“Authenticity in the Skateboarding World‚” a research paper conducted by Becky Beal and Lisa Weidman‚ explores the core values and norms that revolve around skateboarding. Skateboarding‚ as some participants claim‚ is an activity that not only permits freedom‚ but also promotes individualism because it is an artistic sport. Within this subculture‚ there is a hidden‚ yet understood identity that skaters respect. Moreover‚ it is the promotion of individualism and perhaps the passive rebellious ways
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“It is good to have and end to journey toward‚ but it is the journey that matters in the end‚”(Ursula K. LeGuin). One of my biggest journeys in life is when I started to play badminton. My personal experiences‚ and my experiences with others and the world reflect three of the first five stages of the archetypal journey. My journey starts with the ordinary world‚ the call to adventure‚ and the meeting of the mentor. Experiences in my ordinary world have shaped my beliefs and understandings of the ordinary world. T
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Tianna Gosch HMCD 310 Assignment 1 In the video Sick Around the World‚ we saw how different countries have very different health care systems than our own here in the US. What I found so surprising is that the other countries pay so little for their health care and still get the same‚ if not better‚ health care coverage that we get here. In some cases‚ in the U.S. people go bankrupt while trying to pay medical bills and in every other country in the video they all stated that no one has ever gone
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a read about the social injustices that he has been though and most blacks have also unwillingly been put through. Even though people believe that the discrimination that many black people went through during the period of slavery has been left behind‚ it has continued to walk behind their back through many decades. Discrimination and social injustice have always been present‚ in today’s society it has blindly affected the lives of African Americans
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Similarities of the New World and Today’s World There has always been a need for humans to have order. When the pilgrims sailed over on the mayflower they made the first contract‚ mayflower compact‚ to make their settling life easier. These early settlers and creators of this great nation were just people trying to survive and enjoy life and they even dealt with the struggle to maintain peace and eventually dealing with war. When thinking of people in history‚ we tend to think of them as really
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AP World History Study Guide for Exam One: “Foundations: Prehistory- 600 C.E” Terms/Ideas To Know: 1.Pastorialism: Branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. 2.Patrilineal: System in which one belongs to one’s father’s lineage. 3. Matrilineal: A societal system in which one belongs to one’s matriline or mother’s lineage. 4. Hominids: Primate of the family Hominidae‚ which Homo sapiens is the
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Evelyn Blackwood’s 2010 ethnography Falling into the Lesbi World is worthwhile read for any interested in gender and sexuality studies in Indonesia. It takes a complex look at the understandings of lesbi desire‚ tomboi gender expression‚ kinship loyalty‚ and the nuances of adherence and defiance to hegemonic sex/gender systems. Despite some limitations‚ Blackwood manages to illustrate an elaborate network clearly‚ displaying a valuable knowledge of the linguistic practices of the lesbi she studied
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THE HERO’S JOURNEY Joseph Campbell‚ an American psychologist and mythological researcher‚ wrote a famous book entitled The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In his lifelong research Campbell discovered many common patterns running through hero myths and stories from around the world. Years of research lead Campbell to discover several basic stages that almost every heroquest goes through (no matter what culture the myth is a part of). He calls this common structure “the monomyth.” George Lucas‚ the
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So many thoughts ran through my head while watching the movie “Sick Around The World”. I felt saddened and at the same time hopeful that someday health system in the U.S. can get better. This issue is more complicated that what it may seem. From having low-paying jobs to high costs of living and poor government system‚ many Americans who are barely making enough to survive are drowning. Being born and raised in the Philippines‚ I can honestly say that there’s so much flaws and injustice in the American
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Okay‚ so there’s this place called the Sky World‚ and there lives a man and his wife who is expecting a child. And there’s a tree in the center of the Sky World that no being is allowed to eat from. *sounds familliar?* Don’t touch the tree‚ don’t eat from the tree‚ don’t pee on the tree‚ don’t look at the tree‚ don’t think about the tree! Well guess what? The wife is having her weird craving as most pregnant women do and she demands of her husband to get the tree’s roots so she can eat them. He’s
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