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by LBertoli - (2017-01-25)
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What is a funeral rite, a ritual and a war memorial?

Rituals: Rituals are symbolic activities that involved people to express their deepest thoughts and feelings about life's most important events.

Funeral ritual: The funeral ritual is a symbolic gesture of expressing our beliefs, thoughts and feelings about the death of someone. The funeral ceremony helps us acknowledge the reality of the death, gives testimony to the life of the deceased.

It provides support to mourners, allows for the embracing of faith and beliefs about life and death, and offers continuity and hope for the living.

War memorial: A war memorial is a building, a statue or a edifice that have the function of commemorate those who died or were injured in war. States tryed to involve memorials to reinforce their national identities (for example they made plaques, sculptures, buildings pubblic discourses or letters.

What is its function?

Rituals: The function of the ritual is that people remember somethink that did in the past (there lots of kind of ritual, the most frequents are religiuos rituals).

Funeral ritual:The function of the funeral ritual is that people is involded to reflect about death, especially especially if it touches someone related

War memorial: The function of the war memorial is that people is involded to reflect about war and its consiquens. Indeed in England people is invited to write a letter to the unknown soldier’s statue, situate in Paddingtn station in London.