Summary of “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” According to the article by Miner‚ there is a “present in some yet undescribed tribe” in the east America called the Nacirema. The Nacirema’s culture is a highly developed community and they spend a lot of time with ritual activities. They believe that ritual activities could change their bodies both physically and mentally. The first point that was highlighted in the article was the shrine. The shrine is a box that “kept the many charms and magical
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Theatre as Visual Rhetoric In Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics‚” he defines art as both “any human activity that doesn’t grow out of EITHER of our species two basic instincts: survival and reproduction” (164)‚ and “the way we assert our identities as individuals and break out of the narrow roles nature cast us in” (166). Although McCloud was discussing graphic novels in his work‚ I think that these quotes and his argument apply to any type of visual rhetoric. As a former theatre minor at Marquette
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rescue worker’s drill emerged at the surface with a note attached to it: "The 33 of us are OK in the refuge" (Volk‚ 2011). Approximately two months after the collapse sealed the mine‚ a rescue hole was finally completed for the miners. To everyone’s amazement all thirty-three miners were rescued (Yang‚ 2010). When this tragedy took place‚ the company had to take care in how the media relied on their findings. The immediate families of the workers need to be notified first‚ and then the other employees
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earn less than a dollar a day. Miners are dying in accidents‚ child labor is widespread‚ and corrupt leaders deprive diamond mining
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that caused thirty-three miners to be trapped underground on August 5‚ 2010. The miners did not have enough oxygen‚ water‚ or food; while trapped no one was sure if the miners would live through this catastrophic event. The miner were trapped in the cave for four days; there were no signs that these miners were still living during this event. Luck struck these families of the mine workers when in tears; were replaced by complete happiness when all thirty-three of the miners were found absolutely saved
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and Iron Company in Ludlow‚ Colorado was owned and controlled by John D. Rockefeller Jr.‚ who lived 2‚000 miles away from his tormented miners. The coal strike of 1913-1914 began when‚ exhausted from years of anguish and to assert their rights‚ the workers banded together and left their picks and shovels for a better life. In September of 1913‚ the coal miners have had enough. They bonded together and demanded fair treatment and decent pay from their oppressors. They demanded the enforcement
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the Americans. Miner uses a unique approach to describe not Nacirema but the Americans by using an outsider’s view‚ a person who does not understand American’s lifestyle. Nacirema is American spelled backwards Miner writes about is every household having a “shrine room” and those individuals with more power contain more than one. He remarks that the shrines rituals ‘are not with family but are private”and the box or chest which contains “magical potions”. The “shrine room” Miner describes is the
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and home again)? Horace’s pedagogue was his father. The father spent a small fortune on his son’s education‚ eventually accompanying him to Rome to oversee his schooling and moral development (my information came from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace#Childhood) 2. Why did Cato teach his son instead of having a slave as a teacher? Cato did not think it proper for his son to be criticized by a slave or to have his ears tweaked by a slave when he was a slow learner‚ or to owe to a slave so precious
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CHAPTER 14 INDIA’S PENINSULAR PLATEAU The Peninsular Plateau is a vast area stretching over much of India. It consists of undulating land‚ which is somewhat higher than the coastal plains to the east and west or the flat Northern Plain of the Ganga and the Satluj. Look at a 3-dimensional plastic relief map of India to get a better idea of the Peninsular Plateau. The large part of the plateau lying to the south of the Narmada River is called the Deccan Plateau. The part to the north of the
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world did so in hopes of striking rich after a brief discovery of gold in the American territory of California. This huge worldwide flock of people became known as the California Gold Rush of 1849. The Gold Rush granted riches to and a handful of miners‚ but provided Americans as well as many foreigners a new homeland and life. At the start of the 1839 decade‚ about 500 people resided in California. One of the settlers was John Sutter (Boyer 336). Sutter was an immigrant who came to California
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