Leslie White‚ author of The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome (1959)‚ attempted to create a theory explaining the entire history of humanity. The most important factor in his theory is technology: Social systems are determined by technological systems‚ wrote White in his book‚ echoing the earlier theory of Lewis Henry Morgan. As measure of society advancement‚ he proposed the measure of a society’s energy consumption. He differentiates between five stages of
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The next example is one of a protagonist that in some way resembles Wilhelmina‚ he as well‚ tries and wants to pull away his cultures and traditions in order to fit in at school. Tayo‚ in the book Ceremony by Leslie M. Silko is a young man who finds himself in between the coalition of two cultures‚ his two cultures. Tayo is initiated into the Native American culture and traditions. The distinction here is between the White and the Native American ethnic-race groups. To sum up‚ one of the takeaways
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No two people read a piece of text the exact same way. This difference in perspective and opinion is what gives way to the variety of modern literature. This idea of perspective is woven through the novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. Reading through the eyes of different characters in Ceremony can change how the text is interpreted. Thomas C. Foster also argues this point in his book‚ How to Read Literature like a Professor‚ that one must read a piece of literature not only with their eyes‚ but
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Online response – Secret CHIN 360 Introduction to Chinese Cinema Leslie Wangxiaoqi Sun 2014/11/30 Knowing the ending and watching Secret for the second time‚ I can see that many small details in the first half of the movie imply and coordinate with the second half after Lu Xiaoyu reveals her secret. I’m amazed by the way plots are arranged. In this response‚ I’ll analyze how director Chou laid groundwork and foreshadowed in this movie. The piano building is one of the important props in the movie
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Family Influence Perhaps the most important factor in a person’s development is his or her family. Family members can shape some one’s thoughts and can make it difficult for a person to fit in one’s environment. In the novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko‚ Tayo’s auntie is an antagonistic woman who is concerned about other people’s judgment toward her and her family. Her unfriendly behavior sprang from her low self-esteem and the anger she reproached because her sister’s unruly actions. The
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still being manipulated by those who knew how to stir the ingredients together: white thievery and injustice boiling up the anger and hatred that would finally destroy the world: the starving against the fat‚ the colored against the white” (191). Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony‚ is an example of Postcolonial literature. The novel focuses on the de-colonization of the Native American culture by white people and the effects it has on the Natives. Rocky is a strong‚ educated Native boy who prefers
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with the proliferation of environmental crises around the globe. The trade off between sustainability and economic growth is still of discourse as mankind has the ability to mass produce more than ever before. With that in mind‚ Sustainability‚ by Leslie Paul Thiele defines and discusses the topic of sustainability. While Thiele’s text is engaging due to the areas of discussion‚ I argue that it is not an adequate guide as he fails to provide a thorough explanation of how solutions should be implemented
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during the war as they see friends‚ loved ones‚ anyone‚ fall to human hands. This brutal pain transcends the war itself‚ reaching for victims long after the war has ended. It evolves into a sickness‚ one that is not so easily cured by doctors. Tayo‚ in Leslie Marmon Silko’s‚ Ceremony‚ is haunted by this mind-ravaging mental disease after fighting and struggling for too long in the Japanese jungles. He returns to America‚ no longer a war hero‚ but as the scarred Native who is back to falling prey under
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Barbara Norris facing many difficulties. The GSU which she lead is currently short-staffed and does not perform as she expected. Her staffs have low morale and low motivation to do their daily job. On top of that‚ there is a cultural issue where confrontation‚ blaming‚ and favoritism are typical in her unit. She also facing a budget problem where overtime has been eliminated due to cost cutting measure implemented on the hospital. The budget cut make it difficult to Barbara to allocate a right personnel
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that should not be made light of. The dehumanization of blacks during this time‚ forced our ancestors to endure the most devastating genocide in human history. On one episode of the tv show‚ Saturday night live‚ Host and cast member Colin Jost and Leslie Jones discuss the actress Lupita Nyong’o being named as People Magazine’s “Most beautiful person”. Jones questions the standards that defy beauty by comparing America today to America in slavery times. Although Jones’s rant is seemingly subversive
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