1. In Mary Roach’s book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers(2003), she explains that life after death is amusing, interesting, and creepy all at the same time. The author first introduces in chapters four thru eight that cadavers are also used for crash test thru allusions, quotes, and footnotes. She then exploits how cadavers are used to determine information on bombs with facts and citations. Her purpose of this book is to educate people of the afterlife and explain that the subject of dead people is unusual. The tone is straightforward She seems to have no specific audience in mind because her text does not specifically aim at a particular crowd.
2. coaxed- to persuade (pg. 94)
diapering- decorative patterns (pg. 97)
sentient- conscious
cognizant - knowledge of something (pg. 114)
latter- second of two people (pg. 123)
unprecedented- having no idea (pg. 131)
fanatical- ridiculously enthused (pg. 133)
3. lively
4. anecdotes - I glance around...grab your legs (pg. 97)
facts - Baboons, for example, have been subjected to violent sideways head rotations in order to study why side - impact crashes so often send passengers into comas (pg. 95)
understatement - A cow carcass is upsetting, a brisket is dinner (pg.105)
defining - Incapacitation - or stopping power (pg. 132)
abbreviations - In a 1968 Defense Atomic Support Agency paper entitled Estimates of Man's Tolerance to the Direct Effect's of Air Blast - i.e (pg. 149)
5. When a writer sites a book or article on almost every two to three pages is a strategy?
Is the authors style straightforward?
Can other unspoken of subjects become more common if they were discussed in a humorous way?
6. Harris considers the project a success, with land mines, even a small gin in protection can mean a huge difference in a victim's medical outcome. "If I can save a foot or keep an amputation below the knee."he says," that's a win."(pg. 152)
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