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Featured Art Museum

This link provides an opportunity for you to explore a museum online. The material on the featured museum's Website relates in some way to the people or topics addressed in this chapter. To explore more museum websites, visit the Art Museum and Gallery Websites page at:



Cleveland Museum of Art

( http://www.clemusart.com/ )
National Gallery of Art

( http://www.nga.gov/ )
Philadelphia Museum of Art

( http://www.philamuseum.org/ )

Additional Resources

Visit these Websites to learn more about people or topics discussed in this chapter:



The Thinker, 1880, by Auguste Rodin

( http://www.clevelandart.org/educef/sisterwendy/html/4832057.html )
Auguste Rodin

( http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/rodin.html )
The Tragedy, 1903, by Pablo Picasso

( http://www.nga.gov/feature/picasso/technique.htm )
The Tragedy, 1903, by Pablo Picasso

( http://posters.seindal.dk/p290898_The_Tragedy_1903.html )
Death and dying

( http://death-and-dying.org/ )
Death and dying

( http://www.npr.org/programs/death/index.html )
Death and dying

( http://dying.about.com/ )
Death and dying

( http://www.growthhouse.org/ )
Animal rights

( http://www.animalconcerns.org/ )
Animal rights

( http://www.animalrights.net/ )
Animal rights

( http://www.peta-online.org/ )
Elissa Ely
Do a search for Elissa Ely to listen to her read essays for National Public Radio.
( http://www.npr.org/ )
Joan Halifax, Project on Being With Dying in Santa Fe, New Mexico

( http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/halifax.html )
Joan Halifax, Project on Being With Dying

( http://www.upaya.org/programs/death_dying.html )
Joan Halifax

( http://www.eomega.org/omega/faculty/viewProfile/4873bfdc41f9b9c1eeb5ddf891879274/ )
Dr. Ira Byock, president of the Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

( http://www.dyingwell.org/ )
Dr. Ira Byock

( http://www.dyingwell.com/byock.htm )
Dr. Ira Byock

( http://www.healthwise.org/med_rev/profiles/ua13986.htm )
Dr. Timothy Keay, an end-of-life care expert at the University of Maryland

( http://www.hospicenet.org/html/palliative.html )
Fear of Death

( http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/magazine/vk/2003/9-3-3.asp )
Prosecutions of Palliative Care Cases

( http://www.hospicepatients.org/palliative-prosecutions.html )
Dr. David Hilfiker, the founder of Joseph's House in Washington, which cares for homeless...

( http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/10488.html )
Fear of Death

( http://www.splendourindia.org/splen_dec03/Fear%20of%20Death.htm )
Plato

( http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Plato.html )
Plato

( http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/plat.htm )
Plato

( http://www.rit.edu/~flwstv/plato.html )
Write Your Own Japanese Death Poetry
Buddhist death poetry: Zen masters who write poems in the moments before death, embracing it as the only time in life when absolute freedom may be realized.
( http://www.parentheticalnote.com/tokuken_deathpoetry.htm )
Dr. Joanne Lynn, director of George Washington University's Center to Improve Care of the...

( http://www.ec-online.net/Community/DrLynn.htm )
Americans for Better Care of the Dying

( http://www.abcd-caring.org/ )
Center to Improve Care of the Dying

( http://www.gwu.edu/~cicd/ )
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross "On Death and Dying"

( http://www.elisabethkublerross.com/ )
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross "On Death and Dying"

( http://www.growthhouse.org/books/kubler1.htm )
El Dia de los Muertos: The Day of the Dead, by Paul M. Insel

( http://isbndb.com/d/person/insel_paul_m.html )
Dia de los Muertos

( http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/ )
Dia de los Muertos

( http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/daydeadindex.html )
Dia de los Muertos

( http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/muertos.html )
The Peaceable Kingdom, 1834, by Edward Hicks

( http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibits/hicks.shtml )
The Peaceable Kingdom, 1834, by Edward Hicks

( http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa86.htm )
The Peaceable Kingdom, 1834, by Edward Hicks

( http://posters.seindal.dk/p290827_The_Peaceable_Kingdom_1834.html )
The Good Death: Embracing a Right to Die Well by Sheryl Gay Stolberg

( http://www.timeswatch.org/topicindex/S/stolberg_sheryl_gay/welcome.asp )
Harsh Medicine

( http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0042.html )
Sheryl Gay Stolberg

( http://www.fairness.com/resources/by-relation?relation_id=8126 )
Deborah Blum Pulitzer-Prize winning series "The Monkey Wars"

( http://articles.animalconcerns.org/ar-voices/archive/tranblum.html )
Deborah Blum

( http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/faculty/blumbio.html )
Deborah Blum

( http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/lac/banta/2003banta.htm )
Deborah Blum

( http://www.americanscientist.org/template/ScientistNightstandTypeDetail/assetid/25044 )

From the Text: Internet Activity (page 432)

Below are two websites (with very similar URLs) that discuss euthanasia from radically different perspectives. Visit the two sites and browse through their web pages and links. After determining the point of view of each, list the various types of persuasive techniques they employ.



Euthanasia

( http://www.euthanasia.com )
Euthanasia

( http://www.euthanasia.org )

From the Text: Internet Activity (page 436)

To learn more about the Day of the Dead celebrations, consult the following websites:



Day of the Dead - Traditions

( http://www.dayofthedead.com/html/traditions.htm#Skulls%20and%20Skeletons )
Day of the Dead

( http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/muertos.html )

From the Text: Internet Activity (page 451)

Using a search engine like Google <www.google.com> or Ask Jeeves <www.ask.com>, find a website that deals with animal experimentation and analyze the website by answering the following questions:

1. What is the URL or address for this website? You can cut and paste the URL from your Internet browser into this space.

2. Who created the website? (This may be an individual, an organization, or an institution. For some websites, it's difficult to determine who is responsible for the content. If that is the case for the website you looked at, indicate that here.)

3. What is the main purpose of this website? (The purpose may be to inform, to instruct, to entertain, or to persuade the reader to believe something or to take a certain action.)

4. What elements does this website have that make it effective or ineffective?

5. Why did you choose this website to explore?

6. What questions do you have about any aspect of the website?

Print one or two pages from the website.


From the Text: Internet Activity (page 457-458)

For a history of the foot-and-mouth epidemic of 2001, consult this website:



Foot and Mouth Disease
Make a brief timeline of key events.
( http://www.pighealth.com/fmdoutbreaks.htm )

For a question-and-answer interview with Matthew Scully by Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review Online, consult:



Exploring "Dominion"
Can you think of some questions you would like to ask Scully?
( http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory120602.asp )

Use a search engine such as Google <www.google.com> or Yahoo <www.yahoo.com> to locate information about recent developments in the field of cloning. Summarize your findings.


OLC Extra! Internet Exercise

Visit the website of Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, the author of "How We Die," at:



Sherwin B. Nuland
Now write a paragraph about Dr. Nuland summarizing your findings.

Did you find a Web link that doesn't work?

Despite our best efforts to check all our Websites, some Web addresses may have changed or links may have "died" by the time you try to use them. If a Website or hotlink in the activity is no longer available, try to find a similar site. Try using a search engine to find the original Website or search for another Website that addresses the same topic. Remember to use your critical reading skills to evaluate the quality of any websites, whether the link appeared here or you found the site yourself.
( http://www.holy-cross.com/professionals/stluke/DrNuland.htm )







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