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    Miriam Cortes FYS 111.08 29 October 2017 Professor Howie I have reached earth in Evansville Indiana where I have found a place to observe the human species on earth, in a place called a “library”. The library is a location where students study subjects in a gathered location that is surrounded by walls of scriptures. The majority are using something called “google” that provides the answers to the most basic questions about our universe and are very dependent on their technology, with things

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    Ferguson Fire Case Study

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    Massey had finally found the explanation for the start of the fire. But, he then needed to answer the more urgent question of why the fire got so out of control, so quickly. Fires a regular hazard on every carrier. On average, there’s one every week. In 1967, each carrier had crews of highly-trained firefighters to tackle these blazes. But, Massey found the reason why those teams failed to stop the fire. The leader of the team, gerald Farrier, reached the fire within 30 seconds, with the rest of

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    Pueblo Tribe Witches

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    North American Pueblo Indians are a group of people that spans across modern northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. These peoples are connected by their common descent from the prehistoric Ancestral Pueblo or Anasazi peoples. During the 17th and 18th century the Pueblo peoples encountered an internal issue; this issue was the danger of witches and/or cannibals. Across the many tribes that make up the Pueblo peoples, many of them dealt with witchcraft and developed methods to cleanse the

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    Lusio And Mother

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    There were once a god, and a goddess whose names were The Sun Father, and the Moonlight-Giving Mother. The Zuni tribe of Pueblo, Western Mexico worshipped these two gods as night and day. One day the Sun Father, and Moonlight-Giving Mother came together during a solar eclipse causing the creation of a child who was named Lusio, The God of Light. Lusio was the creation of both the Sun Father, and Moonlight-Giving Mother, thus he had inherited both the powers of his parents. He had the ability to control

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    Patterns of Spanish Exploration and conquest, in 1527 a group of Spaniards set sail out of Cádiz, Spain in the control of Pánfilo de Narváez to discover a mysterious land called La Florida. Pánfilo de Narváez had around 500 Spaniard men in his control, little did he know only four men would make it out of this strenuous journey. Those four men were Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés de Dorantes de Carranza, Alonso Castillo Maldonado, and an African slave, Esteban. Although these men were expecting to come as

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    In “The Living Exhibit Under The Museum’s Portal” poem written by, Santa Clara Nora Naranjo-Morse it talks about how all the Indians from different tribes like the Cochiti, Zuni, and the Navajos come together to sell all their handmade items such as Blankets, jewelry, pottery or pretty much anything that they make. Most often these people go to jewelry shops and sell their stuff as a wholesale, but that’s if they’re lucky because now a days it is so hard to sell jewelry due to all the competition

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    Anthropology as the study of culture is an intricate practice guided by theory to generate explanatory value from encountered societies. This paper will examine two contrasting angles provided by Ruth Benedict’s configurational anthropology in Patterns of Culture and Marvin Harris’ cultural materialism in Cannibals and Kings. Whereas Benedict’s configurational anthropology approaches culture as an expressive art form, Harris’s cultural materialism explains the peculiarities of cultural customs as

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    We Wha Thesis

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    pioneer in the Zuni group in the late nineteenth century, at one point serving as an emissary from that southwestern Native American country to Washington, D.C. He was the most grounded, smartest, and most regarded individual from his group. What's more, he was a berdache, a male who wearing female clothing. Such men were loved in Zuni hovers for their assumed association with the powerful, the most skilled of them called lhamana or spiritual pioneer. We'wha was the most observed Zuni lhamana of the

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    Carrizo Wash Case Study

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    Cerro Pomo cinder cone and Zuni Salt Lake maar (Appendix A). Unit 1 deposition began prior to ~10.2 ka, ending by ~7.5 ka in piedmont areas and by 7.1 ka in valley contexts. Early Holocene aggradation was followed by a brief depositional hiatus and period of soil formation perhaps

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    Their guide, Esteban had mistreated the women of Zuni and was killed for his actions. When Marcos de Niza reported back to the viceroy in Mexico, he had lied about their voyage. He had told them Zuni, and the surrounding area had tremendous amounts of gold and other highly profitable metals and gems. This lie led to a severe destruction and the death of hundreds Pueblo. Women

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