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Our Throw-Away Society: An Anthropological Examination

replaced essentially on a whim. Everything about our lives is now disposable. We drink out of plastic bottles and paper and styr...

Muslim Women - Oppressed

injustice" (Cudd, 2006, p. 23). This means that oppression is perpetuated through some sort of social institution or through the p...

Bioidentical Hormones

are grand variances in price throughout the country, the standard scale is between $250 and $395 and half that much for subsequent...

Sociocultural Values in The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki

In five pages this essay discusses Westernization of Japanese society in an examination of sociocultural values within the context...

Amazonians and Sexual Behavior in Anxious Pleasures Sex Lives of an Amazonian People by Thomas Gregor

In five pages this anthropological and sociological text is reviewed....

Voodoo Heritage by Michel Laguerre

In five pages this paper examines the anthropological text in an evaluation of the myths and rituals the author describes....

Yanomamo by Napoleon A. Chagnon

kinship and marriage. There is a great deal of marriage of cousins within this group. This trend is interesting as it differs a g...

THE THROW-AWAY WORKER: USE (AND ABUSE) OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS IN DEVELOPING CANADA'S RAILROADS - AN OUTLINE

the immigrants were considered expendable when it came to building the railroads. History of Canadas Railroads Much of th...

“I Alone” by Live

stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...

A Consideration of Two Studies in Anthropology

so harsh and most of the children died. Glittenberg describes how she subsequently returned to Guatemala after that initial visit...

Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead Reading Comparison

traits or by innate traits (Margaret Mead: Human Nature, 2002). In Part Three of her work she studied "The Lake-Dwelling Tchambuli...

Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris

So, if our stone age ancestors did not give up their hunter-gather lifestyle and invent agriculture in order to improve their life...

New Guinea Folk Societies Assessed

In a paper consisting of six pages the changes that may have taken place in folk societies prior to anthropological discovery are ...

Colonialism's Effect on Anthropology

"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...

Poe/Annabel Lee

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

Medication Errors

in control of the medication. Worse, not all medication errors are reported. If the wrong medication has reached the patient, the...

Capital Punishment Today

This paper provides a brief history of the death penalty and its application in today's society. Many states are moving away from...

Rawls and Nozick on Equality

traditional theory of the social contract" (Rawls 514). According to Rawls, there should be a "veil of ignorance" in regards to ...

The Naked Society by Vance Packard

in many different ways, invading privacy and pushing their way into our lives. While many people accept it today, the pressures in...

Human Psychology in William Faulkner's Sanctuary and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...

Ayn Rand's Anthem, Regression, and Collectivist Society

The needs of the society come before the needs of the individual, and Rand even suggests that this collective identity would suppo...

Hindu Society and Women's Roles

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

Society and Natural Gender Roles

the natural world held many different dangers for communities or societies. With warfare men naturally went off to fight and women...

Sadism And Masochism: A World In The Dark

originated. Traces of S&M span millions of years in mans history (Seaman, 1996), however, based upon the sexual preferences of tw...

Rise of Modern Art

(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

An Examination of the American Society of Public Administration's Code of Ethics

The American Society of Public Administrations Code of Ethics was first formulated and adopted in 1984(Is ASPAs..., 2005). Subseq...

Ship Registry and Certification

Kyokai (ClassNK), 1899 * River Register of 1913: Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) * Croatian Register of Shipping (CRS),...

Marvell/To His Coy Mistress

20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...

A Comparison of the Planets

the planets. Wind plays a role in this process as does water (at least on Earth). Both work to whittle away at the Earths surfac...

Private Security is No Security

in Colombia" (CSC/DynCorp). They were called "Colombias Coke-Bustin Broncos" by Soldier of Fortune Magazine, the bible for mercena...