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    In this chapter‚ ‘Contingency and Interdependence’ Barbara Herrnstien Smith’s discusses different framework discourses from Heraclitus Derrida‚ Hume‚ Bataille‚ Kant‚ Habermas‚ Richard and Frye regarding the value system. Smith provides an alternative structure based on multiple value systems in which she states “All value is radically contingent” (p.30). She also discusses that aesthetic value and judgement values in relation to art are not exempt from contingencies either. Traditionally when discussing

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    First Fieldwork The book First Fieldwork: The Misadventures of an Anthropologist by Barbara Anderson‚ is a book about a graduate student who moves to Denmark for a year to do an ethnographic report of the people in a small Danish‚ island town of Taarnby. She travels with her husband‚ Thor‚ who is a licensed Anthropologist‚ her daughter Katie and her unborn child‚ Sarah. Although a fictionalized book‚ it clearly and accurately describes the challenges and perils of being an inexperienced Anthropologist

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    The vegan diet is more than just a diet it is a positive message. In Called Home‚ by Barbara Kingsolver she talks about our disconnection from nature. Our lifestyles have dominated us by dictating what we do and what we have time for. Food has been left in the hands of farmers‚ the government‚ and multinational corporations. The supermarket is at our convenience alongside fast food restaurants with products that contain chemicals as ingredients and illness from poorly raised and manufactured animals

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    In Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed‚ Ehrenreich explores the dynamics of social stratification by gender in working class America. Similarly to race‚ Ehrenreich shows how gender and gender roles are a part of a closed system in the American workforce. One can first see this early on in the book when Ehrenreich works as a waitress. Ehrenreich describes a dynamic in this work setting in which female workers are subservient to a dominant male manager who is very critical. She mainly shows

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    to pleas her husband. In this humorous essay she is expressing her and other women’s feelings about how there husbands treating them and the chores that there husbands make them perform. The second writing is a poem called "The faithful wife" by Barbara L. Greenberg. This poem As the matter of fact I would like to have a wife myself if that’s what a women’s duties are to be born to make her husband feel and enjoy life‚ however I am not a male and I disagree 100% with the things that a women should

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    In the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver one of the main characters named Estevan says “We believe that if something terrible happens to someone‚ they must have done something to deserve it.” The author of the novel wrote it the complete opposite of what Estevan says‚ meaning bad things happen to good people and good thing happen to bad people. That it doesn’t matter if you’re good or bad‚ bad things still happen to good people and vice versa. Esteven is right‚ that we as Americans believe

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    What stood out to me in Chapter 6 was the chunking section on pg. 209. I am currently reading a book called "A Mind for Numbers" by Barbara Oakley; it is a book primarily about how to study math and science‚ however‚ I am see that the techniques could be applied to the arts or just about any other subject. Chapters 4 and 7 primarily focus on how to chunk. The main concepts of the book are primarily about how memory works and how to make it work for you. It explains the concepts of spaced repetition

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    controversial topic. Some argue that it is an act of murder and doctors should do all they can to extend life. Others argue that life should not be forced by resuscitation but patients should instead be relieved of their suffering through death. Barbara Huttman addresses the opposers of euthanasia in her essay‚ "A Crime of Compassion". Huttman tells the reader of her experience with Mac‚ a terminally ill cancer patient. Within the essay‚ Huttman explains how she watched the treatment take all he

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    have been established and take a new perspective of having live animal acts in the show is right environmentally or ethically. Stephanie Sinclair wrote a piece for the New York Times‚ Running Away with the Circus‚ which looks at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus as the elephants are to retire from its shows in the near future. Circuses change along with the public and the main

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    Echoes of the Ancient Skies. (New York: Dover Publications Inc.) Penn State Personal Web Server (personal.psu.edu)‚ The Chumash: A California Case Study‚ Access Date: 08 Dec 2009 (http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/e/t/etr109/chumash1.htm) Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (sbnature.org)‚ Chumash Life‚ Access Date: 07 Dec 2009 (http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/custm.htm) Wikipedia (Wikipedia.org)‚ Animism‚ Access Date: 04 Dec 2009 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism) Wikipedia

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