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    Clifford Whittingham Beers was born on March 30‚ 1876 to Ida Cooke Bears (mother) and Robert A. Beers. Clifford died on July 9‚ 1943. He was the second youngest of five children. Beers attended local public schools where he performed at the highest level. (Dain‚ 1980) During the early years Beers was faced with many different challenges. Most of those challenges‚ in which‚ young children should not have to go through. Beers came from a family in which sickness was very dominant and present from

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    Anth 100 Sept 15 2010 Galileo • Telescope + objectification o Not just the vision to outer space‚ but you could also look back on us o Previous the only way to explain supernatural things was from the bible‚ when your trying to look at planets with an telescope you explain them as objects not as supernatural. o That being said the idea of looking back at the earth would be looking at everything as an object: thus objectifying everything o Saying there

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    What is the traditional sexual division of labor in American culture? Is it undergoing a transformation? Among Btsisi’‚ women and men are respected for the tasks they perform. Do you think this is the case in the United States? Traditionally‚ women are the caregivers‚ the householder‚ the cook and the cleaner. The men worked and provided the means of survival‚ the money. It’s silly to think that it has not transformed over time. Many of the other discussions mention the sudden flood of women

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    One assumption is that the marked individuals do not lose their marks. If this were to occur‚ then the population would be overestimated as fewer marked individuals would be recaptured. Another assumption is that the marked individuals are randomly dispersed throughout the population. If the marked individuals congregate in a specific area‚ then the population size can be overestimated or underestimated depending on where the recapture takes place. The population will be underestimated if recapture

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    In June of 1977‚ at the Camp Scott Girl Scout camp near Locust Grove‚ Oklahoma‚ three young girls that had been staying in the secluded Kiowa tent were sexually molested and murdered. It is believed that this tragedy happened somewhere between 2:00 and 4:00 AM‚ it is believed that someone had come onto the camp grounds when they then proceeded to sexually molest and murder the three young girls that were sleeping in tent number seven. At 6:00 AM a camp counselor discovered the dead bodies on the

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    INTERPRETIVE QUESTION #2: WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CAIN AND ABEL’S GIFTS? Source #1: Burton Coffman Commentaries on the Old and New Testament Coffman believes the key to understanding the reason why Abel’s gift was accepted and Cain’s was rejected lies in Hebrews 11:4‚ “By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain‚ through which he obtained witness that he was righteous‚ God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.” Abel offered

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    Interpretive vs. Escapist As defined by Arp and Johnson‚ commercial fiction‚ or escapist literature‚ is “fiction written to meet the taste of a wide popular audience and relying usually on tested formulas for satisfying such taste” (Arp 744). Arp and Johnson also state that literary fiction‚ otherwise known as interpretive literature‚ is “fiction written with serious artistic intentions‚ providing an imagined experience yielding authentic insights into some significant aspect of life” (Arp 745)

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    MARCUS AND FISCHER Ethnography – concern with descriptions Experimental moment – eccectical‚ free of authoritarian paradigm‚ interpretive‚ anti-establishment; Positivism vs. interpretive SELF-CRITIQUE – discrupts common sens‚ remise en question of assumptions 1. First predicament : sensitivity to cultural difference 2. Second predicament : status of anthropology as a cultural critique (reflection of self through studying alien culture). DUALITY-Palestinian and American‚ Said 50s linguistics

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    After reading the article in assignment one‚ complete the following questions. 1. Analyse the behaviour of William Pickton using the three different social science perspectives. Choose one theory from psychology‚ sociology‚ and anthropology. Using each perspective‚ write a one page analysis of the behaviour of William Pickton. Write a perspective for each social theory (three pages in total). 2. Write a hypothesis to research a serial murderer using the following social science theories:

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    Question 3: Applications of Applied Anthropology The direction of this paper will be discussed in sections according to objective description. Each section will analyze and discuss the following objective via personal experience‚ class discussion‚ or referenced by textbook. Objective 1: At the end of the course you will better understand the role of the clinical anthropologist in the workplace and how the discipline of anthropology contributes to the real world.                The course well-addressed

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