Examples Of Ethnology

This is my first time that I come to New York, so I am curious about many things in this new place, such as the famous resorts, and the people here. As we know, the Times Square is very famous in New York. When I was in China, I hope I can visit Times Square, because I saw Times Square was very great in some of the opening of American series. Now, I am in New York, and I have enough chances to visit Times Square whenever I want. In there, it gives me a new horizon to understand the culture that is different from China.

I am a piece of an American family, and we are noisy, yet in some cases they simply don't know when to calm down. In the event that i am attempting to do homework and my father is impacting music its pretty diverting. An approach to fathom this is have two or three hours in the day where its noiseless so we can do our

Our memories often time embellish the memories we once had of such great people, places, times, and etc. We live these times up to standard that makes us reminisce, hurt, contemplate and so much more. The power of a photograph has been described to have worth a thousand words, metaphorically meaning of course, that what an image can capture in one instance, something that may not ever be captured through words. For too many centuries we have been without, what many of us now take for granted, the photograph. What we capture in a picture, has much more value than we often time see in our commercials, people, places, they tell a story to the ignorant, paint a picture for blind, give the deaf something to listen to, and so much more.

Me: As I performed the posture test on myself I already knew that I would have proper posture. Due to the fact that when I was younger, I looked in the mirror and noticed that I had a slouchy posture. I had (Lordosis) and an anterior pelvic tilt, which made me look awful from a side point of view. I wanted to fix my posture and learned that I had weak abdominal muscles and tight hamstrings along with weak gluteus maximus muscles. As I learned how to fix my problem, I began doing exercises for those muscles for flexibility and strength gains. For my exercises in detail I began standing for a long period of time and would flex my gluteus maximus muscles and keep them tight for a period of time to strengthen them which would be for a few minutes. This fixed the slight curve in my lower back. The next step I performed was the same as with my gluteus maximus muscles but for my abs which helped keep a good posture naturally without thinking about my posture deviations and how to fix them. I could now begin to stand naturally with a good posture. The last step I did was stand against a wall with my back and neck flat against the wall and I would press my tongue against the top of my mouth to

To understand ethnographic observation, in assignment six we were to conduct an observation of elevator behaviors. I have choose the elevators located in the New Science Building of Eastern Kentucky University of Richmond campus. I have observed total of 13 minutes in two separated dates, on February, 8th from 10:00 AM to 10:05 AM; February 9th from 11:00 AM to 11:05 AM, and 12:15 Pm to 12:18 PM

The girls I see this evening are young teens who are wearing too much makeup trying to be seen by the young boys who are wearing expensive sneakers and saggy pants. A few of the young girls I see are young mothers pushing baby strollers and conversing

The topic of my journals has been the case of a Walgreens manager bullying employees into working off the clock. In relation to this weeks assigned reading, I started thinking about the corporate culture of Walgreens at the time this incident occurred. I myself became an assistant manager for the company less than two years later. It was a time of growth for the company as they were opening stores in smaller cities, breaking in to new markets. What came apparent to me once I became management was that despite increasing profits the direction from upper management was to operate the stores on a skeleton crew.

Ryan (pseudonym) is a 20-year-old male. Ryan was raised in Janesville, Wisconsin. The client described that his family struggles financially. He comes from a single parent home and is an only child. He has currently relocated to Whitewater, Wisconsin and lives with four roommates. He is presently in his third year at UW-Whitewater. Ryan works around 35 hours a week in retail in addition to going to school full-time. Ryan hopes to own a “New and Used” shoe store after graduation.

An example of ethnocentrism I found in the media is a movie called The Help made from the book by Kathryn Stockett. This movie is about an author during the 1960’s who wants to write a book about the African-American maid’s point of view on the white families they work for. It creates a powerful movement in the town revealing how people really view each other, “The Help is a timeless and Universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.” I think this is an example of ethnocentrism because many of the white families in the movie who hired African American maids thought they were so much better than them. Not only because they are working for them everyday even thought they are raising their children and doing housework but because of their color. It was a sad reality at the time and it was so hard for some people to look outside their way of life and view others the same. Some of the remarks made in the movie were ridiculous and extremely hurtful. For example one of the characters Hilly Holbrook who lived in the town refused to allow her maid to use the bathroom in her own home. It was so hard for Hilly to step out of her culture and view someone of another color and way of life with equality and respect. Below is the quote from the

I got my first camera at the age of eight; it was a blue Olympic digital camera. I used my camera whenever I could. Ever since I was little I noticed the little things in life. The main thing I want to do with my life is to be a world known photographer. I want to travel the world with my camera and show the world how beautiful earth is.

When workers bring up their boss in conversation, words like intimidating or hard-nosed might be tossed around. Also, any good employee knows to look busy when their boss is around and to be on their best behavior. Bartleby, in Bartleby The Scrivener did not abide by these office rules many of us follow. Bartleby was a scrivener for a law office on Wall Street. In the beginning days of Bartleby’s new job as a copier, he exceled greatly surpassing his fellow co-workers. This inspirational work ethic soon turned sour when Bartleby refused to do any work at all around the office. Lack of discipline from the boss of the law office turned Bartleby’s “I would prefer not to” into a much larger problem. The boss being such a pushover

The ways of ethnology have modified significantly over the years. Throughout the second part of the previous century, there was a unilinear evolution of society where it included all human beings. Anthropologists, for example, Spencer, Morgan, Tyler, and Lubbock supported this idea. However, Boas argues the techniques of analysis into the historical improvement of society. More current advancement as for the surprising changes moves back to some extent to the impact of Ratzel whose geological activity inspired him with the significance of spreading and migrations. Hence, through this time ethnological study, especially in England and Germany, is based upon the notion of migration and spread instead of evolution (Boas: 117).

The Warehouse, is a New Zealand based company and is one its largest discount retailers offering a wide product offering ranging from Apparels, Jewellery, Fragrances, Gift sets, Books, Music, Entertainment, Gaming, Toys, Electronics, Sports and outdoor goods, Pet care, Home ware, Hardware, Gardening, Automotive accessories to Cards and Insurance policies. “The Warehouse Group

Throughout history, there have been examples of ethnocide, some are mentioned in the reader. First, mosques, a library in Sarajevo, and other Muslim cultural symbols were destroyed by the Serbians. This was used to show how the Serbians aspired to eliminate the Bosnian Muslims. This is an example of ethnocide because Serbians are destroying such sacred cultural items. Without their cultural architecture and symbols, they are suppressed. Another example is in the case of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and citizens of his country who were of Asian descent. Amin enacted a law where these people who lose their property and leave the country within 90 days, or they would be sent to distant, dry areas to work as farmers. As stated by Shaw, this falls

A Wal-Mart photo lab associate, Claude is facing a difficulty concerning attending his father’s major birthday dinner.( Brotheridge, C. 2005) Claude comes from a tight family, and he didn’t want to miss the celebration. However, there is a conflict between his working schedule and the dinner plan. Owing to the inflexibility of the auto scheduler program and his manager’s non-negotiable management style, he was sure that his manager wouldn’t give him the time off. Additionally, he didn’t want to call a sick day, not wanting to bend the truth. He also couldn’t feel there was a cold coming. Yet, the main problem is Wal-Mart’s organizational management. Managers do not treat their employees with dignity and respect