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    Native American Cultures

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    I chose to do my culture immersion project on Native American cultures, because I had very little knowledge about them beyond a few movies and what I learned about in high school American history class, which was from the perspective of the white not the indigenous people. I was aware of some of the stereotypes, for example the perception that they are wild or savage, that they drink a lot, sell cheap smokes, that they gamble lots, the rich of them run casinos, and that they worship in strange…

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    This image appears to be depict the Massacre of Cholula from the perspective of the Tlaxcaltecas. We see that most of the Cholula people were easily killed and dismembered by the powerful Spanish warriors in their metal armor. The artist represent the Spanish forces and what appears to be a few Tlaxcalteca soldiers as valiant heros conquering a weaker undeserving people. The Indian at the far right appears to be jumping of the pyramid as if to commit suicide. The portrayal of the Cholula…

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    because he didn’t have a teacher to tell him it was wrong and that he felt better pulling the pen instead of pushing the pen like most lefty’s do (Leonardo Da Vinci). His notebooks are now known as da Vinci’s manuscripts or the “codices” which means Codex and have many different things inside them for example one of them describes a 65-foot mechanical bat, for flying since he was very interested in the flight of birds. On another notebook he describes the humans anatomy like the skeleton,…

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    The best example of this is Corpus iuris civilis (Corpus of Civil Law). This reform organized Roman Law. This was a big deal as Roman law was a thousand years old by this time. Corpus iuris civilis was divided into three parts. The first was the Codex Justinianus. This was the collection of every imperial edict from the previous four centuries and any new edict that was issued. This served as the handbook to emphasize and justify the authority of the emperor. The second part was the Digest. This…

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    A passage from the religious Codex Florentino, describes the second bad omen as when "The temple of Huitzilopochtli burst into flames… the people shouted: 'Mexicanos, come running!'" (Bernadino). The presence of the temple shows their dedication to worship and the urgent attempt to…

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    the different meanings it may have and how it is viewed by some of the people in the world. The symbol the star of David dated back to over a thousand years ago. The star of David in the oldest surviving copy of the Masoretic text, the Leningrad Codex, dated 1008. The earliest archaeological evidence was from the seventh century B.C.E. When the star of David gained popularity was during the Zionist movement in 1897. As though the star appeared as early as the 960s, the Hebrew term dates from…

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    Byzantine was an empire lost to the void of time, its memory wiped from minds of all. Lars Brownworth, an established author, tried to do justice to the book and offer a voice to the ones drowned out by the pages of history. He told the stories of a great empire that served as a ground of rebirth for a crumbling Rome, rescuing it from a certain doom, in an attempt to expose one to the history of Byzantine vast enough to rival the lands of the empire during the reign of Justinian. The author…

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    ” especially in regards to ancient and non-Western cultures whose religious and mythological traditions are often embedded in the aesthetics of everyday objects, blurring the line between representational beauty and utility (Dean 2006: 25-32). The Codex Borgia can be seen as one such example of this phenomenon. The Borgia likely originated from the Valley of Puebla, namely the cities of Cholula or Tlaxcala, which became a major trade route in the Postclassic Period and thus, the text was…

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    When Carrie Nation moved to Kansas in the 1800s, no one ever expected her to be the second coming of the devil. Though Carrie Nation worked in our Civil War and helped our soldiers, what she did after was nobody’s guess. Heinous, Malicious, Blood-Loving, are just a few of the words that epitomize Carrie Nation. Paired with her border line lunatic methods, Carrie Nation has taken the United States as a hostage. In our free market country, Carrie nation has imposed a totalitarian war upon Salon…

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    Other Countries In its current form, Canada’s Country of Origin labelling regulations is complying with the standards set by the WTO and the Codex Alimentarius and does not affect international trade within the WTO scope. Canada’s numerous FTAs are also trading under harmonized labelling measures, although they are not immune to disputes as the COOL Requirements Case can demonstrate. Critiques & Limitations - Demands for a Change COOL Requirements Case - Towards Greater Integration? Canada…

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