Pop culture has recently become dominated by cultural appropriation, defined as “the adoption of elements of one culture by members of a different cultural group, especially if the adoption is of an oppressed people’s cultural elements by members of the dominant culture” (Yasmim). Critics call out celebrities from Kylie Jenner to Madonna for perpetuating the phenomenon, maintaining that appropriation encourages racist tendencies. Can a culture be stolen? When does cultural appreciation become cultural appropriation? Is cultural appropriation another form of racism?

Write a five paragraph essay that effectively defends, qualifies, or refutes this statement:

“To appropriate one’s culture is not to embrace it, but to mimic it. It’s making a fashion of someone else’s heritage and religion.”

Say whether each of the following statements relates to the influence on weathering by rock composition, rock properties, or climate. 1.exposed rock in the mountains of alaska 2.a lack of fractures in an outcrop3.quartz is rarely affected by dissolution, hydrolysis, or oxidation4.high porosity (a large amount of space between grains in a rock)5.rocks on the coast of a tropical island6.minerals that dissolve in the presence of waterthe good earth/chapter 9: weathering and soils weathering ratesthe good earth/chapter 9: weathering and soilscompositional control1.weathering is faster in rocks composed of weaker material or material that is easily converted to weaker material (such as feldspars)2.weathering is faster in rocks made up of minerals that dissolve in water (salt, gypsum)3.weathering is slower in rocks made of resistant materials (quartz)rock property control1.weathering is faster in rocks that allow air and water in (porous, fractured)2.fractures are natural weathering surfaces3.igneous and metamorphic rocks generally have low porosity –do you think they are particularly susceptible to weathering

Alaina wants to decide whether her current cell phone plan is better than a package that another company offers. to compare the two plans, she plotted two lines on a graph, where y represented the total cost of one month’s service and x represented the megabytes of data that she used in a month. which part of the graph will represent the cost per megabyte of data used in each plan?

Rainbow trout is non- native to the united states. however this species is breeding with the native gula yltrout acientistrecently observed that the hola trout were becoming exitinct what is the cause of their extinction