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    also can create multilevel society which specific units according to their sleeping sites within two separate bands (Yeager, 1991). Besides, the basic social unit of N. larvatus is a harem group which stable over time. Different groups frequently joined together, next to the river at night. Although the members of one harem remained together, the different groups were contiguous (Bennet & Sebastian, 1988). Groups of N. larvatus frequently met during day and also evening. The pattern of their…

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    The use of social media causes negative body image in women and can contribute to eating disorders. With 400 million users on Instagram, 316 million users on Twitter and 1.23 billion users on FaceBook, as of 2015, society has adapted to a world controlled and manipulated by social media (“Global Social Network by Users 2015”). According to Merriam-Webster Dictionaries, social media are forms of electronic communication where consumers create online communities to share information, ideas,…

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    squads of the Turkish. Their job was to kidnap Armenian children and convert them into Islam. Once that is complete they gave them to Turkish families to raise. The government squads also raped Armenian woman they forced the women to join Turkish "harems" and also made them serve as slaves as well. They were treated very poorly. For example they were sent into the desert with no food or water and they were stripped naked and forced to walk under the sun until they die. If you had stopped walking…

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    survive to continue their genes in further generations. A process of natural selection is intrasexual selection which is when males compete with other male species to win over the female to reproduce their genes. In the film with a beach full of harem female seals is dominated by a single male known as the beach master. Once another male seal arrives on the beach to seduce a female but they resist and their screams…

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    The creation had been eavesdropping on the DeLacey family. At one point a woman named Safie had come to the DeLacey family and taken refuge with them. She was scared that she would be “immured within the walls of a harem” (127) by her father. Her fear that her father will send her to harem characterizes Safie’s father as a wicked and untrustworthy person. Safie’s father had escaped to France, while there he had been captured and put in jail. Felix DeLacey happens upon her father and offers to…

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    peddling diet-related services and products to Americans. Fatema Mernissi argues in her essay, "Size 6: The Western Women 's Harem,” that Western men control the fashion industry, and in turn, control the female perception of beauty. While Fatema Mernissi 's perception of the expectation of US women to maintain a small frame is accurate, her argument in “Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem” is flawed by suggesting that men are the sole cause of these expectations, when in fact, society as a whole…

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    Power of Women in Guests of the Sheik In her ethnography Guests of the Sheik, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea retells her stories and experiences of the two years that she spent with her husband Robert (Bob) in the Iraqi village of El Nahra. Bob was a social anthropology graduate student at the University of Chicago, and he had been living with and studying the village of El Nahra before he brought Elizabeth in 1956 after they were married. The newlyweds would spend the first two years of their…

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    My selected style is Romanticism, this style is more based on the artist emotion, feelings, and passion. According to the book “The Annotated Mona Lisa” both writers and artist chose emotion and intuition over rational objectivity. Violent scenes, nude scenes, and scenes where there is chaos are some examples of a Romanticism painting. In some of the Romanticism painting’s you could notice the colors are unrestrained, deep, and have rich shades, the techniques used are quick brushstrokes, strong…

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    Hatshepsut was the daughter of Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose. Queen Ahmose’s family background is ambiguous as most believe she was of royal blood being related to Amenhotep I (his sister or daughter) or some member of Amenhotep’s family. On the other hand, Thutmose I may not have been of royal blood. Speculations of his origins include that he could have been the son of Amenhotep or an established military leader who had no royal blood at all. Thutmose I had two children with Queen Ahmose,…

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    In the reading we see an older Eastern women’s thoughts and a recap of her experience in a Western department store. In her recap of her experience in the American department store she explains to us, as the reader how she felt being in the shoes of a modern, adult American woman. Being told by a rude sales lady that the store doesn’t carry your size, and you are too big. The author of this story, Mernissi, was shocked by this scenario, because she as a Eastern woman, from out of country, was…

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