When I first read the title of this article‚ I realized Nacirema is American backwards. Horace Miner’s article Body Ritual among the Nacirema is about the way a group of North Americans and their culture. Nacirema’s people lived in the early 1900’s and these people were extremely obsessed with body rituals. During one of these rituals men used what’s described as a chisel to scrap faces. These rituals are usually done in what’s described as a shrine area where there’s potions and medicine to be
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The Influence of Horace Mann on Educational Reform Terri Schryer St. Petersburg College EDF 3660 Fall 2011 Abstract This paper discusses the influence of Horace Mann on the issue of education of the masses‚ evident in his dedication to improving the quality of education through the process of improving teacher education‚ increasing available funding‚ and standardizing the quality of educational experience provided to its students. It addresses specifically
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In 1837‚ Horace Mann discontinued his political profession to become secretary of the Massachusetts State Legislature due to condition of the state’s public schools. He later told a speech to the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1848. He explains his opinions on the issues of education and the social class. His speeches specifically have information about the religious‚ intellectual‚ physical‚ moral and political aspects of education. One of his opinions is education needs flexibility to help students
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Horace Mann‚ the father of education‚ made the bold statement that if one lacks education‚ they are no better than a swine. In a world where only the rich were literate‚ he dreamed of equality between classes and he thought education was the way to get there. Obvious improvement has been made since 1848‚ but students still learn at unequal rates. Afraid to refer to it as a "civil rights" issue‚ the problem is ignored even as income‚ gender‚ race‚ and even immigrant status like Antonio Alvarez writes
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The public education in American still resembles that described by Horace Mann in the late 1830s. Horace Mann wished to establish a state board of education and adequate tax support for public schools. He discouraged corporal punishment‚ believed education was a means of creating law-abiding citizens‚ and believed it would open doors for lower class children to be more successful than their parents were. Horace Mann was a lawyer and member of the state legislature. He proposed a state board of
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All communication has two aspects: receptive language and expressive language. Receptive language is what we hear and understand. Expressive language is what we say to others. These two facets of language are very different but equally important. Receptive language is the ability to listen and understand language. Expressive language is the ability to communicate with others using language. We need both receptive and expressive language abilities‚ and both begin to develop at birth and experts say
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Diaghilev created a revolution that changed dance history as we know it‚ with a new style of dance: expressive ballet. Whereas traditional ballet focuses mostly on technique and is designed to showcase each dancer’s idiosyncratic movement quality‚ Diaghilev’s dancers were encouraged to express more in their dancing. Choreographers were much more creative in amalgamating this expressiveness into their choreography‚ producing works that the audience fell in love with. Around this time‚ such works as
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The Vagina Monologue was humorous and expressive video. It spoke on how a woman feels about her vagina‚ and what makes a vagina a vagina. Eve is the speaker. She starts off with listing the dubbed names of vagina. I feel this part is to help the audience understand that this is all about the vagina and that it goes by many names. Her first monologue was hair. It explain that this women did not like to shave the hair off her vagina because of the uncomfortable feeling she would get. Sometime in this
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Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania‚ but he spent much of his youth in Iowa. He had become the director of the Mercantile Library in St. Louis in Missouri. Also he became an expert in exploration‚ be outdoors and to study nature was one of his greatest passions. Kephart was married very young‚ but her marriage turned out to be very unhappy. He began drinking‚ he lost his job and his wife left him. In the end he had a nervous breakdown. He decided to start over a new life. He wanted to
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As an introduction‚ Horace Miner in his essay provides again the definition of an anthropologist‚ in which we have to maintain an open mind regarding things we may not understand. He introduces the Nacirema people for their “exotic customs”. Extreme behaviors in human aspects that have been either suspected or been imagined can be found in this tribe. A study done on them was conducted due to many unknown (pre-study) details regarding this tribe. The Nacirema culture views the human body is “ugly
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