When I have to reread things to be sure I've gotten it right, it coould be me -- or the way things are written. A lot of issues with structure, flow, "readability", etc. can be corrected if someone other than the author reads through it. This thesis would benefit greatly by a second set of eyes.

This, like much of this thesis, needs "new eyes". "...robbing one's relative (sic) graves is taboo...", and Odin's Law repeated needlessly, etc., -- results of the lack of not being read critically by someone other than the author. Every writer learns this sad lesson, and also why an editor is indispensable.

Subsequent referenced Forsa object/illustration missing.

For the unknowing, a current map would add a lot of value.

At some risk of upsetting, why are two the average number of paragraphs per page here? The relationship between sentences, thoughts and paragraphs are factors of comprehension -- said my 5th grade English teacher. Is "back to basics" part of the retention problem?

IA's Way Back Machine helps...lots of folks using it to restore Ukrainian lore from the rubble.

a.k.a., finders...Duck, Duck, Go is my "pin".

Memory...ah, yes. My old Uncle Ralph kept telling me, "Boy, there's them what know--and them what know where to find..". Memory was never my strong suit. I had to find ways to recall where I found things. He knew that most of us were not knowers, but finders.

...nichts uebriges/anders uebrig, als die Glaubwuerdigkeit auf sich...?

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If true, one must then ask: who was Jesus' resident scribe? S. Sturlusson's Heimskringla 3rd. Person omniscient narratives notwithstanding...

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1911a

anachronisms?

being?

tale?

S. Kalmring cites another source for this description: "Hedebys outstanding function as a “hub of the North Sea- and Baltic trade” (Jöns & Müller-Wille, 2002, p. 347)", and is a refernce to Hedeby and not Haithabu...distinction?

Where? By whom? And no comma: "characterized as..."

"is/was in"

To avoid needless redundancy, try, "That same publication by Ms. Pedersen... (or) "Ms. Pedersen's publication..."

"...the..."

What fire? Where?

found on the

Hosek's

"Sixteen...", or "A total of 16...", etc.

Williams is not the only...

approximate

were etched?

made in

"...events."

"... and ends with the Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066 AD)..." ??

"...sword"?

2 LVA???

bushels

(omitted text:) ". The brag crop I heard of in our vicinity was two thousand bushels from ninety acres. Many crops were thr[e]shed, producing no more than three bushels to the acre; . . ."

farmer

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Prof. Berkson's ecclesiastical bias against including D. Humphrey's "Final Exit" in Suggested Reading or to acknowledging the latter's role in founding the Death with Dignity movement in America only belies Berkson's lack of objectivity in fairly conducting the course.

Humphrey, D. Final Exit.

...by Derek Humphrey, author of "Final Exit".

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Thompson, Deanna A.; 166 pp. $19 from Amazon; $10 Kindle.

Izzat so??!! Usually held in confidentiality, the privacy of a will should be sacrosanct. This little aside by Prof. Berkson is welcome by Hamline's Methodist overseers, I'm sure, but a swing and a miss when searching for justification. Why not throw in a little marital discontent or just plain revenge???

Consistent? I beg to differ except for it's overwhelming evangelizing of imposing its doctrine on everyone within and outside of the "one true church"! Any otherwise evident "requirement' for preservation of life such as abolishing the irrevocable penalty of death takes a very distant second place to force-feeding "right to life" (before but much less so after birth) on society in general.

"...glad to be alive"??? "...doing so much good"??? Clearly outside rationalization by those who consider these interpretations of Mr. Cowart's circumstances (unremitting pain, side effects of being highly medicated/sedated, intravenously sustained and wholly unable to live a life he once knew) along with imposition of naive morality from those thinking themselves rational and better at reasoning than he who's been there!

Poorly worded, in that "cessation of ...treatment" is no different than "...letting someone die", both implying passive euthanasia. Better the second phrase should be "...administering the means of death" or equivalent to mean active euthanasia. Notwithstanding Ms. Steinbock's ill-reasoned justification based on "interference", which might well also be simply making the person comfortable or even admitting the dying person to a clinic in the first place. It is also, after all, a form of honoring the right to refuse treatment!

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Becker, Ernest: free online or downloadable from the Internet Archive; 1975

Available as PDF/eBook/Kindle with a sample reading.

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PDF download: http://pdfmedia.us/?book=080280294X (111 pp.; 1996)

Available as downloadable PDF at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236837600_The_year_of_magical_thinking_-_Joan_Didion_and_the_dialectic_of_grief

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Alone the affiliation of Dr. Berkson with an ecclesiastical entity such as the Methodist-based Hamline University belies his disposition, rationalization of and allegiance to "life at any cost". Great Courses' benign inclusion of Dr. Berkson's approach to and dismissal of one's choice of a final exit makes not only this topic of "Death, Dying and the Afterlife" a less reasoned and academically disciplined presentation but calls into question his coloring of other course topics as well.

The "senna/ur" may be timeless. It reminds me of the similar contemporary practice called "dirty dozen" that appears in the good-spirited but sometimes downright mean oneupsmanship usually found in African-American male bonding. A classic example of an exchange is, "Your lady is so ugly she has to sneak up on a glass of water to get a drink!" followed by the other party saying, "You're so ugly your daddy must have beat you with an ugly stick!", etc., found, among other places, in Bo Diddley's "Say, Man!" album from 1959.

Connotations ABOUT? CONCERNING? Without familiarity with the sagas and their general disdain for the people of the north, one must be careful to be clear here. My own interest stems from my ex-wife's Germanic maiden name: "Senner", and any relation the "sennur" may have to that name!

Braking hard, Sarge made the abrupt left turn, driving only a few yards before stopping the big Ford Fairlane wagon just short of another Spanish soldier standing in the road's middle, as the same two Guardia came sprinting across the main road and up from behind us while unshouldering their automatic weapons.

No sooner had it passed us and gone but a short way when the Land Rover stopped abruptly by the roadside and two Guardia Civil emerged, stepping into the center of the main road while forcibly waving us off onto a narrow, rutted side road.

Barely past Segovia on Spain's N-6 heading north, we had settled into our long drive to our new assignment in France when we were overtaken by a green Range Rover with flashing blue lights and the insignia of the Spanish police on the door.

In view of the recent onset of children's MISC as the result of Covid 19, should this be factored in to this course? Have the children affected have shown Covid 19 antibodies as evidence of prior viral presence?

This is a free course from Johns Hopkins/Coursera for anyone interested in learning the methodology and protocols of contact tracing. A certificate of completion is offered for a fee, but the non-certificate course is cost-free.

In "Zen...", R. Pirsig relates his -- or rather his alter ego Phaedrus' -- teaching experience with a student's paralysis preventing her writing an assigned essay on any topic about America:

*"...He’d been having trouble with students who had nothing to say. At first he thought it was laziness but later it became apparent that it wasn’t. They just couldn't think of anything to say.

"One of them, a girl with strong-lensed glasses, wanted to write a five-hundred-word essay about the United States. He was used to the sinking feeling that comes from statements like this, and suggested without disparagement that she narrow it down to just Bozeman.

"When the paper came due she didn't have it and was quite upset. She had tried and tried but she just couldn't think of anything to say.

"He had already discussed her with her previous instructors and they'd confirmed his impressions of her. She was very serious, disciplined and hardworking, but extremely dull. Not a spark of creativity in her anywhere. Her eyes, behind the thick-lensed glasses, were the eyes of a drudge. She wasn’t bluffing him, she really couldn’t think of anything to say, and was upset by her inability to do as she was told.

"It just stumped him. Now he couldn't think of anything to say. A silence occurred, and then a peculiar answer: 'Narrow it down to the main street of Bozeman.' It was a stroke of insight.

"She nodded dutifully and went out. But just before her next class she came back in real distress, tears this time, distress that had obviously been there for a long time. She still couldn't think of anything to say, and couldn’t understand why, if she couldn't think of anything about all of Bozeman, she should be able to think of something about just one street.

"He was furious. 'You’re not looking!' he said. A memory came back of his own dismissal from the University for having too much to say. For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see. She really wasn’t looking and yet somehow didn’t understand this.

"He told her angrily, 'Narrow it down to the front of one building on the main street of Bozeman. The Opera House. Start with the upper left-hand brick!'

"Her eyes behind the thick-lensed glasses opened wide. She came in the next class with a puzzled look and handed him a five-thousand-word essay on the front of the Opera House on the main street of Bozeman, Montana. 'I sat in the hamburger stand across the street,' she said, 'and started writing about the first brick, and the second brick, and then by the third brick it all started to come and I couldn't stop. They thought I was crazy, and they kept kidding me, but here it all is. I don’t understand it!'

"Neither did he, but on long walks through the streets of town he thought about it and concluded she was evidently stopped with the same kind of blockage that had paralyzed him on his first day of teaching. She was blocked because she was trying to repeat, in her writing, things she had already heard, just as on the first day he had tried to repeat things he had already decided to say. She couldn’t think of anything to write about Bozeman because she couldn’t recall anything she had heard worth repeating.

'She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before. The narrowing down to one brick destroyed the blockage because it was so obvious she had to do some original and direct seeing. ..."*

Why not explain/define these genres? It's not being done here! Wikipedia defines a "cozy" as "...a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community" as opposed to "hardboiled": "... which features violence and sexuality more explicitly and centrally to the plot." And somewhat gratuitously...

The inability to display the guidebook outline sidebar is a major drawback. Other TGC courses have that ability and it makes nav. a lot easier!

Is there a way to remove my highlights/annotations/page notes without doing so one at a time? And if I'm the only one who's used Hypothesis on a page, can I stop it or remove it from appearing later?

And is/was there a "follow-up post"?

And finally, "taxonomy"? Really? This is good ol' "how-to" street lingo to me. If one were seeking instruction on and clarification of Hypothesis use, I doubt one would search for "taxonomy"!