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    creatures I now am raising. They are now a part of my life and they mean everything to me. I get to live my life with a curious hamster and now two wild guinea pigs who scream like banshees when a bag crinkles. Just the thought of having them run around my room for a long time makes me smile in delight. Were in the car driving to go pick up my new guinea pigs. But we have seemed to stop. are we here I shoot straight up and look around‚ cars fill the space and are close together. Traffic. We sat there

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    Case Study Report #3 (Trobrianders: Matrilineality and kinship) When studying kinship‚ it is needless to say that just one type of society can justify for kinship patterns; rather‚ to be able to identify and understand the differences of kinship systems‚ one needs to study a society long enough to understand its culture and patterns. The Trobriander society has been used to represent different levels of social‚ cultural‚ and technological complexities. Trobrianders were horticulturists living in

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    Trobrianders Fathers Role

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    The Trobrianders’ way of life seems to revolve around the mother significantly more than almost every other culture. For example‚ children are claimed as part of the matrilineage meaning that they are claimed on their mother’s side of the family. To someone who is not familiar with their culture‚ it may seem as though the fathers of the children have no rights or obligations to care for and raise their children. Even some people who have studied the Trobrianders have failed to see the importance

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    Guinea Pigs

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    Guinea Pigs are not in fact as the name suggests‚ pigs‚ they are members of the rodent family more specifically hystricomorphic rodents‚ related to porcupines and chinchillas. Guinea Pigs or Cavia Porcellus originated in the South American Andes and it is suggested that they are the domesticated descendants of closely related Cavy‚ Cavia apera‚ Cavia fulgidia and Cavia Tschudii. Wild guinea pigs tend to be smaller in statue than their domesticated cousin‚ generally though they have short round legs

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    Guinea pigs have been used in many experiments. Female guinea pigs start showing sexual behavior when they are forty-five days old. They become restless and show greater activity. Over a period of eight hours the female mounts herself on other female guinea pigs to show the male that she is ready to have intercourse. The male is then excited and approaches the female. After they have intercourse she runs away and stays far away from all the males (Hauser 82). A male guinea pig always gets

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    civilizations with semi-arid climates like those in the Fertile Crescent were growing wheat with ease‚ civilizations like Papua New Guinea were stuck with the dreadful sago trees.

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    on this land in New Guinea need to look like royal dignitaries on camera. I know that I am known as the great peace maker but the public needs to be reminded why that is. Also we need to have solid propaganda on why we need to drill this oil‚ to include the lies we need to tell when it comes to investing into other energy sources. World leaders‚ you already know and understand that public opinion is the key to drilling oil in New Guinea. The cameras will be all over us when news announces that we

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    The New Guinea cargo plane cult from a functionalist perspective stresses that the un-industrialization of the cult is due to the developed world not sharing technological advances with the tribe (cult). The tribe leader’s ability to explain the purpose of the cargo planes and the tribe’s inability to succeed with riches like that of the white man had a large affect on the tribe’s belief system. The tribes simple way of life was disturbed by the discovery of cargo planes in the sky‚ shocking whatever

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    Linacre Chapter Summaries Mr. Pachankis Prologue “In the prologue‚ the author displays his work in the country of New Guinea. The people that lived in New Guinea questioned him about why the “whites” always seemed more dominant. They felt as though the whites were gloating about their advanced capabilities. The author thoroughly explained how the people who lived in New Guinea are just as intelligent as the modern people.” Chapter 1 “In Chapter 1‚ multiple extinctions happened around the same

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    Discovering Guinea Pigs

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    Project Title: discovering guinea pigs Discovering Cavia porcellus (DISCOVERING GUINEA PIGS) Proposed to: Ms. Maureen Jean Lara‚ MAIC Prepared by: Innah Janesa C. de Peralta Geraldine T. Gekin Bea Salvosa Ivy Dy Ruiz (BS Psychology 2B) Date of Proposal: January 09‚ 2012 I. Project Description and General Information Since the world of Science has evolved‚ the experiments of scientists and other researchers also improve and get more complicated

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