the race concept as they sought to distance their field from the scientific racism of the first last century. And finally, the emergence of the modern synthesis changed the way that many geneticists thought about race. The shift towards populations as the basis for analysis, many argued, was no longer compatible with the essentialist notions underpinning race. Carlton Coon, Theodosius Dobzhansky, and Ashley Montagu represent the range of opinions on race circulating during the mid-century. Carlton Coon, physical anthropologist and author of the controversial The Origin of the Races, remained committed to the notion that race was a natural division based on phenotypic differences. Theodosius agreed with Coon in as far as thought the term "race" carried analytical import. According to Dobzhansky: In the context of population genetics the concept of race is useful only as a tool of decision making in that it is one of many ways in which genetic diversity is made meaningful. In that way, race is no more than a methodological decision and not something that reflects an underlying hierarchy.” Nevertheless, Dobzhansky 's contention that physical difference represented a inadequate measure of racial difference inspired his new genetic definition of race defined as the differences in gene frequencies between populations. For Dobzhansky, the study of race remained an important venture because its ability to reveal information about the processes of evolution. On the other end of the…
That night, when Billy was trying to tree the ghost coon, Rubin’s death would not have happened if it were not for Billy. In the written version of the story, Rubin tripped on a stick. Billy’s intervention was indirect. The movie had no such mention. Instead, Billy pulled Rubin’s leg and tripped him so he would not kill the dogs. Of course, he did not do it on purpose as he did not know the ax was there. However, this still led to Billy having more blame in the movie than in the book. Another…
“Negros were ‘more deserving of a vote and [the] privileges of freemen’ than Norwegians.” These many hardships, according to Dorfman, were “ground into the very substance of Thorstein Veblen’s thinking” and left the sociologist with an “outsider” mentality (3-7). Hoping to bring more respect to the family, Veblen’s father sent Thorstein away from the farm to Carleton College with directives to become a Lutheran minister (an intention Veblen was not too keen on seeing through). With this move,…
Sally Moolchan Tax Issue What are the tax consequence of distributions as applied to partnership, S corporation and C corporation? Conclusion The United State Internal Revenue Code was created to combine all the various laws relating to tax revenue into one concise document. It provided a simplify tax system for individual and business taxpayer. These tax codes help in determining the amount of tax you are required to pay and provide the basis for everything on your tax return. The IRC provided…
A taxpayer is able to choose from three different tax structures upon forming his or her business. These three different businesses are known as partnerships, “C” corporations and “S” corporations. For methods of incorporation, the internal revenue code dictates a business entity on how they can benefit the taxpayer in the most tax efficient way. The main objective for a business entity and its owners or shareholders is to start a business that fits the owner’s needs and to avoid paying more…
The 1950s was a great success for the civil rights movement; there were a number of developments which greatly improved the lives of black people in America and really started the civil rights movement, as black people became more confident and willing to fight for their cause. The first big development of the ‘50s came almost immediately at the turn of the decade, when the Supreme Court essentially overturned the verdict reached in the Plessy vs. Ferguson trial of 1896. Thanks to the NAACP…
same as people and our actions can consume us; we have to fight it everyday. Everyone has these battles between their guilty pleasures and self interest as people but if we follow a path of god we can find common ground. For knowledge, since you may not have any knowledge of who Heironymus Bosch is I will inform you of where he came from and his background on his painting skills. He gets his painting background from Jan van Aken his grandfather who was a painter, and was an advisor for the local…
post-secondary education. When asked his refusal of military service, Elon Musk stated “I don’t have an issue with serving in the military per se, but serving in the South African army suppressing black people just didn’t seem like a really good way to spend time” (Biography.com, 2016). Elon Musk surely made use of this newly gained time by finally reaching the United States in 1992 to pursue a dual-major in economics and physics at UPenn on scholarship. Elon Musk then completed only two days of…
S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders was written when the author was sixteen years old and attending high school. She witnessed the struggles of her peers, especially the violence between the different social class gangs, in school and began to write about them. The Outsiders began as a simple short story and quickly flourished into a novel due to Hinton’s irate state of mind regarding her own life. Her writing became a way to cope and work through her feelings about the violent situations surrounding…
set they could not change it, even if they wanted to. The people who were involved during this time were some good people but mainly not so nice people. There was obviously President Lincoln who was assassinated. John Wilkes Booth who was the man who assassinated Lincoln and he was later found dying and managed to say a few words and it seemed as if he was saying it was not worth it to kill him. Once Abraham was assassinated they needed someone to be the next president so that person became…