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    enlightenment with his study of the Ilongot tribe. Michelle and Renato Rosaldo had studied the Ilongot tribe in the northern part of the Philippines as anthropologists. Renato Rosaldo ’s past attempts at understand the Ilongot ’s reason for head hunting‚ "rage‚ born of grief‚" had failed using his method of hermeneutics. The conclusions Rosaldo drew from this explanation were‚ at best‚ educated guesses. Trying to be objective to his study of the Ilongot tribe‚ Rosaldo could not understand the driving

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    Muslims‚ Buddhists‚ Christians‚ and Hindu. Malaysian official language is Malay‚ and English the second. Apart from Chinese‚ Indian and Malay‚ there are several native cultural such as Iban‚ Bidayuh‚ Kadasan‚ and so on. This essay is going to give the foundation idea of three main cultural and also a briefly talking about Iban people. Malay or Melayu called themselves the “bumiputeras’’ in Malaysia‚ bumi in Malay language means earth‚ and putera means prince or son. Overall it means “The

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    1. Why does English have a large vocabulary compared to other languages? Please give reasons to support your argument. (1) its extensive廣泛contacts with other languages. (2) the large numbers of people all over the world use it. (3) the increasingly many purposes for which is used. 2. Do you agree that “what a word means today is what it meant in the past?” Please explain what etymology詞源學can help with today’s meaning of a word. I don’t agree because language would change gradually as the

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    Sacred place implies a hierophany‚ marking out territory from the surrounding areas‚ making it qualitatively different and become the centre of the entire universe‚ a place where power and faith are strongest (Elide 1959). The Ibans appeal to the rain gods to ask for rain at sacred place such as an old burial ground believed to be a century old. Upon reaching the sacred site‚ the longhouse folk would put their offerings on it and recite prayers‚ followed by some lengthy incantation

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    How Does One Lose Innocence? As seen in William Golding’s‚ Lord of the Flies The novel Lord of the Flies contains a story line of young English boys trapped on an island without any adult supervision.  The boys soon lose their English manners and become uncivilized.  The change is noticeable in each of the boys as they adapt to the uncivilized life on the island‚ but in the two main characters‚ Jack and Ralph‚ the change is most noticeable.  In William Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ the characters

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    PERINATAL BELIEFS AND PRACTICES AMONG BADJAOS IN JOLO‚ SULU A RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL ATENEO DE ZAMBOANGA UNIVERSITY ZAMBOANGA CITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER IN PUBLIC HEALTH BY: DR. RUHIDA CAUBA SARABI APRIL 2007 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Having gone this far will not be attainable if not for the people who gave me strength‚ hope and will to write. I would like to thank them‚ in one way or the other

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    (Bangladesh) Executive.Summary: Human Recourse Management is a vital part of any organization. This is even more important for a multinational company & other organization.For recruiting the best candidate at a best place ‚ there are some headhunters all over the world. PeopleScape is one of them in Bangladesh. As students of ASAUB we are lucky to get a chance to prepare an assignment on PeopleScape. While working on it we came to know about various aspects of planning and implementation

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    Language and Knowledge about Disability Language is useful for the humankind to communicate with each other. In Malaysia with a multi-ethnic group and a diversity of language use by the society to communicate especially each ethnic group also have their own mother tongue. Consequences‚ using a specific language to reflect the disability according to their indigenous knowledge will have make sense. Supported by Hosking (2008) review that a community will use a local language to reflect the concept

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    festival whereas Dayak is a collective name for the native ethnic groups of Sarawak (and neighboring Indonesian Kalimantan): the Iban‚ also known as Sea Dayak and the Bidayuh people‚ also known as Land Dayak. Thus‚ Gawai Dayak literally means "Dayak Festival". Dayak would visit their friends and relatives on this day. Such visit is more commonly known as "ngabang" in the Iban language. Those too far away to visit would receive greeting cards. It started back in 1957 in a radio forum held by Mr Ian Kingsley

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    Philippine Dance The following are examples of popular Philippine folk dances : Binasuan - Originated in Pangasinan Province “meaning with the use of drinking glasses”‚ this vibrant dance basically shows off balancing skill of the performers. Glasses filled with rice wine are placed on the head and on each hand carefully maneuvered with graceful movements. This dance is common in weddings‚ fiestas and special occasions. Pandanggo sa Ilaw - The word pandanggo comes from the Spanish dance “fandango”characterized

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