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This week in the country of Brazil, the police have made a statement that they will fight to protect an isolated indigenous tribe that is located in the Amazon.  According to the article in the BBC News website, this tribe is so isolated that most people do not even know anything about them.  They stay away from all ''white'' people ...

This semester I am taking a course in Biological Anthropology.  It is a subfield of anthropology in that it deals with the more biological side of the study of humans.  Some things we study are human evolution, primates, and forensics.  The newest thing that we discussed that I find interesting is about attractiveness.  ...

This article comes from the BBC, as always, and it talks about the admnistration's lashing out at the critics who say that the war in Iraq is not being handled very well.  In a speech made by *** Cheney, he basically said that it was incorrect of politicians to say that the administration lied about what they knew involving the weapons of ...

For this week, I will simply describe the nature of my proposal argument.  The main problem I am dealing with is injustice in our judicial system, but more specifically, a case that is still in the news.  This case is the one of Jennifer Porter, which some may already know, but for those who do not, I will explain a ...

There are many people who would consider Turkey to be a typical Middle Eastern country.  This is somewhat true, except for the fact that it borders on the continent of Europe, and has even sought acceptance into the European Union.  One would also expect a Middle Eastern country to be primarily Muslim, which in fact, Turkey is.  However, the ...

This chapter discusses proposal arguments, which were briefly defined in the last chapter we read.  A proposal argument is simply a type of argument that actually suggests to the reader to do something about an issue.  It does not simply state the problem, it shows how one can ''fix'' it.  This is a type of argument that, ...

Here is another article from the BBC which talks about riots in France.  This issue caught my attention because my family is French, and many people in my family live in Paris, and this incident is happening right now around Paris.  What happened was two teenagers of African or Middle Eastern descent (the article did not say, but I ...

This blog will deal with the contents of Chapter Ten in the Penguin Handbook, which deals with writing arguments, just as many chapters in the Writing Arguments textbook does.  This chapter begins by telling us to find a topic that can be argued against or for.  Firstly, two types of argument are distinguished.  The ...

This week's news from around the globe comes from Burundi, which is in Africa.  As some may already know, for many years there was an extremely devastating genocide enacted in this region against a cultural group called the Tutsis.  The ethnic group that performed this genocide was the Hutus, and they committed many atrocities with ...