The American Museum Of Natural History: Anthropology
.... is very educational and worth seeing.
In the hall of Asian Peoples the most intriguing exhibits was the
Chinese Wedding. It was very interesting to see how a different culture gets
married. In this wedding the Chinese bride sits in this beautiful bridal chair
from the groom's family that had carried her from her home. The bride now says
her good-byes to her own family because in the Chinese culture she is now part
of the grooms family. " Her impressive dowery, displayed by the procession on
the road , gives prestige to her family as the beauty of the bridal chair gives
prestige to the groom's." Prestige and honor are very .....
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The Yanoman
.... A regular series of degrees of violence has been institutionalized. It
ranges from chest pounding to side slapping. Both are likely to cause injury or
death.
The Yanomam do not utilize much technology except in their weapons. The
main weapon produced by the Yanomam are arrows. They make arrows that are six
feet long. These arrows are very accurate. Arrows not only serve as weapons but
as valuable possessions that are commonly exchanged as gifts among the Yanomam.
Villages that are nearby may sometimes ally. One reason in which the
ally is so that they can team up against another larger village. In order to
demonst .....
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Forgotten War Crimes
.... in the bombing of Dresden was to destroy railway yards, thus delaying
or preventing the deployment of German troops to the eastern front. To destroy
rail-lines and rail yards, precision bombing is used. Contradicting this
statement is the fact that the American planes flying over Dresden were not
armed with precision bombs but instead with high explosive incendiaries used to
create firestorms. What is also ironic is that after the bombing, not a single
rail-line or rail yard had been disturbed.
Other historical journals provided via the American government claim
that Dresden contained a number of bunkers being used to .....
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The Kung, Shoshone, And Mbuti Tribes: Hunting And Gathering Societies
.... There diet consists of meats, fruits,
berries, roots, fungus and insects. The Mbuti's food supply is always plentiful,
this is due to the habitat they live in and the small number of people living
off of any given area. The Shoshone on the other hand live more like a
scavengers because of their environment. Meat is rare, they tend to live off
the plant life in the forest. A large portion of the Shoshone's diet is plant
life. The Kung have a fairly balanced diet of plants and animals but water is a
limited resource. For the Kung the reason for moving is to stay where the water
is. In the dry season the Kung will all live in .....
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The Samurais, The Ultimate Stoics
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shorter sword was called shoto wakizashi. It was between twelve to twenty four
inches(Ibid.). Their swords were the “soul's” of the worship. A good sword was
tougher and sharper. The swords were tested before they were used by the
samurai. The sword tester used the new blades to cut through corpses and
bodies of condemned criminals.(World Surfari-www) The test results were put on
the nakago, the small metal piece on the sword blade or handle(Ibid.). Another
weapon, the nagita, was used by a foot soldier on a horseman. The foot soldier
would cut. the tendons of the horse and disembowel them.
The samurai went from military retai .....
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The Ute Indians
.... very important in the Ute Indian tribe. Every member was
responsible for caring and the education of the youth. Babies were held in
cradle boards that were either made of willow branches bundled together or a
solid piece of wood. Willow bark was often used as diapers. Babies were cared
for by girls nine and up. The babies were delivered in a special shelter that
was set aside for giving birth. During the birth the mother is usually assisted
by another female tribe member. The husband was expected to help the wife by
keeping her warm by bringing lots of firewood. The umbilical cord was cut off
with a stone knife. When the .....
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Shamanism
.... become more prevalent shamanism is beginning to be recognized as holding the
key puzzle in life. Furthermore, it is growing and encompassing many areas such
as Psychology, Pharmacology, and even believe it or not Physics. Now before we
elaborate on the historical significance of shamaninsm in anthropology it is
imperative that a general definition of shamanism is established.
In order to study shamanism the shaman must first be understood. The
original word shaman came form the Ural mountains in Russia. It applied to
people who acted in several 'non-ordinary' capacities for their tribes. Shamans
may be defined as man or a wom .....
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Transcendentalism
.... influence. He struggle in
his life, and this help him with his writing. Emerson was transcendentalist.
Emerson did lot of writing. One of them was " Nature ". One of his
transcendentalist sentence was, " I become a transparent eyeball. " With his
inner soul, he really become it, it was real, what he feels. He wouldn't be
able to smell or to talk to anybody, and he didn't needed to listen. With his
eyeball, he was able to see everything, very far. The word he use, "
transparent,'' I think is that because he was so lonely, he felt transparent.
Another writer of that time, was Thoreau. He studied in Harvard.
He .....
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Are Things Equal Between The Sexes In College Sports?
.... number of scholarships given, and in how many athletes are
participating in sports.
Men's athletic budgets are without a doubt a lot higher than women's
athletic budgets. On average men's athletic budgets are nearly five times that
of women's (Moline 18). An example of this is at schools that offer women's
sports of field hockey and volleyball that have budgets less than 20% of that
which is allocated for men's sports (Hanmer 13). Overall operating funds for
women's sports are about three times that of men's (Moline 18). Funding for
individual sports is different but when all added together men receive a lot
more money for .....
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Artificial Turf: A Dangerous Playing Surface
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ace in hole as well; grass doesn't grow very well in domes. Seduced by visions
of conquering Mother Nature and paying a couple kids minimum wage to run a
vacuum cleaner over the field between games, stadium executives across the
nation bought into the AstroTurf movement. However, as the powers that be soon
discovered f or themselves, AstroTurf proved to be neither cheaper nor lower
maintenance than grass, and it had a nasty little side effect. Players, coaches,
and trainers began to notice a substantial increase in the frequency of injuries
on the improved traction and reduced cushion of AstroTurf. Doctors even
identified and .....
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Automobile Racing
.... machines, such as those used in Grand Prix\Formula 1 and in Indycar,
are built for power and endurance at speeds of more than 320 km/h (200 MPH). In
the past stock cars used to be production automobiles modified for track racing,
but are built now solely for the purpose of racing. Sports cars used for racing,
such as rallies, may be either rebuilt production vehicles or pure racing
machines. Drag racers are cars built to accelerate rapidly to high speeds over
very short straight tracks, or drag strips, generally about 400 m (3 mi) long.
The race most popularly associated with the sport is the Indianapolis 500, so
called becau .....
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Backpacking: A Different Way Of Camping
.... If overloaded, it can affect performance while hiking to one's
destination, but if not enough provisions are carried it, will impact how long
one can last out in the wilderness. The equipment must be minute in size and
weight. Special lightweight stoves, tents, sleeping bags, and clothes must be
used when backpacking. The average weight of a full backpack is about thirty-
five pounds. A camper is completely dependent on what is in his or her backpack
to survive in nature. Reaching one's final destination for car camping and
backpacking are also very different. To get to the campsite while car camping,
one follows a ro .....
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