...|Aspects of Women's Spirituality in Tending to the Dying | |By Leslene della-Madre | |s Page | | | | | |For many of us, death is something we would rather not think about. Why is this? Why do we not want to understand the deepest mystery of | |life? Why are we so afraid to die? These are some of the questions that beckoned me on a journey to learn about the true nature of death, | |resulting in a recently published book, Midwifing Death: Returning to the Arms of the Ancient Mother, weaving together knowledge about how| |our pre-patriarchal ancestors viewed life and death with modem stories telling how the sacred passage of death and dying can be midwifed | |in grace, love and beauty, which are all aspects of the sacred feminine in women's spirituality--the oldest spirituality on the planet. | |What I have discovered, or rather, uncovered, from the forgotten realms of our ancestors...
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...docu-drama Touching the Void and Roberto Innocenti’s picture book Rose Blanche. The shoe horn sonata by John Misto is a play that deals with the brutality of World War 2 by locking at the stories of two financial characters, Bridie and Sheila. When he wrote the play, Misto was concerned that the pain and suffering that many women endured at the hands of their Japanese captors after the fall of Singapore had been forgotten. Both army nurses and civilians were the victims of terrible mistreatment and cruelty during the war, yet their stories were not widely known, nor had successive Australian governments acknowledged them. The play serves as a tribute to those victims of the atrocities of war, and looks at the effects such horrendous experiences can have on those who experience them. By the use of distinctively visual elements, Misto has created a compelling play. Whilst projected images of the celebrations at Martin Place are projected behind the actors, the women struggling to live at Belalau are still fighting through the war. During this scene, the women struggle to ascend up a hill thinking it will be the last moment of their lives. Dialogue used to reveal the weakness is quoted “The sick and the dying were left behind” and “the old and frail began to die”. As the lucky women succeeded to ascend the hill, an orchestra performing the beautiful piece “The Blue Danube” is set out for the prisoners. The music creates the effect of the audience realising that the women are going...
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...The novel, As I Lay Dying, has many conflicts. Choose one conflict in the novel and, in a well-developed essay, explore the sources of the conflict and how it contributes to the meaning of the novel as a whole. It is not the destination that matters, but the journey itself, as the proverb goes. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner explores the hectic journey of the Bundrens as they seek to bury their mother, and valuable lessons are learned along the way. The origins of their journey lead the family to understand that while each person has a different personality and some personalities cooperate better than others, such a relationship cannot be forced. In this case, death is the catalyst which forces the family to embark on their tumultuous...
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...As I Lay Dying “As I Lay Dying” is a novel written by an author with an American origin William Faulkner. The author explained that he wrote the novel from midnight up to 4.00 AM, in a span of six weeks without changing a word. Faulkner wrote the novel while working at a power plant in 1930. It is ranked among the top best novels in literature in the 20th century. The author is uses various writing techniques, varying lengthy chapters, as well as multiple narrators (Faulkner, 1). The book is narrated by fifteen different actors in all the fifty nine chapters. The story explains the life experience of death of their mother, as the family tries to ensure they fulfil the wishes of their mother. Faulkner in his novel discusses the life of Addie Bundren and her poor family’s pursuit and inspirations. The character is viewed as selfish and noble who is seriously ill, and is expected to die soon. Addie wants the whole family to honour her dying wish, of being buried in the middle of the town of Jefferson. Anse who is Addie’s husband, is obliged to...
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...Paper From reading the book Tuesday with Morrie, I found that the book addresses the fundamental issue that our society and our human race is dealing with as a whole: humans sacrifice their own life to learn money just to use that money later in life for nothing or to save their own life that was squandered for nothing. Upon reading the book about the accounts that Morrie is spending his last days in showing his dearest student Mitch about the meaning of life, I found that the reason why most of the time Morrie centered around the concept of relationship, love, compassion, forgiveness, money, regrets, death, and many other concepts is because many times he tries to address the fundamental issue that humans spend their time pursuing things that they don’t want or need but something they felt will help them be approved in a society just to find out that they regret what they done later and wish to make it better. Upon reading this book and learning about life through the perspective of a dying college professor, I found, and already found, that I personally want to be like that college professor one day where I can be intimate with every single client and students that I have in my career because I know that one day I will die either because of a natural death or a man-made one and I know that whatever the cause of death, I want every human being that meets me to know one thing about myself: I love you as my own little child and that all of you are my children just like how I am yours...
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...Running Head: DEATH 1 Death Described In Many Ways Ericka Silva ENG 125 Oct. 8, 2012 Running Head: DEATH 2 Death Described In Many Ways When we think of death, we think and describe it in many different ways. It is perceived in many different ways when we read about it as well. Everyone who has experienced it though can say that it is not a delightful thing to experience. Whether it is a family member, a friend, a co-worker or even a pet, there is something to be said about how death can be described. I have chosen to talk about two very special literary works. The first one is A Dog’s Death by John Updike and the other being I Used To Live Here Once by Jean Rhys. Both of these literary works describe death in many different ways. A Dog’s Death is a short poem and I Used to Live Here Once is a short analog story. When I read A Dog’s Death, I was very sad. I could feel how the author was trying to show what kind of emotions were going on as the family pet was passing away. The emotion of sadness and sorrow, as a family member was dying. As the dog was breathing its last breath, the mother called out its name in pain. This is the tone, the mood or attitude reflected. (Clugston, 2010) In I Used to Live Here Once, the tone at first was happy. The woman is happy in the beginning. She sees things as she remembered them. But when the woman gets closer to the house and sees people outside, the tone changes. The tone becomes very sad....
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...that are practiced or naturally developed to help relieve the pain of the hardship. Death is a natural challenge that occurs to all people and everyone reacts and responds to it in a different way. It is an inevitable factor of life, but most children don’t understand that. After going through various developmental stages and experiencing personal events pertaining to death, children form their individual thoughts on how to deal with a loss of something or someone valuable. Children go through different stages in life in which they develop different thoughts pertaining to death....
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...Running Head: DEATH 1 Death Described In Many Ways Ericka Silva ENG 125 Oct. 8, 2012 Running Head: DEATH 2 Death Described In Many Ways When we think of death, we think and describe it in many different ways. It is perceived in many different ways when we read about it as well. Everyone who has experienced it though can say that it is not a delightful thing to experience. Whether it is a family member, a friend, a co-worker or even a pet, there is something to be said about how death can be described. I have chosen to talk about two very special literary works. The first one is A Dog’s Death by John Updike and the other being I Used To Live Here Once by Jean Rhys. Both of these literary works describe death in many different ways. A Dog’s Death is a short poem and I Used to Live Here Once is a short analog story. When I read A Dog’s Death, I was very sad. I could feel how the author was trying to show what kind of emotions were going on as the family pet was passing away. The emotion of sadness and sorrow, as a family member was dying. As the dog was breathing its last breath, the mother called out its name in pain. This is the tone, the mood or attitude reflected. (Clugston, 2010) In I Used to Live Here Once, the tone at first was happy. The woman is happy in the beginning. She sees things as she remembered them. But when the woman gets closer to the house and sees people outside, the tone changes. The tone becomes very sad....
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...This book captured my heart it taught me a lot Probably the greatest book I've read. Brought me to tearssss. "learn how to die and you will learn how to live."... i could never forget this quote from mitch's professor.. this story was posted in our book way back when i was third year highschool.... it's full of lesson.. it values life. From childhood to senility, the very people who made beautiful contribution in our lives always seem to have special place in our hearts, minds & souls. This movie/book was one of our projects. As a teenager, I really had no interest to read this kinds of books but after a few more chapters, I realized that this book contains lots of valuable lessons. It changed the way I see things. It also made me realize that life is very important so we should not waste it but instead make it a very happy one. We should also spend our lives with our loved ones because we dont know how long we will be with them. I relly love this book/move. ily Morrie!!!!!!!! I'm so happy that finally I got a copy of Mitch Albom's book, Tuesdays with Morrie. I have been wanting to have it. This is the best book I've ever read. I've shed a lot of tears, laughed out loud and pondered about the reality and wisdom shared by an intelligent, compassionate, loving and very kind old man. I love you Morrie Schwartz. Forever I will cherish your words. The movie as well as the book inspired me a lot. This was the 3rd time i read an inspirational...
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...description of the lower three castes after the Director explains the advantages of the Bokanovsky Process. I feel like this passage is intriguing and almost strange to understand because of the why the human population is created in that era of time After Ford. The book honored Henry Ford's legacy with coming up with the first mass produced product the Model-T car. This invention lead the way to the principle being applied to human creation. I believe the caste system in the book is also portrayed some of the social caste systems of classical civilizations. "Indeed, a faint Hypnopaedic prejudice in favor of size was universal"(chapter 4, part 2). Bernard is unhappy that girls do not spend time with him, especially Lenina and he is unhappy about his life in general. In this quote we understand why Bernard has a surly nature. Bernard is thinking how he believes that he is inferior to the other alphas in is caste because of his Gamma-like size. He suspects that others from different caste systems as well as his own ridicule him for his stature, because hynopaedia conditions Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons associate physical attributes with superiority. The governments design genetic codes for caste and with that the condition creates discrimination in between the different castes. I feel that Bernard is swallowed in self pity because he did not inflict the comments of judgement upon himself, it just happens that he is born that way that's all. I feel like Bernard should let it go and live...
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...can bring up a lot of consequences like diseases, family problems and even the death. The parents and adults have a huge importance in this theme, especially when being about alcoholic drinks and children. Alcoholic beverage is any beverage that contains ethyl alcohol, also called ethanol. And the alcohol can be regarded as the best selling drug on our planet. The author shows us a character, Rakhi’s father, he is a dependent alcoholic. “His drinking was erratic. I could never understand what brought it on. Sometimes he’d go for one month without touching alcohol. Other times he’d start drinking on Friday and continue through the weekend.” (Divakaruni 36), this character shows us one situation that happens a lot in our world, children who has dependent alcoholic parents. That is a big problem. Children of alcoholic parents often have academic problems. “They have higher levels of depression and anxiety and exhibit more symptoms of generalized stress” (Brown Jr.). Sometimes one of the solutions that those children find to relieve the stress is having a bad behavior, and then they start to make bad decisions, like argue with teachers, not go over the lessons and it just tends to generate more and more problems and worsen. Another solution that those poor children who do not have any fault used to find is runs away from their homes, this generates a big trouble in the society life. Because these children who are not in home anymore, they are going to need to find a solution to survive...
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...told you that no one would mourn your death? Throughout Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, the reader is shown scientific processes that are used to create the objectively “happy” individuals that the book follows, Lenina and Fanny. One such process of this nature is “death conditioning,” where the children are discouraged to care about or even remember the deceased. We see such a distinct sense of apathy in the New World of the novel, so much so that when John The Savage sees his mother die, he is labeled as a freak and a monster. This constant apathy is used to show Huxley’s concern for the present day world and comment on the nonsensical way society handles death. Because of this, Brave New World is written...
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...Book: The Immortal Life of Henriettta Lacks Option A: Focus on Pathos Pathos Paper In the book Rebecca Skloot entitled, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” the reader is able to identify pathos in parts of chapter eight and eleven entitled, “The Miserable Specimen and The Devil of Pain Itself.” In chapter 8 Skloot uses pathos to describe how Henrietta dealt with racism during her treatment, her miserable state of being during her radiation therapy treatments, and how her treatment impacted her own interactions with her own kids. In chapter eight, the author puts the reader in a mixture of emotions such as; anger, sympathy, sadness, misery and many more. The author tells the reader how her color impacted the way doctors treated her when she became extremely ill. The early 1990’s best describes the “Jim Crowe Era,” how the “colored” people were segregated from the white folks from hospitals, bathrooms, restaurants, and many more. Skloot illustrates how Henrietta had to deal with improper treatment because of her color, when she was literally dying. The quote from page 64 says; “But several studies have shown that black patients were treated and hospitalized in later stages of their illness than white patients. And once hospitalized, they got fewer pain medications and had higher mortality rates,” best illustrates that with all the unfair treatment “colored” patients receive, the reader realizes that there is a very slight chance Henrietta will survive and fight...
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...Analyzing Characterization In As I Lay Dying In William Faulkner’s, As I Lay Dying, characters create themselves through their narrations of the event of their Addie’s death. The novel relies on characters for narration and own character development. In a way, the characters expose themselves in the novels and the novel becomes a form of “reflective characterization.” The narrations give insight to the characters personality by the syntax, imagery, stream of consciousness they employ. Often each narrative also offers a different perspective of another character or affirms the self-characterization of another character. Darl, who narrates most of the story, seems to be the most cerebral character. Darl’s character is particularly interesting because he is indeed mad in some ways but yet he is also the healthiest and most realistic of all Bundrens. He has a strange sense of what’s going on like that of Benjamin Compsons in The Sound and the Fury. He senses Addie’s death even though he and Jewel were getting lumber at the time of her death. He also knew that Dewey Dell was pregnant and that Jewel was an illegitimate son. Dewey Dells narration also supports Darl’s psychic abilities. Like Benjamin, he has the ability to communicate without words. After going into the secret shade with Lafe, Dell realizes that Darl knows what she has done. “I saw Darl and he knew. He said he knew without the worlds like he told me that ma was going to die without words,” (page 26). In a moving scene...
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...The books, The Giver, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Charlotte’s Web, each deal with the idea of death in some form or another. Each novel has a very different setting, a dystopian society, a farm in the mid-1900s, and the south in the nineteenth century. Each of the stories have a very different mood and atmosphere, and in each book there is a community with a very distinct attitude surrounding the central characters. Each community has a different view on the sanctity of life, and in some ways their opinions greatly conflict with the main character’s perspective. It can be proposed that the easiest identifier for valuing life is seeing how someone treats death. I would argue that in each of these stories the larger community thinks about death in terms of what is best for the community, versus the main character who sees death as a personal and emotional experience that is not to be belittled....
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