The Iroquois Vonda Matthews Cultural Anthropology July 7‚ 2013 Instructor: Rebekah Zinser Kinship is the cornerstone for how people within a society relate to others and race lineages. Many societies trace their lineage through the father‚ which is called patrilineal‚ or through the mother which is called matrilineal. The Iroquois nation traced their kinship through the matrilineal decent lines. Kinship directly relates to how family groups think‚ act and live along side each other. The culture
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Similarities and Differences Nowadays‚ people depend more on technologies. Almost everyone has at least one hardware and software. How do people use those technologies and how do they think? Thoughts are different. I read the article “ Hell Is Other iPods” by Caspar Melville and “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Theodora Stites. I found some similarities and differences of those two articles and I would like to share my experience which relates to those two articles. First of all‚ both “ Hell Is
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that the Mayan creation story‚ has many similarities to Judo-Christian versions of the creation story. For example the creation story that is included in the bible is set over a series of days. The Mayan creation story takes place over a series of days. One part that stood out to me as very similar was that the last day in both man was created. In the Mayan version it is referred to the birth of life and man is created. In the Judo-Christian version man is created when Adam and Eve were created.
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The Role of Women in Creation Stories Men tend to be the dominant figure in many modern societies; this could have something to do with the role women play in creation stories believed by a particular society. In some of the creation stories studied‚ women are portrayed as inferior to men even though they possess great strengths or the ability to manipulate men. The creation stories of Genesis‚ Enuma Elish‚ and The Creation of Pandora from Works and Days all have feminine characters that are portrayed
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of a culture is based upon stories or myths passed down from generation to generation. Every culture has a variety of myths about the way life came to be. These creation myths tell the tales of how human kind came to be and how they looked when they got here and their relationship with nature and the world around them. The two creation myths that are the most opposing are the Judeo-Christian and the Native American myths. The creation myths tell two polar opposite stories about how human kind came
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SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ASPECTS | SIMILARITIES | DIFFERENCES | THEMES | For the short story‚ The Drover’s Wife the theme is life is precious and needs to be protected. Four innocent life would be lost if the drover’s wife fails in the duty as a protective mother.For the short story Looking for a Rain God‚ the theme is also life is precious. The moral issue on life in this story is; no one has the rights to take his or her life. Life is the gift of God and it is precious. | For the short
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Creation Story Even though both stories are about the creation of Earth and life‚ they each have their own unique twist on how the world came to be and how in both stories the brothers represent good and evil. In the Native American version the natives believe that a pregnant woman that lived up in heaven was craving a drink from the roots of the great tree. Tampering with or hurting the trees roots was bad and if you hurt it then bad thing would happen to you. The woman’s husband is a
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to gather together air to make winds and breezes on these worlds. The fourth act of creation with which the Creator charged Sotuknang was the creation of life. Sotuknang went to the world that was to first host life and there he created Spider Woman‚ and he gave her the power to create life. First Spider Woman took some earth and mixed it with saliva to make two beings. Over them she sang the Creation Song‚ and they came to
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Similarities and Differences of discriminatory treatment of African and Asian Americans Even though Asians came to America voluntarily and African Americas were brought involuntarily as slaves (a significant difference)‚ both share similar discrimination experiences at the hands of White Americans fighting to maintain their dominance. Similarities: Unequal pay‚ limited job opportunities as agricultural labors and domestic servants‚ defended the United States in segregated military regiments‚ refused
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Running head: Similarity and Difference Similarities and Differences Comparisons between the iGAAP and U.S. GAAP There happens to be important resemblances and dissimilarities between International GAAP and the United States GAAP in the accounting for intangible assets. Resemblances as well as dissimilarities should not come at a surprise to the accounting profession. U.S. GAAP compared to any other entity has similarities and differences‚ so therefore the iGAAP is no different. It is estimated
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