How They Built Their Dwelling: A Case Study

The tribe lived in thatched houses before which were grass huts shaped like beehives. They had a communal way of life in their permanent habitations. When men went to hunt they build temporary shelters from buffalo hides. Before the modern times, the men dressed in breech clothes and occasionally putting on leather chaps to act as leg protection. Their hair was cut in traditional Mohawk or complete shaving of hair and wore single long tassel of hair on the top of the head. Women kept long hair styled in a bum or braid. They wore wrap around skirts and ponchos. In the modern times traditional dress and face paints are only reserved

The Iroquois used nature and their natural resources to provide shelter. The Iroquois made their homes called longhouses from what was around them. In Document #1 it states that they made their homes from sticks and bark, the plant fibers. No scrap of material was ever wasted, it was always used for something else.

Shacks was about a man writing love letters to a woman he barely knows. In doing so he discovers hidden talents about himself. One of his biggest talents he didn’t know about himself, was his ability to write well. In his thesis he states that we are born with few tools and even fewer knowledge to use those tools, meaning we all have hidden talents of some sorts we just have to go out and find them. That’s the point he is trying to make the whole time. The whole time in the story he is writing these love letters to escape reality and entertain himself, not even knowing what he was really doing…he was writing. Writing is what he is good at and he wouldn’t have known without writing those letters.

Communities play an essential role in the development of the self and learning about the stranger. Through communities, individuals are able to socialize and gain a greater understanding of each other. A community can be defined in many different ways based on every individual’s experience with it. Developing a strong community takes time. Some people, like Jeannette Walls, do not have the opportunity to develop strong communities throughout their childhood.

The Natives built and lived in many small teepees, small dwellings, along with massive adobe homes in the woods using the materials they had found among the land

The Iroquois people consisted of many different tribes rather than one big group. These groups included the Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk, Cayuga and the Tuscarora. The Iroquois have occupied the Eastern Woodlands for over 4,000 years. The Iroquois tribes first settled in the Eastern Woodlands located in the Eastern United States. This area had thick forests, rivers, hills, and mountains. One thing the Iroquois were best known for were their longhouses. These longhouses were estimated to be longer than the length of an entire football field. Inside of the longhouse, there is an aisle in the middle and living space on either side. The longhouses were matrilineal, so when a marriage occurred, the family would move into the longhouse of the mother. The Iroquois usually lived in clans, or groups of families.

Erie Indians lived in communities which were in a palisade made of logs. Erie Indians constructed standing places over these palisades for defenders to use. They built villages as few as ten buildings, or up to 140 buildings. Their palisades were made of wooden stakes from tree trunks that were between 15 and 30 feet high. Each stake was sharpened and was placed close to one another. Some of the Erie lived in long houses with their families.

The Pomo Indians used nearby trees, such as redwoods, to build their homes. They would take a center pole and pile thick pieces of bark against it. These homes were small, usually 8-10 feet tall. These homes were not portable, but they were small and easy to build. (native-languages.org). Among the Indian tribes who lived here were the Miwoks and the Pomos.-Emerson

The Progressive Era was a time of social work, the struggle for women’s rights, and millions of immigrants expanding into the United States. During the era, there was many poverty stricken neighborhoods. Poverty reforms were created to help poverty in the U.S., one of them being settlement houses. Settlement houses were influenced by Toynbee Hall in London. Their idea was that students and wealthy people should “settle” in impoverished neighborhood and provide services and improve the lives of the neighborhoods and those living in them. Settlement houses were designed to help the poor, including immigrants, with the help of middle class workers, in an effort to improve the neighborhoods in the poorest parts of the cities.

The Iroquois League, with the name ¨Iroquois¨ given from the French, were a Confederacy of tribes. They reside in the northeast part of America, with six tribes in that area: the first five of the tribes being the Cayuga, Onondaga, Mohawk, Seneca, and Oneida, with the sixth tribe, Tuscarora, joining later joining the Iroquois League. In Iroquois, each tribe represents their own local government with their respective, elected chiefs. Whenever these chiefs need to consult in regards of major issues for the Five Nations at the time, they would attend the meeting called the Iroquois Council. The tribes from a larger village dwell in longhouses, which were long, rectangular houses made of wood, with some being a bit over one hundred feet. There

Pilgrim Assurance is a case that involves a sealed bid auction. Therefore, the auctioneers will need to sell the building to the highest bidder involved at a minimum bid of $15 million. David Bailey is given the decision to decide on how much to bid for an office building. Furthermore, he needs to make the decision whether to lease it as office space or to convert this office space into condominiums. In this case, I will analyze the goals and objectives of Bailey as well as the other participants. The sealed bid auction indicates that they are willing to take a chance on the market and try to receive high bids. There is no problem with the government participant besides using permits to do renovations. There is

Hello! I initially received an email about the RLE program a few weeks ago and was immediately interested. I saw this as an excellent opportunity to get to know some of my peers and do service around the Quad Cities area. During my senior year of highschool in the AVID program, recent graduates visited to speak to our class and give us advice on how to succeed during our first year living alone and learning at a higher level. Throughout every student’s speech, each of them were very emphatic about the importance of staying on task, forming study groups, and balancing your academic and social life with all the new found freedom your freshman year of college brings. I took this advice to heart and believe that Augustana’s Residential Living

After the destruction in Germany due to the World War 2, the struggle for survival and inhabitation had been the most and immediate business for the people. The war caused the destruction of near one-fifth of the German houses between 1939 and 1945. In West Germany, there were required almost two and a half million houses for the refugees and another million for younger families. It was where the German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s Freiburg and Black forest were located. People shared accommodation there till they could find their own. Then arose the question of termed as “Wohnungsfrage” that means “Dwelling Question” due to this housing crisis. In its response Heidegger wrote his famous “Building Dwelling Thinking”.

Nowadays, in a growing number of housewives who came out of their family and became a worker, we unconsciously admitted the phenomenon that women and men are no gender differences. Under this recognition, we focused more on class equality instead of gender equality. However, in Maria Mies’s Colonization and Housewifization, she questioned about this dissertation by giving examples and facts.

Swagu Style House is a new group of three incredibly talented artists who are the protégés of recording artists Cee-Lo Green. The group includes Cee-Lo’s son Kingston Calloway (known as Medulla), Greg Edmonds (as Stranger) and Darron Price as (Deep). Growing up together as kids in and around the music industry the boys developed chemistry and collectively wanted to purse music together. In an interview with the Source Magazine Medulla says “This is definitely something that we all wanted to do. We started to pursue it more and more, and once we realized it was something we definitely wanted to do, we came together.”