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My Mother’s Side

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My Mother’s Side

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My Mother’s Side:

I would like for you to look at your past and your family members and think about which half of your family is closest to their ethnic roots (MY MOTHER’S SIDE). Once decided you can start down the road of discovery.

Research the reasoning and ideas that are part of that ethnic or racial or religious group that you identify with (MEXICAN-AMERICAN AND CATHOLIC 22 YEAR OLD WOMAN) to give the reader of your work an idea why, where or when some of these customs began and possible rationales for them (FROM MY MEXICAN CATHOLIC FAMILY). This work should portray your experiences along with the group that you identify with, and the comfort level and possible deviation to that grand scheme you or your family has experienced, when dealing with death or dying.

Your work should:

  • be three (3) pages (excluding the title, abstract and reference pages)
  • be typed according to APA style for margins, formatting and spacing standards
  • have at least three sources of which at least two are from peer reviewed journals
  • be typed into a Microsoft Word document, save the file, and then upload the file

Sociocultural Aspects

 

Learning Activities

 

Activity: Additional Questions for Self-awareness Exercise

 

My Life History of Death: A Timeline

 

This activity can be a tool for further exploration of the personal attitudes you hold toward death. It might also be useful in (a) identifying your personal issues surrounding unresolved grief, and (b) examining your own pattern of grieving. Take a moment to recall the earlier activity, My First Recollection of Death. Next, look at the timeline that appears in this activity. At either end of the timeline, fill in your date of birth and the current date. Then make a series of vertical lines across it for each death that affected you and write the name of who or what died in chronological order. Ask yourself the list of questions in turn for each death and write down your answers on a separate piece of paper.

 

Date of Birth: _ 01/25/00 | Current Date: _ 9/18/22

 

· How did you feel? I felt devastated and hopeless when my grandfather passed away.

· How did you act? I acted strong and supportive for my family.

· How did other people seem to feel? Other people felt sad too.

· How did others act? They acted sad and cried and hugged a lot.

· How did members of your family react to the death? My family members’ reaction to the death was full of surprise.

 

Look at your timeline. Think about your personal pattern of feeling and acting in response to significant deaths in your life.

 

Do you feel that your pattern was a healthy one?

NO ______, YES ______. If no, explain.

 

 

Did the pattern of feeling and acting change over time?

NO ______, YES __ ____. If yes, explain.

Yes, over time my family and I came to accept the death. We were still sad but found peace in reminiscing about all the good times.

 

Considering the deaths you identified on your timeline, do you experience any unresolved grief reactions to them at the current time? NO __ ____, YES ______. If yes, explain.

 

Reprinted from: Donald P. Irish, Kathleen F. Lundquist, Vivian Jenkins Nelsen, eds. Ethnic variations in dying, death, and grief: diversity in universality” Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, 1993. Permission: Taylor & Francis Group.

Black Death

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Black Death

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Black Death:

Preliminary Annotated Bibliography

 

1.

List your primary sources for your topic (that is, sources written close to the time of what

you are studying) for this topic. Ideally about a third of your sources (at least three or four) will be primary sources.

 

2.List your secondary sources (late 20th -century or early 21st-century books or articles). At

least half of your secondary sources should be journal articles (such as you found in the

Database assignment) or works which look into the topic in similar detail and w

ith similar documentation of sources. You should have at least 6 or 7 secondary sources.

 

3.Try to avoid using tertiary (third-hand sources) such as textbooks and reference works. If

you feel the need to do so, note that these should be IN ADDITION to your

10 primary and secondary sources.

4.For each source in your Bibliography briefly indicate what the source will add to your understanding of the topic what biases or weaknesses might make it difficult to evaluate.

 

Thesis Statement

1.State the topic for your final paper. Be sure to be specific as to (a) time, (b) place, (c)

general topic. (For example, “The effects of the Black Death on the labor force in western Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.”)

 

2. What scholarly problem surrounds the topic? That is, what do modern scholars

studying this topic disagree about among themselves? (For example, “Scholars disagree

About whether Black Death caused significant economic change in the long run.”)

 

3. Give at least two views reached by modern scholars (secondary sources)

on this issue. (For example, “At one time, historians wrote as if the Black Death was

Largely responsible for European changes in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. More recently, some historians have revised this view to suggest that the economy was already changing before the Black Death. They note that towns had been growing and serfdom declining before the Black Death, and that the economy rebounded fairly quickly immediately after the first outbreak in 1348.”)

 

4. Based on the debate in #2-3, what question do you hope to answer about the topic?

(For example, “What was the role of the Black Death in the decline of serfdom between the early 1300s and late 1400s?”)

 

5.Sum up your answer to this question in one complete sentence. (For example,

“Although the Black Death was not the only crisis affecting the European population, its

initial severity and regular recurrences (every couple of decades) increased the pace of

change in the labor market in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.”)