HW 31

My comments on other's blogs:

Chris:
Chrissssssssss,
I thought your post was very good. I like how you asked a lot of relevant questions to our unit but related it to your mother's situation. I also like how you put links in parts of the post that way the reader can look further into the topics being mentioned. I think you should've put some of you're own thoughts in the post though. Overall niiiice post!

Elizabeth:
I like your post because it was an original idea to go back to the first meanings of the words. I thought it was interesting how the word illness meant evil. I think you should have gone into why you think they had these definitions and how it connects a little more.

Sophia:
This was one of my favorites. I thought this topic was related to our unit and brought up a lot in Tuesday's with Morrie. I found the answers very interesting. My favorite part was : "After reading Tuesdays With Morrie, I formed the opinion that people are motivated by possessions more then anything. However, after doing the survey and reading the dozens of answers that talked about family and friends, I realized that this isn't necessarily true." I completely agree with this, I also noticed this in the book. I think maybe on a day to day basis all people may value is material things but if you ask people to look at their life as a whole they can see things that actually matter more.. Niiiiice post

John:
I thought your project was really interesting. I knew that this false view of death was shown in movies like how you mention the cheesy scene where the grandparent says their last words and peacefully dies, but I thought paintings and things like that have more real feelings and views. My favorite part was when you said: "his view is not only distorted but keeps us ignorant, for the few things we can know with certainty about life is that it will come to an end, so rather if we should embrace that these articles of nature will die." I completely agree with this, instead of being shown as something it's not, I think death should be shown as it actually is so it can be embraced and not just pushed away from our society.


Evan:
Evan,
Niiiice post. I like the idea of living to be 100 I think it gives people a reason to do what they can to keep going and stay healthy. My favorite part is when you said: " Maybe the greatest lesson here is that at one point in life (usually the one we are all in right now as teenagers) we all see ourselves standing on the summit of time that is 100 years of life, but for the enjoyment and sake of ourselves. However, one day (usually around Jane's age) we see our bodies begin to succumb to the toll of time, and rather than live for our own sakes, we go on for our brothers, sisters, children and grandchildren, pursuing a different kind of richness- having an effect on our continuing loved ones." I thought this was a very insightful idea and I agree with it. I wonder though wouldn't it be hard to keep going if you can't do all the stuff you used to be able to do and you're living for other people?


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Comments on my blog post:

Sophia:
I really liked your post. Your research was very thorough, and you explained your reactions to it clearly. I also liked how you explained how your research led you to doing the interview (your account of the interview was good too). All in all, it was really good.

Elizabeth:
I think you chose a very thought provoking subject, and had an extremely good "experimental" example with the old man, but I also felt that part of your post came out of nowhere.

While it was relevant to the topic, you go from "went bankrupt paying for their own medical care," to "I was with Kevin"... I understood what you were going to talk about because of your elevator speech from earlier, but if I had no idea what you had said in class, I would have been like "cool...he was with Kevin".

You have the ideas and the arguments, I think that maybe a little bit of organization is in need, overall, good job!

Chris:
I think that you choose a good topic because it was something that you and Kevin both seem to have some type of passion about. There aren't many voices or leaders for people who are disabled. The way that you used the interview to connect back to Sicko was also a very good idea because you connected something that you did on your own to something that we have been working together to do in class and figure out some of the atrocities and some of the dominant social practices. I think your best line was "This brought up the question in my head is it even possible to be sure that this wouldn't happen to you?" Because it seemed like a good way to wrap up the idea that you were aiming toward throughout your writing.

Kevin:
Knowing that we were doing the same project, I thought I'd read yours. I think that we took different angles and focused on different aspects of it, but overall it was a good post. You did solid research and recapped well. Good work Burt.


Mom:
This is really interesting. I'm impressed by the fact that most bankruptcies are caused by medical problems I didn't know this before. I'm also surprised that someone with health insurance can be denied care after an accident, I think that is very scary. You guys got great information from interviewing a real person with a real problem. I'm wondering will Obama's healthcare plan cover things like this where people are denied care even with health insurance? Because this is so unfair..