Annette B. Weiner describes her fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea as entering a world without cultural guideposts. She was fully aware and expected to find difficulty with learning a new language and of letting go of her own cultural assumptions. Weiner studied the Trobriand Islands via the writings of Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski and thus her expectations were set by fieldwork performed sixty years earlier. Not to mention that Malinowski was a man‚ of a different time and therefore
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attention of anyone concerned with the history of mankind at its most fundamental level. It is an epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history that can be accounted‚ for the time being‚ as Darwinian in its authority." —Thomas M. Disch‚ New Leader "A
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His offhand comment intrigued me. Having been involved with linguistics and lexicography since the late 1980s‚ I have long been aware of the notion of language death. At that dinner‚ it suddenly hit me--news outlets and advocacy groups keep information about the destruction of the rain forest or the extinction of plants and animals in view--most Americans are at least on some level aware of such destruction. The issue of language extinction‚ however‚ is completely off most people’s radar screens
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Essay on The Importance of Degradation to the Environment "Jimmy‚ let’s see if you know the creatures of the rainforest. What sound does this one make?" "That’s right‚ a chainsaw goes RRRRRRRRR." A simple cartoon in a magazine‚ that’s all people see it as. There is constantly talk about the environment being destroyed and we’ve become immune to the topic. It just washes over us‚ without the idea actually sinking in. Everything that is being done on this planet somehow affects someone‚ something
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cycle like this: There good crops and bad crops-people take the good crops-people grow new crops from the seeds of the good crops- better crops grow-etc. It is a little bit the same with companies: There are good employs and bad ones-the company fires the bad ones and leaves the new ones-better employs come in place of the bad ones- the employs make the company larger which allows more space for more employs-new employs come-some are good and some are bad-etc. I also totally agree that the geography
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really is the significance? What happened? And why do we remember it? From July 1942 – November 1942 the Australians fought against the Japanese in Papa New Guinea. It was a hard battle ending in a hard success for Australia. What really happened? The Australians weren’t going to fight but they were forced to repel a Japanese invasion. Papa New Guinea acted as a barrier towards Australia‚ so it was important nothing got by them. With Australia in the battle the Japanese strategy was to first take Port
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The multiple nuclei model is also known as Harris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model. As shown in Figure 1‚ this model suggests that the land use pattern is built not around a single centre 13 but around several discrete nuclei. On that note‚ smaller business district acts as satellite nodes‚ or nuclei‚ of activity around which land use pattern formed. This model based on the notion that central business district (CBD) was losing its dominate and primacy as the nucleus of urban areas. However‚ it differed
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The Lapita is believed to be a common ancestor of many cultures in Polynesia‚ Micronesia and Melanesia. The name Lapita comes from a site where pottery was first discovered on the main island of New Caledonia. Likewise‚ the Lapita people were excellent navigators from South East Asia. They explored vast new territories in Oceania. They left behind extensive material culture such as pottery‚ fish hooks‚ and other tools. They also left behind evidence of landscape modification. The Lapita lived along
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4. CONCLUSION 5. REFERENCE 6. APENDIX 1. INTRODUCTION Anti-Asian riot as defined by word web is an act by someone going against a violent mob. Anti-Asian riots have been an issue in the pacific island countries‚ particularly Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Solomon Islands. It was a push for Chinese to be deported out of PNG and Solomon Islands as their population has exceeded in numbers in this century compared to the past. These riots where accompanied by damage of private Asian properties
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Globally‚ food contributes to all human livelihood. Thus processed food becomes a major product in the Pacific whereby consumers are dependent on as a food source. It is acceptable across all categories in the Pacific depending on circumstances. However‚ it is essential to realize that there are positive and negative impacts of depending on processed food. This essay supports the view that while depending on processed food has advantages in terms of social‚ economic and health‚ its disadvantages
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