...Conclusion In conclusion, the remains found have been determined as a caucasian male due to all the measurements that support this. It has been stated that he was 20+ years old. He was most likely between 5’3” and 5’7” feet tall. The tibia was missing, as the result of this the measurements were unable to be done for this bone. Some of our measurements were longer/shorter than the average, but in the end everything concluded to our findings. To continue on with this investigation, it is recommended that the investigators perform more steps afterward to determine the identity. Dental examination may help with identification with the information of previous dental and medical records. This can be very efficient in these types of cases. It is important to inform the family of the victim after identifying who the individual...
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...Christina Tellez English V01A Heather Aguailar 19 March 2014 Women- “the less attractive” In today’s society, women are held to an extremely unfair standard. Women are perceived through an image of appearance not an image of character. If women do not meet a certain appearance standard they are looked down upon because they are what society considers “less attractive." Doesn’t matter what type of personality “the less attractive” has because most people won’t give “the less attractive” the time of day to find out, unless they are in some way socially interacted by work or school but even then they are usually looked at as a second option. What exactly is the deciding factor to be in an attractive standard as a woman? Susie Orbach, author of “Fat is a Feminist Issue,” states that women must have good looks and a pleasuring manner. Orbach states, “To do this she must look appealing, earthy, sensual, sexual, virginal, innocent, reliable, daring, mysterious, coquettish, and thin” (451). This standard of having to look attractive that the media portrays is sending women all over the world a wrong and unhealthy message. Fifty thousand per million Americans suffer from eating disorders, trying to fit in, not realizing the harms that it can bring. The media should portray a positive image like instead of trying to be attractive, just try to be healthy. Women are held to unhealthy circumstances, they are being targeted to make unhealthy body decisions because of what they...
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..."Hello, my name is Laurel, but my friends call me “Snot”. I am an African American and in the fourth grade. I am going to tell you a story about my adventure at Camp Crescendo, a summer camp for fourth graders near the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. I announced that by the second day of camp, all the girls in my Brownie troop had decided they were going to "kick the asses" of every girl in Brownie Troop 909, who were all white girls. The other black girls and myself took a dislike to the white girls when we first saw them. Arnetta, our ringleader, said they smelled "like Chihuahuas. Wet Chihuahuas." When she said that they were like "Caucasian Chihuahuas," we all went into fits of laughter. They regard the word Caucasian as a hilarious term of abuse that can be used in almost any situation. We all have seen whites before but have never had much to do with them. But the ten white girls we encounter at the camp are closer to us and, therefore, more real and capable of exciting envy and hatred. At the end of the first day at camp, Arnetta reports she heard one of the white girls refer to Daphne, a black girl, as "a nigger." On prompting by Arnetta, Daphne, a quiet girl, nods her head to confirm that the derogatory term was used. Arnetta tells the other girls that they cannot let the white girls get away with using that word about them. She told us that we must teach the white girls a lesson. Janice suggests that they put daddy-long-legs in the white girls' sleeping bags, and when...
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...Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder that is characterized by the refusal to sustain a healthy weight (Kumar, Tung, & Iqbai, 2010). Many believe that anorexia is more common amongst Caucasian women, but anorexia occurs throughout all cultures and races. AN has the highest mortality rate of an psychiatric disorder (Kumar, Tung, & Iqbai, 2010). Every major organ system is affected because of the malnutrition that anorexia causes. People with anorexia look in the mirror and see a distorted image rather than what is reality. Victims of anorexia see someone that is huge when in actuality they may be average size and weight. Once a person is diagnosed with anorexia it is hard for them to recover. Not only is it hard for a person with AN to recover, it is also extremely easy to relapse. It takes intense therapy and treatment to cure someone with anorexia. AN exists in every culture and race; it varies amongst African Americans differently as opposed to other cultures. Symptoms of anorexia include an intense fear of gaining weight, refusal to keep body weight up, and amenorrhea for 3 consecutive months (Kumar, Tung, & Iqbai, 2010). Amenorrhea is the abnormal absence of menstruation. Some other symptoms of AN are lanugo, joint swelling, dental cavities, tooth loss, and abdominal distension (Kumar, Tung, & Iqbai, 2010). Lanugo is the growth of fine white hair that grows when anorexics have no body fat left to keep themselves warm (Morrisey, 2010). There also...
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...Growing up, as an intercity adolescent many barriers existed in my life, which prevented me from truly becoming a critical thinker. Daily I was force feed basis opinions from family and citizens who lacked facts, education, and concrete evidence on matters they self-proclaimed to be an expert of. My urban city contributed to many core barriers that affected my mental state, which clouded my judgment and took away from me becoming an advanced critical thinker. My mother was raised in the south during the segregation era she experienced segregated water fountains, restroom, and many other monstrosities that took place during the racial discrimination era in America because of her experience and environment she has some negative views of Caucasian people. I would not consider her to be racist however; I would consider her to be a person who believes we should still be separated to an extent. Growing up my mother would influence me by telling me “don’t completely trust whites, stop hanging with white people they will set you up, don’t date white girls it will get you killed.” Obviously, my mother is set in her ways but I contently debate with her my views to help her see things are different now. I also try to take as many pictures as possible with divers groups so that I can send pictures to my mother to let her know good white people exist. Growing up in the urban city of Baltimore your environment mental hardens you; you gain street smarts to stay alive. The Baltimore...
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...his wife and daughter both stripped naked, with several slashes on his daughter’s back as she laid in a puddle of her own blood and his wife slouched and tied up against a kitchen chair as blood dripped down to the ground from her sliced open throat. With those imprints clear in his head, Asad decides he has nothing to leave behind but his corrupt country. He does as thousands others have done, boards a ship to Malta, in search of asylum. Because what he has experienced is basically political prosecution right? As he sits amongst the other 289 Somalis each with their own tears and scarring memories, the thick musk scent fills the air as waves crashed against the side of the ship, Asad slowly closes his eyes. When he awakes, several Caucasian men dressed in white...
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...Nicole Abanador ASAM 308 Midterm: Yellow Fever About two years ago, a close friend of mine began dating a white man from northern California. The two had apparently met when she went up north for a school function. Throughout the duration of their relationship, I had noticed a problem between them. My friend was a loud and boisterous person, fiercely proud of who she was and her heritage, and was blunt to a fault. But during first six months of her relationship, she changed. She became quieter, docile, and backed out of any sort of confrontation. Towards the end of their relationship, she and I had a long talk about her crumbling love life. She talked about how it was difficult to be herself around her boyfriend, saying things like,’ he hates it when I talk back or argue with him’ or ‘he always says that I should be more feminine and cute’. In the end, I advised for her to break-up with him because this man did not see her as an individual but instead saw her through the lens of ‘Yellow Fever’. ‘Yellow Fever’ or having a fetish for Asian women is a long standing problem for women in the Asian community. In Youtuber Anna Akana’s video, she states that a man with ‘yellow fever’ will “look at you and … only see school girls or sexual geishas”. But is ‘Yellow Fever’ just the fault of white men? Or do Asian women also help perpetuate this idea to society? By looking into the history of the sexualization of Asian women, we can pinpoint where the fault lies, if there is any,...
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...Thinking About Diversity and Inclusion Wesley J Ackerman Soc 315-Cultural Diversity September 14, 2011 Ernest Hernandez Thinking About Diversity and Inclusion What are the dimensions of cultural diversity? Identify and briefly explain the dimensions by referencing both textbooks. The dimensions of cultural diversity are measured through similarities and differences between items in a group. A broad or macro look into a group helps to discover similarities between items while a detailed or micro look is helpful when looking for differences. According to the reading, the primary dimensions that are looked at when dealing with diversity are age, gender, race, mental and physical ability, sexual orientation and ethnicity (Pg. 47 “Understanding and Managing Diversity”). With age comes certain connotation. Native American and Asian cultures hold their elders in revere for their years of wisdom, youth is often more appreciated in the global workforce for their energetic drive. While the number of women in the workplace continues to grow and they prove capable of holding positions of responsibility, when dealing with gender it is still often thought that men make decisions based on business while women tend to bring emotion into their decision making. Ethnicity and Race usually go hand in hand unless working within a very particular group. Amongst a workplace with a broad business, a person may be acknowledged only by their race, such as Hispanic or Latino. Now if the business...
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...Crash Kendra Koelsch SOC1101: Human Behavior Instructor Robyn Milliken-Setser August 17th, 2015 The movie Crash (2005) is intended to be a nature of life in America in regards to equality. It is set in Los Angeles, it is about social and cultural stereotypes, race, and the conflict that often ensues as a result. The movie is presented in the conflict perspective which according to Richard T. Schaefer (2009) "assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of tension between groups over power including housing, money, access to services and political representation". Crash uses tension to the story line of each character forcing them into positions of conflict as well as dependence, and emphasizes the status of equality in America. In order to progress to a more equal society it is essential like Americans presented in the movie Crash, especially those most often seen in modern society such as stereotyping, hate crimes, etc… Schaefer defines stereotypes as "unreliable generalizations about all members of a group shows a car crash involving two police detectives and an Asian woman. You can see from the beginning of the movie that the stereotyping begins immediately when the Asian woman tells the police officer that is writing the traffic report that "Mexicans don’t know how to drive. She brakes too fast!" (Haggis, 2005) A verbal struggle ensues between the Latina police detective, who is driving and the Asian woman. RIA mocks the lady about her incorrect pronunciation...
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...# Quote Summary Focus Question 1 “He and Hannah take after their father-once a woman stopped the two of them in the grocery store and asked, ‘Chinese?’ and when they say yes, not wanting to get into halves and wholes, she’d nodded sagely. ‘I knew it,’ she said. ‘By the eyes’” (3). These words are the introduction to some of the main characters, which describe what Hannah and Nath look like to random strangers. Strangers see all people that do not look like them as alien-like creatures. Who, in their mind, do not believe that aliens do not deserve equal rights. Nath and Hannah are a mixture of Asian and Caucasian because their father is Asian and their mother is Caucasian. The lady from the grocery store automatically thinks that Nath and Hannah are Asian because of their squinted eyes. This situation demonstrates how average white people judge what ethnicity foreigners are based on their...
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...the “socially unfit/moronic” people. After this was proven in some people, mostly African Americans, they were subjected to sterilization and forced to ridicule among the community. Many books were written on the subject, and none ever having any solid scientific evidence to prove their claims, only pure speculation and “word-of-mouth”. The argument against race and intelligence having any correlation has gone on far too long and the debate is rather irrelevant as well as incoherent. One argument that is debated is that those races of Asian and Caucasian Americans are thought to have larger skulls and brain sizes than those of African descent. This point has been debunked and proven wrong many times. Studies have been shown that many skulls that have been found in the older times have all been of larger sizes, including those of African descent and it has also been found that the average brain size between African Americans and Caucasians are the same. Those claims that have been made shows a clear lack of knowledge of the evolutionary theory of those that lived before us. Another argument that has been widely accepted but yet pure speculation in itself is that the test scores between blacks, whites, and Asians is a significant factor in the race and intelligence debate. Many factors can contribute negatively to a person’s ability to score well on an IQ or SAT aptitude test. Factors such as the student’s access to a better academic experience in their place of learning can affect...
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...1. What are the stages of development in Grusche’s relationship with Michael? At what point does she accept him as her own? Who do you think should get the child? a. At first, Grusche shows pity towards Michael as he is a baby who has been easily forgotten and unwanted by his own mother. She is reluctant to take care of him as she tries to hide him under a blanket but out of sympathy, she eventually takes him with her. She soon abandons him at a doorstep with hopes of leaving him in the care of another person. She feels unsettled about it and returns to take Michael back as she becomes to accept him as her own. Gradually she becomes attached to Michael as she even risks her life for him. I believe Grusche should get the child because unlike the original mother, she genuinely loves and cares for him. She risked her life and took the time to raise the child unlike the original mother who was too preoccupied with her dresses than to care about her son. 2. Is Azdak just a judge? a. As a judge of the law, one must act respectfully and honorably, however, Azdak does not do either. He uses the sacred law book as a pillow to sit on, accepts bribes and does not respect the parties that come before him to be judged. He passes nonsensical judgment and favors those who are powerless such as the poor, the oppressed and criminals who are good at heart. Instead of listening to one case at a time, he hears different cases at once and mixes up the facts pertaining to each of them. In the end...
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...According to consumers of skin bleaching products, women use it to achieve “fair skin. Those women most often get their perception of beauty from media advertisements within their society. Nakano argues that skin whitening work in more social, economical, and human capital spectrums ways to make dark skinned women use it to establish themselves in society as entities. They try to validate themselves by changing who they are because of society’s view of their skin as negative, rather positive. Glen says, “Light skin operates as a form of symbolic capital, one that is especially critical for women because of the connection between skin tone attractiveness and desirability.” There are three forms of capitals: 1. Symbolic Capital – Woman who did skin bleaching to obtain opportunity based on their visual appearance. For her, having light skin gives her an honor, recognition and “white privilege” (in some cases) to hold valuable position within her society. In different ways, the controlling image leads her consumerism of white bleaching products to pursue status she needs in order to be considered “valuable.” (Forrest, Anne, “Race, Culture and Social Justice”, University of Windsor, Nov. 5, 2013) 2. Capital – Skin-whitening product are transformed into prize, where woman can use it, to win the attention of opposite sex. Even though it is a physical object, the skin-whitening product works as an asset for woman who wishes to use it, even though such product might transmit to her...
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...In this article “Patriarchy” by Johnson explains how he understands patriarchy and what we should do about changing it. He makes a really interesting argument about patriarchy and how system works in general. His primary point is that men and women find themselves in a social system of patriarchy that they did not create which is easy to dismiss because it seems natural. At first, he points out how men often feel personally attacked by feminist, especially when they speak of the issues involving patriarchy. Women feel free to blame men for oppressing them and therefore men take it personally and become defensive. Women will blame men for patriarchy, simply because they are men. It is not that all men or women are oppressive; it is that they participate in the system that is oppressive. What I understand from the reading is that patriarchy is a system which can be reduced to the people who participate in it. So it is not people who are really flawed, but rather it is the system that society has put gender into that is flawed. I believe that patriarchy is organized around relationships and shared understandings which can limit you to some degree. Johnson provides an interesting perspective on how we participate in our social lives. Patriarchy can exist without men being portrayed as the villains. People tend to follow along with what society deems is the norm. Patriarchy is more than men being violent toward women; it is involved into everyday life, such as language and literature...
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...Initial CFLCC CDR’s Planning Guidance Problem Framing: Ahurastan was formed as a result of Azeri nationalism and Iranian weakness. We know they have significant military capabilities, but lack access to natural resources in order to generate wealth that would help to secure their boundaries. They are surrounded by enemies, and largely lack international legitimacy. They perceive Azerbaijani weakness and desire their oil resources, as well as access to the southern tribes that would enable a “greater” Azeri nation to develop and grow over time. They are natural allies of SAPP/SAPA, and would use them much as the NVA used the Viet Cong in order to facilitate their political goals in the region. Their strengths are their strategic missile capabilities, ethnic ties, their ability to coordinate insurgency in Azerbaijan; and most important, their offensive military proximity to their objectives in the KURA basin. Their weaknesses include their sustainment ability and extended LOCs, and they don’t have significant bridging capabilities. They also know that time is limited to achieve their regional goals, and recognize that US/coalition reinforcement of Azerbaijan may limit their strategic aims. This is why the JTF commander thinks they will likely seize the oilfields and sue for peace on their terms rather than an all out attack to seize Baku. Our strengths include coalition support and a better strategic communications posture, our power projection capabilities, and...
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