...anthropologists study. As we have seen, these aspects of culture are related, and anthropologists often study multiple cultural elements simultaneously to gain a true holistic perspective. In this assignment, you will apply what you have learned about the aspects of culture (and their relationships to one another) to create your own hypothetical culture. Directions: Your paper should be between five and six pages, double-spaced (around 1000 – 1250 words total). You must use either Arial or Times New Roman font in size 12. Your margins should be 1 inch on all sides. If you have questions about how to set these settings, please ask your instructor. The Paper is due via Moodle to me by 11:55 PM on May 2, 2016. It is worth 10% of your course grade. You will submit your paper, to Moodle, prior to or by the stated deadline. The attachment should be one of the following formats: .doc, .docx, .pdf or .pages No other file types will be accepted. Papers submitted after the deadline will be penalized according to the policy outlined in the course syllabus. For this assignment, you will create your own culture. You will design the culture’s history, environment, subsistence approach, political system, and other aspects of social life. The aim of the project is to enable you to think creatively while demonstrating your knowledge of anthropological concepts. Your culture may live on the moon or in a protected bubble in the deep sea. However, it must “make sense.” For example, if...
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...My first observation took place in a third grade classroom of twenty-two students. All students were of Mexican descent and labeled as intermediate/advanced English language learners. The classroom environment itself was very warm and welcoming. There was a bulletin board that displayed pictures of students and their families along with autobiographies. There was another bulletin board dedicated to celebrating Mexican culture and people. The teacher was a Caucasian women in her mid twenties with three years of teaching experience. The second classroom I observed was a first grade class of twenty-five students. Students in this class were all of Mexican descent and labeled as early intermediate English language learners. The classroom environment was very welcoming and appealing. There were colorful posters and pictures displayed on the walls. There was a bulletin board that displayed pictures of students with a caption that said “I am special because...”. Another bulletin board celebrated diversity with pictures of people of different cultures. The teacher was a Mexican-American woman in her early thirties with five years of teaching experience. My last observation took place in a fourth grade classroom of twenty-four students. Twenty of the students were of Mexican descent, one was Caucasian, and two were African American. This was a mainstream class with intermediate/advanced English language learners. The classroom environment was somewhat plain and boring...
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...I have never in my life have experienced white privilege. It is because I am a Chinese descent and I am also part of the minority in our population. Even though I have not experienced white privilege, but I have observed some of my white classmates to experience white privilege. I went to an elementary school that was pretty diverse, but there were some white children in the school. There were some in my class, and I remember there was a time where I had noticed white privilege had appeared. It happened in grade five, I was playing with one of the white girls and I think we were laughing at something that had offended one of our classmates even though we didn’t mean to. Then our teacher had called us out in the hall and started to give a lecture to us about why we should have not done that. My white classmate had made an excuse on why she did that and the teacher had let her back into the classroom without getting into trouble. I saw her made an excuse and I did the same thing thinking that I might get out of trouble. Instead I wasn’t off the hook and the teacher had to give me a light punishment. Then I have become aware that whatever trouble she made, she would be able to get out of it. While on the other hand, if I...
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...Greenville, SC 29605 August 22, 2014 Spelman University 350 Spelman Lane S.W. Atlanta, GA Dear Sir/Madam, My name is Moesha Johnson, I am writing to you today as part of my 12th grade curriculum here at school. I am a senior at Legacy Early High School in Greenville, SC. My class and I are researching universities around the country that interest us in order to discover more about the potential schools that we could attend after we successfully graduate. As I mentioned I am a student determined to attend a school as fundamentally historical and prestigious as yours. Over the course of the week, I have had the pleasure of learning various historical facts about this university. I had the chance to learn that Spelman University: Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary was founded by Sophia B. Packard & Harriet E. Giles in 1881. The name was later changed to Spelman in 1924, in honor of Mrs. Laura Spelman Rockefeller and her parents: Henry Buel, Lucy Henry Spelman longtime activist in the antislavery movement. I was very intrigued to learn that the oldest building on the campus was the Rockefeller Hall, completed in 188. Another fact that captivated my attention was that your school is known globally as the oldest historically black college for women of the african american descent. I was also intrigued to learn that in 2000 Spelman was ranked No.2 by the Association of Medical Colleges in placing african- american students in medical school, and in 1886 the Nursing Training...
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... GODD B07 Kassner Thurs (sec. 044) 11:00 am – 12:15 pm KJCC BSMT Kassner Thurs (sec. 045) 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm KJCC BSMT Fuchs Thurs (sec. 046) 4:55 pm – 6:10 pm GCASL 375 Fuchs Assigned Texts Sophocles, Antigone in Sophocles I, University of Chicago The Oxford Study Bible, Oxford University Press Plato, Symposium, Hackett Marx, Communist Manifesto, Norton Critical Edition Darwin, Origin of Species (includes The Descent of Man), Norton Critical Edition Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, Cambridge University Press (contains both Birth of Tragedy and “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”) Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Perseus Distribution Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, Norton Critical Edition Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Simon & Schuster Assigned page numbers for all readings correspond to the editions specified above. It is not recommended that you use other editions that may contain different translations & pagination. Grading Policy: Final grades will be comprised of the following components: * First response paper of 4 pages length is worth 15% of final...
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...in one’s own society, worldwide and historically - In many societies, people are grouped together and socialized together in age groups by means of institutionalized structure North American Society -People are designated by age groups American Jews of Eastern European Descent - Eastern European Jews had become assimilated into American Society Institutions of Age Grouping Age grade- an organized category of people based on age; every individual passes through a series of such categories during a lifetime - Not only a category of people, but it typically can be an organized class of people -Membership can be automatic Age sets- groups of persons initiated into age grades simultaneously who move through the series of categories together Age Grouping in African Society The Tiriki of East Africa: Kenya – example of an age set society -members stay with the same group of people through their lifetime -the age sets are divided into people who fall into 15 years period -Sort of similar to our idea of generation -only one of the 7 age sets in this society is open at a time -Four age grades exist in conjunction with these age sets The Four Age...
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...Despite knowing how painful it is to be stereotyped negatively, I have done it before myself to other people. Often times in my experiences, you hear about how Mexican teens are in to drugs and are violent as well. Growing up, our family went on a lot of vacations to where the majority of the population was Mexican. Whenever we visited these places, my parents would tell me to stay away from these people, as they would steal from me or try to pressure me into taking drugs. Therefore, up until I was eight years old, I wouldn’t so much as even look at or interact with them. In February of 2008, all of this changed, on a trip to Cancun, Mexico we were staying in a nice resort, which had a beautiful water park. One scorching afternoon while I was...
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...Palestine. He spent time in Pakistan where he commented his terrorist attack as well as practice medicine. He had a wife and was from a family of ten he was born of Dec 25, 1977. His father worked as professional in the middle class as a pharmacist. He received high grades in high school and studied medicine and Turkey as well as learning Turkish. He become radicalized in 2002-2009. His views and actions where shaped by key events in political atmosphere of the middle east, the 2003 Iraq invasion change in the situation in the Israel and Palestine in 2008. According to their family he was not a member of extremist groups but a follower. He married a Turkish person, he had belief in helping people. As an example he spent 3-4 hours on the internet between 2008-2009 after a Gaza attack he posted online using a famous Muslim warrior name. His views change from the advocating of violence from moderate to serve over time. At this time he started to believe a personal obligation jihad against Western forces in Muslim lands. He did to effect make his attack in 2009 in Pakistan killing 7 CIA Agents and one Jordanian agent. As for a Domestic lone wolf attack Major Nidal Malik Hasan his background he was of Palestine descent he grew up in Virginal and went to school there, his family had a restaurant. Of two brother one moved to Jerusalem. Nidal stayed in the US. Nidal was career solid during which he received degree in biochemistry and Medicine specializing in psychiatry. His work stated...
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...He was trying to be better than Finny in his grades to prove that he was better. When Finny beat the swimming record he told Gene “By the way… we aren’t going to talk about this. It’s just between you and me. Don’t say anything about it, to… anyone.” Gene gets frustrated at this and comes back with “Not say anything about it! When you broke a school record!” Gene clearly is showing his competitive nature when he says this, since it doesn't even affect him and yet he is concerned that the record being broken will go unrecognized. Finny, on the other hand, was being free-spirited and didn’t care if the record was recorded because he just wanted to do it. Therefore, Gene is more competitive than Finny and is a competitive...
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...what specific specialties I am interested in, or at least introduce me to a new field that I might not have otherwise encountered. Having experience in laboratory research will also give me experience with some laboratory techniques that may help perform research in college and beyond. In addition to my background as a patient, a Montessori education provides an ideal platform to learn and perform research. I attended a Montessori school until eighth grade, where I learned how to think critically and creatively. This school taught me to find and pursue my interests, rather than focus on memorizing facts. Passion and creativity are traits that I carry with me today. I am constantly looking for new books to devour or ideas that catch my interest. Another skill that I learned at this school is how to stick with something. I am able to focus for hours on something I am interested in, or study a topic for weeks or even years. In the 7th grade, I was introduced to beekeeping, and subsequently reared two colonies of my own. In the 9th grade, I watched a TED talk on gut microbes which inspired me to read all I could on the subject. Recently, a presenter for career day at my school, inspired me to learn more about oncology and the role of cancer antigen blood tests in diagnosis. We got in touch, and I often email him with questions. My interests are not confined to the 50 minutes a day I spend in science class, and I have a burning desire to do research and explore the field that interests...
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...Sociology Homework 1) Define the term ‘patriarchy`. (2 Marks) A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is reckoned through the male line. 2) Using one example, briefly explain how Marxists suggest that the next generation may be socialised into capitalist values. (2 Marks) They think those families in relations to capitalism and how it will benefit capitalism because they will have a lot more works that will work for them and that means there will be more money for the ruling class. 3) Outline three criticisms made of the New Right view of the family. (6 Marks) The family is in decline because there is an increase in: Lone parents Fatherless families Gay and Lesbian couples. Because of this the family is no longer performing its function properly, it is failing to give children proper socialisation and this leads the kids to have bad grades and it causes them to behave badly and commit crimes and it makes lone parents dependent on the welfare. (Welfare Dependency). 4) Outline and explain two function that functionalist’s sociologists see the family performing. (10 Marks) Functionalists believe that families must have a function or a purpose and they must to something useful that will benefit the family members and the society. One of the functions that George Murdock thinks that is vital for the family is being reproductive and having babies this will increase the population and that...
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...besides take out the Jews in large numbers. They passed many laws to turn their life into a hell before they were even in the concentration camps. I realize now that the Holocaust wasn’t just the period of time where the Jews were killed only in concentration camps but also there was much background history before that had even occurred. Originally they were all living much more comfortably in the Ghettos, relative to the conditions in the concentration camps. However, their treatment was extremely cruel relative to my ordinary life right now. The Jews living in Germany or protectorates of Germany were demoralized when their jobs and business were taken away as well as their family or people they loved who weren’t of Jewish descent or German descent, vice versa. Not to mention some of the other religions of faith such as Christianity were unsympathetic to suffering of the jews. Hitler was passionate about purifying the Aryan race and he was also passionate in achieving a mass genocide of the jews. The government all in all was so anti-semitism, that they passed 400 laws in over ten years just to get the clearance for the Jews extermination. However, I never realized how also the common people were also so anti-semitic as well. Write a Summarize-Analyze-Evaluate of the Holocaust using your knowledge gained in the past week. (Summarize=briefly explain/describe important information about the topic. Analyze=describe any connections you see of the Holocaust and other...
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...educating our children about the different cultures in our society as it is important in the success of their development. Some activities that could involve both students and their parents in cultural diversity education could include culinary diversity, arts and crafts, and culturally diverse textiles. Description of Target Group: “Building positive identities and a respect for differences means weaving diversity into the fabric of children's everyday lives. Working with families is an important first step in helping children accept, understand, and value their rich and varied world” (Gonzalez-Mena, J. & Pulido-Tobiassen, D. 2014). The target group for these activities is children in Kindergarten through second grade who are of American and Hispanic descent. They have been developed for students and their parents to do together and all three of them honor and respect cultural diversity in different ways. Activity One: Culinary Diversity Purpose of Activity: The purpose of this activity is to introduce students to foods from various cultures. It is a great way to get parents involved in their children(s) education as well as help them learn about their culture. Not only will children learn about their own culture they will also learn about the cultures of their peers as...
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...accomplish something great in life. II. My family always supported any goal’s I made, and persuaded me to pursue my entire list of goal’s in life. “What ever you set your mind to, you can accomplish”, was the quote I heard almost everyday growing up. So of course, my mindsets was set on finishing school with descent grades, and move on in life, attend college and take any necessary steps to become a registered nurse. Pretty standard huh? Trying to take the easy road, the simple road? What I didn’t do is give it 100%, while trying to make high school go by quick and easy. I failed to give it my all. III. My friends mindsets where much like my own, we all wanted to have the quickest high school career. I barely studied, and didn’t give my assignments 100%. Was I dumb? No. Lazy? A Bit. But my friends didn’t push me to do better, and I didn’t push them either. We were all destined for greatness though; we just didn’t see it yet. I got more than what I bargained for when it came time to have college tours, take exams, do entrance test, and turn in my transcripts. What I didn’t know was the schools I wanted to attend, needed more than what I had to offer, because my grades didn’t cut it. My test scores were average, and my cumulative GPA didn’t meet the requirements. IV. My teachers tried, I admit I gave them a hard time. I can admit that they were just trying to convince me to show what I can do. I was more focused on not being the geek, the smart girl, and the nerdy type...
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...I was born in Westminster, South Carolina. I am a young, middle-class Caucasian female of the European descent. I received an average education from a public school system that was mostly middle-class, Caucasian where I made remarkable grades and went on to a private Christian university. The school district that I teach at now has a completely different culture, majority Hispanic ethnicity, with a lower-to-middle social class than where I grew up and am used to. Just this last semester, roughly twenty percent of the student population at Big Spring High School failed at least one class. Being a Special Education Inclusion teacher means working with those students who have the educational need for academic support within the general education...
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