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    In my opinion, the aninmal that is most likely me is maybe a lion. They are mostly mellow and chilled untill somebody/something comes onto their property or if they need something for survival. That is almost exactly like me. I wont start fights or anything untill if it is needed for my protection and/or my family's. I will be relaxing all day untill something is need, then i will get up and do whatever needs to be done. One day, a weird old man came running into a man in an alley-way. The…

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    using them for every necessity such as clothing, drums, and weapons. For the Nuers time across space, they believe that the cattle is the most important thing to them, and they will do anything to take care of one or many of them, because they are valuable to them. Throughout the book, there was one thing that he had focused on that relates to time and space and that is the cattle. The Nuer uses the cows for the developing of their culture. The Nuer explains that the Nuer is used for…

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    The Apache Tribe

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    The Apache Tribe are known to be North American native people who originated from the southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Not much is known about how the Apache came to North America however, most scholars believe that they migrated from the north and arrived in A.D. 800 or 900 to New Mexico and Arizona. They are known by many names such as Plains Apache, Prairie Apache, or The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. Nowadays in modern Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona tens of thousands of Apaches…

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    South Sudan

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    Introduction Even after the gaining of independence in 1956 that established Sudan as its own country, conflicting ideals of the people of Sudan led to civil wars that resulted in South Sudan separating from North Sudan and establishing itself as an independent country on July 9, 2011 (CIA, 2016). Because of the different influences that affected the different tribes, also fighting began to occur between ethnic groups in Southern Sudan during and after the civil war with North Sudan. I am going…

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    The representation of past cultures in modernity is one that is repeatedly problematic. More specifically, the image of the Scandinavian settlers that expanded into the British Isles in the late 8th century has received much of this treatment. Today, these people are commonly known as ‘Vikings’ and a fair amount of misrepresentation accompanies the term. This stereotype of the Scandinavians paints them as a brutish and uncultured group of people that terrorised the coasts of the British Isles…

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    Throughout the world various cultures have excelled in particular sports. However, despite this wide array of sporting cultures some athletes prove to be particularly amazing. Throughout The Sports Gene we encountered athletes like Donald Thomas, sled dog, and to an extent basketball players. However, athletes like Dan McLaughlin, Jim Ryun, and Dominican baseball players seemed to be the product of arduous practice and their environment. Both of these factors allow devoted athletes to reach…

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    “How many times must the white man break his word?” The settlers came for gold and cattle farming, and if anybody got in there way they would demand them to move or even kill them if they didn’t listen to them. Crazy horse was a leader to the Sioux Indians who wanted to stop the white settlers and was a vital part of the Sioux Indians right to the American dream. Crazy horse wanted freedom for his people and for them to stop being killed by Colonel Custer for defending their homes and…

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    Odysseus Pride Analysis

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    again Odysseus’ pride is shown when his men butcher and feast the cattle of the sun god and the latter seeks out to get his revenge. His pride is revealed through his past circumstances, if he didn’t make the prior flaws of his sin of pride he wouldn’t be put in a predicament where his ship is destroyed and the rest of his men are killed. Though Odysseus has learned was indeed humble and tried to make sure no one eats any of Helios’ cattle or else they will pay his greedy and disobedient crew…

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    Vikings, meant fear and blood for every medieval church and monastic institution.Who were these red-blond invaders from the North? Where did they come from? Were they only sea raiders? Who drove them on? Who are these "pagans" who show no mercy while raiding, but become full of peace while trading? Before answering these intriguing questions, it is essential that the reason whole world call them…

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    The disagreement resulted in the Doeg raiding Mathew’s plantation where several Indians were killed as well as one of Mathew’s cattle hands. With the Indian raid on the plantation, local frustrations mounting over the economy ranging from competition with neighboring states Maryland and the Carolinas in growing tobacco, to a weather pattern…

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