HW 59 - SOF Prom 2011 & DSPs

I was able to ask only the one person who was at the peom last night because seems like everybody are sleeping from the active night. The answer for the question-"How was the Prom" this person said that it was mad fun and firts part of it it just a social thing where everybody are being in the small groups of their friends and they just discussed about different things and the second part was an afterparty where everybody just did crazy things after which they are not able to do something next day.
 My Prom would be going by the same scenario because this is a good possibility to do that things. Just need to wait till the next year end and the doors to the Prom are waiting for us and experience we will get, probably will be one of the most memorable in our lifes.
Next day I got a chance to ask one more person about the Thursdays Prom and basically what that person said is that the Prom is a mix of the things which contains a good and bad periods during the Prom. Everbody could not held their emotions and something was out of control. People at the Prom are making their night by themselves and the conclusion of that will depend only by their emotions. I am pretty sure that relationship between the sudents, has been changed after this event.It could be in the good way or bad.

HW 58 - Prom Interviews

I got an interview with my friends who will have a Prom this year and I will write an important things which they said.
They were preparing for a Prom at least 4 months and they are very confident that it is worth it. Very important to organize this event very well and don't rush with something and take it very seriously. I asked them about what is in their plans for the Prom and they both said that they will do everything that they will able to do because this time will be to show yourself from inside and show that what person do you really represent. Also it will be a very nice time to have a much fun. They told me that the organizers of the Prom party brought a huge amount of money from each person(I will not tell how much) and it seems like they will remember it forever. I asked the question about the alcohol on this event and they said definitely everybody will be drunk because it is the first step of the chill out time.
From this short interview I understood that everybody has a very similar predictions for this event and everything what will be good or bad on this event,will depend on them.Everything in their hands,they need just to realize the things they wish to do.
Person who been on the Prom:
His name is Shah and he is my the brother of my best friend
He is 19 years old and he been on the prom when he was 17.
Question: How is everything gone?
Everything gone great, Almost everybody got a fun time and got a good memories for it.
What did you do on the Prom?
Well, I was there with my girlfriend and almost the all time I spent with her and we were laughing on everybody on this Event, We drunk alcohol, everybody was a drunk and other things like that.
How many hours you spent on the Prom?
It hard to remember but I am sure that it was a whole night till the morning but the best thing of the Prom is that on this night you can get in small groups of the people who could be interesting for you and even after the vent you could meet together and discuss the thing which everybody did on this night like for a next few days and you still have a good way of time passing.
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In my opinion he really got a good time and I am pretty sure that he will remember it for a long time.
Finally I asked my parents about what did they do and how was their Prom.
My Mom said that she got a very positive memories from it and she remember everybody who was on there. They got a lot of the dancing, laughing and tenders. She showed me a very old photos and I really enjoyed the clothing they were wearing for this event.
My father said absolutely the same things!


So the Prom is a very cool way of the time spending and have a lot of fun. All of these opinions shows that the most of the people got a great time and memories but you can feel it for 100% percent when you get on this event by yourself.!

HW 57 - Initial Thoughts on Prom

The Prom
This word represents something significant for each graduated student. We are able to imagine how we will be dressed for this event and what we will do during this party. In my opinion the best thing of this is the memories from that. It will make a special spot in new life that you will remember for a long time and could discuss it among your friends and share the feeling you got from the Prom night. It is like a passage to the real adult life. This Prom night we are able to do whatever we want without a modesty to get the emotions which will change your life. I remember the good quote that I think approaches the Prom topic: "Forget the ceremonial appearance, everyone knows that only remember leaving"
     I think that only after that night you could really understand what did you do and how other react to it. Did you do something that remembered everybody form this event and this is a thing that makes a feeling that everything done for the fully 100% percent and it is memorable. The Prom includes the bunch of stuff such as
dresses,suits,hairstyle,make up, relation ship,boyfriend,girlfriend,alcohol,sex,jokes.laughing, etc.
     I know at least 60 persons who are going to the really really organized well Prom this summer and all of them are ready to take everything that will happen on that day because they understand that this is very important time period for their rating among the others and everything will depends on their actions.
I think that the most intersting things on this topic which we could explore next week are the different true stories which includes the disgusting things of the characters and their reaction to that.
So the Prom is an another possibility to get very useful experience and share it with somebody maybe on the next day ao 5,10,15 years later. It  is still a significant moment in your life and I also think that the ticket for a good memories is to be more open on this night to gain some respect from the others and make an attention to yourself.

HW 56 - Culminating Project Comments

For Rossi
http://rossi63blog.blogspot.com/2011/05/hw-55-culminating-project-care-of-dead.html#comments
Rossi,your discussion was very interesting to read for me because you answered the questions which tells everything related to your project.You stand for you opinion and it makes it more interesting.In your interview,people tells you about how they want to be cemented or not.You recorded their opinions which are different!Good job!

For Anthony
http://anthony63blog.blogspot.com/2011/05/hw55.html#comments
Anthony, When I read thru your project I really was surprised and actually I really enjoyed what the person you got Interview said about his wishes about what he want from people who came to the his funeral when he will be dead.I found it funny because it seems like this person is really love his job in the funeral home and he seems like a very positive and happy Person.He explained why and when he decided to work in the funeral home and I understood that many people enjoy that job and they are happy to do their work in that because it is a regular job.

For Willie
http://treystar3.blogspot.com/2011/05/hw-55-culminating-project-care-of-dead.html
Willie
You got all significant information, we should know about the difference between the funerals of different religions.You explained all of the ways how is religion
Affected the funeral.The most interesting part for me was about an Egypt people.what do they do and how.You said that egyptIans got a very specific way and things to do with a dead body and that they placed Wrapped body into the tomb but in my opinion this is a significance for them and the tomb represents a power of what this human did before he died.You did a good job and made the reader interest to read your project

From Mentor
http://dimazaitoff.blogspot.com/2011/05/hw-55-culminating-project-care-of-dead.html#comments
It is very difficult to decide what to do with dead bodies. If they really do emit contaminants, it makes sense to dispose of them in a safe manner to prevent the spread of disease. However, dead bodies hold great importance in many cultures and must be respected. In this situation, culrural rituals and beliefs about the dead should supercede any supposed harm unless it is absolutely proven.

xc - COTD5

Six Feet Under (Episodes 1-3)

1. "Pilot". Six Feet Under. The Complete First Season DVD. HBO. 2003.
Nathaniel owns a funeral home and is in a car accident. His family has to take over and run his funeral business.  Everybody has their own problems, but they have to work together to make the family business work. In this episode, the death of Nathaniel brings his family together.

2. "The Will". Six Feet Under. The Complete First Season DVD. HBO. 2003.
A businessman is killed and his pool.  He was cheating people out of money. The two brothers have an argument because they each now have 50 percent of the business. So, none of them is the complete owner of the funeral home. It is funny that they are fighting about who will be the boss of a business that deals with dead people. It is like they both want to be a part of the process of death.

3. "The Foot". Six Feet Under. The Complete First Season DVD. HBO. 2003.
A man is killed because a mixer turns on and cuts him up when he is cleaning it.  Also, Nate wants to sell the business because he is afraid to be around death.  He wants to sell it to a bigger business.  In this episode, I can see that death is an important thing and that is why Nate has trouble deciding if he wants to sell it to the company or not.

All things which are happened in these episodes, gave me a reason to watch more episodes because I've never seen before such as this topic in the movies or other shows. This show is related to the care of the dead because all situations in there goes around the death and other things which are related to the death.All characters have their own emotions and opinions on anything what happenenig in the show. As I understood the story line goes on the buisness track where people will make their relationship more harder or better. I think the money has a big role in the story because a lot of things are going around it. Another thing that I found interesting is firstable all characters care about themself which means they are trying to surrvive in that world by doing the deals without thinking what could happen if they do this.It includes the famous terms of the life: Love,Money,Death.....
I guess the funeral industry will affect many stories in the show and because the authors wanted to show how it is important and seems like they did it very well!

xc - COTD2

The movie "Harold and Maude" was showed a different way that people deal with death.  The movie is about Harold, a boy who loves death and always pretends to kill himself.  His mother knows it is always fake and never gives him any attention.  I think that he tries to kill himself many times because he wants to get his mother's attention and shock her.  And every time she ignores him makes him want attention even more. Harold meets Maude at a funeral and they begin to spend time together because they are both very interested in death.  Maude is very old, but Harold falls in love with her and wants to marry her.  He sees himself in her and is attracted to her because they have the same interest in death. Harold's mother does not have the same relaxed view about death like Harold and Maude.  She is not happy that her son is marrying such an old woman and tries to set him up on dates.  But Harold keeps pretending to kill himself and scares off all of the dates.

The movie talks about death in a different way.  Many people are very scared to die and do not want to talk about death.  But this movie uses death as humor and makes you see it in a more comfortable way.  It is even funny to see Harold keep killing himself in many different ways throughout the movie.  Harold and Maude also both keep visiting funerals for fun and Harold even drives a hearse. They are both interested in the idea of dying and that is what brings them together.

But in the end of the movie, Maude kills herself by taking too many sleeping pills.  Harold cannot save her. It is interesting how Harold wanted death during the entire movie, but became afraid when someone he loved was dying.  He did not really understand it because he never had to experience seeing someone that he cared about die in front of him. Harold loved funerals and death because they made up for something inside that he was missing.  When he met Maude at a funeral, now she filled that spot instead of death.  That is why when she died he had a hard time dealing with it.

xc - COTD1

Last weeked I walked around the Linden Hill Cemetery and New York City Marble Cemetery. Unfortunately it was a rainy day but it didn't affect my opinion about these places.The cemetries are always silent and and very well-kept. Every thing is done well: clean roads, green trees and nice bushes. When I walked around it, I started to think about the people who been here before and why they had been there. The people who came to the cemetary all express a different emotion. Some cry because they miss the person who passed away and others just come to speak to them as if they are still alive.  But all people come to the cemetary for one main reason, to keep the memory of a loved friend or family member alive.

The cemetry also gives us an ability to imagine the funeral process of each grave. You try to guess what happened to this person by looking at the dates of his dead and how many years he or she lived on this world. I believe that cemetaries are a home for our souls and when we're coming to the grave of the person we knew before, we can speak to them. This is normal because most of the people think that thay could hear us but could not respond. Cemetary is a place which is located between our world and the God that we believe in. I really enjoyed walking there because for twenty minutes I forgot any problem that I have in my life and relaxed by looking around the beatiful place. As I respectfully walked around, I felt very peaceful.

When I was there, I realized how the cemetaries change throughout life. When I was very young, I was very afraid of them and never wanted to go there.  I just imagined all of the dead people under the ground that I walk on.  Now that I am older I understand why they are important.  They give people a chance to say goodbye to their family members and friends and remember them forever. When people become even older than I am now, they begin to plan for death by buying graves in cemetaries.  They try to find places next to their loved ones.

xc - COTD3

Here I would like to write my opinion about the scienctific museum " Bodies Exhibit" (BE) where I've been last weekend. The museum is located in a beautiful place in downtown of the New York City near the sea port. There were a lot of people(tourists and just a residents of NYC) who were visiting this museum.It shows that the museum is a very famous and many people know about it. The main idea of the museum is to show us the human body from inside with interesting facts of that. As I remember in the first room of the BE I saw two skeletons which were doing different actions and I observed their movement to see how our muscles are working when we are move. The very important fact of this museum is that all exihibits there are  real and that makes it tottaly the same to our body. Also on the liitle table I read the intersting fact that if all our muscles are work together, we could lift the weight almost the 10 tons. In the next room we can see the brains and the breathing system of the human and the best thing of this room is a place where we can compare lungs of the normal and smoking person and we can see that the person who is smooking has an issue with his breathing system and in front of this showcase is a big plastic cube where everybody who is smoking could drop their pack of cigarretes and there were about one hundred packs in it. I was really surprised when I saw it. My favorite room is the blood circulation and pulse room. This room is made with a red light from many screens which shows the blood circulation and we can hear the pulse noise from there which makes us feel like we are inside the body. I enjoyed the trip to this museum because I have never been before in the place like that. We could learn many interesting and smart things from there which we will never forget because this is a real bodies like we have and all things are true.

Some people may have problems with the exhibit because it puts people that have died in front of others like a spectacle.  They think that this does not show respect for the dead people and uses them to make money.  It is also possible that some of the bodies are of prisoners or murdered people, so it seems wrong to make money from their deaths.

HW 55 - Culminating Project - Care of the Dead

Are Dead Bodies Dangerous?,
So after we passed enough information which relates to the care of the dead, I would like to discuss this topic because I found this really intersting and it has a myth element which could make us to think about that is it real or not.What we learned before it was a basic " Care of the Dead " things which soon or late we still have to know about it. Are Dead Bodies Dangerous?-this type of questions is very serious because it could be related to our health. We should think about very specifically because we need an evidence which could prove our questions!
"Funeral industry members frequently claim that dead bodies are a source of contagion to the public, and that embalming is necessary to prevent the spread of disease."
This quote represents an opinion of John Q.-funeral director and it means that this could be problem for our eco system and we need to find a solution for that. BUT this also which is probably just a funeral myth. Many scientific evidence were found against it but journalism makes their job! It seems terrible that in the fututre when there would be more dead bodies underground, we would breath infected particles that could be a first step of the disease.
It’s important to remember that this is not a matter of opinion, but of facts. "He said, she said" stories are not appropriate. We often see articles that read like this:

"John Q. funeral director says embalming helps prevent the spread of disease, but consumer advocates say this isn't so."
Some specialista says that dead bodies should be far away from the people and should be on the special territories which mady with special construction that will protect the clear air from the infected particles.
For example: dead bodies must be buried in a casket and a vault to prevent “contamination” of groundwater.
The myth of contagion from dead bodies is one of the most persistent of the American funeral industry, and it's important for journalists to know there is no evidence.
So we could understand that this myth is not true but I would NOY YET!because we never know,maybe someday we will reach a top of unembalmed bodies and this will be a danger for us and will affect our healt and ecology system of our system which already is not good so far. We could compare it to the research we did before and we will find a several aspects which makes this topic very different to discuss.

HW 54 - Independent Research B

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.(Matthew)
To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven. ²⁸ You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him.’ ²⁹ The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. ³⁰ He must become greater; I must become less.(John)


I belive in christianity and when I read their articles and opinions(idk how exactly it called) and I want to say that I tottaly agree with them because I always believed and knew that it is right to believe only one God and follow the traditions which are true for the religion you believe. The person who believes in two Gods or more, I think he just confused in his self and he doesn't really know what tradition he should follow. I think by following the traditions of what you believe, shows a respect and seriousness to it and this makes your life being settled up by all traditions and aspects of your God. Also people should choose which they feels comfortable but never change it in the future.
Actually I didn't find the philosopher who is able to answer the questions about the afterlife and so I asked my family friend again who spent 7 years in funeral service. I asked him that how does he think what is waiting for us when we will die. He told me that the answer foe this question depends on what the person who is trying to think about, believe in and that this type of the question just shows our wishes. He sad that we need keep believe in what we want to see afterlife and you never know what will be...maybe we could be right.

 For Christians whose lives are guided by the Bible, the reality of death is acknowledged as part of the current human condition, affected by sin . There is "a time to be born, and a time to die"Although eternal life is a gift that is granted to all who accept salvation through Jesus Christ, faithful Christians await the second coming of Jesus for complete realization of their immortality. While waiting for Jesus to come again, Christians may be called upon to care for the dying and to face personally their own death.


The live and death is a natural process and religion helps to figure out what would be after life. The lives stops, but travalling of your soul is still on the way. When you believe in religion, you feel safer. It's like a shield to your soul.

sources:
http://www.findyourfate.com/deathmeter/religion-death.htm
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/religion-and-death-penalty

HW 53 - Independent Research A

I found interesting article in the NYT which is related to the "Death" theme.

Making Choices for End-of-Life Care

The new Medicare regulation covering physicians’ discussions with their patients about end-of-life issues is once again under attack by right-wing ideologues. The new rule is specifically designed to give patients the opportunity to explain their wishes about end-of-life care to their personal physicians. It represents a thoughtful and valuable step toward allowing patients to control decisions about their own health care.
It is an ability for the patients to release their thoughts and tell somebody their opinion about the life ending. I found it interesting because it is pretty weird question which maybe in some ways is hard to answer because you are not really imagine that how is their life will end but they have a choices and ability to wish how they want to make a thing which would be memorable to other members of the family and to the friends. It is their own choice which will be not judgemental.
"The proposal in the health care reform legislation to encourage physicians to counsel patients and their families regarding end-of-life issues was welcomed by the vast majority of health care providers. Its exclusion from the final bill was a disservice to Americans.
Modern medicine has much to offer to critically ill patients, but too often life-supporting technologies are employed with little or no hope of recovering to a meaningful existence. Pre-emptive contemplation and advisement is essential to a person’s well-being.
Advance directives, or “living wills,” are statements made by an individual dictating his or her wishes for end-of-life treatment and offer great comfort to families who are confronted with difficult choices in a crisis.
People’s end-of-life wishes should be discussed in advance with their physician, who knows them well, rather than nervously discussed with an unfamiliar provider with whom they have no personal relationship"
I totally agree with this article because I think that each family should get a special help and good support of physican specialists for FREE.

Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live

In this article author discuss abouth how the health care center should motivate their patients and make them understand that there is always a reason to fight for the live and you should never give up. Health center employs always should be helpful and pay deep attention to their patients and also help them morally because this is one of the important things of the supporting.

I asked my Mom's friend who spent 6 years in funeral service and my questions were about the families which placed orders in their service.I asked about the feelings while this process is going. He told me that it depends from the religion of the people because there are many religions that makes people to believe in death differently and all of their feelings and maner of speech depends from this thing.Most of them were sad but some people looked very normal and seemed that they understand that the death is a natural process but also very significant to spend the time to do the things they should do about the funeral.

HW 52 - Third Third of the COTD Book

The precis:
Some character(the doesn't says) read an article in the newspaper about killed pregnant teenager in the accident in unwed mothers. she dropped from the 3rd floor on the cement spot and broke her neck. The body was discovered only on the coming morning by the the gardener. The medics arrived soon and checked if the baby still alive but unfortunately not.
Quotes:
"All of us have to live with decisions we've made, and sometimes we make decisions that are ill informed or without thought of possible consequences."
This quote actually is true and it is a live process. Sometimes our mind just cannot think about the future consequences and we automatically doing the things without a thinking about what really could happen if we would do this.
"I was not a captive in the same manner,but whenever I wanted to express myself creatively I was equally a prisoner."
This quote represents the features of the person and his manner and shows that everybody is different and the actions of the people affected by the emotions.
I will connect the "mortician diaries" to the "guide to ChildBirth" by Ina Mays.It is a very diiferent units by their main ideas and emotions. In "mortican diaries" we start thinking about the and of the life, that death is a last step of our existing and starts thinking abouth what's will be afterlife. Also this book shows us that how difficult and painful to loose a member of your family or just a friend. In "guide to ChildBirth" we getting an experience abouth the new life and the beginning of the life and what response ability we should have to make it clearly and do everything right for a newbirth. BUT these two units are the same in one thing! that the death and birth are very significant time spots in everybody's life who is related to this two topics.

Hw 51

The second third of my book tells us a stories about the funeral and how the characters emotionally react to it.I noted that the author of this book using a details which are in different ways significant to the characters and it makes this book very close to the original feelings that feels people when something happened to them.
Précis: Janice and Andrew were married and Andrew died after open heart surgery. Janice tells the story to the main character about their wedding. How they were different but felt in love and she tells the interesting thing about the husband that asked when he will die, don't use any funeral services and Janice accepted it. I also noticed that always when something ends, we starts to thinks about the beginning and how everything started.

Quotes: "They decided when they married that they wouldn't have children because they both wanted to travel extensively." 
This quote shows that the lovers wanted to enjoy their life together and that they didn't want children early it is not bad because they wanted to enjoy the life and then to make a family. always Sad when the wishes a broken.
Quote" she told me she was an only child. Her father died three years ago and was buried in our cemetery."
I found it very sad because it always painful to loose important person in your life as a child because children already will take the life very serious but this is not right and this is very important thing of life changing.
I took a very big experience from reading. I started to imagine he life's of the people who lost somebody and I understand that this a life and always could something happen.