Forensic Anthropology Research Paper

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Forensic Anthropology is a specialty branch of anthropology that involves anthropological knowledge to help the law. Most typically, a forensic anthropologist will be called into a law enforcement agency when skeletal remains are found in order to help identify the victim. Forensic anthropologists analyze skeletal evidence to identify missing persons, investigate war crimes and recover evidence in natural disasters. For example in the Tv show Bones, Dr. Brennan is a forensic anthropology who works in the Jeffersonian Institute . Usually her and her partner agent Seeley Booth are always called up whenever they need to identify the body and cause of death. Since I have watched that show I have been wanting to attend a school where I will be …show more content…

The tuition can go up to 6,300 or even more. It’s definitely worth the money to study that because when you are able to work for the federal government you are able to earn as up to 73,000 dollars annually. It’s like an investment, you put in money to know how to work in this specific field but then once you have your doctorate you can win lots of money. You can not work alone in this field. You must work for a company. Many times you will work for the CSI or any law enforcement place. Since forensic anthropology has to do with dead bodies it sort of goes under law enforcement and investigation. The thing is that in order to be able to work in forensic anthropology you have to have a crew of investigators. You have the one who finds out what happened to the bones, some who can make up an image of how the person used to look like before they were only bones. Most times they carry interns with them. For example in the show ‘Bones’ Dr.Brennan has a young adult helping her out and he gets to help her out whenever she doesn’t understand something or he gives her feedback from a different point of view …show more content…

Like I said before ever since I began watching “Bones” the Tv show I was hooked, I knew exactly what I had wanted to be. The job is so interesting, not only do you discover new things in the bones but you find out the cause of their death. It is sort of strange to be amused by bones or a dead body but it looks very interesting. . I would not mind making this my career when I grow up , Specially when they get payed from $50,000-$95,000 a year. I am pretty sure that it would definitely make me happy. I know that they get payed very well and I know that with the amount of money I will earn from this job I will be able to buy anything I want whenever I want. It will definitely complete my life style. I definitely do think that this job is worth the investment I put in because it would be a couple of grand for me to go to school and study and have experience with this profession, then once I am out of school I will go out and make a living out of it. The rest of my life will be working on something that I enjoy doing thanks to a couple of years studying and paying my tuition. The money will double itself because I will be experienced and will know everything about my career. I think the best part would be being able work law enforcement and feeling as if I am such a huge deal when really I came to look at some bones. I mean it is important but like you’ll have

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