Monday, Oct. 11 : Second rough draft of college essay
The next two weeks will involve working on the presentations for Stiff. Please remember to have a rough draft of your outline for Tuesday, Oct. 12 and a final draft for Thursday, Oct. 14. We will try and begin our presentations on Thursday, Oct. 14. At home, you should be reading the eight chapters your classmates will be presenting. These include the following:
“Crimes of Anatomy” -- Body snatching and the early years of human dissection
“Life after Death” – On human decay and what can be done about it
“Dead Man Driving” – Human crash dummies and the ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance
“Beyond the Black Box” – When the bodies of passengers must tell the story of a crash
“The Cadaver who joined the Army” -- The sticky ethics of bullets and bombs
“How to know if You’re Dead” -- Beating-heart cadavers, live burials, and the scientific search for the soul
“Just a Head” -- Decapitation, reanimation, and the human head transplant
“Eat Me” – Medicinal cannibalism and the case of human dumplings
“Out of the Fire, into the Compost Bin” -- New alternatives to burial and cremation
