Hw#48

I interviewed two people in my family I asked them questions about past experiences on people that have died in there families. The first person I interviewed told me a story about her father in law. She told me that her father in law died and she decided to organize a funeral and she told me the process of getting your loved ones into funeral homes. She had to pay to put him in the funeral home and she told me she paid for the clothes her father in law would have on and she paid for the coffin and she wanted to have a wake for him. She said you must take care of the dead good and you must pray over them every day. She is very religious and she talked mostly about praying over the dead. The other person I interviewed was a kid i know he explained how his grandfather died and how his grandfather wanted to have a burial and a funeral. He told me how his parents took the planning very serious. When he went to the funeral he told me that it was a better nice funeral home and it cost a lot of money he didn't want to tell me how much his parents sent on it. I asked the kid what he thought about death and how he felt about it he said that everyone is going to die and how everyone has to live without regrets and he thinks that we all go to heaven and we will be fine when we die. He had good thoughts about death and he was very positive just like the first person I interviewed.

Hw#46

I dont have a lot of personal experience with the care of the dead except for when my grandfather died the whole process from when he died and when he got buried was a long process. We had to go to the hospital to confirm things I was very small at the time I wouldn't know what they had to confirm or sign. Then they bought a coffin and had to arrange dates with the funeral home. My parents wanted my grandfather dressed in a certain way and wanted him to look a certain way. When I think of funeral homes I think of a place to come together and meet and catch up and respect the person who has died. My grandfather wanted his death to be more like a party then just a funeral. I was taught to respect the dead and to never speak wrong about anyone who is dead. My parents especially my mom thinks we should help out with any care of the dead arrangements that come up in the family or with her friends she wants to help out as much as she can.

I guess you can say open caskets can be considered a social norm because plenty of people rather have there loved ones seen so everyone can look at him and touch him and for loved one's I've seen people kiss the dead. Many people like the idea of cremation which is when instead of having a open or closed casket funeral you burn the person into ashes and you can spread them out anywhere the person who died wants the ashes spread. I find that way very interesting and I found out that my parents rather be cremated instead of buried. Like I said before my parents have extreme respect for the people who have died and never talks downs to people who have died. They are religious people and they think talking about the dead is bad and should not be brought up without bringing up god.

Hw#44

Steph

You chose to go and dig deeper on adoption and you found restrictions and you found out about the thoughts of others on people adopting. I really enjoyed reading this post and I thought it was interesting that you did research on this topic. This project is important to me because now if I ever want to adopt I now know what I can do. You did a really good job!

Max, 

In this project you looked at different reasons why anyone would want to become an OB/GYN and how to become one. I valued all the information I was really interested how much you get paid to deliver babies. This project mattered to me because Im glad I know more about OB/GYN's. Maybe you could put more charts and about the salary's and statistics but I enjoyed the project good job!

Harry,

Your project was interviewing your friends dad and getting answers to the questions you wanted answered. I liked that your project was talking about overseas adoption because I never knew someone who adopted overseas and I find it extremely interesting. This project matters to me because if my wife cant get pregnant adopting overseas would definitely be on my mind. I enjoyed your project good job!

Hw#42

Jay, Rossi and I went to Roosevelt Hospital and went to the labor unit in the hospital. We interviewed 3 people at the hospital the Nurse Manager of the whole labor unit, a Nurse who wanted to be unanimous and we interviewed the Director of the Parent/Family Education section of the hospital. We asked them questions about there job and about home birth vs. hospital births. When we interviewed the Nurse Manager she said something really interesting when we asked her the question Do you think its right that doctors are trained to think of birth as a surgical procedure? and she said "its not that doctors aren't trained I don't think they are educated enough in the ways of natural birth" that answer really surprised me because I wouldn't expect the Nurse Manager of the whole labor unit in a hospital to say something like that. We asked the Nurse who wanted to be unanimous Do you think the use of epidoral and pitocin are beneficial toward the mother or baby? she said how she would rather have birth be as natural as possible and she also said doctors are forgetting to births natural and how they need to go back to the old ways of how births were she also explained how she loved the movie we watched in class.