to wish me luck and I was kind of blowing them off ...
A commencement speech or commencement address is a speech given to graduating students, generally at a university, although the term is also used for secondary education institutions and in similar institutions around the world. The commencement is a ceremony in which degrees or diplomas are conferred upon graduating students. A commencement ...
There are interpretations that relate "Because I could not stop for Death" specifically to Christian belief in the afterlife, reading the poem from the perspective of a "delayed final reconciliation of the soul with God." [6] In the poem, the speaker joins both "Death" and "Immortality" inside the carriage that collects her, thus personifying a ...
Livingston's speech wasn't your traditional graduation speech, instead the poet performed a spoken word piece titled "Lift Off." In the poem, Livingston speaks of the history of injustice in the ...
The month of May means many things to different people: It includes Mothers Day, of course, and is in some Christian traditions devoted as a whole to Mary as the Mother of God.
"Now, God be with you, my dear children; I have breakfasted with you, and shall sup with my Lord Jesus Christ this night." [11]: 22–23 [note 82] — Robert Bruce of Kinnaird, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (27 July 1631) Death of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden at the Battle of Lützen by Carl Wahlbom.
Kindergarten teacher Jeff Berry gave a touching speech at the Lawrence High School graduation on June 18, recognizing that many of the grads had been part of his kindergarten class when he began ...