Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
I protest-
Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,
Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,
Thy valour and thy heart- thou art a traitor;
False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father;
Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince;
And from th' extremest upward of thy head
To the descent and dust beneath thy foot,
A most toad-spotted traitor.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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