...balance of power: their structure involved interdependence between men and female. There was no hierarchy. Men did not hold power over the women, and women did not hold power over the men. In this particular time period, early anthropologists claimed that women were oppressed slaves to the men. Anthropologist George Caitlin claims, “The Crow women (and Blackfeet also) are not handsome, and I shall at present say but little of them. They are, like all other Indian women, the slaves of their husbands, being obliged to perform all the domestic duties and drudgeries of the tribe”(Oldershaw 2). During this time era, early anthropologists’ observations were indeed contradictory to European culture and the domestic roles of their women, as well as their observations ignoring the actual cultural context of Blackfoot Indians. Furthermore, women did all the in-village duties while men tended to the duties outside of the village. The women received a great ordeal of respect from the men. But, women didn’t always stay in the village. The Blackfoot tribe had many woman warriors that joined in on raids and fought in battles. Part II: Description In Blackfoot culture, the women were considered the builders of the tribe. The skills they obtained were remarkable and never went unnoticed. Their skills were respected, their ability to bare children was strongly valued and their involvement in spiritual ceremonies, such as the Sun Dance, was highly appreciated. It is safe to say that women and...
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...Psalm 46 is recognized by most scholars a community song of confidence. The stanzas and refrains represent features of a confession and a declarative statement of trust. However, after several observations of Psalm 46, I have found that there is a lot of debate as to the classification of this Psalm. In this essay, I will present scholars that dare to differ on their views on Psalm 46, and I will conclude with a critical examination of their viewpoints. Psalm 46 is the first of the Songs of Zion. According to Walter, Psalm 46 demonstrates a prophetic message of hope. The Songs of Zion (Ps. 46, 48, 76, 84, 87,122) feature the importance and meaning of Jerusalem in the Lord’s relationship to his people and the world. In Psalm 46, “Zion...
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...THE NAYARS OF INDIA Name ANT 101 Instructor: Date THE NAYARS OF INDIA The Nayar are a group of castes in the South Indian State of Kerala. Historically, the Nayars were a warrior clan and served as militia to the small feudal kingdoms in the region. Apart from most men being away for the wars for a large part of the year, the primary activity of those left behind was farming and the caste is classified as being emerging agriculturalist. The staple diet of the Nayars is rice, and was supplemented by vegetables, fish, chicken and buffalo meat. The Nayars are a complex clan with remarkably social structure, matrilineal and a polyandrous society. The research will show the cultural setting of the Nayars and the relationship between the subsistence and the cultural aspects like beliefs and values, economic setting and kinship. Until the 13th century, Nayars were a warrior clan and sustained themselves through militaristic activities and conquest. It was through such activities that Nayar land lords became owners of large pieces of land. The subsistence of Nayars from 14th century onwards was chiefly through rice cultivation. The Nayars Tharavads owned large pieces of land that were given away to tenants of lower castes for cultivation. A large number of males were usually away for wars for extended periods of the year. The subsistence food of rice was supplemented by vegetables, eggs, fish, poultry, beef and goat meat. However the higher ranked...
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...720th Special Tactics Strategic Analysis The 720 Special Tactics Group Strategic Analysis Strategic Planning OM 5040 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Background 4 History 7 Organization 11 Mission statement 13 Mission 13 Mission Task 13 Vision statement analysis 15 Strategic management Application 17 Value Chain 18 Primary Activities 18 Support Activities 19 Translating...
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...men and women have changed slightly, but in a lot of cases they still remain the same. In the Odyssey one can see there are unquestionably different expectations for men versus women during this time period. To this day, there is little information on Homer himself. Even though there is not much information about the author himself, it is known that “The epic poem Odyssey focuses on the Greek character Odysseus and his ten year journey from Troy to Ithaca after the fall of Troy (Trojan war).”("Odyssey by Ancient Greek Poet Homer.") This story takes place directly after the Trojan War. The society is still recovering from the war and tragedy. Although gender expectations are true in the early years that the Odyssey...
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...That is why the original Beowulf tale Grendel is very different from the one described by Gardner and Grigsby. While the common sense would argue that the eating flesh monster of the dark ages has very little to offer the contemporary audience, the reality is that the character of Grendel became quite popular in the modern culture (Farrell 934). Jennifer Farrell argues: “Part of Grendel’s allure is the fact that he remains a mystery. His past is...
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...portray the wickedness of the world, but not the good deeds that happen behind the scenes. However, a writer named Stephen Jay Gould believed that the world had more good people than bad considering his own experiences after 9/11. Likewise, because of personal experiences, current events, and observations, I believe Gould is correct in his claim that most people in today’s society are good. Due to my own experiences I have to agree with Gould’s claim. To begin with I remember one time my girlfriends and I had a dinner date at Blackfinn. In the midst of asking for our bill, our waitress informed us a couple next to us paid it.They were total strangers and truthfully I had paid them no attention when we first sat down. Secondly, the various people my mom works for have been very generous towards...
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...By 2020, it is speculated that the number of inhabitants in Liver infection B contenders will little venture forward/upward to very nearly 18 million. The results picked up amid the touchy dissection of the passing rates of 47 conditions of USA. At the point when connecting the distinctive variables, sexual classification demonstrates a higher mean estimation of 983, verbally communicating that higher the quantity of male populace among 14-65 years of ages higher the shots of death rate inside the state. The dissection of male populace with the age gathering of 14-65 demonstrates a normal estimation of 139 male for every 1000 populace with at least 128 and close to 178 and could be put into numbers as a variable firmly empowering the demise rate with in the states. The populace demonstrates a mean estimation of 103.63 with a most noteworthy...
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...Stereotypes of Gender against Women Throughout history, women have been discriminated against in our society. At times, they have been considered the weaker sex and also, they have been expected to do work that only demands low responsibility. These responsibilities may include: housework, being a good wife and mother. However, the world’s perspective towards women has had significant changes, and companies like Walt Disney Production are still generating stereotypes of gender against women in their films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Mulan. Media is frequently responsible of encouraging these patterns by the way they show their information and entertainment to the audience. Laura Mulvey, a British feminist film theorist, is best known for her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” which was published in 1975. Here, she describes the role of women in movies “as a tool of attraction for the male gaze” (Mulvey). According to Mulvey’s statement, this work aims to describe the stereotypes of gender that Disney films display throughout their past productions. It also shows how the films can affect everyday lives. Over decades, these cartoons have been criticized for illustrating the traditional American and European values, thus creating stereotypes, which are often not a clear image of the current situation in our society. One of the most discussed topics in the animated features of Walt Disney Productions is the stereotype...
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...Maja Strzelczyk, 4KMT2 Topic: Analyse and interpret the passage below, backing up your reading of these lines with apt cultural examples, relating, too, to other literary texts: OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth! There is quite possibly no greater reason for artists' trepidation and anxiety than being misunderstood and misinterpreted. Yet, it is still a common occurrence, even in modern times. First published in 1889, Rudyard Kipling's famous and extremely complex poem “The Ballad of East and West”, and more specifically its four opening lines, is one of the works that have been freely quoted and, probably to Kipling's great disappointment, very often misquoted, therefore misinterpreted in the opposite sense of Kipling's intentions, creating a spurious and misguided reputation of its author. The four lines opening Rudyard Kipling's poem, “The Ballad of East and West,” are a reflection on the topic of equality and possibility of mutual understanding and respect of polar opposites. Let us break down the quatrain into two parts. The first two lines imply that the author believes in absolute contrariety of East and West. They suggest that there is no possible way of reconciliation of the two, that seemingly they are like day...
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...At first glance, sport and religion appear to have little in common, apart from being perennial human activities. Religion is transcendent, concerned with the divine, and involves sacred things. Sport is immanent, concerned with the human, and involves profane things. However, a deeper examination reveals that there are at least five ways in which sport and religion are deeply interrelated: first, it can be demonstrated that, in pre-modern societies, ritualized sport was very often part of worship of the gods; second, altered states of consciousness attained during sport have frequently been compared to religious or mystical experiences; third, some modern sporting champions have professed religious faith and attributed their success to divine power; fourth, the devotion of fans to sporting teams and individual “stars” resembles religions fervor; fifth and final, in the modern West, sport has become a functional equivalent of religion for some people. These connections between religion and sport are undeniable, but not uncontroversial. Scholars and critics who have attempted to articulate them and offer explanations for them have encountered pitfalls. Adherents of traditional religions such as Judaism and Christianity have vigorously objected to the equation of sport with religion and of sporting “peak experiences” with religious experiences or mysticism. Christian commentators have questioned how compatible the modern sporting ethos of bodily perfection and fierce competition...
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...The iDeal Reader Henry David Thoreau, ‘‘The Battle of the Ants’’ © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2000 Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), transcendentalist essayist, naturalist, editor, and social critic, was born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau graduated from Harvard University and taught briefly at a school in Concord but resigned rather than be expected to strike his students. He ran his own school from 1838 to 1841, teaching Latin, Greek, and science. In 1938 Thoreau also began lecturing, which he continued intermittently, often emphasizing his strong opposition to slavery, but his message was not always well received. Thoreau began his lifelong friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson when he tutored Emerson’s brother William in 1843 on Staten Island, boarding with Emerson and his wife. He helped Emerson edit the Transcendentalist magazine The Dial. Thoreau kept a journal at Emerson’s urging, which aided him in his writing. He took a canoe trip with his brother John during the first two weeks of September 1839, which experience he transformed into a volume of poems and essays entitled A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers (1849). While he published 1000 copies himself, only about 300 sold. On July 4, 1845 Thoreau moved into a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond, on land belonging to Emerson, about two miles from Concord, and lived there alone for over two years. Thoreau condensed this outdoor life as if it were a single year in his...
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...centrism(Cruz 2012). Religion influenced the Indigenous peoples' entire lives, particularly their daily activities, sacrifices, geographic location and their calendars. Community centrism impacted major aspects of their lives such as their form of rule, and whether or not they became educated. Unlike the western european custom of going to church and worshiping on sundays, their religious values were reflected in daily activities through religious reminders and spiritual thought. (Cruz 9/10/2012). Religion and worshiping was a huge and important aspect of their lives. For example, their means of obtaining food did not just consist of growing the food, but it also included the blessing of their soil and praying. Indigenous people made observations about growing food,which their lives depended on; and Shaman priests would bless the soil their food grows on(Covarrubias 8/27/1012). During ceremonies, time was taken out to pray and give thanks for corn, water etc (cruz 9/5/2012). Another crucial part of their worship was sacrifice. The Mechica made sacrifices or offerings to the gods which was usually in the form of a ceremony. These rituals were performed by high priests on sacred days. A chalchihuatl was a blood sacrifice which meant that an individual would die, offering their life and blood to the gods. They chose to sacrifice blood because blood is pure and untouched and was seen as the highest and purest form of giving back. Their reasoning was that since they take life from...
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...Jesus Correa Pujante University Foundation Year 29-01-14 “Males do more sport than females ” HYPOTHESIS Nowadays, many people play sports due to the amount of advantages it have. Since we are kids sport plays an important role in our life, maybe because of the relation constructed between the person and the sport, and also there is always the success and the competitiveness. For example the 5 year old girl who work hard for be a professional gymnast in the future or a boy who want to be a NBA star. Although sports are very common between the world population there is a noticeable difference between the number of males and females playing sports. It is known that even nowadays, males are more used to play sports than females. Due to the inequalities in the socialization process through parents, media and school kids choose a particular way of life based on sex and gender, in my investigation I will show how and why women do less sport than men nowadays. LITERATURE REVIEW Much evidence indicates that men experienced an evolutionary history of physical competition, both one-on-one and in coalitions. We thus hypothesized that, compared to girls and women, boys and men will possess a greater motivational predisposition to be interested in sports, especially team sports. According to most scholars, advocacy groups, and the United States courts, however, this hypothesis is challenged by modest sex differences in organized school sports participation in the contemporary...
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...fresh, annotated translation of Ibn Faḍlān's passage and considers a multiplicity of identities for the Rūsiyyah. Ibn Faḍlān’s account of his participation in the deputation sent by the Caliph al-Muqtadir in the year 921 A.D. to the King of the Bulghārs of the Volga, in response to his request for help, has proved to be an invaluable source of information for modern scholars interested in, among other subjects, the birth and formation of the Russian state, in the Viking involvement in northern and eastern Europe, in the Slavs and the Khazars. It has been analyzed and commented upon frequently and forms the substance of many observations on the study of the ethnography and sociology of the peoples concerned. Yet it is no exaggeration to say that, with a few very conspicuous exceptions, the majority of the scholars who refer to it, who base their observations upon it and who argue from it, are at best improperly familiar with classical Arabic. In the case of the people known as the Rūsiyyah, for example, two modern commentators have...
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