... of significance. In fact, rap music or hip-hop, is a genre that originated in the seventies in New York City (Columbia, 1993). The term rap emanated from sixties lingo, the word "rap" meaning conversation (1993). In the sixties and seventies, people would have rap sessions as opposed to group counseling, for example. Rap music consists of chanted; street poetry that is ... sprang from social discord but contained no where near the anger that it displays today when it first appeared on the music scene. The definition of rap music places its origins in New York but the story of hip-hop be...

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Anthropology can explain itself by analyzing the root words. "Anthro" comes from the Greek word Anthropos which means "human". "Ology" is also Greek which means "the study of". Combining the two, you have a whole new world of science; "the study of humans". But the study ... remains of historic cities can rebuild empires and relive the past. This not only aids in the historical context, but also paves another brick in the road as to the origins of humans. Many of our ancestors did not leave a great deal of written documents that explained the way they lived. Many documents only document spec...

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... future generations to find. We document our "being" by recording events in time, people in time and portray our vision of the world and the universe by using the written word, concepts of art and principles of architecture. The various cultures that make up the human family have individually recorded their histories using the aforementioned media much the same way as ... events on the video camera. However, unlike family home videos, the home video of the human condition commands more than just viewing. It feeds into humankind's desire to understand our origins, our behavior and how our...

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