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Wikipedia Trails Extra Credit: from Bracers to Archery

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(Photo found on Wikipedia ) I have found the sport of archery to be interesting but my original search brought up the page about bracers. I found that this page was very interesting because the original bracers that were worn by Native Americans were made of bone. The way how the bracers became decorated is that they were made from different material so that elements of turquoise could be added as decoration on them. The next page was an arrowhead page. Arrowheads are wonderful pieces of art and it gives us a glimpse into how civilizations prior to us hunted for their food. These pieces of art were mainly made of stone and were sharpened often to ensure the clean kill of the animals that would be used for food and clothing. These were later modified to create the modern arrow that we know today the next page describes that arrowsmiths made arrowheads and fletcher's make the body of the arrow as we know it today. Arrows were used for centuries and they predate even record...

Wikipedia from sexism to equality feminism

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(Feminist Books picture from Harpersbazzar ) I have always found the concept of sexism to be interesting. This led me to my first article titled Sexism. I enjoy reading about this because it helps me to understand why I relate to feminism as a whole and it also helps to see where the feminist movement comes from. This led me to my second article Androcentrism. Androcentrism is the exact opposite of feminism as it focuses strictly on lifting the male up while placing the female at a lower level. This of course is sexism at its finest and it is not fair to women to have to fight this type of prejudice. In similar fashion the article of Gynocentrism is about the same except it is the oposite of Androcentrism. This viewpoint does not consider that men also have feminine traits and this, therefore, negatively affects feminism because so much of the ideas of feminism is equality between the sexes. This led me to the article for Equality Feminism which is a viewpoint that holds th...