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"Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant."
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"When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever."

"A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you're wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs."

"With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend."

"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."

"A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked."

"And say my glory was I had such friends."

"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."

"Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they've recommended to you."

"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."

"A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days."
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"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."

"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."

"They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method."

"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."

"I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future."

"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."

"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."

"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."
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