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    Plan in Cancun. The Royal Islander All Suites Resort You and your family deserve only the best during your stay in Cancun‚ and the Royal Islander All Suites Resort has it all. This Cancun hotel with European Plan (room only) features spacious suites and well-equipped villas with a beautiful decor‚ exclusive amenities and incredible views of the Caribbean Sea. The

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    The Origin and the navigational techniques used by islanders to travel over large Open Ocean has given question to academic writers‚ on how the islanders are able to travel and settle in this remote part of the earth. Pacific Islanders used traditional navigational knowledge to travel against storms and current on Pacific Ocean over past centauries‚ by using canoes. This essay will discuss the two theory of migration with archaeological evidence of origin‚ the traditional techniques of navigation

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    nursing that will provide nursing care in partnership with the concerned community group (Queensland Health‚ 2009) like the Aborigines and the Torres Strait Islanders. This growing specialization is called community health nursing. Community health nursing is crucial in ensuring that the correct approaches to the Aborigines’ and Torres Strait islanders’ community health‚ are applied and are popularly supported by the concerned indigenous groups. It is important that the community health nurses are equipped

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    But‚ in WWII‚ Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders were allowed to enlist and many did so. In WWI‚ sometimes their skin was deemed ‘white enough‚’ therefore allowing some Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders to enlist in the Army. "Half-castes may be enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force provided that the examining Medical Officers are satisfied that one of the

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    A Queer Revolution: Reconceptualizing the Debate Over Linguistic Reclamation Robin Brontsema University of Colorado at Boulder The debate over linguistic reclamation‚ the appropriation of a pejorative epithet by its target(s)‚ is generally conceived of as a simple binary of support and opposition. I offer an alternative conceptualization that shows both the complex contrasts and commonalities within the debate. Specifically‚ I identify three perspectives: (1) that the term is inseparable from

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    “The films focus almost exclusively on village life‚ feature ample images of the ocean‚ islanders fishing‚ children running on the beach‚ sunsets‚ palm trees‚ the camera person at work on the island‚ images of flooded homes‚ and interviews with subjects who are considering migration to metropolitan centers” (DeLoughrey‚ 243). This results in readers of the article and viewers who watched the documentaries alike to get the impression that the different documentaries are interchangeable and predictable

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    jealousy and on the sensitivity of sex differences in the sexual sphere to cultural input. Social scientists have frequently ’ observed that sexual jealousy can be a strikingly strong emotion. In his classic work on the natives of the Trobriand Islands‚ for example‚ Malinowski (1932) noted that "jealousy‚ with or without adequate reason‚ and adultery are the two factors in tribal life which put most strain on the marriage tie" {p. 97). The sociologist Davis (1948) noted that jealousy is a "fear and rage

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    It was 1861 when the first string of sugar plantations started to develop along the coast of northern Queensland‚ Australia. Queensland had previously been accustomed to having cheap labor at their disposal with the use of servants and convicts. Convict transportation came to a stop and the government soon was in need of increasing income to make up for the lost labor‚ similar to the Europeans around the same time. Europeans were big into trading and had “previously been interested in African nations

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    religious teachings and values. Such and example is the introduction of some of the Ten Commandments of God being in place in British law ‚ such as it being illegal and punishable to murder and steal and also to lie in court. Ritual as identified by Malinowski still plays a large role in regulating personal and social life. The ceremony of marriage is placed in stone as the only way for some couples to gain certain rights that they would not have if they were no married. Marriage is set down as a way

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    endeavors such as grooming (Cheney & Seyfarth 1990). Within the realm of interpersonal relations‚ language also has been seen to be used for the purpose becoming a means of bonding people into a union based solely on companionship (Malinowski 1923). However‚ Malinowski (1923) also thought that only specific “civilised societies” would use language for the case of transmission of information. This is clearly a skewed view of reality‚ and in fact it has been shown to be untrue. Soskin & John (1963)

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