Miner

lack of nutritious meal options. Like many other colleges, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology’s convenience store, Miner Shack, does not provide students with healthy snacks or meal choices. The Miner Shack is an on campus store that sells food after dining hours. For students who did not or could not fit the campus’ dining hours into their busy schedules, the Miner Shack is their only on campus meal option. The problem students’ face with the…

To be introduced; the viewpoints of the life events of Mary Harris (Mother) Jones perceived by Simon Cordery in the biography “Mother Jones; Raising Cain and Consciousness,” and by Dale Fetherling in his biography “Mother Jones; The Miners’ Angel.” Each biography makes the argument that Mother Jones was a passionate woman. Cordery introduces her timeline by starting with her death. It is clear he felt the need to establish her legacy and level of importance to history before going into depth…

Horace Miner describes the Nacriema culture as a tribe that performs barbaric and unusual practices. However, Miner is not describing a native tribe, instead he is defining the American society. While his description are brutal, Miner perfectly illustrates American society from his time to present day. His stories of American beauty, nudity, doctors, and family problems are still relevant today in America as Americans are obsessing over the smallest things that they will go to the extreme just…

News Miner “Feds approve drilling permit in Arctic reserve” by Alex DeMarban written on October 22, 2015. The Bureau of Land Management announced on Thursday it has approved a drilling permit that could set the stage for the first oil production on federal land in the nation’s largest reserve. The Bureau also said it has granted right-of-way access for the ConocoPhillips’ Greater Moose’s Tooth 1 project in the Indiana-sized National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. “It’s good news. We’re pleased they…

The coal miner faced the challenge of not being able to make a proper living wage. The coal miner was unable to keep up payments for his house, his wife's doctor visits, his injured brother and groceries/etc. The coal miner hoped that if the strike was successful that they would finally get paid a fair wage and they wouldn't struggle anymore financially. He also wanted safer working conditions after witnessing friends and family getting hurt or…

darkness of their enclosure, living each day with the knowledge that it could be their last and knowing that the attendant agony only offers barely sufficient wages to provide for their families: this characterizes the life of a nineteenth century coal miner whose only salvation manifests in public mobilization. Here is an alternate beginning. To know that the good of America lies in the hands of all true patriots willing to contribute all their efforts toward success in wartime, sacrificing…

I found that after reading Miner and Chagnon’s articles, I thought it was eye opening to see how the two authors originally expected the two tribes to behave like they were raised even though the tribes are isolated away from the modern world. “The daily ceremonies, like the rites of the holy-mouth-men, involve discomfort and torture” (Miner, 2013, p. 90). How does Miner know that the tribe sees these practices as a discomfort or as torture? Just because in a more modernized society some would…

Colorado Life As A Miner in the 1900s I woke up to the sound of my cat jumping onto my chest. It was a work day and I was ready to go into the mines. It was dirty work, but it paid well. Mining jobs like this sprouted up a couple years ago in Colorado when someone found gold here. People from all around like me moved here to try to strike it rich. I got my box lunch from a rack in my house and set off on my daily walk to the mine. Once I was at the workplace I took a chain with my name on it…

young age and it is engrained within us without choice. With the help of understanding this and evaluating how this affects our perceptions of other cultures, we can also understand how other cultures look at us as well. The writing Body Ritual by Miner puts into perspective of how we view our culture or how other cultures may view ours. There are different practices and rituals that can seem odd and our norms dictate and affect our understanding of them. We can examine different cultures such…

On the ride to Miners Fork, Kane fills me in on what’s happened at the compound. Gloria—yeah that bitch again—apparently went all out for Kane’s homecoming. Thinking I was out of the picture, and Kane had a penchant for red-heads, she dyed her bottle blond, over processed locks, red. This would have been funny if Menendez’s men hadn’t snatched her up outside the clubhouse thinking she was me. Really! I’m appalled at the thought. When they realized they had the wrong woman they barely slowed…