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Anne Notated Bibliography is fundamentally differently from you and me. See, she has many different sources that made her, and explanations for how they contribute to her personality, unlike how I have only guesses to why I do stuff and why i want to do stuff, and how that idea even got in my head. Here, we see what Anne looks like, with perhaps a few formatting issues, and by no means in her entirety.

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Mr. Grimm

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9/26/17

Annotated Bibliography

Al-Rubeyi, BI. “Mortality Before and After the Invasion of Iraq in 2003.” Lancet, vol. 364 North American Edition, no. 9448, 20 Nov. 2004, pp. 1834-1835.

This is an article on the deaths in Iraq, especially civilian casualties caused by allied forces. There is a conflict between two numbers, one close to one hundred thousand, and the other closer to ten thousand. The ten thousand number is based of deaths captured by the media, so the author argues the nearly one hundred thousand number is much closer as many incidents go unreported. This article also touches on political responsibility for those deaths, and has a quote from Lt Col Richard Long about censoring the media about civilian death, “Frankly our job is to win the war. Part of that is information warfare. So we are going to attempt to dominate the information environment”

I want a better article for the war section, but this is the best I could find right now. It mentions political responsibility for death, which is kind of what I want to get at.

Garces-Foley, Kathleen. “Hospice and the Politics of Spirituality.” Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, vol. 53, no. 1/2, May 2006, pp. 117-136. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2190/53LR-WBR4-G89T-EWBN.

This is a critique of how hospice care is conducted in terms of its management of a facility that has many varied religious beliefs and degrees of that belief. The author concludes that because of many hospices promoting one certain spirituality, there ends up with many patients irritated or estranged in their beliefs, and the even more religious ones without the resources to practice as they would like.

This article is useful especially for this quote, “spirituality, like religion, is a culturally constructed category promoted by particular people with particular goals” which is from the author, in a study. I will use this quote for one of my opening lines on the topic of how religions use death and how death affects people’s religion. Also, it can be referenced in my planned religion section, in how religions have power in certain after death beliefs that instantly appeal to people in life-threatening situations.

Hjelmeland, Heidi and Birthe L. Knizek. “Suicide and Mental Disorders: A Discourse of Politics, Power, and Vested Interests.” Death Studies, vol. 41, no. 8, Sept. 2017, pp. 481-492. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/07481187.2017.1332905.

This is a paper critiquing the widely accepted fact that mental illness is the primary cause of suicide. They challenge this based for the fact that when someone is dead, they cannot answer questions. Therefore, the people answering questions about the dead person’s mental condition will not be accurate. Also, since it is widely known that mental illness causes suicide, witness testimonies will be more likely to fit that supposed common knowledge. The authors as well take time to comment on how politics and the media influence what people believe on this topic.

I will use this source in my loosely planned suicide paragraph as a basis for statistics, as well as for how suicide can be used as a power play by people in power, and also touch on what suicide is and does for the suicidal person. I can use this article as a reason to say “it’s not fully understood” if I want to as well.

Moestrup, Lene and Niels Christian Hvidt. “Where Is God in My Dying? A Qualitative Investigation of Faith Reflections among Hospice Patients in a Secularized Society.” Death Studies, vol. 40, no. 10, Nov/Dec2016, pp. 618-629. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/07481187.2016.1200160.

This is a study of 16 Danish people’s religious beliefs in hospice care, the majority with cancer diagnoses. The goal is to identify how people’s religious beliefs evolve when they know they are likely to die. The people studied mostly did not adhere strictly to what religious background they had; instead, they looked for explanations that fit their situations. Despite the majority of those questioned never going to church, many held religious sentiments while in their end of life care.

I will use this study in my loosely planned section on religion, and how religion gains power with the concept of death, and how that applies too followers. By having afterlife policies, religions are more likely to capture believers, especially people in situations such as those in the study due to a comforting reassurance that you are not alone. This article also shows how people’s beliefs changes with circumstances, which I can use to further argue about the power of having an afterlife doctrine.

I hope her errors don’t scare you off. Even if you don’t like her, she has her uses.

Till next time.

cinsearly,

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From what I can tell from the first section of Paradise Lost, Its Satan in Hell after being kicked out by God. Then he meets someone, Death?, and he doesn’t really like him. At some point a bit later, a female gatekeeper who turns out to be Death’s mom, with Satan as the dad, appears. Her name is Sin? She talks about being raped by her own son and spawning monsters from herself hourly. Then they talk about finding a new place to be able to roam freely and destroy together.  I give a brief summary for a couple of reasons. First, to show my weak confidence in what is happening. I admit to having difficulties reading the archaic language, especially as a poem. Second,  It is hard to find a literal parallel in current events. But if we take out the more infernal details, it is a story that has happened before. Exiles regroup and plan to head out for new lands, and do to them according to their nature…

I AM NOT SAYING IMMIGRANTS ARE EVIL. In Milton’s Paradise lost, evil things head to earth for evil purposes. With immigrants, especially refugees, there is a link in people who loose their original homeland look for new places to have a life. Death, Sin, and Satan want to come to earth to ply their trades, and so do immigrants. They come to make good food and be friendly neighbors. They come to be kind and hardworking workers. They come to find a place for their families. People don’t want to leave their homelands. In Paradise Lost, Satan and his fallen angels fought to be in heaven, just as anyone would prefer to stay home than be forced out. Many people in the country seem to think letting immigrants in is like welcoming Death and Sin in…

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

–Real estate mogul Donald Trump, presidential announcement speech, June 16, 2015

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/08/donald-trumps-false-comments-connecting-mexican-immigrants-and-crime/?utm_term=.d06cbd74189f

However, Analyses of census data from 1980 through 2010 show that among men ages 18 to 49, immigrants were one-half to one-fifth as likely to be incarcerated as those born in the United States. “Some, I assume, are good people”  just doesn’t sound as good to voters as “Almost all of them work for their families and take extreme care to not get in trouble”. Death and Sin certainly would be bad to let in if we could control that, but other immigrants today need the chance to come in and pursue what they want as they are usually nothing but beneficial to communities.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/trump-illegal-immigrants-crime.html?mcubz=3

Image: https://goo.gl/images/jBBUbh

First, why is peer review good in concept. Well, it allows another reader to catch errors that you as the writer may have skipped over. It allows you to know how some one other than you would react to your writing, and conveying something to an audience is the main point of writing. Knowing how one of those people for whom the piece is intended for reacts and understands your writing is immensely beneficial for improving your draft.

https://youtu.be/JvKIWjnEPNY

Now, how on earth does a video of a vicious king repressing those of the peasant class relate to peer review? Peer review is essentially and argument, but one that must be done politely. The reviewer must not try to impose their ideas, but instead mere improve the presentation of the others ideas. Here we see how not to do that. The person being reviewed should not completely dismiss all critiques, but also the person who is critiquing must be gentler. If there is a problem with the argument, perhaps phrase it in a question instead of giving an answer and why you are right.

With a little extra help from others, papers can be turned from disorganized thought vomit into intelligible papers that actually fulfill rubric requirements. Just be careful if you are the one reviewing not to hate on the idea alone. Suggest, but really, just be nice

image: https://goo.gl/images/K4usH3

Ah yes. Here we have found the elusive purple suited hat man staring glassily at something off screen. When paired with the caption “haters gonna hate”, it may be seen to mean ignoring the haters. But since “haters gonna hate” can be misspelled as “hatters gonna hat”, we can conclude this caption was misspelled, and the author is a hat enthusiast who enjoys this man’s style.

Here we see that “haters gonna hate hate hate” as if from Taylor Swift’s song “Shake It Off”. Unfortunately for hater #3, the leader of this company meeting that has turned into a sing-a-long can hear the dank “h8” pronunciation of the correct lyric “hate”. Being a true T Swift fan, his only recourse was defenestration of the offending person. He just couldn’t shake it off.

This is what happens to the haters.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/mychemicalromance/dead.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H48kOqqaWv0

Link 1: Lyrics

Link 2: The Song

Death. It’s a barrier. We can only speculate whats on the other side. What we can review though is the effect of the concept of death in language and in cultures. In a young person’s conversation, jokes involving suicide or threatening murder is standard in the most lighthearted way. “There is the window” would be a humorous response to someone annoyingly clicking a pen on the 10th floor of a building. In a similar matter the song Dead! by My Chemical Romance is a sarcastic last statement by a man dying in the hospital.

Dead! is the second song in the album The Black Parade, which is about a man who has cancer going through the end of his life. After a first listen to Dead, it sounds like a man cursing someone and telling them he wishes they were dead, especially with lines like “Did you get what you deserve? The ending of your life”. However, I see a sarcasm to it. This is because he calls the person he is talking to “babe”. This could also be hateful and meant to be demeaning, but I believe it to be an endearment because of the lines “Oh, take me from the hospital bed. Wouldn’t it be grand? It ain’t exactly what you planned. And wouldn’t it be great if we were dead?”. The patient is asking for “babe” to stay with him even after he is dead and gone. In this way Dead! shows how death is seen as an end, and it also shows how the cancer patient views it: with bitterness and regret.

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