Student Bloopers
 

[The following innocent and not-so-innocent statements are from student papers
in my anthropology classes at Hofstra University.]
last updated 9/02
Anthro Apologia
 
"I argue that to be primitive doesn't mean to live in remote areas with nothing around you're waste but leaves and that to be civilized isn't living in easy street."
 
"For example, in the non-western world many people practice Polygamy. In this particular marriage arraignment a man has a number of wives."
 
"It's 80 degrees out in the middle of July, as I get dressed for work I put on a silk shirt and Armani suit and the man from the New Guenia decides, he is too hot and he will go bear except his penis sheath." 
 
Ill logic
 
"But though the ideas may be wrong, they could be right."
 
"The grave is dug to the depth of the man's chest as he stands in the grave."
 
"The women in the Muslim community were treated just like slaves and did not have any rights what so ever. On the other hand the women in the Middle East did have a chance of being equal human beings."
 
The Theismic Scale
 
"The Torah was accepted by the people of Israel who were originally idle worshipers."
 
"Adam and Eve were exhaled from the garden of paradise. They were then forced the rome around the earth with no clothes."
 
"Instead of having women treated poorly, they were treated better. The Prophet showed this by marring 13 women in his life."
 
"I feel religion has nothing to do with driving a car because you don't have to believe in God or anything like that to drive."
 
"The reason why they don't eat cows are because peasants regard the cow as the seat of many devise they worship."
 
Sex but not least
"The two types of sexual contacts outside of marriage are sexual pleasures between teens and windows, or adultery."
 
"Sex is very similar to baseball in the sense that both are now viewed as a popular form of entertainment."
"On the other hand, liberal America's platform abdicated more sexual freedom."
 
"For example, many westerners view premarital sex as something that is outdated and old fashion."
"There is also the concept and non-conceptual sex which is the determents if the sex borders on rape."
 
Evolving mindlessness
 
"Our closet ancestor is the chimpanzee."
 
"Bipidealism among apes assists us in understanding why we walk and stand the way that we do."

"A million years ago people lived on berries and dead animals for the most part."
 
"Since the dissension from trees the Homo genus has developed a parallel great toe."
 
"Evolution is to evolve."
 
 
Close but no guitar
 
"It pictured the star, Sean Connery, with a turbine around his head, which in my mind created a mysterious wonder about the film."
 
"If you could just learn to except that they are who they are and we all work together, we can get rid of a loot of the extra discrimination going on in the world."
 
"Everything was peach black inside the tepee."
 
"Jasmine's father was portarayed as a foolish, fat breaded man that lived in a castle bigger than life.
 
"Also, one mother brought in her infinite child."
 
"Crazy Horse won big battles, such as the famous Custards last stand."