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To me, being an English major gives me so many opportunities that I wasn’t aware of prior to my decision. I would love to pursue a career in Professional Writing and Law, but one can also go into Education, Marketing, Public Relations and so much more. To talk more about this major, I spoke with Dr. Russell from the English Department about his experience as an English professor and his thoughts about the major. Being a college level English professor for about twelve years now, he’s very knowledgeable on the subject. I sent Dr. Russell a few questions and these were his responses: What is your favorite class to teach? “I like teaching World Literature I. There are usually a host of different students from a variety of different backgrounds. I also like the “premodern” world of heroes and myths. I like to engage the students and attempt to get them to contribute to the class. I also like to keep the class lively and have students reflect on the material.”
Why do you think the English major is important? “Our age is saturated with media. Being able to read and analyze texts and images make one stronger and better able to navigate the world.”
strenuous process for the researchers in the island region “Wallacea,” an area between Asia and Australia. The examined DNA divulged that the girl had common ancestors along with the Papua New Guineans & Indigenous Australians of modern-time, who all showed up in Wallacea about 50,000 years before. The genes discovered did not reflect any other population previously known, proposing the idea that a group of archaic people went from Asia to Wallacea at an earlier date than expected, with no modern kin.
The Toaleans, as they are named by archaeologists, were Do you have any advice for a cryotic group of ancient huntstudents that want to pursue er-gatherers whose primary diet a career in this subject? consisted of edible shellfish and “Hard work and networking are wild pigs. This culture of people essential for success.” had leftover tools with carefully crafted arrowheads, however, had limited fossils and impractical recovered DNA. Making the teenage girl’s skeleton the only recovered remains of the Toalean people and the first Talik Hill time, prehistoric DNA has been Staff Writer found in Wallacea. This new revelation has altered our preA team of archaeologists unconceived notions of the history earthed the decomposed reof the world; our knowledge remains of a teenage girl around lated to genetics and archaeolthe age of 18 years old withogy is constantly changing, and in the Leang Panninge cave, discoveries like this illustrate the in South Sulawesi, Indonesia potential scope of how much during an excavation in 2015. we still haven’t become aware The analyzed DNA disclosed a of about the world. But, with lineage that hasn’t been discov- every new open door, comes ered anywhere else in the world. improvement, development, and a greater understanding of Obtaining the DNA from the the world around us. 7,200-year-old bones was a
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NEW LINEAGE OF HUMANS DISCOVERED IN ANCIENT DNA
