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We, as anthropologists, observe and collect data and inform our fellow anthropologists on the nature of humanity and its many manifestations, but to what purpose does this endeavor serve? This accumulated wealth of knowledge, if let to gather dust, will surely fit a similar role of salvage anthropology. Saving the final glimpses of vanishing cultures in order to preserve and study these snapshots as a time capsule of humanity that once was. Observations are made, theories formulated, structures…

to be peaceful and not hurt others. Living in a working class, middle class family, it was important to learn to be strong and fight to survive. Education is crucial back home for success. As many Palestinians were driven out of Palestine by the Israeli occupation, we were raised to love…

seized and nationalized. It had been controlled by the British in order to keep it open and free to all countries. Nasser seized the canal and was planning to charge for passage in order to pay for the Aswan Dam. The British, the French, and the Israelis decided to use the canal as a reason to attack Egypt. They secretly planned that Israel would attack and seize the canal, then, the French and the British would enter as peacekeepers taking control of the canal. France, Britain, and Israel did…

“The holocaust is very much alive. The wounds are still there. The scars are still there. The influence is still there”- Avner Shalev. Although some argue that the Jews created the Holocaust story to get sympathy and to promote themselves, many believe that the holocaust was an actual event that it should not be denied due to the fact that it is prone to happen again, it was one of the biggest misfortune that ever happened, and why do people deny the holocaust. Many people assume that since the…

In the passage “The Santa Ana,” Joan Didion expressed the strangeness of Los Angeles during the supernatural breeze. Los Angeles’s uneasy tensions during these winds has had an effect on the author’s approach to describing the occurrence. Didion used a vast asset of literary techniques within this excerpt — such as her use of tone, imagery, and syntax. Initially, Didion begins to loosely develop a description of the mutual feel during that particular night. The hot winds would advance among the…

Assess the contemporary coherence of the just war tradition. Realists describe war as an inevitable outcome of the anarchical international system in which states interact with each other. Based on this premise, throughout the centuries, has been witnessed the flourishing of a tradition of thought focusing on the ethics of war: The Just War Tradition. Its central hypothesis is that the use of force can be morally justified, or in other words that war can be morally right. This view differs from…

According to German film theorist Siegfried Kracauer “films are the mirror of the prevailing society.” Through films viewers can understand the culture and sentiments of the people during the time of the film’s creation. Film directors study popular trends in their society and have those trends reflected back in their films to gain viewers and economic profit by providing something the audience can relate to. The preservation and study of films allow for the observation of the political…

The increasing role of the media as a military outlet post 9/11 has led many political scientists to address the War on Terror as a war of words. Western and Arab news outlets, across the political spectrum, have portrayed interrelated and sequentially organized stories. These serve to weave certain ideological desires within their target audiences to achieve specific objectives. In political science discourses, these stories are referred to as “narratives”. This paper will explore narratives…

Marilyn Leibovitz, a modern dance instructor. In 1967, Leibovitz enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she was originally going to study painting she started to fall in love with photography. She moved back to the U.S. after living in Israeli Kibbutz. Then she applied for a job for Rolling Stone magazine. After two years of working at Rolling Stone she received a…

Many Americans reactions are based on what the media says. If the media is leaning towards one side, Israel, then the mass population will follow on that side. Palestinians are viewed as the threat to the Israelis and this is how America has perceived them. The Native Americans went through a similar situation as the Palestinians by the Americans. History is re writing itself and we are standing on the wrong side of it. The Holocaust is taught in depth in…