Article 1: Body Ritual among the Nacirema The narrator writes about the strange rituals that people from the Nacirema tribe performs. After reading the article‚ you understand that the Nacirema tribe represents the American people. Another way you can tell that the Nacirema tribe is about the American people is because “Nacirema” is actually America backwards. The narrator uses many different references to explain our everyday doings as rituals. Some of the references in which he put were Medicine
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The term ‘Toxic Trio’ is often used to describe three parental stressors that can arise in families; these include domestic violence‚ substance use and mental illness. A child’s holistic development can be affected by the ‘Toxic Trio’ in various ways by ‘exposure during pregnancy‚ the impact on the child due to witnessing parental stressors and the effect on parenting due to the parental stressors’ (McGovern‚ 2012). For this assignment substance use will be focused on and the effects it has on children
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reading the article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”‚ I can’t help but notice blatantly obvious similarities between our culture and theirs. Their rituals‚ rites‚ and customs are bizarre in nature and seem to illustrate a nearly obsessive fascination with the human body. The main focus of their culture appears to be shaming people based on their appearance and forcing them to conform to the societal norms. Upon further reading‚ I noted that while the Nacirema put a high value on the upkeep of their
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The article Body Ritual among the Nacirema is about the characterizes of the Naciremas‚ a North American group of people. Their lives are dedicating to their charm-box in which is a major need for them to complete their rituals and everyday life. Each house has a charm-box or a treasure chess in these they place their charms and medicines and magical materials that they believe in. Their daily mores they do is that every day each member of the family enters the shrines room and bow their head before
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Body Ritual in Nacirema When I started reading Miner’s “Body Rituals among the Nacirema” I wasn’t really ‘reading’ it. By the end of the first page‚ it “hit me” and I had to start reading it over again. Realizing the essay was speaking of Americans gave me a whole different perspective. I found some of it quite amusing as well as enlightening. My feeling is that the author intended the reader to see our own ethnocentrism and question our own acts towards others with whom we are not familiar
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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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Two Opposite Perspectives of School In the article named “Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education” by Horace Mann‚ the author explains that school is an integral step to prepare for students to be aware of the responsibilities of becoming good citizens. On the other hand‚ the text “Against Schools” by John Taylor Gatto emphasizes that the role of the school system is not necessary in society since it forces students to go to school and sit around in classes for a certain amount of hours for
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What about the time Horace Greeley was accused by Grant’s republicans of being a communist‚ free-lover and even a vegetarian. Well I suppose I can’t run for president since I’m a vegetarian‚ but anyways‚ these negative campaigns have become increasingly popular and to some
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Mother Jones Speaks to Striking Coal Miners August 15‚ 1912 “I live in the Untied States‚ but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression…. My address is like my shoes: it travels with me.… I abide where there is a fight against wrong‚” remarked Mary Jones in her infamous speech‚ “Mother Jones Speaks to Striking Coal Miners”‚ on August 15‚ 1912 as she addressed William E. Glasscock‚ Governor of the State of West Virginia (Jones 69). Mary Harris Jones
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Communication Release Chilean Miners BCOM/275 November 21‚ 2012 The men trapped in the Chilean mine shaft was one of the world’s most successful operations to release miners from the long underground entrapment. The problem or controversy lied in the government restricting information to the men trapped and censoring and losing letters to the miners sent to them from their family and friends. The people thought this was unjust and failed to realize what rescue mission are all about
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