W. D. Ross

Anger Nothing can make friends, family and Christians scatter like the anger of grief. Anger is usually directed at those the griever feels closest to since it is safer than directing it at strangers. Anger typically stems from feeling that the loss is unfair and it comes wrapped in the “why” and “why me” questions. Consciously or unconsciously, this anger is ultimately directed at God. Like Job of the Bible, Christians need time to process their anger. Unlike Job’s friends, Christians need to…

Randy Pausch walks out on stage to deliver the “last lecture” smiling and joking, seemingly, without a care in the world. Little to the audience’s knowledge of the elephant in the room, he is dying. With only three to six months left of good health, Randy is dying of multiple tumors on his lever. Randy displays how people can react to death differently depending on where they are in life, their coping capabilities, and what they find their joy in. Another factor that comes into play is how…

William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, is a tragic story about the struggles of a prince named Hamlet who seeks to avenge his father’s death. Hamlet is so determined to sabotage his uncle, who has taken his father’s crown and is responsible for the crime, that Hamlet himself increasingly becomes insane. Family bonds and friendships are broken as death begins to claim their loved ones and vengeance becomes the primary mindset of the characters. As the play progresses, three prominent themes of death…

The most important theme in both Earl and Listen is loss and grief. In Earl, the loss of a seal is the main attraction and the human uses purpose and deceit to show the unavoidable loss. In Listen, the dog searched for the snow ball that his owner threw. The snowball was seen breaking apart and scattering with the other snow, but the dog did not understand what was going on, why was the ball no longer there? Any kind of loss is an unfortunate part of life which causes the person or animal who is…

Klüber-Ross Klüber-Ross proposes five stages which will be experienced when facing the imminent death; denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. She argues that if the individuals repressed the stages, they have risk to get stuck with the unresolved emotion caused by the death (Konigsberg 3). Therefore, it is suggested that the individuals are better to embrace each stage to avoid the unresolved emotion in the future. Additionally, through her book, Klüber-Ross…

Bereavement relates to the deprivation of someone by death. For an individual, the death of a love one can be considered one of the greatest losses one may have. Nonetheless, an individual may also have feelings of bereavement when having other losses, such as the loss of health, the end of an important relationship, or health loss by someone close to the individual. Another healthy response to loss is grief. All individuals have different feelings of grief, but there are some particular…

before food, and while sitting upright for a half hour after taking. Calcium supplements must be taken with food in divided doses, with six to eight ounces of water. Calcium may cause gastrointestinal upset, and to monitor for kidney stones. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, so toxicity can occur. According to (Lenox, Lunen, Prater, Renner, & Tallman, 2014) watch for symptoms such as weakness, fatigue, nausea, constipation and kidney stones. Teach them to work alongside physical therapy to…

Chelsea Hornyak MED 2047 Osteoporosis Instructor Michelle Earixson-Lamonthe 2/28/15 VNFT031 Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones. The word osteoporosis means “porous bone.” It is a metabolic bone disorder which means that the rate of bone breakdown, which is called resorption, speeds up while the rate of bone formation slows down causing a loss of bone mass. In other words, osteoporosis happens when you lose too much bone, make too little bone, or even both. As a result…

Australia should ban the burqa based on a multitude of reasons. The main reasons are the Burqa creates a threat to national security, violates the fundamental need for identification in all social circumstances preventing social cohesion and for the burqa not only arouses health and safety issues to others but for the person wearing it as well. Australia’s national security should not be compromised for the few who wear the burqa. Both men and women can easily use the burqa, and many will take…

What is the Sun? The Sun is this big yellowish reddish orange ball of gas, the Sun too is known as the main source that gives us energy in heat and light. “The Sun is the center of all the planets.” (Cain, par.4) . The Sun that comes out during the day on one side of the world and on the other side of the world night time. The Sun has different season four to be precise the one that gets really hot is summer time. In summer time is when many people can enjoy spend their time at the beach even…