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000 people lost their lives. This is a very large number considering the fact that in all the other wars Americans had participated in, only 680,000 people had died (BOA #11, 1). One scholar termed the Civil War story and its beginning as the most felt history. This is because Civil War cut to the core of the US national experience (BOA #10, 2). Participating in the Civil War was the worst thing that could happen to any individual and no single person can understand the experience unless he or…

Boas discusses the evolutionary hypothesis which involves one single general line of development. He also mentions diffusion which surrounds the notion that culture traits do not change over time but in fact spread from a certain area to the rest of the world, the shared culture trait has a common origin. Boas rejects the evolutionary hypothesis as he states that each group has its own unique history which…

the feeling of a corset tightening around a not-so-thin body. She took another deep breath as the cursed item of clothing pulled her insides further inside; if that was even possible at this point. The process felt much like a boa constricting its prey. Though, a boa would have gotten the job done faster; she sighed irritated shifting to her other foot, having been in the same position for fifteen minutes now, her back had begun to ache. Not that that was the worst problem she had. Why anyone…

For the DB2, I am focused on the contributions immigrants make in the U.S economy. I went to the public library and found quite a few books on immigration. Some of these books have outdated statistics that are relevant to my topic, so finding current information and data on how immigrants play a vital role in the U.S economy was a bit difficult. Similarly, I watched a documentary on the immigrant entrepreneurs who have played a significant role in technological innovations and creating…

Ultimately, Bank of America acquired Countrywide at a discounted price and Countrywide was happy to relinquish control because of investigations and lawsuits to come (Ferrell et al, 2013). However, BOA made some questionable choices, including the hiring of David Sambol, who later they replaced. BOA took on the dilemmas brought about because of Countrywide executives’ inability to act in an ethical…

that many Americans and others around the world have about human variation. We have now discounted the idea of race as a biologically valid concept. Franz Boas wanted to challenge this approach to human biological variation. Specifically, he studied the notion that head shape and other "so-called racial markers" were unchanging throughout time. Boas and his researchers studied some 18,000 immigrant families and calculated the ratio of head length to head breadth. Results revealed that children's…

As Franz Boas points out in his book “In Race and Democratic Society” in the chapter about “Race: Prejudice”, he discusses how everyone criticizes and are quick to think that people can be figured out by easily distinguishing their race. In doing so, many assume…

Ralph Menar Professor Filannino World Literature: ENG-2403 12/3/16 In many of Franz Kafka’s writings you get a view into his personal life but it is simply a reflection. This does not exclude his short story “The Metamorphosis,” in which critics have concluded it is more of an autobiography. Kafka tells this short story through Freud’s unconscious theory. The unconscious mind consists of “feelings thoughts, urges, and memories that are outside of our conscious awareness” (Cherry). In “The…

Arthur C. Parker was born to an interracial couple. Today this is something that is seen more and more, but in the 1900s, interracial couples were not seen as a positive thing. These couples were disregarded because they were contributing to the notion of impure offspring. Whites were one blood and Native Americans were another, the mixture of the two was believed to happen only among defective people. The people in that time thought there surely must have been something wrong for two people of…

Lewis henry morgan argued that cultures were clearly evolving from stages of savagery through to more complex types of societies. This Boas would not have accepted. Savagery here meaning the earliest stages of time in which humans lived, foraging for food and moving about from place to place. Morgan thought these stages were pervasive throughout humanity and all society’s went through the same stages in the same order. This is what is meant within the term unilineal evolution. Pottery…