BoA

began winning prizes and was able to publish her work. Hurston seemed to make good impressions on people, as she had many benefactors, mentors, patrons help her further her career and education. One of her mentors Franz Boas, was an anthropologist and one of Hurston’s professors. “Boas recognized Hurston's storytelling ability and deep interest in the black culture of the South. He urged her to do more research there” (Tillotson). Hurston was intrigued by the folklore tales of the African…

Explaining Deceptive Acts or Practices The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) continues to use unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) as its primary enforcement tool. Over the past four years, the CFPB has used UDAAP to enforce hot button issues such as credit card add-on products, credit card advertising, debt collection, credit reporting and monitoring, auto lending, and mortgage servicing. In the coming years, credit unions should expect to see UDAAP being used…

Inclusion Body Disease (IBD), sometimes called “Stargazing”, is a known pathogen that affects the nervous system, organs, and tissue of its host and in many cases, leads to death (PET MD, 2010). An inclusion body represents a wide spread of bacteria throughout a cell. (Dictionary, 2012) Microscopic changes are mainly seen in the kidney, liver or blood cells, these are known to be abnormal structures within the cells. IBD was first identified in the mid 1970’s, but curiously no known pathogens…

father. He leaves the females he mates with to raise their young alone. The female will lay two pearly white eggs in cup-shaped nests constructed from her spit, vegetation, and mud. The mother must protect her young from birds of prey, big cats, and boa constrictors. Even human pose a threat, as they occasionally take young cock-of-the-rocks from the wild to become exotic pets. The Andean cock-of-the-rock is a spectacular sight to behold, and its shy nature makes finding it in the wild like…

Translation is important for understanding works created within other cultures around the world. Often times, we rely on translators to create a bridge between our language and those we do not understand. It is their job to take writings from other places and convert them to the language in which we speak. Translators have the ability to take an original piece, with its content and structure, and reform it into a piece that more of the world will understand. In Willa and Edwin Muir's’…

While Dr. Clark’s book caused great turmoil, feminist responses to Dr. Clark’s warning indicated the exploration of female capacity and female role by female educators themselves. By questioning the assumption that the uniqueness of women body makes women incapable of higher education, female students and educators began to challenge the conventional role of male and female which was based on the biological difference, and they were less binding to the Victorian notion of domesticity. Chicago…

Considered as one of the most preeminent writers of the twentieth century African American, Zora Neale Hurston is a novelist, folklorist, essayist, short story writer, dramatist and an anthropologist. Hurston was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and a passionate promoter of the African American culture. However, she refused to let race and racism be the only focus of her work, something that she was criticized a lot for by her African American peers. Instead Hurston’s short stories…

Beast, abusive and enraged these are words that can be used to describe Logan Killicks, Janie's first spouse, who at first is a symbol for protection and financial support but soon becomes a scorn in Janie’s life who treats her like a mule. "She began to cry "Ah want things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think, Ah...""(Hurston-41). Walking into her marriage Janie had a fairytale-like outlook on relationships and she even has a conversation with Nanny in tears…

The Nacirema is a “tribe” in North America. The ethnographic analysis describing the rituals of the Nacirema was written by Horace Miner and actually describes American culture in the 1950s. The article illustrates how anthropologists view and describe other cultures. By turning the analysis on our very own culture, we see how language can influence the reader’s perception of that culture. For example, Miner uses words such as “ritual” “ceremony” and “religious” to describe ordinary activities.…

me. This has spilled over into my relationship with God. So many times, I feel unworthy and think that I must do something to earn his love and favor. Why do I run from God’s love? Why do I feel unworthy of his love and acceptance? Reading through Boa I came across a powerful quote, “For people who have experienced pain and rejection caused by performance-based acceptance and conditional love...Isn’t there something we must do to merit God’s favor or earn his acceptance? If we are afraid others…