Essay on People

Kenneth Good is a cultural anthropologist that graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and was a graduate student of Napoleon Chagnon, who wrote the book Yanomamo: The Fierce People. As a student of Chagnon, Good traveled to South America in 1957 to live among the Hasupuweteri Yanomamo people for 15 months with the purpose of studying their diet and attempting to prove that Chagnon’s theory that ecological factors were the reason for this indigenous people’s horrible temperament. During…

In the article, “Does the Practise of Imagining Create more Empathetic People or Conversely does Prasticing None Face-to-Face Communication Make One Less Empathetic?”, about empathy Mariyon Slany states that not having face to face communication with one another can cause us to be less empathetic and reading can increase empathy. When we are using technology we are communicating with each other but aren’t seeing one another directly this stops us from seeing the others facial expression which…

dsfsdf, Blacks were viewed in the 1960s as horrible people, if someone saw a black person on TV or walking around their first impression would be what 's he or she doing here or there.” Despite how hard many African Americans worked to demolish such an image, social media fought them at every turn, creating an image of aggression through propaganda-like commercials, and the like. Although, they were also very helpful in helped show how passionate people were, through airing speeches such as “I…

Question: Why were people court martialed during the war? At the end of the novel Private Peaceful written by Michael Morpurgo, Thomas Peaceful's brother, Charlie, is trialed and sentenced to a firing squad for insubordination and cowardice while in the readers eyes he is a hero. This sparked my interest in why people were court martialed and what for. During World War One, hundreds of men were court martialed for reasons that are very questionable in today’s society. These consisted of…

due to my race. As an African American woman this agonized my soul because in film, colored people have been dehumanized/ misrepresented. I think that it is dire to diversify the film industry because it can fill the void in the film industry. Periodically, in the film industry, people of color are portrayed, but there is a lack of behind the scenes work. I find it ironic how there are thousands of people…

The Advent of Peach People—The New Minority within the Majority In an article by Verysmartbrothas.com author Damon Young, titled “I Will Never Underestimate White Peoples Need to Preserve Whiteness Again,” Young discusses the inability of whites to “votes against their self-interest”—the preservation of “White Power.” Damon Young’s feature piece does what all journalistic mediums seems to do and generalizes a people as Donald Trump supporting Republicans. The feature neglects to mention…

African-American men boarded the New York City subway, in which Bernhard Goetz shot and seriously wounded all four teenagers, after they allegedly tried to mug him. Nine days after the incident, Goetz eventually surrendered to law enforcement. In the process of People vs. Goetz’s trail, he was charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment, and several firearms offenses, however, a jury found him not guilty of all charges except for one count of carrying an unlicensed firearm, for…

In West Africa once known as the Gold Coast, high-ranking officials within the courts of Akan chiefs carry the gold-covered staffs like this one. The Akan peoples place an enormous emphasis on speech; they are a society that originally had no written tradition. Like most kingdoms spoken word, in the form of stories, is the repository of Akan custom and values, and a complete of proverbial lore, combined with an insightful way of describing it. The staff is considered the mark of intellect of…

In the latter half of the ninth century AD, a tribal confederation from the Asian steppes began a migration into eastern and central Europe. Initially staying on the fringes of Christendom, these peoples soon came head-to-head with the established power of central Europe, the kingdom of the Eastern Franks. In the opening years of the conflict, the Magyars, as they were known (later known as the Hungarians) created a crisis which threatened the survival of the Eastern Frankish kingdom. The…

is to live by and follow them or not is what helps create his or her identity. Robin D. G. Kelley, a black professor and author, has two black parents, and grew up facing the trial of dealing with the common black stereotype. In Kelley’s essay “The People In Me” he elaborates on how he grew up saying, “[His] mother never fit the ‘black momma’ media image” breaking out from the stereotype and carving her own identity in her environment…