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    Observation Report on Tim Horton’s Bilal Negash Ms. Kilbourn HSP 3M7 October 13‚ 2010 Internal Assessment – Tim Hortons The following observations have been reported due to findings I have noticed in Tim Hortons that deal with different ethnicities of people and their behaviours. They should not be used to judge the following cultures‚ but to simply observe their behaviours in comparison with other ethnicities. Tables with three or more friends These tables are racially discriminated

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    Andrew Godawa Outline: Homo erectus 1. Introduction/General Information a. A Dutch anatomist named Eugene Dubois is responsible for the discovery of Homo erectus. b. Fossils and remains were found in 1891 on the island of Java. c. Homo erectus is an extinct hominid that lived between 1.6 million and 250‚000 years ago. d. Homo erectus is thought to have evolved in Africa from another human ancestor known as Homo habilis--which happens to be the first member

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    The San (“Bushmen”) of the Kalahari Desert Angela Krantz ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Professor Michael King October 17‚ 2012 I have chosen to identify and describe the kinship system of the San (“Bushmen”) of the Kalahari. The San‚ as well as other cultures have a cultural rule‚ or descent that defines what category they are in socially. This descent originates from the parent and passes on to the child. There are two types of descents‚ unilineal and bilateral

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    wanting to be superior to his father. He wanted to become surpassed‚ he wanted to be recognized. In high school‚ he once told his best friend that he would be in the encyclopedia. This dying urge to prosper is what drove Mengele to study genetics and anthropology. That desire would also be the reason Mengele was known as the “Angel of Death.” Mengele would become even more superior to the SS soldiers at Auschwitz‚ he was feared. However successful he was in becoming acknowledged‚ his studies on the other

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    uses the concepts and categories that are relevant and meaningful to the culture under analysis (Ferraro/Andreatta). There has been much debate on whether the etic or emic-orientated techniques of research should be used in the field. Cultural anthropology should focus on a joint permutation on both the etic and emic-oriented research styles to produce the most useful results because of the advantages and disadvantages both contain. “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari‚” “Shakespeare in the Bush‚” and

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    Scarlett Travis Anthropology 216 – “The Identity of a Black Puerto Rican” Although Puerto Ricans are made up of three peoples: Spanish‚ African‚ and Taíno‚ the black history of Puerto Rico is often made light of. Afro-Latino is a term coined to identify people from Latin America who have traceable African ancestry. To many‚ the term is oxymoronic and often problematic in the United States‚ where the need for racial and social classification needs to be refined to; Black‚ White‚ Hispanic

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    When viewing Disney’s A Bug’s Life with the critical eye of an anthropologist‚ it is hard to truly believe that it is a children’s movie. This movie is an introduction to the complex world of anthropology and it’s concepts. One finds elements of culture in many different lights throughout this film. A Disney masterpiece shall be proven in this paper to not only intrigue the younger audience‚ but it shall verify the fact that the way humans function is so easily portrayed‚ even in the simplest behavioral

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    of Passage” Stacey M. Robertson ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology July 29‚ 2013 We are all familiar

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    Alexander David Garsez ANT 1310 -21 – Hughes 4/28/2012 Colonization Project Southeast Asia is home to many people and countries today. The United States is very familiar with the state internationally recognized as the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam; it is commonly referred to as Vietnam in verbal and printed English-American language. This is because of the relatively recent U.S. and Vietnam War between 1963 and 1974. The influence of this war is still seen today. The Socialist Republic of

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    Peranakan Chinese and Baba-Nyonya are terms used for the descendants of late 15th and 16th-century Chinese immigrants to the Indonesian archipelago of Nusantara during the Colonial era. Members of this community in Melaka address themselves as "Nyonya Baba" instead of "Baba-Nyonya". Nyonya is the term for the ladies and Baba for the gentlemen. It applies especially to the ethnic Chinese populations of the British Straits Settlements of Malaya and the Dutch-controlled island of Java and other locations

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