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and thoughts, was anthropologist Franz Boas. Boas was a white, Jewish male. He was known as the Father of American Anthropology. Franz Boas has demonstrated major work in physical anthropology, linguistics, Cultural anthropology, and the famous four field approach. Additionally, through learning about Boas’ findings and thoughts, I was able to engage with his work, evaluate it, think about the works limitations, ramifications, and its lasting import. Boas’ has made a difference in many peoples lives

Born and brought up Jewish in Germany during a very antisemitic time, Franz Boas was a successful student, earning his doctorate at a fairly young age and holding an academic position in Berlin. However, in 1886 Boas found himself in New York after having participated in several ethnographic studies in Canada. He decided to remain in New York for several reasons, the main one being that it kept him close to the North American Indians and Inuit who were the peoples most fascinating to him. In 1899

Franz Boas--Father of American Anthropology Franz Boas is often referred to as the father of American anthropology because of the great influence he had in the lives and the careers of the next great generation of anthropologists in America. He came at a time when anthropology was not considered a true science or even a meaningful discipline and brought an air of respectability to the profession, giving those who followed a passion and an example of how to approach anthropology. Boas directed

I am an American born Asian male teenager. According to the East Asian Youth, there are two kinds of Asian guys: the smart, athletic kind and the cool, lenient kind. I don’t fit under neither types and as a result, I became self-conscious of the way I act, not to also mention my overweight body. I didn’t know how to be myself while conforming to the stereotypes. That’s when I discovered Kpop, or Korean Pop Culture. I immersed myself into the music, the dramas, and even the food. I found a second

In the essay, Boas presents a critique against evolutionary theory and diffusionism. Boas with a wide background in some areas as physics, mathematics and geography tries to create another way of anthropological studies with combining data of different areas as prehistory, linguistic and physical anthropology but being aware that social sciences are certainly different from natural sciences. A fundamental difference between them is the experiment. Social sciences find it hard to prove their theories

QP provided My-Kayla with a CBT activity geared towards building resiliency. QP explained to My-Kayla that the activity will teach her to better cope with difficult situations. QP explained to My-Kayla what resiliency is and provided an example. QP asked My-Kayla to explain what look like, feels like sounds like o be resilience. QP asked My-Kayla to list some instances in life where she has been or shown resilience. QP provided My-Kayla with a magazine in which she had to cut pictures depicting resiliency

Korean Pop (K-Pop) Lately, it seems that South Korea is making a mark of its own in the world, besides the fact that South Korea has a booming tech industry. The fact is that South Korea is making a name for itself due to the successful music industry. Since the fact that K-pop has spread to many different countries many Koreans are calling this the “Korean Wave” (Choi 1). So, what exactly is Korean pop or K-pop for short is that recently it has become a global craze, appealing to teens

Face to Face Communication a Lost Art As of today I can truly say that most youth and young adults are lacking in social communication skills. We have lost the art of letter writing, face to face interaction, even phone conversations lack in social etiquette. However, the most important of these loses is the face to face communication, without it we will be lost in a world of Tweets, Instagram’s and Facebook. I am of the old school beliefs that face time more efficient than other kinds of communication

Impact 7.1 Positive influences on Korean Economic After the success of H.O.T, government promoted a policy relating to spread the K-pop music to other countries. The government has acknowledged that the cultural products can be used as a way to benefit the country’s export sector. According to government estimates, a US$100 increase in the export of cultural products results in a US$412 increase in the export of other consumer goods (Tuk 2012, 12). On the other hand, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism

In the article, “The New Face of Richard Norris” the author Jeanne Marie Laskas delves into the seemingly tragic story of Richard Norris. The author shows how the media can morph the general public’s perceptions and attitudes, through the use of Richard Norris’ story the author warns against the believability of the media. Jeanne presents Richard Norris and Rodriquez’s tale as other publications had in the beginning of the article than began to present her own findings and anecdotes based off her