Anthropology

Society, a word that defines by as of multiple people from different ages, ethnics, and cultures. In a society lays a division of economical and structural differences between the people, leading to social classes. The social classes may vary with the vocations, stableness, and even personalities from time to time. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain develops a intertwined society with social classes that confronting each other by social interaction or by owning a slave. Due to…

In cultures of any kind, there is a sort of racism, such as internalized racism. This sort of racism occurs when racial groups believe, act upon, or enforcing dominant systems of beliefs of themselves and members of their own racial group. In my family this type of racism does not occur but, I have witnessed that in a culture like my own people who would change themselves to the dominant systems' ways. For example, a dark-skinned person may bleach their skin to fit in the beauty standards of the…

Sanjana Mehrotra Professor Alexander Jenkins Communications 111 24 November 2015 Communications 111—Fall Final Question 1: Context is the circumstances surrounding a situation, which is why it is so important to communication. Context can drastically change communication, as it affects how people interpret each others words, as well as the messages behind it. One way that context can change communication is through context rich communication. Context rich communication is the richest context…

Literature has always been a very important source of history. It has many ways of describing the past to us and has been used for nearly all of recorded history. Literature can help us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust by describing their struggles and comparing them to others.It also sometimes explains how it affects us currently.The Diary of Anne Frank, Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Maus are great examples. The Diary of Anne Frank shared many personal…

As stated in the course description, “our ideas about and experiences of health, ‘dis-ease,’ and medicine are profoundly shaped by culture.” In compliance with this theory, we discussed our medicinal upbringings and backgrounds, and how these influence our choice of healing practices today. Our experiences included topics of mental health, oncology, and alternative medicine, among others. In this paper, we will review these anecdotes and reflect on the similarities and differences between our…

Racism Racism has been used as a powerful weapon encouraging fear or hatred of others all around the world. Many people face obstacles in their lives because of racism and many people don’t realize we are all the same person on the inside. Many possessions are tough to do if racism is involved in the situation you are in. Racism is basically judging the person by their race or religion but it can be many other things as well. Why does racism exist? I presume It exists because of the parents who…

Individual Reflection The social identities that I identify with would be age, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, educational background, and language. I would identify with these social identities because they describe who I am. I am a 32-year-old heterosexual male of European descent who speaks English, is a Christian, has completed a vocational course in Automotive technology, Military training as a diesel mechanic, an Associates of Science in Pre-Nursing, and is currently…

Bourgois argues that street culture is “creative, destructive and oppositional” I will begin to explain each aspect of street culture, before discussing what Bourgois was depicting in the Ethnography when referring to street culture. Furthermore, I will use sections from the Ethnography to paint an essential picture of Bourgois argument while including my own reflection. To Illustrate, I shall go over Bourgois definition of inner-street culture “A complex and conflictual web of beliefs, symbols,…

Diversity first comes to my mind as a beautiful colorful picture that is created by the greatest artist ever in the world: our God. That artist cannot complete such that wonderful picture even if only one color is missing. No matter what feelings that color might bring to the viewers, the blue of hope, the grey of desperation, the red of love, or the violet of sadness, it is undeniable that any of those colors’ existence is an integral component of this picture. The beauty of that multicolored…

When you think about American Culture, what comes to your mind? It may be something like football, the Internet, hot dogs or movies. You could have also thought on a place like Hollywood or New York, or a landmark like the Statue of Liberty or Mount Rushmore. You could have gone even further and consider our strong value of freedom and respect to democracy, or what we many consider a taboo. The American Culture is very strong, so much that it plays a major role on popular culture and it is…