Ancestor

The celebration of Vietnamese New Year, Tết Nguyên Đán, is considered the most important festival for the Vietnamese population. Unlike the Solar calendar, when the New Year occurs in the winter, Vietnamese New Year takes place during a transition period between winter and spring, celebrating the arrival of spring. New year day is considered the first day of spring, and lasts three days; but celebrations often continue for approximately one week or more, with preparation for the new year taking…

people, one of whom was a woman, who changed the world through different legal and political ways. When I started my family tree, I found that I am a descendant of Stephen Hopkins, a signer of the Mayflower Compact. That was the first time I found an ancestor of mine who had made a huge impact in the world through a legal and political way. When Hopkins signed to establish one colony he set the stage for a new country where people were free to practice their own beliefs. I will do the same one…

Goodness, Altruism, and the Literary Imagination The Evil in our World 1) “Evil has a blockbuster audience, goodness lurks backstage. Evil has vivid speech, and goodness bites its tongue.” During her speech, Morrison elaborates on compelling goodness is while saying how easy it is being bad than it is being good. What I found interesting about this quote is that it is actually true on how people today find it easy to be evil and how difficult it is being good even though the good guys win in…

of anatomically modern humans—who we are today. During this process, traits were altered in order to adapt to environmental situations and needs. The name of our species is Homo sapiens sapiens. Out of Africa Evolution posits that our human ancestors moved out of Africa thousands and thousands of years ago. This theory is widely accepted by academics, though there is extensive disagreement regarding the specifics of the theory. For example, anthropologists…

The descendants of the conquered nyonyose (farmers) honor nature spirits that provide them with supernatural power to control the weather, disease, crop failure, and general well-being. These are the "invented spirits" that become important as the congregation faces a particular affliction and which decrease in influence as the problem is solved. These spirits are often represented by masks and figures that make them visible and concrete. The spirits themselves provide, through the diviner, the…

century. In “Oke of Okehurst” Alice Oke may have never really loved her cousin William Oke, she just married him because of her obsession with the 17th century prophecy left by Nicholas Oke and his wife Alice Oke. Alice Oke’s obsession with her ancestors consumed her life to the point where she wanted to fulfill the prophecy they left behind. Alice Oke is caught up trying to be like the old Alice Oke of the 17th century. Her life revolves around fulfilling the prophecy left by Nicholas Oke.…

Microevolution “Microevolution is evolution on a small scale, within a [shared gene pool] population” (Berkeley 2006). The shared gene pool experiences genetic changes that can create differences within a species. These genetic differences are inherited from one or both parents. Genes are either lost or combined differently and can result in things such as different hair color, longer legs or bigger ears. There are four processes that contribute to microevolution: 1. Mutation – a physical…

roots in Europe ranging from Poland all the way to Ireland, and Norway all the way to France). Tayo uses healing ceremonies, stories, songs and praying in nature to connect back to his indigenous roots. I might not live in a similar place that my ancestors lived in for thousands of years like Tayo, but I can still learn stories, recipes, history, dances and songs from the places my family is from. With inspiration from Ceremony, the recovery of my ancestral and indigenous roots uncovered shadow…

of these fossils is extremely similar to that of a modern day human, where the pattern followed feet first followed by the toes, where the feet pushed off. The prints are believed to be made by the Australopithecus afarensis, one of the earliest ancestors of humans. The remains of this hominid were also discovered proximal to the site of the footprints. These footprints are the oldest evidence of early human mobility. This importance of the discovery that our team has made cannot be ignored,…

about my family’s history. Most of the time, people do not have the opportunity to ask their elderly family, relatives about their ancestors. It is really amazing to learn more about my family history. It never comes to my mind till now. To gather more information, I asked my mom, my older brother, my grandpa, uncles, and aunts. They are really being helpful. My ancestors happened during the year of the Spanish Civil War, ruined of Aztec, Independence of Mexico, civil wars in Mexico, the Mexican…