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Anthropology in Today?s World, 2002.
A study of the application of anthropology today.
930 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 54.95
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This paper describes the relevance of anthropology in today?s world. The paper demonstrates that their discoveries and theories bear heavily on our understanding of our past and future, as illustrated by the recent discovery of Neanderthal violence also sheds light on man?s capacity for love and caring. The paper states that anthropology is defined as ?the science of the physical, cultural and social development of man, his evolution, behavior and geographic distribution from prehistoric times to the present.?
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"Anthropology is sometimes viewed as a bit arcane as well, but even a quick glance at some of the aspects of anthropologists? work indicates immediately that anthropology is more relevant today than ever. Indeed, anthropologists are one of the only groups of intellectuals who are able to draw together the hard sciences and social sciences and develop cohesive and encompassing theories of history, sociology and understanding."
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Social Responsibility in Today's Corporate World, 2001.
The following paper discusses how and why businesses today are becoming more socially responsible.
2,050 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 103.95
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This paper explores the concept of social responsibility, what it means, and how it is used in today's corporate world. It explores how some businesses use social responsibility for ethical reasons whereas others use it just to look good or to increase profits.
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In today's contemporary commercial society, many businesses are striving to become more socially responsible. Although the business world has traditionally been based on profit and performance, social responsibility can equal big profits for some companies. Corporate executives are now talking about purpose, principle, and consequence, not only in conjunction with business performance but also in ethical terms.
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Capitalism in Today?s World, 2005.
Examines the effects of capitalism on the workers of the world.
1,731 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 89.95
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Despite the obvious advantages of capitalism-increased production and availability of products-it tends to increase the gap, actual and proportional, between the upper and lower classes. This fact is true not only within countries with capitalist economies, but between nations with capitalist economies and developing nations. This paper shows that the global and social division of wealth, despite the new world economy, has continued to draw a sharper and deeper contrast between the rich and the poor of the world.
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"Largely, the global distribution of wealth has been determined in the past fifty years by those nations who have opened their doors to the western economy and those who have not. Obviously, the first stage of economic development is industrialization. The industrial revolution began in the United States almost a century ago, and has yet to reach many nations of the world. Unfortunately, many of the problems that faced the American workforce a hundred years ago face the workforce of these third and fourth world nations today. Lack of unions and labor laws make these workforces weak, and therefore, attractive to multinational corporations. The difference in today's market, however, is that the means by which American workers improved wages and conditions will simply not work in the global economy: companies do not depend on their workers in the same way; they can always move production elsewhere in the event of a strike."
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Polygamy Throughout History and Around the World Today, 2000.
An overview of polygamy, including its causes, the different types, an examination of societies in which it is practiced, and its history in the U.S. (especially within the Mormon sect in Utah).
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 10 sources, AU$ 58.95
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"More cultures accept monogamy than that accepts polygamy. Great majorities of people are monogamous, and the other forms of marriage are usually modified in a monogamous direction; that is, the people are more likely to be in a monogamous relationship in cultures where polygamy is practiced. Many times when in a polygamous relationship, there is an almost monogamous relationship between the spouse and the first or most favored mate."
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Computer Hacking: A Crime of Today?s World, 2001.
This paper studies the phenomenon of computer hacking and tries to define what a hacker is and what hacking does.
3,365 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 153.95
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This paper examines what hacking is and what kind of people become hackers. It discusses the laws that exist regarding this issue and stresses the need for harsher laws to stop this types of computer crime. It gives several definitions and examples for the word "hacker". The paper goes on to give a brief historical overview of hacking and how it got started. It discusses the media's part in this growing phenomenon. It gives examples of different types of hacking attacks and studies the differences and motives behind them. Finally, it examines the law enforcement of these crimes and gives recommendations on how to solve this problem.
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"We?ve all heard of it. Their crimes are almost as common as rapists and robbers. Although their crimes are often quieter and sometimes go unnoticed, hackers can cause as just as much harm as any other kind of criminal. Computer hacking and the crimes that define this type of criminal, make hacking difficult to define. According to Carter (2002), ?Computer hacking always involves some degree of infringement on the privacy of others or damage to computer-based property such as files, web pages or software.?
Computer hacking can range from the placing of pornographic pictures on a website to cracking a code that puts the security of millions of Americans at risk. Sometimes it involves stolen identities; other times it?s just the ripping off of DVD movies and other media. Hackers themselves also come in as many forms as their crimes do. They range from bored college students to wealthy business men. Hackers are the criminals of today?s technological world. This paper will attempt to illustrate just what a hacker is, what this criminal does, and how the laws need to become steeper in order to stop these types of computer crimes for causing the damage they do. "
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Worlds Within Worlds, 2002.
Examines the hidden lives of women in works by feminist writers de Beauvoir, Wollstonecraft and Woolf.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 128.95
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This paper will compare and contrast the one theme that binds all these three authors which is the dual role of women in society. The first role being that of the public woman (performing the duties that societies expect them to play) and the second is the private woman (the woman who realizes that what they desire does not always blend well with what society expects from them).
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From Old World China to the New World America, 2004.
This paper reviews three novels, based on the generational transition from China to America: Amy Tan?s ?Joy Luck Club? and ?The Bonesetter?s Daughter? and Maxine Kingston?s ?The Woman Warrior".
835 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 47.95
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This paper explains that Amy Tan and Maxine Kingston?s central themes reflect the inherent difficulties faced by the foreigners in a different land. The author points out that, in ?Joy Luck Club?, Amy Tan employs the stories of four Chinese women and their highly Americanized daughters, bred and born in America. The paper states that Maxine Kingston reveals a great deal about the Chinese convictions pertaining to their culture and traditions, which have many superstitious beliefs in her book, ?The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts?.
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"However, the basic problem that thoroughly reflects the uneven, unbalanced and highly disturbing transformation from the old world to the new world is that of the lack of comprehension and interest of the young girls that belonged to these four Chinese women. Born and brought up in America, Jing-Mei, Lena, Rose, and Waverly all exhibited little emotional attachment to the culture they never experienced living in a foreign land and consequently showed clandestine aversion towards their own native cultural values. The four Chinese women who were also good friends, wanted comforts, luxuries and all the positive American values for their Chinese American daughters but also desperately wanted to inculcate a strong sense of discipline arising out of the Chinese traditions and cultural values into their daughters."
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Modern Anthropology and Japan, 2002.
This paper discusses the modern concept of the field of anthropology and then analyzes the works: Timon Screech?s ?Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820" and Ruth Benedict?s "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword?.
1,835 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 94.95
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This paper states that the first generations of ethnographic considered their subjects to be exotic and very different from themselves; whereas, modern anthropologist now approach their subjects as people who are not exactly like themselves and are no longer thought to have inferior cultures. The author continues that this change in anthropology has produced entirely new ways of writing ethnographies. The author applies this approach to the analysis of Timon Screech?s 1999 ?Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820?, which investigates the nexus of gender, sexuality and ambition in ways that are attentive to the intra-cultural variations amongst people and to the famous telling ethnographic story of ambition in Japan in Ruth Benedict?s national character study ?The Chrysanthemum and the Sword?, 1989.
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"Another striking difference between Benedict?s work and the Screech?s is that Benedict?s own gender is invisible in the work: We do not have any sense that this is the perspective of a woman writing about a patriarchal society. This is certainly not true in the modern ethnography, which begins with recognition of the high degree of intracultural variation that exists when one takes as one?s cultural reference group an entire nation-state. This attentiveness to individual variation was not yet current during the creation of the kind of ethnography of first-world nations known as national character studies that were popular in the 1930s and 1940s and reflects much of the sensitivity of defining group status that Anderson emphasizes."
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Cultural Anthropology, 2002.
Examines some of the common constants in cultural anthropology and how they apply to the field of cultural anthropology.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 42.95
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There are distinct relationships between culture, maintenance systems, child rearing and ecology that, when observed from a detached view, provide a wealth of information about all of the communities (and all of their permutations) throughout the world. It is the assertion of this paper that these characteristics of a people, regardless of size or any other factor, are common throughout all peoples and is thus used as primary markers by anthropologists upon which to base their work. Therefore, this paper will demonstrate such relationships and how they apply to the field of cultural anthropology.
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Field Projects in Anthropology, 2003.
An illustration of the benefits of field work in the anthropology field through field projects, as seen from the view of Crane and Angrosino's,"Field Project in Anthropology: Third Edition."
1,612 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 84.95
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This paper is a thorough analysis of the benefits of field work to the anthropology field, especially to a student or ethnographer. It uses fourteen different field projects as guides for an aspiring anthropologist to use when beginning fieldwork. This paper demonstrates the importance of fieldwork to the anthropology field as a whole, as well as to the individual. All of Crane and Angrosino's projects are summarized, and their meaning is clearly outlined. Topics covered include how to approach, research, begin, continue, and conclude fieldwork in any culture. It provides a concise base from which to base ethnographic studies.
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"Julia Crane and Michael Angrosino?s Field Projects in Anthropology (Third Edition) seeks to illustrate the benefits of fieldwork to the anthropology field. Fieldwork is unequivocally necessary for a student to gain anthropological perspective (Crane 1992: v). There are numerous ways that a student can approach fieldwork, and Field Projects shines light on several aspects of anthropological fieldwork through fourteen different projects. These projects characterize some of the more useful data-collection techniques and show students an array of ways to approach anthropological fieldwork (1992: vi)."
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Interpretive vs. Post Processual Anthropology, 2001.
An anthropology paper discussing the differences between processual and post processual anthropology..
1,397 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 74.95
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This paper examines how many people believe processual and interpretive archaeology to be completely different schools of thought. By looking at the seven main concepts of processual archaeology and the eight main concepts of interpretive archaeology, the writer demonstrates how they go hand in hand as well as complement each other. The example used is the origin of agriculture.
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"Though processual archaeology and interpretive archaeology appear to take different approaches to the study of the human past, they share a common end goal: to understand how societies came into being, how they developed and how they worked, all using data from the archaeological record. The two circles of thought each claim their distinctiveness from the other, but if we compare and contrast their main points, we will see how these two methods relate very closely. In other words, their main differences may just be in terms of scale of analysis. By examining the articles on the origins of agriculture (Redding; Richerson, Boyd, and Bettinger; Hayden; and Hodder) and the approaches of the authors in terms of processual vs. interpretive archaeology, we will see the strengths and weaknesses of each. Ultimately, this analysis will provide insight on how a combination of both fields may prove a more effective method for the study of the human past."
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Feminism and Anthropology, 2003.
A reflection on on the contributions of the feminist perspective to anthropology.
3,140 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 12 sources, MLA, AU$ 146.95
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This paper examines how feminist anthropology emerged in the latter half of the twentieth century and attempted to combat the representation (or lack of it) of women in anthropological writing. It looks at how in doing so, it moved through several stages, from trying to redress the imbalance in ethnographic knowledge, through a critique of the theoretical praxis of anthropology to the uncertain place that it has at present. It examines the background to the feminist movement in anthropology and attempts to see it in historical perspective. It then analyses each of the stages of feminist anthropology and assesses their contribution to the broader subject.
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"Feminist anthropology has allowed two great ethnocentric divides to be broken down. The first is that between nature/culture. Running through all the work of feminist anthropology is the rejection of the place women have been assigned as somehow preordained or organic. Fatima Mernissi shows that the passive role of the women in some Muslim societies, who is seen as potentially more sexually aggressive than the male, is a cultural construct: ?what is feared in Muslim marriage is the growth of the involvement between a man and a woman into the all-encompassing love, satisfying the sexual, emotional and intellectual needs of both partners.? Such as involvement would be seen as a direct threat to man's relationship with Allah."
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Political and Economic Anthropology, 2008.
This paper reflects on two chapters in Robert Lavenda and Emily Schultz's "Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology".
1,065 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 60.95
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This paper explains that Lavina and Schultz in "Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology" see political anthropology as the study of power, political ideology, political economy, political organization, social stratification, social control and law, status and role and much later ideas of nationalism and hegemony. The author points out that, in 'economic anthropology', all societies are reported to show a form of material life that can be explained in terms of production, exchange or related material culture, which dictates the types of laws and political practices in that society. The paper states that the study of emergencies, crises or wars tells a good deal about matters of nationalism, hegemony and leadership as reactions of weakness to situations that are unpredictable, such as the strong instinct for 'communitas' that was seen when the United States experienced 9/11.
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"Some anthropologists like to study how societies cope with unnatural situations or crises. For instance, if a society has known famine and starvation, or is in a climate that means food can be grown or found only for part of the year, there will be effort to save food for hard times. If the food supply is year-round and easily found, there will be less of this planning ahead. What is very valuable will be guarded by law that can mean tradable goods of high value or perhaps special religious items that no ordinary person is to touch."
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Biomedicine and Medical Anthropology, 2004.
An overview of the history and ideology behind medical anthropology.
2,938 words (approx. 11.8 pages), 17 sources, MLA, AU$ 138.95
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This paper begins by analysing the creation of medicine as a bounded system. A bounded system is one circumscribed from the rest of the world, where cultural elements of patient?s symptoms are treated only as indicators of biological and empirical fact. It looks at how medical anthropology, by revealing the cultural framework and social networks that mediate and relate to medical discourse, removes medicine from its position as a bounded system. It attempts to emphasise how this task is inter-dependent with that of understanding medicine as several kinds of enterprise. It also examines the multiplicity of other forms of medical knowledge in the world.
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"There is a great deal of difficulty in understanding medicine in the way one would understand other anthropological phenomenon. As Good (1994:2) notes ?disease is paradigmatically biological; it is what we mean by Nature and its impingement on our lives.? Yet, disease is also culturally constituted, as ethnographic examples later will demonstrate. A further difficulty is that by emphasising the social and cultural aspects of biomedicine, there is a risk of caricature; people will assume by revealing biomedicines construction as a category we mean to deny biomedicine?s great uses. Indeed, the seemingly all-powerful status of biomedicine, its rapid spread and advancement, constitutes one of the greatest boundaries to appreciating its cultural construction."
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Medical Anthropology, 2006.
This paper examines the issues of health and disease and looks at medical anthropology.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 114.95
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This paper discusses the different aspects of medical anthropology. The underlying theories of medical anthropology are discussed as well as the concept of health and disease, taking into consideration different culture-based paradigms depicting each one. Disease profiles of the different civilizations, from foraging nomads to empires are compared and contrasted.
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"Though giving birth occurs naturally in women, the experience itself varies among women due to the great influence of cultural beliefs and the resources available within different societies. Depending on how a society values or perceives childbirth as a medical event, the process will differ according to who conducts it (e.g. physician versus community midwife), how it is conducted (e.g. through a cesarean operation or spontaneous, natural birth) and where it occurs (e.g. whether it is in a modern and well-equipped obstetric facility or at home)."
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Physical Anthropology, 2006.
Questions and answers relating to physical anthropology.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 56.95
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This paper examines the similarities between Neolithic farming in the Old World and in the New World. Specifically, the paper looks at the common establishment of animal husbandry and of agriculture, together with the commonplace establishment of megalithic and or architectural structures, presumably designed to serve in part as markers of community territory. More than that the paper looks at how Turnbaugh's cautious treatment of certain topics compares at times unfavourably with a more confident discussion of the origins of European farming in an article penned 10 years ago by Peter Bogucki.
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"In both societies, Neolithic Man went from foraging for what he could find to producing his own goods (Turnbaugh et al, 2002, p.411). Yet, this process occurred independently in the various parts of the world and was not brought about by diffusion (Turnbaugh et al, 2002, p.411). Now, in the areas where agriculture emerged, the earliest farmers relied upon local plant species whose wild "relatives" grew close by. Old World cereal grasses, we are told, were native throughout the Near East and throughout Southeastern Europe; therefore, barely and/or wheat domestication could have occurred in any part of this region (Turnbaugh et al, 2002, p.418)."
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