Germs, and Steel, Jared M. Diamond’s argument about why Europeans were able to colonize the New World explains to the audience the reason why global inequality exists around the world. The documentary shows how geographic location in which certain groups began to develop plays the main factor in their development, adaptation and advancements to guns, germs, and steel. The film emphasizes on the world wide racial definition about why “white” people are supreme over “color” people by introducing a question
objects and rituals, keeping ties that connect to their native religions (Wax & Wax 1978). As explored in the course, Native Americans generally were not against accepting the beliefs of their conquerors, as it was common within their own tradition– Aboriginal defeated tribes would accept the religion of their Aboriginal victors. A larger
care providers and patients in rural areas are hugely different than those in urban areas. Rural Americans face various obstacles that create health disparities in health care not found in urban areas. Rural risk factors for health disparities include geographic location, lower socioeconomic status, greater rates of health risk behaviors, and less job opportunities. Other factors include economic factors such political, cultural and social differences, low educational levels, are major challenges faced
approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The protest preceded the failure of an effort of the Oglala Civil Rights Organization to impeach tribal president Richard Wilson, whom they accused of corruption and abuse of opponents. Additionally, protesters attacked the United States government's failure to fulfill treaties with Native people and demanded the reopening of treaty
expand in new fields like the military force, a factor that had a major impact on the output of society. This military advantage led Europe to numerous conquests over other societies, like Pizarro’s infamous conquest of the Incan people. With this striking analysis, Diamond’s claims captivates me, due to his thought-provoking assertion of the influence on natural factors on the development of modern society. Oftentimes, agriculture is dismissed as a factor in successful conquests and sociocultural development
System Date: February 6, 2018 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Executive Summary Iowa leads the nation as one of the worst states for the disproportionate representation of African American, Latino, and Native American children in the child welfare system (National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 2011). Along with the rest of the nation, the Iowa child welfare community has gone from simply acknowledging the problem of racial and ethnic
trademark of this Spokane writer. In this work, a reader follows the homeless Native, Jackson Jackson, through the streets of Seattle on a quest to regain his grandmother’s powwow regalia. Heavy recurring elements of poverty and alcoholism run their course throughout this short story. When observing the representation of his own culture within the text, a question is raised: Does Alexie’s narrative perpetuate damaging Native American stereotypes or destroy them? Readers meet Jackson Jackson, or Jackson
diabetes, asthma, risky sexual behavior, tobacco use, alcohol use, and drug use. The social determinants of health that effect the prevalence of these health problems include environmental factors in which the population lives such as cultural demographics, socioeconomic status, public health polices and laws, geographic location, and technological environment. Due to their prevalence in society these are some of the leading causes of death in which large sums of money are spent on treatment and care of
the Sauratown Mountains. For a tribe that once held to much area, what happened to them and why do we know so little about them? It is a generally held belief that European migration and colonization were the primary displacing features for Native American groups.
both the starting points of British colonization of North America, and one would think that the two areas would be very much alike. However around the turn of the century, it became very clear that the unique social/governmental, religious, and geographic/economic features of the Chesapeake and New England colonies have shaped the two British colonies into two distinct societies. The scattered settlers of the hot swampy Chesapeake Bay area settled for a much more agricultural based industry of tobacco