Description
Read at least two of the following New York Times obituaries:
- Leonard Nimoy (Links to an external site.) (Spock of “Star Trek”)
- The inventor of the bar code (Links to an external site.)
- Reporter Helen Thomas (Links to an external site.)
- Dear Abby (Pauline Phillips) (Links to an external site.)
- Media columnist David Carr (Links to an external site.)
- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Links to an external site.)
- Bette Nesmith Graham (Links to an external site.), who invented Liquid Paper
- Norman Borlaug (Links to an external site.), a plant scientist credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives
After reading the obituaries in class today, find an obituary you think is interesting and post the link here, along with an explanation of what you think makes the obituary worth reading – based on what you have learned through the readings this week.
