dependent and built on one society but is inapplicable to another. Finally, the idea of "individualism" within the United States has become so profound that those who are wealthy within

biotic community existing upon it may be conveniently viewed as an ecosystem" (McGee et al, 2004, p. 317). By comparison, Blochs interpretation of the importance of ritual is the manner

must admit its incompetence; man is unable to define a "divine" being. When with all our intellectual limitations we call something "divine," we have merely given it a name,

"It is against this double hegemony of a History with a capital H and a Literature consecrated by the absolute power of the written sign that the peoples who

of Weapons, Gordon Parks shows how an incredibly talented, young black man could achieve success in the mainstream white culture before the Civil Rights movement and against all odds. Parks

While it is true that slavery was not new to human experience, what was unique about this development was that it was carried out by Europeans groups who professed to