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"Growing Up in New Guinea" ( Margaret Mead ), 1999.
Examines author's views on upbringing, education & social integration of children of Manus people.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, AU$ 69.95
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"Margaret Mead, in Growing Up in New Guinea, studies the way children of the Manus in the Admiralty Islands, north of New Guinea, develop into adults, specifically, how they are educated. She seeks to determine the answer to a number of questions:
How much of the child's equipment does it bring with it at birth? How much of its development follows regular laws? How much . . . is it dependent upon early training, upon the personality of its parents, its teachers, its playmates. . . . ? (1).
The advantage of studying the Manus children is that the lives of the Manus people "are lived very much as they have been lived for unknown centuries" (2). The "picture of human education in miniature" which she hopes to paint is based on "six months' concentrated and interrupted field work" in which she "learned.."
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Margaret Mead: Character and Personality Studies, 2001.
Discusses Margaret Mead's contributions to national character studies.
5,020 words (approx. 20.1 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 184.95
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This paper first outlines Margaret Mead's understanding of the general development, approaches, and use of national character study; then, examines her primary works on America. Finally, the paper points to her more loosely defined American character writings of post-World War II.
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"As a pioneer of national character study, Margaret Mead?s career continually returned to the understanding of American culture. Combining humanitarianism and social activism with her anthropological investigation she strove to positively affect the experiences of those at home. In her autobiography, written six years before her death, she explains: ?I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples, faraway peoples, so that Americans might better understand themselves.? Part of this life project became the development of- and involvement with a social scientific practice capable of a broad knowledge of culture. With specific emphasis on American culture, her efforts are most substantially evident in And Keep Your Powder Dry as well as with in Male and Female. Many of her other over 1300 publications, often in such popular forms as periodicals, pamphlets, newspapers (and even radio and television broadcasts), are oriented toward specific attributes of American character and their social ramifications."
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Margaret Mead and Samoa, 2005.
This paper examines the findings of Margaret Mead about life on Samoa.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, APA, AU$ 57.95
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This paper compares Margaret Mead's findings about life on Samoa with her critics. The author points out that later critics found discrepancies in her work. The paper discusses the critique by Derek Freeman.
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"Margaret Mead was a cultural anthropologist who lived on Samoa among the Polynesian people for nine months and studied their behavior particularly that of adolescent girls. Mead reported that, at dawn on Samoa, the people arise, fires are lit, fishermen plan to set traps and young men head off to work on the plantations. Women take their laundry to the sea and older girls go fishing off the reef .Carpenters work on new houses and the families who will cook that day prepare the ..."
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Margaret Mead, 2002.
Examines the life and career of the anthropologist.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 80.95
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The life and career of the anthropoligist. The status she received in the field of anthropology. Controversy over her data and research in Samoa. Her field trips. Her theories of adolescence based on her work with primitive women in Samoa. Other fieldwork. Her careers as anthropologist, museum curator, University teacher, writer, lecturer.
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"MARGARET MEAD
Born on December 16, 1901, Margaret Mead became one of the world's leading anthropologists, and her fame became worldwide with the publication of her book "Coming of Age in Samoa". However, despite the good reviews the book received, and the status she achieved in the field of Anthropology, her career was beset in later years with controversy over her data and research in Samoa.
In 1925, she went on "her first field trip, to undertake a 'study in heredity and environment based on an investigation of the phenomenon of adolescence among primitive and civilized peoples.' Her task, as she described it, would 'involve working almost entirely with women, and should therefore add appreciably to our ethnological information on the subject of primitive women.'" (Howard 1995 1)"
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"Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1994.
A critical analysis of the anthropologist's findings on child and adolescent development in Western Samoa in the 1920s.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 174.95
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"Margaret Mead's Coming of age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a study of child and adolescent development in Western Samoa during the 1920s. Mead studied the customs and habits of the villagers on Ta'u, one of three small islands in the Manu'a group, about a hundred miles east of Pago Pago.
The study of ethnography, or the scientific description of customs and habits among mankind, was the purpose for Mead's journey. Descriptive by definition, ethnography is limited by both the scientist-observer's objectivity and perspective within his or her frame of reference. Mead described the Samoans' birth through teen years from the perspective of an outsider looking in, with all the limitations imposed by such a design. Her idyllic portrayals of the islanders' stress-free lives were..."
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Margaret Mead & Sex In Samoa, 1997.
Critical analysis of anthropologist's findings, errors & biases in study of sexual activity & attitudes in tribal culture.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 8 sources, AU$ 115.95
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"Sex education in traditional tribal cultures is examined for clues as to sex education and sex roles as they would have developed early in human history. Longitudinal ethnographic studies also provide information on human sexuality in general and on different ways in which societies are shaped around issues of sex, the transmission of attitudes about sex from one generation to the next, and so on. One problem in examining any traditional society is that researchers may bring biases from their own culture to their work and so may make errors in judgment as to the meaning of certain practices or even about details of tribal behavior. This is a problem in any kind of ethnographic study, but it may be a particular problem with studies of sexual mores because of the importance given sex in Western society as well as the ways in which sexual behavior and.."
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Coming of Age in Samoa, 2005.
This paper answers some questions from Margaret Mead's book "Coming of Age in Samoa".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 57.95
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This paper discusses several aspects of Margaret Mead's book, "Coming of Age in Samoa". It looks at the adolescence of young girls and their attitudes, and compares some of them to those in the west.
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Cultural anthropology is a field of anthropology concerned with the behavioral aspects of society i e the social linguistic and technological components underlying human behavior. It is studied by the anthropologist living within the culture to be studied ..."
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George Herbert Mead, 2002.
Examines the sociological theories of George Herbert Mead.
1,553 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 73.95
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George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures of American sociology. His pioneering work in social psychology helped to establish the reputation of the Chicago School of Sociology. His teachings also laid the groundwork for the philosophy of pragmatism in the United States. This paper focuses on Mead's sociological theory, particularly his contributions to social psychology. The first part of the paper summarizes the key points of Mead's social theory, including an evaluation of his work. The next part then examines how Mead's work can be expanded into other areas of sociological inquiry and sees whether his theories continue to have relevance today.
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"Thus, for Mead, the individual "self" is actually a composite, a result of the reciprocal relationship between a person and his or her social environment. The "individual" self is actually developed in relation to the norms and mores prevailing in the person's social environment. The individual's ability to "internalize" the needs and attitudes of the greater society determines in a large part the roles he or she will assume in life. Through these roles, however, individuals are able to make their contributions to the entire system of social life."
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Margaret Thatcher, 2006.
A discussion regarding the personal life and career of Margaret Thatcher.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 15 sources, AU$ 129.95
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This paper discusses the life and career of Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of Great Britain for 11 years. In that time she was capable of impacting the country as no Prime minister had before her, or since. This was evident in her long reign of power and in her consistent ability to focus on the goals that she believed would ensure the country's strength. The paper further discusses that strength existed in throughout society, across the globe and in her governmental work. Although there are many that would contend that Thatcher was too powerful in her post, the majority of leaders across the globe believe that she is responsible for the survival of England in numerous ways.
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Mead and the Symbolic Interactionism Theory, 2002.
Examines how Mead addresses society through significant language development.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 155.95
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This paper explores Mead's perception on the development of language as a means of promoting significant social interactions. This paper applies these theories to the development of Mead's symbolic interactionist thought, where he believes that language is used as a method of conveying social standards. Through doing so, it is shown that Mead's primary belief in the theory of "mind, self, and society" is that all three of these factors are interrelated.
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Kuru Sorcery in New Guinea, 2004.
Review of Shirley Lindenbaum's book, "Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands".
3,179 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 134.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and summarizes Shirley Lindenbaum's book on Kuru disease, "Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands". The paper provides information on Lindenbaum's career, education, qualifications, and publications, and then discusses the impact her book on Kuru has had in the scientific arena. It also summarizes Lindenbaum's explanation of how the Kuru disease attacks humans, original medical theories regarding the origin of the disease, subsequent medical findings regarding its origin, and the effect Kuru had on the New Guinea Fore population.
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"The author of Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands, Shirley Lindenbaum, is a cultural anthropologist and professor in the Ph.D. Program in the Department of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. In addition to her ground-breaking research in Papua New Guinea ? studying the prion ailment called ?kuru? (explored in depth in this paper) and linking cannibalism to kuru ? Lindenbaum has conducted extensive research (and published books and scholarly articles) on cholera in Bangladesh, and on AIDS and HIV in the U.S. and elsewhere. She also has published books titled The Education of Women and the Mortality of Children in Bangladesh, and Knowledge, Power and Practice: the Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life, according to her bibliography in the City University of New York Web pages for faculty members."
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Papua New Guinea's Lowland Communities, 2006.
A review and analysis of the fieldwork conducted by Bruce M. Knauft in the lowland communities of Papua New Guinea.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 103.95
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This paper discusses the fieldwork conducted in 1980-1982 by Bruce M. Knauft and his wife Papua New Guinea's lowland 'backward' communities, which they revisited in 1998. The paper explains that, in contrast with the typical anthropological position that laments change in rainforest cultures, Knauft assessed that the social change in these cultures was constructive and that it involved dispensing with beliefs in sorcery that had produced very high rates of homicide. Instead, the people had taken well to Christian missionary work, as encouraged by the Papua New Guinea government in several comparable groups.
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"Anthropologists have often lamented all cultural change in 'primitive' societies as part of a tendency to view cultural homogenization with dismay. This can reflect a kind of colonial nostalgia as groups are approached by the influences of the outside world and adapt. In extreme forms, one finds a notion of all change as negative and a corrupt practice of more technologically advanced societies."
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Margaret Tudor: The Perils of a Queen, 2001.
A look at the tumultuous life and times of a fascinating woman, Margaret Tudor, Queen Regent of Scotland.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 102.95
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This paper chronicles the tumultuous life of Margaret Tudor, Queen Regent of Scotland, sister of the notorious Henry VIII, and grandmother of Mary, Queen of Scots. Although it does touch on the political issues of her day, the author focuses more on Margaret's personal life, including her three marriages, divorce and her struggle to hold her power in a man?s world.
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"The word queen conjures up an image of beautiful clothes, a doting king, happiness and an idle lifestyle. The life of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, shatters these myths. Widowed at a young age, she was left to act as regent for her infant son in a climate of political turmoil and dangerous power struggles. As a member of ?the weaker sex?, Margaret was not taken seriously and was expected to sit back and let others govern Scotland in her name. Margaret refused to do so, and suffered for it. Not even her brother, Henry VIII of England, would aid her unless she agreed to be his pawn. Margaret also flouted convention by marrying for love, not once, but twice, and by divorcing her second husband in a time when marriage was a sacred lifelong bond no matter it?s problems. "
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'Three Guineas', 2006.
This paper analyzes Virginia Woolf's article "Three Guineas" concerning the subject of war.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 64.95
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In this article, the writer discusses 'Three Guineas' by Virginia Woolf. The writer shows in this essay that Woolf perceives war as a barbarity which should be stopped. The writer points out that the society for the prevention of war requests a one guinea donation and two other similar requests follow. The writer then describes how the theme of interconnectedness in the work emerges once Woolf has explored why each of the needs is an issue.
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"Three Guineas is a passionate essay which consists first of a letter from a society aimed at preventing war. Woolf's reaction to war is that "War is an abomination; a barbarity; war must be stopped". The society for the prevention of war requests a one guinea donation. Two other requests are similar; one is from a women's college building fund, and the third from a society which is advocating women's employment."
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Margaret Newman's Nursing Theory, 2008.
An analysis of Margaret Newman's health as expanding consciousness theory and a comparison of the theory with Martha Rogers' unitary theory.
1,893 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 88.95
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This paper briefly examines Margaret Newman's history, including the development of her health as expanding consciousness theory. The paper also examines the basic tenets of the theory and discusses two examples of expanding consciousness in nursing practice. Finally, the paper compares and contrasts Newman's theory with that of Martha Rogers' unitary theory.
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Margaret Newman
The Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
A Critique of Newman's Theory
Newman's Theory and Rogers' Unitary Theory
Conclusion
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"Newman's theory is not particularly accessible to most people in or out of the nursing profession. Neither is it particularly congruent with reality. Referring back to McKenna, this theory does not appear to be a nursing theory as such, because it does not treat nursing as a unique profession (1997, p. 234). McKenna discusses the analysis of 62 nursing theories in terms of how their internal validity would stand up to testing. Of the 62 theories, McKenna indicates that only nine reached adequate levels of empirical testing. In the case of a grand theory such as Newman's empirical testing is difficult at best; it would seem unlikely that sufficient testing could be done to test its validity. In summation, then, while Newman's abstract theory may produce some basis for discussion, as a nursing theory its practical use is negligible."
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Mead and Freud, 2002.
Examines and compares the theories of Sigmund Freud and George Herbert Mead on the development of the human psyche.
1,697 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 80.95
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One of the most fundamental questions for the field of psychology is how it is that we come to be the way that we are. What is it that makes us human? To what extent are we all like one another and to what extent are we each unique? The paper shows that two of the founding scholars of the discipline of psychology, Sigmund Freud and George Herbert Mead, both created models to explain how fundamental and arguably universal human psychic structures developed. The paper explains that while sharing some common ideas about the ways in which human nature and human personality are formed, the two scholars proposed distinctly different interior road-maps of the human psyche as well as very different pathways by which core psychic structures develop. The paper therefore examines, discusses and compares Mead's Interactionist Model and Freud's ideas on the power of the ego.
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"We, as individuals, are generally made aware of the activation of our personal defense mechanisms, Freud argued, by the presence of anxiety in our lives. We know that one or more of our defense mechanisms are working because when they are we experience a rush of anxiety. Defense mechanisms are brought into play by the psyche to allow the ego to work to reach solutions (i.e. compromises) to the problems that each individual meets in the course of everyday life. Defense mechanisms allow the ego to cope with something unwelcome (usually something threatening to our safety or comfort) by allowing that unwelcome thing to emerge into our consciousness in a disguised (and therefore manageable) form."
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