In his description of their arrival and work regimen, a variety of themes are generalized in order to give readers a certain level of background information on topics that will be discussed more thoroughly in later chapters. A more in depth look was taken at the influences of western cultural, anthropological research of the Maisin people and their cultural activities, both of which Barker and Anne took part in. During these activities Barker becomes enthralled with the creation of Tapa, once his wife is presented her own shortly after arriving in Uiaku. The cultural meaning behind this traditional cloth and its importance to the identity of the Maisin people is of great significance when attempting to understanding their ability to adapt to situations, while saving ancestral traditions and beliefs. In this way “it is appropriate, then, to approach Maisin culture and history through the medium of tapa” (Barker 7). Aside from ceremonial garments, Barker also describes the physical and cultural setting of Uiaku and its history regarding development and missionary work.…
Monique and the mango rains is a touching story about a peace corps volunteer and a Malian midwife. The story is set in the small village of Namposella and is narrated by the Peace Corps volunteer Kris Holloway. The book gives you an in depth perspective on the life of a woman in Mali and their culture as a whole. In this paper I will be discussing anthropological concepts including rite of passage, patriarchy, and religion and how they apply to Monique and the mango rains.…
I decided to write about the Amish culture because of their lifestyle and the way they live without all the necessities that we cannot live without. The Amish people base their lifestyle on family and their belief in their culture. In my report I would like to write about the Amish culture, the primary mode of subsistence, their beliefs and values, their kinship system and their gender relations.…
“Material Conditions of Family Life”, written by Raffaela Sarti, is a reading that examines the characteristics that differentiate one class from another at different time periods. Two of these, such as living conditions and eating, distinguishes what life was like for families who lived in rural villages in 1700 and for those living in cities in 1850. Clearly, in the short span of 150 years, what one might have seen as progression in a rural environment is completely different of what one experienced in an urban area.…
In the world that we are living, people always call for equality. For example, they want to have gender equality, social equality, political equality, and etc. In Joseph Stiglitz’s essay, Rent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal Society, he sought for income equality. Stiglitz realized one of the main forces that caused inequalities in wealth and income in America society was because of rent seeking and government was the source of the problem. However, some of his arguments were not convincing and lacked facts. For instance, on page 595, he mentioned that “America’s current level of inequality is unusual. Compared with other countries and compared with what it was in the past even in the United States, it’s unusually large, and it has been…
In the short story "Sixty-Nine Cents" Gary Shteyngart, a Jewish writer who was born in Soviet Russia and emigrated to the USA at the age of seven, depicts one of his first experiences of attempted assimilation in the American society. This short autobiographic story shows the dubious nature of any immigrant's life, where not even an ethnic identity but the internal feeling of belonging to a certain culture creates obstacles to quick assimilation and makes a person to feel an outsider.…
In the article “Profits without Prosperity” published by the Harvard Business Review, William Lazonick describes the alarming effects of huge stock buybacks by the top management. Among these problems includes loss of shareholder value, clear disinvestment, crippled ability to modernize, obliteration of jobs, exploitation of employees, payout gains for activist insiders, speedily growing disparity, persistent economic stagnation as well as runaway executive compensation. In the article, William refers to these buybacks as a social, economic and moral disaster as they entail effective stock-price manipulation.…
In the article “The Amish: A Small Society” by John A. Hostetler, John is talking about the Amish society. The Amish societies are a group of highly Christian religious people who are extremely traditional and refuse to adopt conveniences of modern technology. They are known for their simple living, plain dressings, and their reluctance to transition or change with our ever growing societies. According to the article, The Amish are often perceived by other Americans to be relics of the past who live an austere, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient and archaic customs.…
Swarthmore College Professor Barry Schwartz published an op-ed in last Sunday’s New York Times entitled, “Rethinking Work.” The essay begins by noting that a “survey last year found that almost 90 percent of workers were either “not engaged” with or “actively disengaged” from their jobs.” So 9 out of 10 “workers spend half their waking lives doing things they don’t really want to do in places they don’t particularly want to be.” But Why?…
In the article, “Sixty-Nine-Cents”, Gary Shteyngart writes about his first trip to Disney world when he was fourteen years old. Although Shteyngart’s family already immigrated to the U.S at that time, but his family still not blend to the U.S style life. In paragraph 8, Shteyngart describes the Russian style lunch that his mother served for them when they were in McDonald. He writes the detail of the lunch in order to show how his family still remain their old culture and do not really try to get use to the U.S culture. When his mother got out the Russian lunch, Shteyngart refused to stay with them, because he really wants to try U.S typical food and blend in U.S culture. Also, Shteynagart compare his family and a Miami family. His describes his family as “the newly tanned resident aliens”, and he described the Miami family as a very modern family that “bought themselves the happiest of meals.” He thinks that his family act like countryman that is new here, even they already immigrated to the U.S and is now “Americans,” and the Miami family is just in the “American style”. They act freely, talk freely and eat freely (eat what they want) which is just what Shteynagart wants.…
The Nature of Business * The goal of Business A business tries to earn a profit by providing products that satisfy people’s needs. Business’ produce products that have both tangible and intangible characteristics. Primary goal of a business it to EARN PROFIT.…
In Louis Uchitelle’s book, The Disposable American, he explores the decline of job security and the concept of “lifetime employment” in the United States as well as the underlying shift in government involvement and public perception that accelerated mass layoffs of workers and precipitated the notion that workers must solely bare the full financial and emotional burden of their discharge rather than businesses or society. Chapter 6 and the discussion on government legislation in the late twentieth century also examines potential responses to unemployment from unions and other stakeholders. Uchitelle’s book is extremely beneficial to our studies because it demonstrates how there are additional parties besides policymakers, like organized labor,…
Give an outline of the attitudes to ‘’Simple Living’’ presented in texts 1, 2 and 3.…
The source of income for Himbians is cattle. Their daily life is quiet like the villagers but women share equal works with man they milk the cows, take care of children, fetch water from wells and build houses while man handle political tasks. All the members of an extended family live in a farmhouse containing huts and surrounding cattle’s and ancestral fire.…
We may wonder if the values and traditions we believed in and practised are still observed in our former villagers. Many people have migrated to towns or adopted an urban way of life where such traditions may not be so well-ingrained. In these places, life is fast paced and they do not have the time to enjoy the simple pleasures of life they used to.…