Respect for the earth was also something highly practiced by the Native people, giving back to the land every time they took something from it. ... In their legends, everything is treated equally as if it was a person, whether they were referring to an animal, a tree, or even a rock. ... In order to build homes and their missions, trees were chopped down in high numbers which also destroyed the habitats for many animals. ...

• Word Count: 1404
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As Denscombe, (1998, p68) explains: "The image of the pitch-helmeted outsider dressed in khaki shorts arriving on the shores of some remote and exotic palm tree island to set up camp and study the lives of the "native" has become legendary." ... This method would also avoid the use of secondary data, like students" statements, that would not give the same quality or reliability of data. ... It would be important to provide a "public account of the role of self" to give readers an insight into the possible influence of the researcher on the description. ... As Denscombe, (1998, p68) explai...

• Word Count: 3304
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Dutch used the abundance of trees to build the greatest merchant fleet in the world, and the English were determined to settle in this new world and prosper. ... Practically everyone from all European countries viewed the Natives of North and South America as inferior and ignorant, and they consistently took advantage of their kind and giving nature. ... When natives refused to give anymore to these new comers, they started wars killing many and taking some as slaves. ...

• Word Count: 652
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Initially, the connection that indigenous people have with the natural world gives them peace and satisfaction. ... Weller describes 'Grotesque trees twist[ing] in the half-light. ... It also displays Billy's tortured and conflicted feelings upon returning, however he also appears intimidated as he " cannot understand these trees.... The film shows whole and functional people who are in harmony with nature, whereas Weller gives readers a picture of a people still struggling to retain their connection to the natural world. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Black Elk's explanation of beliefs and rituals helps give concrete examples of how the relationship between humans with one another, humans with God, and humans with the earth play out in reality. ... Johnson describes the situation by saying, "Our eyes have been blinded to the sacredness of the earth- (21), while Black Elk tells Niehardt, "There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead," (270). ...

• Word Count: 964
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Globalize or Die: Affects Everyone and Everything In his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman wrote: "Globalization is not a phenomenon. ... Both the negative and the positive impacts of globalization on developing cultures have been discussed and give a clear direction to where and how these groups of people can make best use of the internet to sustain their traditions. ... To give an overview of the power of the IMF and the World Bank, both were initially set up at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference ("The World Bank/IMF") to be pillars of the post-War economic system...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The shamans give offerings and praise to "the spirits", and in turn the earth takes care of them. ... Subsequently this relationship causes the members of a tribal culture to pay close attention to how much they take from nature, and how much they give back to it. ... While it is likely that a fly or a mosquito or a tree or any other animal on the earth does not have the same perceptual threshold as us, we have no way of definitively knowing that. ...

• Word Count: 2479
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Every day you hear it on the news, you read it in the papers, you overhear people talking about it and in every single situation the word globalization seems to have a different meaning. The word "globalization" is continually abused and presents a problem because its definition is multidimensiona...

• Word Count: 2156
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Wonderful, Warped World of Walt Disney When we think of the Orient', immediate images of exotic beings and places, fundamentalism, Islam, hookahs and pagodas come to mind. Western media and pop culture has influenced our idealistic misconceptions and the way in which we interpret and und...

• Word Count: 1953
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A summary of them may be made as follows: The growth of the primate brain was stimulated by life in the trees, specifically, by eye-hand co-ordinations involved in swinging from limb to limb and by manipulating food with the hands. ...

• Word Count: 4734
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate