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    Hero Myth: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone In the writing of Linda Seger’s “Creating the Myth” she argues that there are 10-points in creating a “hero myth”. Seger uses Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars Trilogy as her hero myth example. I will use Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ because Harry follows the 10-points that Linda Seger argues about in order to create a transformation into becoming a hero. In this paper‚ I will explain how Harry Potter fits the 10-points in creating a hero

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    Iroquois Kinship

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    Kinship of the Iroquois Christine Garcia ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Prof. Benjamin Wright March 12‚ 2012 KINSHIP OF THE IROQUOIS Kinship can best be defined as a system of social relationships‚ or in simpler terms a system of family. According to our text‚ “kinship involves how people classify each other‚ the rules that affect people’s behavior‚ and people’s actual behavior.” (Nowak and Laird‚ 2010‚ 4:5) Kinship can be seen in our everyday lives within our own circle

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    Btsisi Kinship

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    Btsisi Kinship Elizabeth Safady Ashford University Anthropology Instructor Reeves March 11‚ 2013 The Btsisi kinship in horticultural‚ in otherwords‚ they culitvate to produce their own food. Marriage in the Btsisi culture is arranged by the elders in the community. Marriage is extremely important‚ as it helps form alliances and create firm relationships not only outside the community‚ but inside as well. The Btsis society is made up of bands. Each band consists of a nuclear family and

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    Aboriginal Kinship

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    Aboriginal Kinship Systems ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Aboriginal Kinship Systems Kinship is one of the main principles of a foraging culture’s social organization. The way they interact with each other relies on the relationship they have together. If one member wanted to marry another member of the society‚ they would not behave in the same manner as they would with a blood relative such as a mother or father.

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    Linda Pastan

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    Linda Pastan Through her poetry‚ Linda Pastan expresses clear and meaningful lessons‚ thoughts‚ and ideas. Pastan makes a point to try to make her poems extremely clear and not cleverly obscure. Her poetry takes on many different themes depending on the situation she has been placed in. Much of Pastan’s poetry coresponds to her life. Linda Olenik Pastan was born on the 27th of May in 1932 in New York City (Gaiownik‚ 355). Linda grew up in a Jewish family and attended attended Fieldston School

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    Yanomamo Kinship

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    Yanomamo Kinship Yanomamo people are from Central Brazil and they are the oldest example of the pre-Columbian forest footmen. They live in the Amazon rain forest and they are considering the last to have come in contact with the modern world. ( Chagnon‚ Napoleon. Yanomamö‚ Fifth Edition. Harcourt Brace College Publishers: Fort Worth 1997) They have no writing system and they have different type of dialects which they use. By having no writing system they have to use verbal commutation to

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    Linda Loman

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    In Arthur Miller’s play‚ Death of a Salesman‚ through his character‚ Linda Loman‚ the author alludes to the idea that everyone‚ whether they are famous or not‚ deserves support when they are at their lowest in life. For instance‚ when Linda is talking about Willy to her sons she says‚ “He works for a company thirty-six years this March‚ opens up unheard-of territories to their trademark‚ and now in his old age they take his salary away” (40). Here‚ Miller presents how Willy has worked at his company

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    FLASHCARD DATA FOR NATURE OF KINSHIP Topic 1: Overview | 1. |The term for culturally defined relationships between individuals who are commonly thought of as having |kinship | | |family ties. | | | 2. |The general term for socially recognized links between ancestors and descendants.

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    Kinship of the Inuit Culture Ashford University ANT 101 Instructor: Jessie Cohen October 18‚ 2011 Kinship of the Inuit Culture Kinship‚ the relationship between individuals‚ is a cultural universal that is shared by all. These relationships are defined through marriage‚ descent‚ or other cultural arrangements. Kinship helps to establish how “people classify each other‚ the rules that affect people ’s behavior and people ’s actual behavior” (Nowak & Laird‚ 2010‚ sec 4.5). Kinship

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    Linda Hogan

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    TASK 1 Answer the questions 1. What adjectives does Linda Hogan use to describe her personality as a child in Oklahoma? 2. Does L.H. believe that she is a traditionally-minded Native woman? 3. In para 8‚ does L.H. state she thinks the view of the constellations is the same for the Western world as it is in the American Indian tradition? 4. 4. After rereading para 9‚ name the three types of writing L.H. says she does. 5. In para 12‚ what are the two choices

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