Humanities Homework Help

Your assignment is this: Chose one topic, subject, bit of information, or closely–related set of facts that you either found interesting or chal-lenging, and find a memorable way to present it. What you prepare needs to be ultimately useful to future students.

•Create a piece of art that conveys information in an understandable way.

•A comic or comic book.

Here is the following information. Please Include whatever information you can onto a poster or comic series, which ever is easier for you

Premortem- before death, while alive

Perimortem- around the time of death

Postmortem- after death

• How do temperature and stiffness help you to estimate time since death?

BODY TEMPERATURESTIFFNESSTIME SINCE DEATH

BODY TEMPERATURESTIFFNESSTIME SINCE DEATH

WARM,NOT STIFFLESS THAN 3 HOURS

WARM,STIFF 3 TO 8 HOURS

COLD,STIFF 8 TO 36 HOURS

COLD,NOT STIFF OVER 36 HOURS

• What are some of the other ways that you can estimate time since death? (decay and insects)

Stage

Initial decay– fresh outside, fermentation inside due to bacteria

Purification– swollen by gas, odor of decaying flesh.

Black purification– flesh creamy and black gas escapes with strong odor

Butyric fermentation– remaining flesh dries, mold appears with cheesy odor.

Dry decay– cadaver almost dry. Slow decay rate