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CameronD EWSIS

UNFPA - Abandoning Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia - 1 views

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FGM_C women rights

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  • Jose EWSIS on 13 Apr 10
     
    I read this article that the evoke site has provided in the womanswatch feed link they provided with a bunch of other links. This story really stood out for me. A woman is standing up for what she thinks is right despite ridicule and harsh opinions she is getting from her community. She used to practice female mutilation in thinking it was for the practice for her Islamic religion. Its like a female circumcision. "In the Afar region, women have traditionally been subjected to the most severe form of the practice, infibulation, usually between the ages of seven to nine. In some districts it is carried out within the first few days after birth. Infibulation involves the entire removal of the clitoris, the labia minora and labia majora, followed by sealing of the wound, which leaves only a small hole for the passage of urine and menses. Figures show that 63.2 per cent of women in the Afar region have undergone infibulation (some people are now practicing a less extreme form). The practice leaves the girls with severe pain and trauma, shock, haemorrhage, sepsis, urine retention, ulceration of the genital region, and urinary infection, among other complications. Obstruction and tearing during sexual intercourse or childbirth is common." She now stops due to the seriousness that it is very bad for woman to get such treatment and can affect their bodies negatively, along with the main reason it doesn't support her religion.
  • CameronD EWSIS on 13 Apr 10
     
    Im learning more about womens rights right now, and in particular im wondering about this: why do people continue to combat ancient traditions with "new age" materials. I was researching this question online, and this blood post (http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/news/pid/5141;jsessionid=79251EA07F4AF207A35AD2EE993377DC) caught my attention. It caught my attention because removal of genitals is a tradition, and im curious as to why people are combating that. "A smile formed on Dohra Ali's face when she recalled what her eldest daughter asked her a couple of years ago. "Mother, is there a place in this world where FGM is not practised where I could go to?" At the time, the question came as an affront to Dohra, who was herself one of the women in the community who did the cutting." The quote i chose here is basically saying, Dohra's daughter has inspired her to combat ancient traditions. I think this is a heavy impact because, when a mother sees her daughter scared and worried, that mother would do anything to protect them. It makes me wonder where our society is heading in the future if we continue to abandon ancient traditions
CameronD EWSIS

Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.
    • CameronD EWSIS
      CameronD EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is impotant because many people are different, and music can be divided by social context.
  • However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound."[2] According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, "the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus....
    • CameronD EWSIS
      CameronD EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      Everyone views music differently, and sounds differentto everyone's ears. Often people will say music is just noise. However in their ears its noise. In others its sound.
  • The earliest and largest collection of prehistoric musical instruments was found in China and dates back to between 7000 and 6600 BC.[7]
    • CameronD EWSIS
      CameronD EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      Music has been around since the beginning of man,but people often overlook its signifigance
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  • Music was an important part of cultural and social life in Ancient Greece: mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual ceremonies; musicians and singers had a prominent role in ancient Greek theater.[9
    • CameronD EWSIS
      CameronD EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I wonder why and how they were able to make such music and why they would want to seperate them into genders.
Keyur EWSIS

Ghost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Ghosts or similar paranormal entities appear in film, theatre, literature, myths, legends, and some religion
    • Keyur EWSIS
      Keyur EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is importnat because it shows, that the idea, of a ghost is so cool, that people use it in movies and theatre. People actually go see these movies, to be entertainied or to be scared. If they are scared by a movie, I wonder what would happen if they saw one in real life.
  • Although the human soul was sometimes symbolically or literally depicted in ancient cultures as a bird or other animal, it was widely held that the soul was an exact reproduction of the body in every feature, even down to clothing the person wore.
    • Keyur EWSIS
      Keyur EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is basically stating that the ghost of a person, will have exactly the same features as the human had when he was living. If he was wearing a hat, the ghost will have a hat. If he had severe acne, the ghost will have severe acne.
  • A place where ghosts are reported is described as haunted, and often seen as being inhabited by spirits of deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property
    • Keyur EWSIS
      Keyur EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I wonder if there is any way to get rid of these spirits if they actually are real and inhabit your home. I also wonder, if the ghost was, nice what would it do?
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  • The spirit of the dead was believed to hover near the resting place of the corpse, and cemeteries were places the living avoided
    • Keyur EWSIS
      Keyur EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is basically saying, that the ghost will be close to the dead body of the ghost. Thats why people will avoid cemataries.
  • The ancient Romans believed a ghost could be used to exact revenge on an enemy by scratching a curse on a piece of lead or pottery and placing it into a grave.[27]
    • Keyur EWSIS
      Keyur EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is important because, it shoes that some ghosts will do evil stuff, and it also shows that people have enough power to summon ghosts to do thier bidding
  • Malevolence and terror, the glare of evil faces, ‘the stony grin of unearthly malice', pursuing forms in darkness, and 'long-drawn, distant screams',
    • Keyur EWSIS
      Keyur EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I wonder if all ghosts are these evil scary creatures. I wonder if they are ugly
  • have speculated that changes in geomagnetic fields (created, e.g., by tectonic stresses in the Earth's crust or solar activity) could stimulate the brain's temporal lobes and produce many of the experiences associated with hauntings.
    • Keyur EWSIS
      Keyur EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      In my own words this basically says your brain could be playing tricks on you
  • Critics of "eyewitness ghost sightings" suggest that limitations of human perception and ordinary physical explanations can account for such sightings; for example, air pressure changes in a home causing doors to slam, or lights from a passing car are reflected through a window at night.[67
    • Keyur EWSIS
      Keyur EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is saying that parnormal activity could be just everyday things, but your brain is too frightened to use logic.
Hawa EWSIS

Saving the World Through Game Design : The New Yorker - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...mcgonigal

EWSIS games future life changing

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  • Hannah EWSIS on 16 Mar 10
     
    "Jane McGonigal talks with Daniel Zalewski about alternate-reality gaming. From "Stories from the Near Future," the 2008 New Yorker Conference."
  • Ammy EWSIS on 16 Mar 10
     
    "Can the alllure of gameplay be a force that draws people together?" Mcgonigal talks about massively multiplay gaming. She believes that instead of building games that are very different from the reality, she wants to build reality within the games.She starts off by telling the history of game and the father of games, herotitus. She saids that the core focus in game play is to engage yourself within the system. She also states that she believes that people play games because when they're playing a game, they're not suffering. I think this is true because people feel happy when they play a game that they like. Whenever I'm bored and unhappy, I go to my computer and start playing one of my favorite games. I really like the examples that she gives. One of the examples is world of warcraft. Tons of people play this game and wish that it were to become true because people online are so much more cooperative than people in reality. Before watching this video, I never thought about this kind of stuff before. I've always wondered what kinds of new games they would create since games are starting to become boring. I think that there should be more reality games instead of make believes so that we can learn from those games to live a better life. We can treat those games as personal trainers. I think that it would benefit many people because because there is a high percentage attraction towards games.
  • Hawa EWSIS on 16 Mar 10
     
    Well right know, we are learning about gaming. I never really thought about the new technology that's going to be produce for gaming since I always really just thought about the games. I do wonder though what kind of technology would be produced. I hope it's pretty cool though like one of those future movies excluding the part where it takes over humans....I rather not be running around with little robots chasing me. Yeah, that really doesn't sound to appealing "This is ancient dice from the kingdom Lydia where Turkey is today. They used knuckle bones like from sheep to make dice." I find the dice very interesting. I really can't imagine the dice being formed from knuckle bones. I wonder how they do it. I'm going to guess that they used fire and pressure to form it? Not really sure, it's probably going to be similar to that I guess. "A future forecast: 2013. We increasingly live our real lives inside of massively multiplayer games." I find that pretty interesting for the fact of its 2010 and it kind of like that now. I mean people are playing massively multiplayer games even today. Mostly online. I think by 2013 something of what she's talking about will appear. It'll probably from Asia and it can be like that future movie where people live in a 3D world. They're like hooked onto machines and stuff. That would be interesting. Maybe dangerous.
Kit EWSIS

Mother goddess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • There have been many different mother goddesses throughout history and in the present day, including such deities as the Hindu Kali Ma, ancient Greek Gaia and ancient Irish Danu. In some forms of Neopaganism, and in the Hindu idea of Shakti, all the many mother goddesses are viewed as being the embodiment of one singular deity.
    • Kit EWSIS
      Kit EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I wonder if Earth Mother is an aile? Many some is impossible, but maybe there's a chance.
Ammy EWSIS

NPR Media Player - 0 views

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  • Ammy EWSIS on 03 Dec 09
     
    My current inquiry question is about the legendary sea monster named Lochness. This podcast that I'm listening right now is about a discovery of an ancient long-necked creature named Dinosuffulosaurus,that inhabited the seats of what is now southeast China. The physical features of this creature looks strikingly similar to that of Loch Ness. The interviewer describes this creature as," Imagine an egg, a little bit squashed that is about 3 feet long. And on the front end of that, stick a neck that is about 5 feet long and about 3 inches in diameter. On the end of that put a head that is about 5 inches long. It's a very elongated neck head relative to the size of the body. The back end would've been a tail too but we don't know how big that was because it's not on this fossil." He had also compared the creatures neck to a Giraffes, however it's neck is more slender and long. He comes from a family of the Plesiosaur. What's most interesting is that the creature is not a dinosaur and is often mistakened as on. It is actually a marine reptile. They go on talking about the reptile's neck and what it's use was for. Unlike other reptiles/dinosaurs that possessed a long neck, Dinosuffollosaurus' neck was stiff. They say that reason for its long neck was to deceive their preys to think that they weren't as big as they were until it was too late. This method of feeding is called suction feeding, which is commonly used by many of the sea animals, such as fishes. The creature's fossil is currently in China and is placed there for further
Kit EWSIS

Mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • One theory claims that myths are distorted accounts of real historical events.[26][27] According to this theory, storytellers repeatedly elaborated upon historical accounts until the figures in those accounts gained the status of gods.[26][27] For example, one might argue that the myth of the wind-god Aeolus evolved from a historical account of a king who taught his people to use sails and interpret the winds
    • Kit EWSIS
      Kit EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I always ask myself, do Myth According to history event or people? Maybe is theory maybe right.
  • Some thinkers believe that myths resulted from the personification of inanimate objects and forces. According to these thinkers, the ancients worshipped natural phenomena such as fire and air, gradually coming to describe them as gods
    • Kit EWSIS
      Kit EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I'm think this theory is also good, I never knew there were so many thoery. I thought it may answer the question. Which came first? Myth or Gods?
  • According to the myth-ritual theory, the existence of myth is tied to ritual.[33] In its most extreme form, this theory claims that myths arose to explain rituals.[34] This claim was first put forward by the biblical scholar William Robertson Smith.[35] According to Smith, people begin performing rituals for some reason that is not related to myth; later, after they have forgotten the original reason for a ritual, they try to account for the ritual by inventing a myth and claiming that the ritual commemorates the events described in that myth.[
    • Kit EWSIS
      Kit EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I never realized ritual is also releated to myth. Now I think of it many culture had different kind of ritual, even some means to offer a human life to what they belived in.
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  • The first scholarly theories of myth appeared during the second half of the 19th century.[46] In general, these 19th-century theories framed myth as a failed or obsolete mode of thought, often by interpreting myth as the primitive counterpart of modern science.
Binetou EWSIS

Recycling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles, and electronics. Although similar in effect, the composting or other reuse of biodegradable waste – such as food or garden waste – is not typically considered recycling.[2] Materials to be recycled are either brought to a collection center or picked up from the curbside, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials bound for manufacturing.
    • Binetou EWSIS
      Binetou EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I think this imporant because people can recycle small things that they use everyday
  • In a strict sense, recycling of a material would produce a fresh supply of the same material, for example used office paper to more office paper, or used foamed polystyrene to more polystyrene. However, this is often difficult or too expensive (compared with producing the same product from raw materials or other sources), so "recycling" of many products or materials involves their reuse in producing different materials (e.g., cardboard) instea
    • Binetou EWSIS
      Binetou EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I think he mean that we can reuse simple stuff.Like if we buy recycle paper we pay less. If you use recycle stuff you are helping our enviroment
  • Another form of recycling is the salvage of certain materials from complex products, either due to their intrinsic value (e.g., lead from car batteries, or gold from computer components), or due to their
    • Binetou EWSIS
      Binetou EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I wonder what he mean by salvage
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  • hazardous nature (e.g., removal and reuse of mercury from various items).
  • Critics dispute the net economic and environmental benefits of recycling over its costs, and suggest that proponents of recycling often make matters worse and suffer from confirmation bias.
    • Binetou EWSIS
      Binetou EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I think this is very important because recycling can be bad OMG
  • Specifically, critics argue that the costs and energy used in collection and transportation detract from (and outweigh) the costs and energy saved in the production process; also that the jobs produced by the recycling industry can be a poor trade for the jobs lost in logging, mining, and other industries associated with virgin production; and that materials such as paper pulp can only be recycled a few times before material degradation prevents further recycling. Proponents of recycling dispute each of these claims, and the validity of arguments from both sides has led to enduring controversy. Contents [hide]
    • Binetou EWSIS
      Binetou EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      recycling vis good but it can be bad because of the transportation and the job it's of waste of money HAHAHA
  • Recycling has been a common practice for most of human history, with recorded advocates as far back as Plato in 400 BC. During periods when resources were scarce, archaeological studies of ancient waste dumps show less household waste (such as ash, broken tools and pottery)—implying more waste was being recycled in the absence of new material.[3]
    • Binetou EWSIS
      Binetou EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      another source said that centries ago that their use to be less was as now. Interesting as evolution came people change to worse or good
  • In pre-industrial times, there is evidence of scrap bronze and other metals being collected in Europe and melted down for perpetual reuse.[4] In Britain dust and ash from wood and coal fires was collected by 'dustmen' and downcycled as a base material used in brick making. The main driver for these types of recycling was the economic advantage of obtaining recycled feedstock instead of acquiring virgin material, as well as a lack of public waste removal in ever more densely populated areas.[3] In 1813, Benjamin Law developed the process of turning rags into 'shoddy' and 'mungo' wool in Batley, Yorkshire. This material combined recycled fibres with virgin wool. The West Yorkshire shoddy industry in towns such as Batley and Dewsbury, lasted from the early 19c to at least the First World War
    • Binetou EWSIS
      Binetou EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I wonder why they say that because I though that indrustrial revolution was a pollution time
  • For a recycling program to work, having a large, stable supply of recyclable material is crucial. Three legislative options have been used to create such a supply: mandatory recycling collection, container deposit legislation, and refuse bans
    • Binetou EWSIS
      Binetou EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      he mean thjis that we shou;d use less things if we want to recycle.
  • Governments have used their own purchasing power to increase recycling demand through what are called "procurement policies".
    • Binetou EWSIS
      Binetou EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      wow what going on so the government are try to help us
Kit EWSIS

Sky father - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The sky father is a recurring theme in mythology all over the world. The sky father is the complement of the earth mother and appears in some creation myths, many of which are Indo-European or ancient Near Eastern. Other cultures have quite different myths; Egyptian mythology features a sky mother and an earthly dying and reviving god of vegetation. Shinto gives precedence to a sun goddess. A sky father also relates to a solar deity, a god identified with the sun.
    • Kit EWSIS
      Kit EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      I wonder is Sky Father importan? I never heard of him before. I don't know much about it.
Zhapa EWSIS

Floyd Mayweather Junior title bout against Manny Pacquiao terms agreed : In Entertainment - 0 views

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Ancient Boxing Manny Pacquiao Mayweather floyd junior

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  • Zhapa EWSIS on 03 Dec 09
     
    I'm learning more about boxing right now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is: Why is Boxing called a sport? I was researching this question online, and this blog post caught my attention because it shows that boxing is something very imporant now days, that their are many boxers that fight and end up being fanous. For example Many Pacquiao, he is an amazing fighter. I can say even better than Oscar DeLa Oya. But lets face it, Oscar is pretty old and can't fight no more due to his age. I blieve. The title of this post that caught my eye is called Intertainment. Something that stood out for me is that Manny is fighting Flyd Mayweather in March 13. Which I find it so INTERESTING!! I have to pay this to see it. It's going to be amazing. Knowing that Mayweather is an amazing fighter. The Best. But for me the best is Manny. http://mmazoo.blogspot.com/2009/12/boxing-elitists-dont-get-it.html Boxing is certainly more popular worldwide than MMA is, but you have to remember, the sport has a long history. Boxing has been reestablished for well over a hundred years, and have a pretty decent talent pool to dip into. The quote I chose here is basically saying that boxing is a sport where is mainly called hobby but it's where you show the people who is the best on this sport. Even though this sport is painful but many people enjoy it seeing it. I think is great. I think this is descriptive adjective because it makes me wonder if what will be the future boxing will it be the same as now or will it change in a way.
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