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- 6431: Sex in Anthropology
- ... structure and politics of kinship. The economy of the Trobriand Islanders is a complex system in which there is a separate wealth for men and women. Although both sexes have their own capital, the women's wealth is a sign of power and is necessary for the definition of the chief's . The Trobrianders system of kinship is based on a matrilineal principle, in which "mother right" is demonstrated. With this system, birth rights are obtained through the mother's social status. These aspects did not go completely un recognized , but they were differently approach as far as the view in which they were studied and depth. Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski was a male anthropologist ...
- 6432: Trifles By Susan Glaspell
- Steven Fiorillo The thesis of this paper is to prove that the title of Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" represents how men considered women's duties and their opinions to be of little importance compared to a man's role in society. The dictionary defines the word trifle as something of little importance or value, or to deal with something as if it were of little significance or value (The American Heritage Dictionary). ...
- 6433: Caroselli's "The Language of Leadership"
- Caroselli's "The Language of Leadership" Leadership is demonstrated by words or actions. A effective leader will possess excellent communication skills through the use of language. "The language of power must be used to make things happen ... coercive power, expert power, charismatic power, association power, and persuasion power. Lido Anthony Iacocca demonstrates all the above power characteristics, which led to his incredible rebuilding of the Chrysler Corporation. "Almost exclusively because of Iacoca's leadership, by 1983 Chrysler made a profit, boasted employee morale, and helped employees generate a sense of meaning in their work. He empowered them." (Bennis and Nanus 1985, 46) He had done this all after ... function in an organizations success, if an employee cannot believe in himself, w can he believe in. And if the employee cannot believe in himself, he will only harm the company. Iacocca once said "It's the job of leaders to set the rules and to enforce the rules, and most important, when the rules don't work any more, to change the rules."(Caroselli 1990, 56) Iacocca was making ...
- 6434: Comparing William Faulkners Tw
- Symbolism If we compare William Faulkner¡¦s two short stories, ¡§A Rose for Emily¡¨ and ¡§Barn Burning¡¨, he structures the plots of these two stories differently. However, both of the stories note the effect of a father¡¦s teaching, and in both the protagonists Miss Emily and Sarty make their own decisions about their lives. The stories present major idea through symbolism that includes strong metaphorical meaning. Both stories affect my thinking of ... influence of a father, and the protagonists of both stories make their own decisions. Miss Emily lives with her father who prevents her from dating with any young man until she is thirty. Her father¡¦s deed enhances her thirst for love and security. After her father died, she finally has the freedom of love. When she meets Homer Barron and thinks that she has found her true love. But ...
- 6435: Macbeth - Lady Macbeth: A Woman Before Her Time
- During the Elizabethan era, the great chain of being reigned. Women were low on this chain of power, and men were on top. In fact, women were below horses; you couldn’t live without a good horse, but, you could live without a wife. Lady Macbeth was a woman before her time, she was caught between being today’s ambitious, powerful modern woman and a fragile creature of the Elizabethan era. In the first four acts of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is vicious, overly ambitious, without conscience, and willing to do whatever it takes to ... cruelty! Make thick my blood,/ Stop up the access and passage to remorse,/ That no compunctious visitings of nature/ Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between/ The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,/ And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,/ Wherever in your sightless substances/ You wait on natures’s mischief! Come thick night,/ and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,/ That ...
- 6436: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... money to make ends meet, so he ran up extremely large gambling debts to trying make more money. Then he could not afford to go to school anymore. John Allan refused to pay off Poe's debts, and broke off his engagement to Sarah Elmira Royster. Since Poe had no other means of support, he enlisted in the army. By this time however, he had written and printed his first book ... was rarely successful, but eventually won. His short story, “MS. Found in a Bottle” was well liked and one of the judges in the contest, John P. Kennedy, befriended him.3 It was on Kennedy's recommendation that Poe became assistant editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, published at Richmond by T.W. White. It was at this time that Poe went through a period of emotional instability that he tried to control by drinking. This was a mistake because he was extremely sensitive to alcohol ...
- 6437: Bioethics of Cloning
- ... had been ongoing for over 40 years. Up until now, scientists thought that adult cells could not be “reprogrammed” to behave like a fertilized egg and create an embryo, but the evidence obtained by Dolly’s success prove otherwise. The issues of cloning have been around for a long time, starting with the publication of Joshua Lederberg’s 1966 article on cloning in the American Naturalist, and the publics interest has been perked by many sci-fi books, films, and movies including Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New World,” 1973’s “Sleeper,” the 1978 film “The Boys from Brazil,” and most recently, the movie “Multiplicity” (Mario, Christopher). The ethical, legal, and moral issues aroused by cloning have been ...
- 6438: Tom Sawyer
- ... of them. Tom lives with his aunt Polly, his cousin Mary and his bother Sid. One of the first things to happen in the book is a memorable one, the painting of the fence. Tom's aunt Polly made Tom paint her fence on a Saturday as a punishment. Tom just hated the idea of having to work on a Saturday while all of the neighborhood could make fun of and ... few hours of freedom he had a stroke of genius, instead of him paying people to work for him, he made people pay him to paint. Tom managed this by telling people that it isn't every day that you get a chance to paint a fence and he thought it was fun. He had people begging him to paint by the time that he was finished his story. He would have taken every boy in the town's wealth if he had not run out of paint. On June 17th about the hour of midnight, Tom and his best friend Huck were out in the grave yard trying to get rid of ...
- 6439: Through The Tunnel By Doris Le
- ... Doris Lessing describes the adventure of Jerry, a young English boy trying to swim through an underwater tunnel. Throughout the story, the author uses the third person omniscient point of view to describe the boy's surroundings and to show us both what he and the other characters are thinking and what is happening around them. By using this point of view, the author is able to describe the setting of ... and make the theme visible. By using the third person omniscient point of view, the narrator can give us a detailed and unbiased description of his/her surroundings while still retaining part of the character's view of reality. When the narrator says "It was a wild-looking place, and there was no one there" we are given the mother's view of the boy's beach, which in her opinion is "wild looking". This gives us a clear picture of the setting. Additionally, the sentence "He went out fast over the gleaming sand, over ...
- 6440: John the Baptist
- John the Baptist John the Baptist was a great and mighty prophet. His birth was foretold to his father, Zechariah, by the angel Gabriel. It was a miracle that Elizabeth, John=s mother, was able to give birth, since both of his parents were past the child-bearing years. John entered this world, with his parents knowing that great and powerful things were to come from their son. Although John was a tremendous prophet, he is rarely mentioned in our Christian teachings or in the Bible (Greenhough 71). Gabriel foretold John's birth in Luke's gospel. His parents were godly people, Aupright in the sight of God, observing all the Lord=s commandments and regulations blamelessly@ (Luke 1:6 NIV). Zechariah and Elizabeth were both from the line of ...
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