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    splurge on a holiday. A travel industry study identified nine motives for pleasure as opposed to business travel‚ “escape from a perceived mundane environment‚ exploration and evaluation of self‚ relaxation‚ prestige‚ regression‚ enhancement of kinship relationships‚ and facilitation of social interaction‚ novelty and education. (Crompton‚ John L‚ 1979). It made me examine my own motivations for pursing my wish for a dream vacation. In addition‚ if I were to examine the rational and motivations

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    The kinsmen share a speech stating “I fear for the younger generation‚ for you people.” The younger generation is not holding this tradition and bring division. The younger generation “do not understand how strong is the bond of the kinship‚” The kinship being the blood relationship and unity. Unity within culture maintains control‚ if division is brought in people will go against each other. Yet‚ the younger generation have withdrawn from each other and instead against one another. Dialogue

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    Hannah Ferry IB Language Arts   Period 6 Written Task Two The Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. In this book the main character‚ Marlow‚ ventures up the Nile River to find a man named Kurtz. As he continues his journey up river he experiences a vast range of emotions and situations that are putting him to the test to see if he can keep his sanity. One of the situations he encounters are the natives of the Congo. At first they are seen as the primitive savage-like

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    Definition of a Family

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    active and have one or more children. Later in 1971‚ Burgess et al defined a family as “a group of persons united by the ties of marriage‚ blood or adoption” and Social Science defined a family as a group of “individuals who are related by affection‚ kinship‚ dependency or trust.” All these different people have had a different idea on what families are‚ but are any of them wrong? When reading each definition‚ I only found one similarity‚ a family is at least two people who are together. So is it possible

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    This research will focus on the Andean woman of Peru in the sixteen century. First‚ I will explore the role that the woman played in the Inca society. Secondly‚ I will reflect on the impact the Spanish invasion had on the role woman played in her kinship‚ in the household‚ in religion and in relation with productive activities and politics. Later on‚ I will discuss the contradictory perceptions of the Andean woman as a victim and as a skilful negotiator. Furthermore‚ I will focus on change and continuation

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    Sedentary cultivation was the exception. Only in the mountains of northern Luzon‚ where elaborate rice terraces were built some 2‚000 years ago‚ were livelihood and social organization linked to a fixed territory. The lowland peoples lived in extended kinship groups known as barangays‚ each under the leadership of a datu‚ or chieftain. The barangay‚ which ordinarily numbered no more than a few hundred individuals‚ was usually the largest stable economic and political unit. Within the barangay the status

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    the doyen of Indian Sociology. Ghurye’s contribution to the development of sociology and anthropology in India is enormous and multi-faceted. A prolific writer‚ Ghurye wrote 32 books and scores of papers‚ which cover such wide-ranging themes as kinship and marriage‚ urbanization‚ ascetic traditions‚ tribal life‚ demography‚ architecture and literature Ghurye played a key role in the professionalisation of sociology by founding the Indian Sociological

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    Huaorani of Ecuador The Huaorani Indians live in the Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador‚ and they are a semi-nomadic horticultural society. They hunt wild game‚ gather fruits‚ and berries‚ but they also grow their own plants. They live off the land and have to move from time to time usually every ten years or so in order to not over use the area. They are feared by many people in their region because of their violent reputation‚ they are temperamental‚ and unpredictable. The men and women have

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    years have been connecting people‚ ideas and resources. An American Anthropologist‚ Judith Jamour spent two years of field work in the villages and the urban city to publish a book titled “Malay Kinship and Marriage in Singapore.” This short version is based on kinship and social change. Malay society in Singapore (at least in the urban area) differs in several ways from that in most of the Federation. This for an example‚ there is an excess of males over females. The Malays are

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    between two or more variables Correlated variables are factors that are linked and interrelated‚ such as food intake‚ such that when one increases or decreases‚ the other changes too. Band – small group of fewer than a hundred people‚ all related by kinship or marriage. One typical characteristic of the foraging life was mobility. Smaller communities‚ marginal lands (lands people don’t want) Bands were exogamous‚ meaning people could join any band to which they had kin or marital links. All human societies

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