Anthropology Final Exam Essay One This course has provided interesting field studies of cultures that are drastically different than what I would consider "everyday life." ... In other societies, forms of marriage other than monogamy make more sense, and make life easier. ... It is often taught in these cultures that the good of the many outweigh the good of the one, and therefore living in large families, or working for one's in-laws is accepted. ... John Murphy Anthropology Essay Three Before taking this class, I often thought that our advanced society was the standard in which to measu...

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What America Means to Me Essay written by Nevin America is a wonderful place to live, because we are free. ... Anyone who thinks they can do a good job is able to run for a place in today's government. We don't only have one ruler who makes all our rules and laws, but instead the people in America are ruled by the people. ... We are also represented by our town councils, our mayors, our governors, senators, and everyone else that makes up a part of our government. So there are always places open in our society that we can fill to make our own changes. ...

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In the essay "People Like Us,"" David Brooks, maintains that although America is diverse, it's not diverse enough. ... Gregory Rodriguez in his essay "Mongrel America,"" looks at a larger scale. ... We learn how to understand their feelings, and that makes us more tolerant. ... As Rodriguez notes in his essay, "Many Mexican Americans now live in cities or regions where they are the majority, changing the very idea of what it means to be a member of a "minority" group" (Mong, 88). ... America should keep what it have been doing all this time, or even make it better, like encourage people f...

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An essay called "On Liberty", by John Stuart Mill, is a powerful essay in which Mill makes the reader aware of his idea of what freedom really is, "that of our own goon in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it". If this is what freedom is, then the United States is far from it. ... This law deprives happiness to the dancers, since many of them depend on lap dances to make extra money. ... Mill writes, "Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live...

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Living under the same rules and regulations that you been disagreeing with makes you jitty. ... The more one can speak out against something they disagree with makes one feel good about all situations. ... With one good response to our country many people want to experience it themselves. ... It has been doing well but there is always a bad thing that comes from a good thing. ... I am pleased to say that those great aspects is what keep us on top of the "hill" that everybody is looking up to. ...

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What is Euthanasia? ... This leads to the question that is brewing in the minds of millions of Americans: What is euthanasia? ... Lawrence Schneiderman begins his essay, The Ethics of Euthanasia, with this statement as to define the practice of euthanasia. ... "God has good plans for you, plans that include hope and a future. ... We are being presented with immensely dissimilar information on the same topic, yet we are expected to make a decision on the issue. ...

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I can definitely relate to Tan's essay because I too come from a bilingual household. Tan's essay affected me in many ways because I could relate to it so much. ... With that being the one of the first things I noticed when coming to the United States I questioned if it was a good idea or not. ... I got worried because she didn't tell me what was going on. I come home and my mom makes me make a phone call to these Mortgage people and they told me to impersonate as my father. ...

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This idea makes the case that what is best for the people of one state is also good for the surrounding states. ... So what caused the drive to compromise? ... This essay investigated two essays which addressed the Constitutional Convention with a focus on the Great Compromise. The investigated essays approached this topic in very different ways though. ... Because of this Banning gives a very good summary of the Constitutional Convention and should be read by those who have only a basic understanding of the Convention. ...

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I for one have met a racist person and it makes me wonder sometimes that to be an American is only right if you were white. ... Sometimes having such luxury isn't always good. ... In his essay "What is an American" he states that all Americans are of European descent and that people who comes to America lives a better life. ... Being an American is a good life for me, but I can only look at it financially. My family makes a pretty good amount of money that could never compare to our income back home. ...

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They optimistically believed in the perfectibility of man, and they were often engaged in projects intended to make this ideal a reality. ... The essays of both men remain immensely popular and affecting even to this day. ... It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it" (23). ... Though he uses his experience in jail to great effect in his essay, all told, he spent only one night in prison. ... Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wron...

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Language makes it possible to talk to one another and to express thoughts and ideas. ... In the essay "Bilingualism: Assimilation is more than ABCs", Jorge R. ... I feel sorry for people who act that way, but I don't make comments of that sort. ... Instead it helps those with good intentions enhance their behavior and attitudes produced in cultural unawareness. ... People will categorize me as a minority, but that is not going to make me less of a person. ...

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Has a good back round lives in a good house hold, families is normal everything's going great. ... What would you do? ... This essay will talk about guy's struggles that he went trough on the most important day of his life. ... Before guy got here he couldn't speak a work of English but with persistence to learn and make new friends also try and move on but always keeping in the back of his mind his friends and family back home. ... It just goes to show you if your open for change instead of neglecting it good things will happen. ...

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A good example of this circumstance exists between the words religion and cult. In this essay I will discuss the major differences of these two words and some similarities they have in definition. ... All of these religions have sacred practices that centralize around a common and familiar good. ... This leaves us with the question: What makes a cult religious? ... It is obvious to conclude this because the majority of people latch onto religions that make them feel this way. ...

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Thanks to your efforts, young African American children do not have to struggle to get a good education and to get a good chance at life. ... She goes on to say: "He makes me think that no matter if I am an Asian or not, I can conquer anything and anybody. ... You have made America what it is today, and we all thank you. ... "What Dr. ... Means To Me" 10 November 2003. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/perspectives/essays/1998.html#thiraphouth. ...

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Topic: Race and Gender in American Culture Subject: Kurt Bessel My Subject for this essay is Kurt B. ... According to Kurt, in the past there was discrimination between different races which went in one direction to make good, but instead backfired and went in the opposite direction and continued since. ... From what I learn most athletic programs look for an equal ration of men to women. ... In the second part of this essay, Kurt tells me if he ever experienced discrimination and if he did in what way. ... He believes that this strong heritage makes him unique and he looks at it in a p...

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In the book Forging the American Character an essay written by Henry Wiencek called The Spain Among Us records many historical facts on the significance Spanish colonization has had on the Americas. ... As mentioned in the essay, "America was discovered by accident and explored to a considerable extent by people trying to find a way to somewhere else.... What I definitely did not know is that the very concept of the ranch as Spanish. ... If the Spaniards didn't make these contributions to American ranching, a lot would be different today. ... Literature also shaped the view Americans...

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This is another area that has come under much political debate and will be discussed later in this essay. ... This was the only good example of how the Soviets would act, and it is why the United States decided to stay with the "Containment" theory for the entirety of the Cold War. To make the "Containment" theory policy President Truman needed to get the backing of the rest of the government. ... The idea that the United States should pursue a less aggressive stance towards the Soviet Union and Communism was mentioned earlier in this essay. What would have happened if during the firs...

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Assisted suicide is a good thing because people can find help from suffering. ... We should choose what we want to do. ... What's more of a crime? ... It requires that two doctors agree that the patient has less than six-months to live, has voluntarily chosen to die, and is able to make health-care decisions." ... What is living? ...

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Dr. king said, that he did go to the court, and waited like any other person and good citizen, then he requested this permit many times. ... He is really in jail because the power structure was well aware of what Dr. ... As a reader you can feel what he means by injustice. ... As a reader a feel what Dr. ... King is a perfect example of a persuasive essay. ...

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In this essay we will elaborate on certain factors containing: the history of child labor, the major companies that use child labor, and what the future holds for the children that are going to live in this world. ... The boys worked as scavengers, picking up cinders, rope and metal bottles and then sold them to make there money. ... They are considered as robots, the boss tells them what to do and they do it, and the employers pay them cheap. If it was an adult on the other hand, they would think for themselves and would know their rights and fight for safety and a good pay wage. ... In the...

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This title makes her a very reliable person. ... She tells us why she is there, and what topic she is going to talk about. ... Then Michelle starts to talk about, what the students can do themselves. ... This is where she wants the crowd to really listen to, what she says. ... Michelle Obama is a very good speaker. ...

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Two essays, one by Isabella Bird, the other by Frances Trollope give us two very interesting perspectives on America. ... Women stand on one side, men on the other; there is no conversation to make mention of. ... It seems to me that Bird was a good woman and a true adventurer. She does not write of her time with the Chambers negatively, she tries to make the best of it by making Hawaiian lamps for the family and learning what she can about their way of life without criticizing it. ... What made Isabella Bird's experience so different than Frances Trollope? ...

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As there are a lot different methods of doping in sports; I am going to focus only on anabolic steroids, in my essay. ... I will use the term "anabolic steroids" through-out this essay because of its familiarity, although the proper term for these compounds is anabolic-androgenic' steroids. ... That way we could make sure every athlete will give a clear and not doped achievement. ... (N.I.D.A. why par 12) So what is really happening in the human body? ... But, as I see it, some people can't take the truth of being not as good as others, because they want to be they start ch...

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The colonists settled into what was to become the northern and the southern colonies. ... Winthrop foresaw in Puritan America a commonwealth, where each person put the good of the group before the good of themselves. ... Unlike the Chesapeake colonists who were motivated by the desire to make money, the Puritans who came to the New England colonies were motivated by the desire to make a fresh start in a more communal and tolerant society than what they had experienced in England. ... In part, this was because one of the greatest cures to the long hard New England winter was a good morale and f...

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Franklin was constantly looking for ways to make things work a little better or more efficiently. ... Jefferson had just purchased this land from France, and wanted to know what it was like in the West. ... Guiding Fremont around the West gave Kit a good reputation. ... Thoreau felt that people should not always follow what the majority of society feels. ... This essay greatly influenced many leaders of the American civil rights movement, such as Martin Luther King Jr. ...

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