North Devon

Before America was the well known, most successful country in the world it was a vast, undiscovered wilderness that contained a people who had their own culture and used their undiscovered lands to learn and live for hundreds and hundreds of years. As soon as people from Europe started to settle in this so called “new world” they did so as if it was their own land, not seeming to care that they were destroying the culture, land, and lives of the people who had lived there for thousands of years…

As I read the article, I felt sorrow for the Nacirema people. They seemed so unhappy with their appearance. The rituals they endured seemed so cruel and barbaric. However, I quickly realized that these rituals are some of the same ones that we have here in America. Miner was merely describing what happens when you go to a dentist or when patients going to get medical care. The medicine men and herbalists are the same as our providers and pharmacists. Miner also speaks of surgeries to enlarge…

When flags were planted on the shore of North America, it was a sign that those newly arrived people were to claim this nation for themselves. Planting the flag in the ground may be a motivating symbol to the crew that the job of conquering the new land has begun. This symbol to the occupants of the land is that someone is laying down a challenge, or striking a claim. The flags and crosses that were planted mean nothing to the occupants but are directly linked to their nation and religion back…

North Koreans suffer all their lives, by the countless human rights violations brought upon them by their very own ruler of Kim Jong-un and the North Korean government. The North Korea public suffers from many violations such as starving, police brutality, forced pregnancy’s, forced abortions, torture, executions, false imprisonment, and hard labor. These are just a few of the enormous amount of human rights violations. This paper will cover the three most common and most occurring human right…

All the Clovis dates pointed to a beginning that coincided with the opening of a vast corridor through the ice running from north-west to south-east from 13,000 years ago. Before this corridor opened, went the argument, no-one could have traversed the ice-sheets. Never mind that, even when it was open, the ice corridor was several thousand kilometers of barren Arctic desert and…

A quinceañera is a celebration held in certain Latin American countries to honor a girl's fifteenth birthday. It signifies the transformation of a girl into a woman. This celebration mostly recognizes the girl celebrating the quinceañera but also recognizes her family and her godparents, who are referred to as padrinos. It is celebrated to honor the coming of age, the importance of family, and importance of the people closest to the girl. It is also celebrated to uphold tradition. By many…

A federal appeals court has ordered a temporary halt to construction of the $3.8 billion Bakken pipeline after protests turned violent in southern North Dakota. As reported by the Chicago Tribune, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that it needs more time to consider the emergency injunction. Prior to this announcement, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg confirmed that the pipeline construction was lawful and rejected the Standing Rock…

More customs from the “Nacirema” culture have been discovered. Us aliens have hypothesized that the Naciremans are planning on exposing and diminishing our species with the help of smaller beings. While examining different families, we found that parents send their children to gigantic buildings each day; numerous of these types of properties are located throughout the whole culture. We assume that these children are learning about the aliens and they will soon discover our civilization. The…

In December of 2014, a company called Energy Transfer Partners LP proposed the plan to make a pipeline, formally called the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The pipeline was planned to span across four states, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois, and would cost an estimated $3.78 billion to complete (Miller). The purpose of the pipeline is to carry 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from two oil sites, Bakken and Three Forks, to an oil tank farm near Patoka, Illinois. Though the…

I chose the Indian Pueblo Cultural Centre because it is a great place for non Native Americans to go and learn about the history and view some of the culture belonging to Natives with having to go and get permission to visit a reservation and sit in on their culture. This culture is different from my own because, looking at my cultural background, I come from a plethora of European countries. I am very unfamiliar with the Native American culture and, because it is a big part of our State’s…