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Life in A Sinhalese Village, 2008.
This paper paints a picture of the society in a Sinhalese village, Sri Lanka.
702 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 25.95
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The paper discusses the ritual practices common in Sinhalese villages, specifically, the art of "devil dancing". The paper points out the Sinhalese respect and fear for the unknown and abstract. The paper looks at the disparity in formal education systems, the role of family in Sinhalese society and the contested role of women.
Outline:
Ritual Practices-The Devil Dance
Formal Education
Kinship
The Independent Woman
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"A large majority of the people of Sri Lanka pratice Buddhism or a synthesis of Buddhism and Hindusim. But throughout history, folk cults stemmed from cultural traditions with beings and deities of supernatural powers that influence day-to-day lives of the people have also been integrated into the Buddhist practices of Sinhalese villages (Baker 39). A great deal of emphasis is placed upon the complex and elaborate rituals needed to pacify evil spirits and to appease the benevolent deities. Although this practice is not condoned by the Buddhist temples, there is a large following of these rituals, especially in the Sinhalese villages."
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"China's Urban Villagers" and "The Dragon's Village", 1993.
Compares works by American and Chinese anthropologists on modern peasants in China.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"The purpose of this research is to compare two works that deal with modern peasants in the People's Republic of China. One book, China's Urban Villagers, is written by a prominent American anthropologist, Norman Chance; the other book, The Dragon's Village, is by Yuan-Tsung Chen, who spent many years working with Chinese peasants.
Chance's book is divided into chapters that deal with specific areas of life. The introduction is well written and covers the subject of background quite well in its limited space. One interesting part concerns the disruption caused in Chinese society by foreign capital in the 19th century when at the same time so much foreign capital was flowing into the United States with such different results. Chance's description of the difference between a peasant (a person who grows food for ..."
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Does It Take a Village to Raise a Child?, 2008.
Evaluates the ancient African proverb "It takes a whole village to raise a child", used in the context of youth development.
885 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that the proverb ---"It takes a whole village to raise a child" --- advocates that the upbringing of a child depends not only on the family but also on the whole community. The author presents arguments for and against this statement and concludes that, with it takes the family, then the community, and finally the whole world to raise a child.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Yes, It Takes A Village...
No, It Does Not Take A Village...
Villages outside the US
The Family and the Village
It Takes a Child...
The Global Village
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"Nowhere are the two opposing views of childrearing as evident as in Germany. Today's middle-aged generation from the former East Germany were institutionally raised typical of communist societies. Their peers who grew up in the West were raised in a very family-oriented setting by stay-at-home moms. The result is a clash of childrearing philosophies."
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"Patience and Power: Women's Lives in a Moroccan Village", 2002.
The paper provides a book review of Susan Schaefer Davis' 1985 work
"Patience and Power: Women's Lives in a Moroccan Village", which presents an account of the economic activity of women in the small village of Sidi Embarek, Morocco.
1,038 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 36.95
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The paper examines how the authoress looks beyond traditional economic analysis and succeeds in showing how Moroccan women wield power in the informal economy and the private sphere. The paper discusses the woman's lack of identity and need to protect her honor, using examples from the book to clarify points. The paper also looks at the types of socially acceptable work Moroccan women were allowed to carry out.
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"Like many societies, there were strict social rules in place regarding the status and roles of women in Sidi Embarek in the early 1980s. Women clearly did not enjoy as much freedom as men. The women could not hold public office and were expected to fulfill domestic and household chores. In many ways, the women in Sidi Embarek are akin to property. Their identities are always subsumed with the menfolk, making them someone's wife or daughter. For example, sons were expected to care for their elderly parents. When married, a woman "belongs" to her husband's family and is expected to take care of her in-laws. For this reason, Davis says that sons were often valued over daughters."
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"Revolution in the Village", 2002.
A review of the book "Revolution in the Village" by Hy V. Luong about the French era in Vietnam.
1,676 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper examines the book "Revolution in the Village" by Hy V. Luong. It shows how the colonial era changed life in the villages of Vietnam and continued to do so into the 1930s, a time when there were increasing actions being taken to oust the French, with the French fighting back. It discusses how both sides made use of the village structure and altered village life as they sought to achieve their goals. It analyzes the long history of the development of anti-colonialism in Vietnam and the Yen-Bay uprising. It looks at how Luong argues that local traditions played an important role on shaping the response of villagers to both the imposition of colonial capitalism and to the socialist polices of the Vietnamese revolution and sets out to prove the logical connection.
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"The French era in Vietnam started after some 900 years of self rule, and it began with a treaty that was humiliating to the Vietnamese when it was accepted in 1862. Even the French were surprised at the way this treaty was accepted by a people who had resisted Chinese incursions for 900 years. In fact, some Vietnamese accepted the French conquest because of dissatisfaction with the oppressive monarchy and because the ruler at the time had not been able to protect his people either from foreign aggression or from an unusually high incidence of natural disasters such as floods, famines, locusts, droughts, and a cholera epidemic in 1865 that killed more than one million people. Over time, a French-Vietnamese landholding class developed in the region, but Vietnamese, were appointed only to the lower levels of the bureaucracy established to administer the new colony. This created a new dissatisfaction, this time with the French rulers."
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The Rabbit-Woman Village, 2002.
A description of an archaeological find called the Rabbit-Woman Village.
2,073 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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The paper reports on the excavation of an ancient village, named the Rabbit-Woman Village, sister to the Lizard-Man Village. The paper investigates the archaeological work done on the site and the different techniques used such as stratigraphy and the development of a relative chronology.
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"Another area of importance is the family organization of the people of Rabbit Woman village. Did they have traditional family units, as we think of them today. Did the men have more than one wife? Did the women have multiple husbands? Did they send their children to be raised by a family member and raised another family members children? Is there even a concept of marriage and family or do they thin of themselves as a communal family? Evidence of this can be found in the artifacts, and from the stories of the decedents of Rabbit Woman village. Looking at the surrounding areas, it is good to note the family organization of those sites that we know and that coincided chronologically with the Rabbit Woman village. We will also look at burial patters, were families buried together? And housing. Is there evidence of a male presence at all the camp sites, houses of Rabbit Women village, things like spears and other weapons usually indicate the presence of a male."
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The New England Village, 2002.
An analysis of the historical geography of the New England village and its transformation from being spiritual to being commercial.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper will examine the historical geography of the New England village from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries. It will be argued that within this time frame the urban geography of the village underwent a series of complex changes that parallel both the population growth of New England and the declining power of the Puritan community within that same population. As will be seen, there exists a clear correlation between the transformation of these communities from spiritual to secular orientation, and their expansion as commercial and industrial centres.
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Chen Village, 2005.
This paper reviews the book "Chen Village Under Mao and Deng" by Anita Chan, Richard Madesn and Jonathan Unger that studies the impact of revolutionary activities on isolated communities.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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The paper examines global issues and presents a book report on the book "Chen Village Under Mao and Deng." The book report includes an examination of the authors, objectives, a summary, a look at methodology and the sources that were used. The paper also includes an evaluation section that is basically in favour of the book.
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"The effects of revolutionary activities on isolated communities have always been of interest to anthropologists and sociologists. This is precisely the issue examined in "Chen Village Under Mao and Deng." The authors of this work, Anita Chan, Richard Madesn and Jonathan Unger are all sociologists associated with Universities in Australia and the United States (Chan et al). The fact that the book is written as a sociological work is not surprising considering that it was written by three sociologists. The sociological style of the book also means that it does not have a clearly defined thesis. Instead the book is more of a general exploration of life in Chen village over the early 1960s to 1990."
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Hannah More's "Village Politics", 2006.
This paper analyzes a fictional debate about democratic values found in Hannah More's 19th century pamphlet "Village Politics."
8,266 words (approx. 33.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 176.95
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This paper details and examines a fictional debate about democratic values from Hannah More's 19th century political pamphlet entitled "Village Politics." The paper presents the opposing viewpoints of two men arguing whether or not a new constitution is necessary or destructive to England. The paper also draws on the political philosophy of the times, including that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and his concept of the general will. The author additionally examines More's political beliefs and how they are conveyed in the pamphlet.
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"People in society today are greatly influenced by what they read. The op-eds in the newspapers skew people's beliefs of political affairs and current events in the same way that biased articles in popular magazines seem to shape the way the general public views different types of cultural aspects. Keeping this in mind, it is especially important to note that during the 1800s, the people lacked other forms of media and communication that people in modern times are influenced by. Instead, they relied heavily on literature to entertain themselves, most of which shaped the way they viewed culture, politics, and life itself. As a female philanthropist writer during the 1800s of England, Hannah More produced a number and variety of different works that were widely distributed and popular. Among them was Village Politics, a pamphlet reading a dialogue between two English men about democratic ideals, written during the early French Revolution."
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"Stranger in the Village", 2002.
A look at the issue of racial discrimination as portrayed in James Baldwin's book "Stranger in the Village".
801 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 28.95
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This paper briefly discusses the issues of white superiority over 'Blacks' in American history. It shows how "Stranger in the Village" is primarily a cry against racial discrimination. It examines the complex historical relationship between the "blacks" and "whites" - Black refers to the American Negroes and white refers to white men, the Americans, according to Baldwin.
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"These Americans were originally discontented Europeans (Baldwin 1955) who came to the New World - which later became the North American continent - and found the Blacks there. These original settlers believed that they were morally destined to conquer this vast and great Continent and, out of necessity, had to reconcile the fact of Black slavery as part of that moral assumption of superiority, conquest and destiny. It has been more than 300 years since at Jamestown and the Negro has remained a slave, wrestling and fighting for his dignity, identity and freedom from his American master."
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Hillary Clinton's "It Takes a Village", 2004.
This paper discusses Hillary Clinton's "It Takes a Village" about raising children.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 23.95
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This paper explains Hillary Clinton's ideas about the factors that both encourage and discourage the "village" concept for raising children. The author points out the forces in the U.S. today that impact child rearing and community commitment. The paper cites organizations that help children.
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"There are many opinions on the proper way to bring up a child for example what to teach a child how much freedom a child should have and what is considered proper discipline. The influences children have in their lives range from family members teachers and neighbors to local business owners policemen social workers and community or church leaders. Each of these people could have either a direct or an indirect impact on the children of their community. Yet ,many of these same people may not feel that they ..."
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On "A Global Village Full of Idiots", 2008.
A review of Joan Claytor's article "A Global Village Full of Idiots", a commentary of the harmful effects of television.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper examines Joan Claytor's "A Global Village Full of Idiots", an entertaining newspaper article that presents at least seven fallacious arguments regarding television culture. It finds the article light and humorous, full of deliberate exaggerations, which produce the series of fallacious arguments that are easily identified and explained. The paper concludes that upon reading the article, the reader will have been entertained by the author's assertion that television is harmful to human experience, the family and home, its powers extending to filling whole houses with unwanted emotions and converting people to mere addicts and idiots.
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"The author opens, for instance, in an argument that the "main problem with TV" is that it is addictive. (p.15) This is a presumptive argument in that one cannot know if it is addictive really, or for most viewers, or for any at all. Also, there is not a way in which to understand quite what the author means by using the medical term of addictive, only knowing that a television is not like heroin or tobacco or alcohol for those who are addicted to them. One meets few compulsive television viewers or people who would happily walk two miles in the snow in order to turn on a television that is located elsewhere. People do not need to be hospitalized for withdrawal because the family television is being repaired. North American cities have places where suffering people are treated for different kinds of addictions, but none for those who suffer the physical and emotional effects of television addiction. One waits to be told how it is that television is addictive and realizes that the author might mean habit-forming or familiar, as are not congruent with the bold statement she has made referring to television as addictive. A similar fallacious argument could be made by substituting the term of destructive, or perhaps combustive, for addictive, as would also be presumptive fallacies, if asking the important question of "why?" after writing one statement out, or the other."
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"The Dragon's Village", 2002.
An analysis of Chen Yuan-tsung's autobiographical work of historical fiction, "The Dragon's Village".
1,229 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, $ 41.95
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The paper shows that in Chinese author Chen Yuan-tsung's novel "The Dragon's Village", land reform was hardly welcomed with open arms by the Chinese peasantry. Rather than acceptance, the individuals who took to the fields and rice paddies of China to spread the doctrine of communism, found a peasantry largely hostile to the ideology they espoused. The paper analyzes the heroine of the book, Guan Ling-ling and the conflicting emotions she has towards the ideologies of Communism.
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"This initial image of her early life sets up a clear portrait of the China Guan later hopes to change by going to the countryside. This China is patriarchal, as the women sit, waiting quietly to hear a man speak in the removed language of poetry. This China is hierarchical, as members of the urban class dine comfortably upon fine food. This is the food that the heroine of the book will later dream about as she starves in rural areas. (Chen, 1980, 280) Clearly, change is necessary in such an environment, and the protagonist's rejection of the trappings of such a life at first seems independent and admirable. However, the change created by land reform is no less absurd than the portrait of life in ostensibly communist Shanghai, in all of its near-aristocratic excesses."
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"It Takes a Village", 2004.
Essay discussing the concept expressed in the African proverb "It takes a village to raise a child".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 23.95
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This essay discusses the African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child" made popular by Hillary Rodham Clinton and the concept it expresses about the need for all of society to concern itself with the well-being of children. The paper discusses government policies and programs in the context of the proverb and forces for and against the concept.
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"Even in a nation founded on the tradition of independence and self-sufficiency, the greater community has always been needed for survival. The pilgrims needed the Native-Americans, the frontier people needed their neighbors, people of the Great Depression needed the New Deal programs and America's children, especially poor children of all races and ethnicities,need more than just their primary caregivers -- they need a village. The old African proverb "It takes a village to raise a child" became popular in the United States when Hillary Rodham..."
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"Revolution In The Village" by Hy V. Luong, 2000.
A review of work on Vietnamese village life, focusing on the 1930s including culture, French colonialism, socialism, Confucianism and social organization.
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" Many Americans never heard of Vietnam before the U.S. was enmeshed in the Vietnamese War beginning in the 1960s. Some remembered when the region was called Indochina and may even have known that the French were the colonial power in the region for most of a century, but the lengthy history of conflict in that region was largely removed from the observations of most Americans. As the book Revolution in the Village by Hy V. Luong shows, however, how the colonial era changed life in the villages of Vietnam and continued to do so into the 1930s, a time when there were increasing actions being taken to oust the French, with the French fighting back. Both sides made use of the village structure and altered village life as they sought to achieve their goals. The Yen-Bay uprising is the central action analyzes in the beginning of the book, though there was a long..."
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