Abstract
The writer evaluates the painting and discusses its expressive content. The paper notes that Teha'mana was a young Tahitian girl whom Paul Gaugin had taken as his bride. It explains that Gaugin left her and their baby in the year the portrait was painted. The writer explains that Gaugin seemed to relate to Teha'mana as a possession, painting her without emotion. The paper discusses the use of Tahiti as a setting for Gaugin to paint in. The writer discusses Gaugin's art in the light of other art of the same period. In conclusion, while the paper states that Gaugin should be praised for using techniques that were bold and revolutionary and that he shattered age-old concepts of painting Tahitian subjects from a European perspective, he should also be castigated for doing so at the expense of human emotions, with regard to the women in his life.

Table of Contents:
Evaluation of Expressive Content
Historic and Stylistic Context
In Conclusion
Works Cited

From the Paper
"For Gauguin, Teha'amana fit nicely into this perceived notion. After all, Gauguin wanted to blend into the culture of Tahiti, and in his mind, this was an effective way of blending. Teha'amana would simply be added to his collection of "trophies," much like his collection of art. She would function as a subject for his works, until he was ready to make her a casualty of his drive to become rich and famous.
"Indeed, Teha'amana ultimately became a casualty of Gauguin's ferocious egotism when he left Tahiti and returned to France in 1893 - the same year that he painted this portrait. Teha'amana bore him a child, but he abandoned both of them upon his return to France. Is it any wonder that Teha'amana looks expressionless in the portrait? Perhaps she was aware of what was to come to pass.
"Marc S. Gerstein offers support for this interpretation in describing a similar painting of Teha'amana, entitled "Faaturuma": "As so often in Gauguin's Tahiti, he suggests muted undertones of sadness, disquiet and dissolution resonating beneath the luxuriant surface of his mystical paradise." (Impressionism: Selections From Five American Museums 80). "The small painting on the wall acts, at one level, to enhance this emotional atmosphere."
"Through its placement next to the subject's head, this image of a typical Tahitian dwelling becomes like an object of her veiled thoughts, evoking vague feelings of longing, loneliness and dislocation.""

Tags:tahiti, papeete

Abstract
This paper looks at Arthur P. Wolf's article, "Gods, Ghosts and Ancestor's", which discusses the complexities of Chinese religious beliefs and practices, and explains the main thesis of the article. The paper highlights Wolf's thesis, which asserts that the supernatural categories that the Chinese believe in, namely, gods, ghosts, and ancestors, are determined by the social structure of Chinese society. The paper shows how Wolf proves his point through case studies, personal anecdotes, interviews, and observations of ritual, custom, and lifestyle.

From the Paper
"Ancestors, the second class of supernatural beings that Wolf discusses in his article, are in many ways equally revered. The spirits of the deceased watch over and protect the living members of that family line. Wolf shows that there are strict rules regarding which family members can or must be worshiped. The rank of ancestor spirits closely mirrors the rank of family members. For example, the head patriarch of a family line will be given the most prominent spot on the family altar. Those family members who are not respected as much will also not be revered as diligently during times of worship."

Tags:revered, spirits, deceased, beggars, bandits, practices, worship, social, status, class, structured, cosmic

Abstract
This paper describes the author's ancestral history, beginning with three hundred years ago when his ancestors lived in Senegal. The paper relates the entire saga of his family history from their lives in Senegal, to the kidnapping of one of the family members by another African tribe to be sold as a slave to a British slave trader, to the arrival of that slave to North Carolina. The paper continues by describing subsequent generations born in the US and ends with the writer's birth in 1925.

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"Great-grandfather Louis was very intelligent - and had a talent for music. Maybe that was from old Mbiti, who was forbidden to play drums as a slave. Louis was trained to be what they called a "house negro" - sort of a butler for a highbrow family. Well, old Pete Devereaux was a drunk, and his affairs caught up with him. Eventually, everything was sold off - including my great-grandfather."

Tags:drummer plantation light-skinned, first freeborn black, ragtime

Abstract
The paper looks at why contemporary hunter-gatherers in the world around us can shed invaluable light upon our hominid ancestors - most prominently, the ancient Australopithecus. Specifically, the paper looks at the predominantly vegetarian diets of both the early australopithecines and the present-day peoples of the Australian "out-back" and the African Kalahari. In the process of doing this, the paper also acknowledges some of the unsettling racial dynamics that have, regrettably, complicated scholarly investigations into what the comparative diets of these groups say about them - and about their position relative to other branches of the human family. Moving forward, the paper explores group/social organization, the division of labor within Australopithecine camps, and how and to what extent the ancient Australopithecines were food foragers and meat scavengers. In all of these instances, brief comparisons are drawn between their behavior and characteristics and those of modern-day hunter-gatherers. All told, the paper shows how the similarities between the early hominids and today's aboriginal tribes suggest that we can learn much about the behavior and evolution of the former by studying the latter.

From the Paper
"The following paper will look at why contemporary hunter-gatherers in the world around us can shed invaluable light upon our hominid ancestors - most prominently, the ancient Australopithecus. Specifically, the next few pages will look at the predominantly vegetarian diets of both the early australopithecines and the present-day peoples of the Australian "out-back" and the African Kalahari. In the process of doing this, the paper will also acknowledge some of the unsettling racial dynamics that..."

Tags:hominids, australopithecines, aborigines

Abstract
The modern crocodile has emerged from ancestors that roamed the Earth in prehistoric times, albeit in a dramatically different biological form. As one of the few reptiles to survive the Ice Age, the history of the crocodile provides for an astonishing story of adaptation in response to environmental and geographical evolution. This biological adaptation alongside global changes, however, signifies a changing distribution of the Crocodilian species over millions of years.

From the Paper
THE EVOLUTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE CROCODILE Outline: 1. Title: The Evolution and Distribution of the Crocodile. 2. Introduction. The article aims to explore the adaptive and biological alterations of the crocodile species over millions of years, and analyze it with regard to the prehistoric, historic and recent distribution patterns across Earth. 3. The Developmental History of Crocodiles. This section explores the adaptive changes that have occurred in crocodiles since their early

Tags:evolution, distribution, crocodile

Abstract
Nathaniel Hawthorne creates in his fiction a sense of American history as a weight on characters in his present, holding them to certain values, visiting upon them the guilt of their ancestors, and linking them to a continuity beginning and continuing on American soil.

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"Nathaniel Hawthorne creates in his fiction a sense of American history as a weight on characters in his present, holding them to certain values, visiting upon them the guilt of their ancestors, and linking them to a continuity beginning and continuing on American soil. In The House of the Seven Gables, the key issue hanging over the characters in the present is the way their ancestors made their wealth and the people they destroyed as they did so. The family in the present has inherited the guilt of that past and must either succumb to it or overcome it. The first possibility is represented by the house they seem unable to escape, and the latter is represented by an outside force that helps the family escape that house.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables tells of the Pyncheon family and the curse that was visited upon it. The ..."

Abstract
This paper concentrates on four specific areas of Chinese religious and philosophical teachings that concern the practice of ancestor worship. These traditions are Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhis, and traditional folk religions. A general overview of the rituals specific to each tradition is noted.

Abstract
This paper is an imaginary debate regarding the Congressional Slave Reparations Bill, HR 40 IH 107th Congress, 1st Session, H.R. 40, introduced on January 3, 2001 to acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery in the United States between 1619 and 1865. For example the imaginary person in favor of reparations argues that it is the way we (the African-Americans) are treated in modern America that continues the slave mentality and has forced so many of them to become criminals or to drop out of society. On the other hand, the imaginary person in against reparations argues that frustration is the basis for our current troubled society; and, even if there is some polarized relationship between whites and blacks, this idea of a Slavery Reparations Bill makes that gulf even wider and deeper. The paper continues in this manner giving a statement pro and a statement against as if it were a debate.

From the Paper
"PRO4: Of course it is. African-Americans DESERVE Compensation for past and present injustice. You don't see whites dragged down for miles on a Texas road! Blacks are the majority of prisoners on death row. Rodney King wouldn't have been beaten by the cops if he were white. SAT tests to get into colleges are still skewed toward white middle class students.
CON4: So, you're using today's prejudices to squeeze money out of the government? Where are all the upper- and middle class black professionals who run away from the inner cities as soon as they have good paying jobs? Why aren't they spearheading this Reparations drive? But, more to the point - what about Native Americans and the Chinese brought over to build the railroads as slave labor? Why limit compensation for slavery to African-Americans?
PRO5: Because we were the only ones dragged from out homelands and shipped over to America. That's a historical fact."

Tags:frustration, mentality, congress, arguments, treatment

From the Paper
"In Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, changes in the basic structures of once stable societies cause enormous amounts of generational conflict. During the war, Germany was growing more and more into a technology driven mass society. The myriad changes brought by the war, and the different ways that the war experienced by the younger and the older generation caused many young Germans to question or turn away from the customs and beliefs of their parents and ancestors. Paul Baumer, the narrator of the novel, grows disgusted with the patriotism and arrogance of the older generation, which he feels tricked him and his comrades into enlisting in a terrible war."

Tags:remarque, world, war, peace, conflict

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"Walbiri Religious Beliefs And Practice


This paper will examine religious beliefs and practices of the Walbiri peoples of Australia, emphasizing the Walbiri's reliance on orality and pragmatism in their culture and theology. The Walbiri are seminomadic aborigine hunters and gatherers who have wandered the rocky ranges, outcrops and low-lying hills of the western desert region of Central Australia for centuries before European contact. More recently, the Walbiri have subdivided into four major groups--the Ngalia, Walmalla, Waneiga and Lander Walbiri. The Walbiri nomadic pattern of wandering from water hole to water hole within their loosely defined territories remains the main organizing principle of Walbiri life, exceeding in importance even the rhythms of the seasons. At present, the Walbiri inhabit government settlements within or..."