While the drive for collectivized agriculture was a wide going trend, kulaks needed to be destroyed. Stalins way of doing this was complete taking away all food and grain that they grew. (Doc.6) However the Kulaks didn’t make it easy; they would kill and poison their animals, kill government officials, and collective farm activists. (Doc.5) They would burn their barns and destroyed machinery. By them doing this the Soviets now had a right to kill them, and that was done until there were no Kulaks left.
This can be extremely useful to a historian. In source A, he had to burry dead Jewish children, source C, he was given the job to burn the dead bodies after they were gassed, and in source D they had to transport dead bodies in a sort on
(Mitford, 4)” Her statement gives the meaning for why the body is being embalmed. Simply meaning that Mr. Jones corpse lies in the operation room for embalming, as he is being prepared to be presented in front of his loved ones for a viewing to say their goodbyes. This is primarily the reason for embalming. Embalming is commonly needed in order to see the deceased by the living for a final look. Some individual’s opinions may be that embalming shows weakness for those who want it done to their loved ones.
Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled in the New Kingdom in the 18th dynasty. His tomb’s discovery in 1922 by Howard Carter made a significant contribution to the study of Ancient Egypt and in particular, their burial practices and beliefs in the afterlife during the New Kingdom. After numerous thorough investigations and vigorous recordings of Tutankhamun’s tomb have taken place investigators have evidence to believe that the Ancient Egyptians regarded the mummification of the pharaoh as a necessary practice to ensure the preservation of the body to be used again in the afterlife. They stressed the importance of securing the pharaoh’s body in its final resting place. Once these requirements are fulfilled, the Ancient Egyptians believed that the journey of the king in the afterlife can be reassured.
He is repulsed by the piles of massed, intertwined bodies but also discovers that many of them have food hidden in pockets or suitcases. Thus, while they work, Maurice and Muller begin to eat the food of the dead. Over the next few days Muller learns that he has been assigned to the Sonderkommando, a special work detail from where there is no release other than death. Similarly, the characters in The Grey Zone were assigned to the isolated Sonderkommano and forced to work in the crematoriums. Muller's job is to strip the clothing from the corpses and clear the reception yard of belongings.
Vincent became Jerome by dying his hair and learning how to comb his hair the right way and style. He had to get surgery so he could become taller. He had to basically scrape off any hair in his body so that people wouldn’t use it against him. He filled a bubble with Jerome’s blood so he could scan in to Gattaca. He also carried a pouch full of Jerome’s pee when he was requested an exam.
Appointed as Grand Inquisitor was a monk named Tomas de Torquemada. He was in charge of helping Spain get rid of all heresy. Although the main purpose for the Inquisition was to get rid of all the Jews from Spain, it kept proceeding long after the Jews were gone in 1492. Jews that had not yet converted to Christianity by 1492 were thrown out of Spain by the Alhambra Decree. Unconverted Muslims suffered the same fate in 1502.
If the body has been dead long enough, approximately 4 hours rigamortis has set in, if so then the rigor should be broken by moving the joints. At this point the body is on the embalming table and is ready to be bathed. After bathing the mouth nose and eyes must be sterilized. Next the eye caps are inserted under the eyelids, this is to keep the eyes closed and from sinking. Now you are ready to close the mouth which can be quite tricky sometimes, if all goes well and the jaw bones are still strong then a tack is put in the top of the mouth and one in the bottom and then tied together.
I chose this photo because I’ve watched parts of the movie, and read the text, the part that really touched me and tore me apart was when the men had to dig up bodies from the mass graves with their bare hands, after digging them up they had to pile them up, throw flammable fluids such as gasoline and burn the massive piles of bodies so that no sign of this mass murder was left. The worst part is that the men sometimes stumbled upon bodies of their beloved such as their mothers, fathers, siblings, wives and children and having to set them on
The Egyptian culture mixes African, Asian and European ideas. Ancient Egyptian Culture made mummies; they believed this was a way to preserve their loved ones into the afterlife. They spent 70 days performing this task, which involved removing the brain by a use of a special hook, and all the internal organs except the heart which they believed stored emotion. They would use chemicals like tree sap to preserve the skin and finally wrap it. The Egyptians took funerary matters seriously since they believed in life after death.