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    Arnolphe pays him no heed. Now that Agnès is of marrying age‚ he moves her into his house and plans to soon wed her. Horace‚ the son of Arnolphe’s dear friend‚ Oronte‚ arrives at Arnolphe’s house and confesses he has fallen in love with a beautiful girl. She has told him of how her master‚ Monsieur de la Souche‚ keeps her hidden away from the world. Not knowing about Arnolphe’s new name‚ Horace confides to him his plan to steal away Agnès. Thus begins the game of scheming by each man to hold onto Agnès

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    On a cloudy day a tragedy accident happened Horace Verbermockle was killed. He was killed by Minnie Verbermockle his wife. She had so much anger that she took it out on her husband. Minnie is the killer of her husband’s death most people will think it’s someone else. Right next to his body on the floor there is a broken bottle of cologne. Minnie his wife maybe came up right behind him and hit Horace which made him hit the sink and drop the cologne bottle which make it break because when he hit

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    Horace Mann Case Study

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    Horace Mann A. Horace Mann: (May 4‚ 1796 – August 2‚ 1859) B. Type of reformer: American education reformer. C. 5 facts about his life: 1. Born in Franklin‚ Massachusetts. 2. Studied at Litchfield Law School  during 1821–1823. 3. Served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. 4. Established the state lunatic asylum at Worcester‚ Massachusetts. 5. As a member of the Senate he aimed his focus at infrastructure‚ funding the construction of railroads and

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    Read the Body Rituals of the Nacirema and answer the following questions. 1. What are 3 things these people believe? As the article states‚ The Nacirema believe that parents bewitch their own children and for that the doctor has the power to exorcise the devils that lodge in the heads of people who have been bewitched All natives believe they couldn’t live without many charms and magical potions They also believe that The Nacirema human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility

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    Dress JOURNAL ENTRY CHAPTER 1 1.6 Body Ritual among the Nacirema Horace Miner‚ University of Michigan In the article‚ the author introduces us alleging that the anthropologist is familiar with so many different behaviors that it is hard to believe he can be shocked by some exotic culture. However‚ he specifies later that the piece is just about how far humans can reach regarding their demeanors and rites. Along the article‚ Miner describes the habits – I might just call them obsessive – of

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    Horace Mann Horace Mann was born on May 4th‚ 1796 in the small Calvinist town of Franklin‚ Massachusetts. He is well-known as an ardent abolitionist‚ a social reformer‚ and a visionary educator in present day society. Horace had little formal education as a youth‚ but he didn’t allow that to limit his intelligence. He read extensively at the town library as a child‚ where he eventually learned enough to be admitted to the prestigious Brown University. After graduating from Brown in 1819 as valedictorian

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    Horace Mann's 12th Report

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    Horace Mann’s Twelfth Report In his Twelfth Report‚ Horace Mann discusses reasons that public education is imperative in the success of a peaceful‚ prominent society. Mann maintains that education is a way to produce successful and resourceful citizens. Without education‚ people can only do so much and can only go so far; they are raw materials that need to be developed into something more. Mann lists all of the important and necessary institutions in society that require educated people in

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    Horace’s quote‚ “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant‚” means that while overcoming obstacles a person’s talents are shown that otherwise would remain unknown to the person. Horace is saying that adversity plays in the development of a person’s character and understanding turmoil and hardship. Times of struggle elicit different talents showing the true depth of human nature‚ unlike prosperous times. Those who are never faced with

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    Nacirema‚ American spelled backward‚ is a satire paper attempting to force Americans to evaluate their culture and look at it in a different way. By using words that are obscure‚ atypical and abnormal to describe very common American practices‚ the paper offers a strange way of defining our culture. One instance in the paper was how Americans hold importance in oral hygiene and use tooth brushes and tooth paste to brush our teeth daily. The author describes this as a “mouth-rite” and a “revolting”

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    Lévi-Strauss Lévi-Strauss James Boon 1982 Horace Miner American Nacirema … 1956:505 Renato Rosaldo 1993 Rosaldo Lévi-Strauss Malinowski 1991 Malinowski Rosaldo 1986 7 E.Evants-Pritchard Foucault being there Clifford Geertz being there 1988:4 : � ‘ �being there… �ibid.:4-5… — de Certeau de Certeau 107 Ward:2000[2008]:134 Wandersmänner flâneur de Certeau … 8 Geertz 2006[1973]:160… Lévi-Strauss Miner Lévi-Strauss being there being here fiction

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