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Body Ritual Among the Nacirema tells the story of a strange lifestyle and the rituals of this particular lifestyle. The first thing Miner writes about is every household having a “shrine room” where rituals that are secret from everyone else are practiced and how every shrine room has a box with many magical potions. The most important potions are described to be obtained from the medicine man but they don’t directly give them the medicine. The people get a piece of paper with the medicine written on it in a secret language and they take this to someone else to get the potions. Does any of this sound a bit familiar? It should, because Miner is talking about the American culture. Nacirema is American spelled backwards. The “shrine room” Miner describes is the bathroom and the box with magical potions is the medicine cabinet. This discription of that are common to the American culture are depicted throughout the article to add effect.
Horace Miner uses a unique approach to help us (Americans) realize different things about our culture. This story is trying to get us to look at our own culture from the outside sine we are always thinking we are normal but other cultures are very strange. When in reality, we are just as strange as other cultures are to us. I feel that Miner wants us to realize that we should learn to respect other culture’s beliefs, lifestyles, and daily rituals even when they seem odd to us. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema can also be related to the article from the Inquiry reader Shakespeare in the Bush in the sense that people are the same everywhere because of our perceptions but most of all because of our inability to see our own short comings.
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it seemed that there were no laws in new Mexico and there were few who would obey them.
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Sumptuary laws
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Sumptuary laws are laws designed to prevent a specific group of people from buying a specific type of goods: usually luxury goods.
After the deadly bubonic plague of 1348 to 1352, also known as the black plague, or the black death, peasants had more land available either for themselves, or to work as laborers, and their wages rose because of that. They could now afford some small luxuries like higher quality clothes.
This angered the nobility, who decided to pass sumptuary laws to prevent the peasants from buying certain type of goods.
This laws wer also passed in the cities, where the rich merchants and artisans were acquiring goods that the nobles thought should only be for them.
Egyptians are known for making a lot of advances in learning.
The two big ones are :
Paper
Hieroglyphs
Egypt is also known for various other things such as ...
The place of the first surgery.
The first place to incorporate plants, animal parts, and minerals into medicine.
Where the first physician lived.
There are many more advances in learning and great discoveries Egypt made, but the ones I listed only make up a few! If you'd like to learn more, I suggest looking it up.
Hope this helps! :)
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In this gritty police drama from director Dennis Hopper, street-wise cop Bob Hodges (Robert Duvall) and hotheaded rookie Danny McGavin (Sean Penn) grapple with their new partnership on the gang-ridden streets of Los Angeles. Although Danny finally lets Hodges show him the ropes, his adrenaline-fed brutality earns him a reputation with the very gangs they want to help. With a gang war ready to explode, Danny confronts his own racism even as he falls in love with Louisa (Maria Conchita Alonso).
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