Village College Essays Samples For Students

The Future of Food

Every Tuesday morning people would always be seen trekking towards the direction of the sunrise with their bags and some with cartons. To a visitor in the village, he or she would be confused and would think that the usual long line of people was going closer to the sun just to stare at its beauty. In the village, every morning the sun would always be seen up in the sky with beautiful horizon before it turns wild. None would be seen wasting time in the way as every footpath was marked in the same direction. Other paths in ...

History of Sleepy Hollow Sleepy Hollow, Hudson River village defies the passage of time and has managed to preserve both its history and natural beauty. The village is known for its fabulous legends and great history and has a wide range of outdoor adventures and activities for the locals and tourists.The Village of Sleepy Hollow belonged to the larger province of the Native American tribe, Weckquaesgeck Indians, who are described as a Mohican Tribe or a Delaware Tribe1. The Sleepy Hollow countryside is made famous by the author Washington Irving. The village is located in the lower Hudson River ...

Introduction

The meaning behind the term global village- which is often used by politicians, academicians, and business leaders – is often overlooked. It implies the process of becoming global.
Like any other aspect in life, global village to has a positive and negative side. There are those who believe that global villageis inevitability, and will bring about equilibrium. Such people feel that global village is a beneficial thing, even as a ‘hip’ cosmopolitan thing. It seen in the context of technology, as something that is cutting-edge and is bringing the world closer. On the other hand, there are those who believe that it ...

WATER SUPPLIES IN GUATEMALA

I am going to carry out a project on water supplies in Guatemala. In my project, I will come up with strategies that will help in restoring clean water for these people. For effective results, it’s important to come up with ways that will help in crossing the barriers of language, culture, distrust, and fear so as to establish a healthy rapport with the community on study.
What is water? I will start my project by defining this term. Water is, from academic definition, a gist that is colorless, tasteless and unscented. Through research, Fresh water is depicted as having ...

Frozen Moments Serves as Reference in a Timeless Land

People always take picture to capture places they have visited. Emil Sher captures his memories of Bobonong in his mind and through his story he is sending a message to his audience Bobonong is a place to visit.
Emil begins his story with details, vibrant descriptions, if one has been to South Africa and or Zimbabwe he or she would be able to visualize the little village about which Emil is talking. Africa was not somewhere he has been and he says so in the pre reading: “Africa you were just a name to me.” And he goes on to say ...

Chapter Ten of Factory Girls

This essay on Factory Girls will focus on the girls’ experience of living in the village. The journey to return home to the village is more difficult than it is for migrants to leave the village. The time to visit home occurs every year during the Winter Lunar new year. Min returns home to her home village. She brings more gifts for her family in her luggage than her possessions. Chinese on travel generate more trash than anywhere else in the world. Migrant workers clogged the railway system during the Winter Lunar New Year. Those who are better off ...

Ding Ling is one of the most fascinating Chinese writers of the early 20th century, and for good reason – her revolutionary, eye-opening works allowed readers to get a glimpse of the real struggles and questions facing women in the midst of the Maoist revolution in China. Her short stories “When I Was in Xia Village” and “Miss Sophia’s Diary” explore the urban woman in China, telling somewhat autobiographical tales of her feelings toward Maoism, womanhood, identity and modernism. “Miss Sophia’s Diary” allows a deeply personal look at a woman who must move to Beijing, leaving her family behind and exploring a ...

It was harvest time in the only African village in America of Attah- the only village in the world where both whites (though few) and blacks share a common ancestry and have the same culture and only place in the world where people used a language that was somewhere between English and African (scholars would refer to it as Engaf). All the villagers were excited because Henry, the god of harvest had blessed them with a bountiful harvest. Every family was beaming with joy as they prepared to begin harvesting. This activity would take place for seven days and nights, after which ...

Released in 1967 by Walt Disney Animation Studios, the movie “The Jungle Book” is an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s work having the same title. The story revolves around the character of a young orphan boy named Mowgli. The story begins when Bagheera, a black panther discovered the lost young boy in a basket. Bagheera takes Mowgli to a mother wolf. Together with the mother wolf’s cubs she will raise young Mowgli. The adventure begins 10 years after when the Bengal tiger Shere Khan returns to the jungle. Afraid that Mowgli’s life is in danger in the presence of the Bengal ...

Kateri Tekakwitha is the first ever Native American Saint. She is often referred to as the ‘Lily of the Mohawks’. The life story of Kateri is based on bibliographies prepared after her death by two Catholic fathers Cholenec and Chauchetiere. These priests belonged to the mission of Saint-Francois-Xavier. The Jesuit mission started its activities in French territories in North America particularly in Quebec and Upper State New York in the 1660s. The Jesuit mission though religious in nature was politically motivated because France wanted to expand her influence on other parts of the world. The Jesuit Fathers mainly targeted ...

In dealing with the Lot in Life, it will be best to see if Jane is indeed experiencing issues with alalia. From the case study, there do not appear to be any issues related to an aggravated pregnancy that is often according to NICHCY (2011), a common aspect of the development of alalia. Jane is at the age where alalia tends to show signs. Moreover, she does also appear to be showing what Hawk (1999) discusses as signs of backlog in the development of speech and it will be essential and necessary to assess her problem(s) with a ...

Social Module: Venice

1) What is the name of your city, town or village and where did this name come from? Note, there may also be an informal name, that is a name that local people refer to it. You may also discuss any name changes over time and the reasons for these name changes.
In that case, if the word Veneti has the Indo-European origin, it means “famous”, but if we consider this word with the pre-Indo origin, it means “foreigners” or “new comers” (nuovi venuti). Perhaps the name of the Veneto is from the word “new comers”. In this case, ...

"The Village" has very strong and interesting scenario. The ending eventually gives us clear understanding that not every human is terrible, but there are also people willing to help others, show mercy. Mr. Walker cannot be considered a selfish or evil character. He and other elders wanted to create a clear society without evil and sin. But Mr. Walker used the illusion and deception to create such pure village. That is why his idea ended with some tragic incidents. Despite his good intentions, the society cannot survive if it is isolated and blind. People cannot live if they are ...

The lottery by Shirley Jackson was published in 1948 in the New Yorker. It contains a historical context that made it be ranked among the best short stories in the American Literature. The lottery is termed as "a chilling tale of conformity gone mad.” The author has used symbolism and imagery throughout the story to provide insight of the activities that happened in the tradition setting. In the paper below, I will discuss the use of imagery and symbolism in the story, and this includes the lottery, the stones, the three-legged stool, and the black box.

THE LOTTERY

The lottery is the title ...

Wonderland was a village that nobody wanted to be associated with unless he or she had a unique magic. As the name suggests, this village was full of wonders and everything, people, animals, birds, trees and stones, was extraordinary. Every person who lived in this village had to be in possession of a certain charm in order survive. Village elders introduced a law that ensured any child born without magic would be killed because chances of survival for such a child were limited. Many expectant women ran away from the village in fear of their children being murdered. I personally do not believe in ...

Introduction

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart takes us through the life of a typical Nigerian life and family. This is all about inclination to traditional believes, family values, relationships and the daily struggles to make a living. Western civilization and religion has also been addressed with the villagers and missionaries facing the challenge of abandoning their beliefs to embrace Christianity. Tradition has always been part of many African nations that consider it a unifying factor. Despite some of the beliefs and practices that are considered inhuman and selfish, some aspects of the tradition play an important role in unifying the factor. Most ...

Tourism

Introduction
When a village in a coast al location has to pick the most convenient type of tourism to welcome, tourism can be tricky depending on the needs of that particular village. Unfortunately, there are only two methods available. These are mass tourism and alternative tourism. The most effective strategy is a combination of the two. This writing creates a fictional village referred to as “Katavalo” to showcase and analyze the best strategy to follow. It starts by discussing tourism in general before explaining mass and alternative tourism. It further explains sustainable or responsible tourism. The paper also discusses the advantages and ...

The rise of the internet and the globalized city has made it seem as if there are really only two cultural values in the world - the traditional values of the rural lifestyle and the urban values of commerce that dominate the modern cities. Generally speaking, people tend to consider these as a one-way trend as older, more traditional people stay in the rural areas and die off and younger, more modern people move to the cities and push progress and change. By comparing two short stories such as "Souvenirs" by Leila Aboulela and "An Internet Baby" by Xiaolu Guo, ...

In these recollections from his two years living in Botswana, Sher recounts moments and describes images from the daily life in a remote village there. His message that comes through from his writings is that although he clearly loved the “timeless” nature of life there, he was always an outsider in his adopted village of Bobonong. Though he says that he almost never felt homesick for his family home and birthplace in Montreal, Canada, and loved the village where he says “I could have stayed forever”, he describes himself as perceived by the villagers to be “someone in the audience, a ...

Introduction

The Village is a psychological thriller that boasts several intriguing characters and Mr. Walker is one of them. Mr. Walker is one of the elders of the isolated village that keeps its distance from the woods, as a dangerous creature lives in the woods. Mr. Walker along with other founder restricts people from the village to enter the woods and work hard for years to protect their community. Along the way, Mr. Walker displays several qualities such as leadership; care; and honesty that make him stand out among others.

Leader

Leadership is one of the reasons behind Mr. Walker being ...

` His sudden arrival stirred the village. The village nurse admitted that they had not encountered such even in their big books. The prophets said it was the sign of the end of the world. Even the witch doctors, the dying breed, made their own input. They called it the invasion of the dead. Tongoona tried to be honest with the crowd. Promising them that he meant well. He was just on one of the few missions that inhabitants of his galaxy were going to embark on in the future. An inhabitant of one of the black holes, surely no ...

Abstract

Myanmar (Burma) is blessed with a vast variety of renewable and non-renewable resources. Among these resources is the forest resource which is a vital resource for the country due to its support of livelihoods and economic growth. The country is home to the world’s best quality teak which has proven a valuable commodity all over the world. The extensive logging by government authorities, foreign and private companies, and the local people has caused massive deforestation which has led to increased flooding, biodiversity loss, sedimentation of water bodies, water shortage, soil erosion and loss of wildlife species. The country ...

Jackson begins by enumerating the total population of the village, mentioning that it contained about three hundred people. Villages are often comprised of a small number of people, the majority of whom know each other. The setting in this story is significant as it creates a contrast between what these villages ought to be and what they are. Details provided in the story such as the imagery of “the flowers were blooming profusely…” paint a picture of an ordinary gentle summers in a village. There is emphasis on nature in the environment to indicate the quality of life in a typical village. ...

Introduction

The Haida tribe, also referred to as the Hydah people are an indigenous ethnic group that lived in North America, specifically, the Pacific Northwest Coast. The principal territory of the Haida people is the Queen Charlotte Islands, presently known as the archipelago of the Hydah Gwaii. The Hydah Gwaii is in the northern area of the British Columbia. Other people that are thought to be related to the Haida people are the Kaigan Haida. The Kaigan Haida inhabited the area around the Dixon Entrance in the Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska.
It is estimated that before coming ...

In the short story “The Lottery”, written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, the author showcases a dystopian future in which tradition and a sense of community is placed above the individual. An ironic twist at the end turns a pleasant, slice-of-life story about a developing society into a morality tale in which our obsession with tradition is taken to its most extreme conclusion. The characters tacitly endorse horrific violence, showing the real monsters that lie at the very core of human nature. With “The Lottery,” Jackson wishes to showcase the foolishness of mob mentality and the gradual erosion of social freedoms from acceptance by ...

“Things Fall Apart,” by Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian author, is an award winning book that explores what happens when, as the title suggest, things fall apart. Much of the novel is about family ties and being trapped within the rules and restrictions of ones own culture. The story centers on the protagonist, Okonkwo, who is an esteemed warrior in his tribe the Umuofias. He is shamed though because of living in the shadow of his father Unoka, who was considered a coward, had a bad reputation in the village and racked up numerous debts. In some ways, it could be compared to ...

Abstract

Le Ly Hayslip’s memoir is a remarkably personal account of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a native who was victimized by both sides. Her viewpoint is a sharp departure from other histories of the Vietnam conflict, which has often been written about from the standpoint of combatants or by scholars writing highly academic histories. Hayslip’s account shows how one’s understanding of the world can be determined by an ideology, and how it can be changed radically by personal experience. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is an important work in that it reveals the terrible sufferings endured ...

Introduction

Mass communication, in its basic sense, can be defined as a type of communication which is broadcasted over a wide group of people through various ways such as print, television, radio, and internet (Obe, 2008). Nowadays it cannot be denied that mass communication is becoming prevalent in the social lives of the modern people. With the advent of the Internet and the rise of social media communication, more and more people are becoming more dependent on social media in order to stay connected not only with their loved ones but also to the happenings and trends happening all over ...

The commons problem

The tragedy of the commons is the destruction of the environment that occurs when many people use a limited resource in common (Ostrom, 2015). According to Garret Hardin (1968), the population usually grows exponentially, but the world available to the human population is finite. Therefore, for the finite world to support the human population, the population growth rate should be zero. However, this is not the case hence it is impossible to maximise the good to more than one person or group of persons at the same time. Hardin (1968) disagrees with Bentham’s goal which is to achieve ...

General Forum Discussion

In “A Long Way Gone,” Beah writes that a young boy he was forced to become a child soldier and had to deal with violence as well as death. Later in his memoir, Beah writes that he was discharged from his military duties and given to UNICEF for rehabilitation. Violence had become second nature to him, and the rehabilitation process was rather difficult for Beah. However, he was successfully able to be rehabilitated and went to live with his uncle. After his uncle's death, another conflict threatens to send him back to being a soldier again. Beah had chosen exile instead of ...

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World is a fictional narrative on the impact that a certain dead man had to the entire village (Garcia et al., 32). As such, it is a narrative renowned for its strong impact on the transformation and improvement the livelihood of individuals. Through the events that are described in the story, death is seen as a means through which better things can be achieved. This is contrary to the traditional belief whereby death was considered as an end to something. Although the dead are no longer powerful, they may end up having a significant impact to the living that ...

A job loss can mean a nightmare to any parent. Its implications are severe because of the devastating fall in income and economic security for a family. It has an impact on the parents’ mental and physical health. In addition, it affects family relationships and can result to marital conflicts.
When a person is laid off, economic concerns come up. He starts to ponder on how he will be able to sustain his family without any job. In a case where an individual has savings, his main worry will be how long the savings will sustain the family.
An individual is ...

Long ago in a land known as Sankara, there lived a young girl known as Belema. Belema lived with her loving mother in a big wooden house her father had built them. Unfortunately, her father had passed on when she was so young that she barely had any of his memories. However she was told a lot about his heroic acts. That he was a great hunter and had lost his life fighting a leopard that had invaded their village. Belema therefore lived with her mother alone as she had no siblings.
Belema was a very hard working young lady and was very close to ...

[Professor]

Since the globalization, communication went through a massive development that includes the advent of the internet. In the history of communication, internet did not only change the systems of communications but also economics and even politics. Production area of business is not already limited by time and workforce as the internet paved way for managing workforce around the globe across time difference. Money is already wired from any point of the globe to another in a matter of minutes.
On the other hand, advocacies are not already limited in specific domestic situations. There is already an emerging solidarity of ...

1. Compare the people who came to the new world from Europe to seek a living to the Factory girls who left their homes to work in the factories. What motivated each group to leave their homes? Discuss the similarities and differences in their experiences. The Chinese factory migrant workers represent three times the number of Europeans who left their homes to come to the New World. Both shared the common struggle of finding adequate housing, dealing with overcrowding, and the mixture of luck, and ability to find a job. Similarly, the Chinese migrant workers and European emigrants dealt with learning a ...

20-Nov-13

The Final Redemption
The Final Redemption
Once upon on time there was a small village in the countryside located in Angola. It was one of the most blessed villages. Ages ago a group of fisher man found a mask in the countryside, which was later treated as their lucky charm. The mask was very colorful and every hue stood for a particular meaning. Red symbolized power and energy, green was for the natural beauty of the village, and white for peace. The concept behind the black color was that the mask was a savior of all anticipated torments and problems that could ...

Response to answers

Part 1
Question 1
The village was an essential component in the development of the modern city as it is as observed by Mumford in his work. The main reason why the village held such a central role in shaping the character and form of their resultant cities is due to the intimacy that the village holds. The standing institutions as can be seen today are the result of numerous interactions between people and people and their environment. By the continued awareness people gained by living in the village, norms were established, traditions born and rules made governing ...

“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe- An Analysis of the Role of Human Sacrifice

Introduction
Events connected to religious practices framing the culture of the people Achebe describes in “Things Fall Apart” depend on long traditional practices and the role of human sacrifice. The agrarian culture described in the story link to religious practices impart the respect of the practitioners toward the need for communicating with the powers over nature, peoples’ behavior, and life practices among the communal aspects of the people Achebe describes. Analysis of this story looks at the traditional religious practices as part of the culture of the people in the story.

Human Sacrifice in Umuofia

The Umuofia like their fellow clansmen, as a ...

This is a paper about something that I totally care about. I am passionate about Education, and I have dedicated my time to ensure that the realization of education, particularly amongst girl children is realized. This paper is a comprehensive analysis of social entrepreneurial plan that I have developed for a small village of Nyarombo in Kenya. It starts with my analysis of the role of None Governmental organizations in the development of educational opportunities for girls in Kenya.
Today’s economies need workers with knowledge and skills acquired from a schooling program that not only educates but also prepares kids for ...

Introduction

María Candelaria (Mexican: Xochimilco) is a 1943 Mexican film directed by Emilio Fernández. The movie won several accolades for the subject matter, direction, and acting. In 1946, it became graded as a classic in the history of Latin American cinema, when it felled down the linguistic and cultural barriers as the first Mexican film that ever won the Palme d’Or at The Cannes International Film Festival. The film can be simply categorized as a classical romantic-tragedy, but the qualities that truly made it famous were the expressions gender and cultural issues and the hauntingly beautiful cinematography of the film. Today, ...

Akira Kurosawa’s film The Seven Samurai is as much a commentary on the themes of justice and selflessness as it is about samurai warfare. The primary conflict of the samurai against the raiders they are hired to drive away from the village is that of old-fashioned, underdog honor overcoming the ideals of both ruthless chaos (the raiders) and passive defeat (the villagers). Over the course of the film, all seven samurai find their own reasons for defending the village, overcoming their own pride, naivete and pity to band together as an opposing force and strike a blow for honor and ...

“Madeinusa” is a film about a naive teenager who lives in a small, anonymous village with her sister and father. The film centers on two characters, Salvador, a grungy backpacker and the other is Madeinusa, who is considered a chosen girl and her father is unusually attracted to her. The plot is set against a bizarre festival, and the two main characters fall in love. The outsider from Lima is disliked by the local who fear that he will spoil the fun of their festival while Madeinusa sees an escape through him. What follows are a series of events ...

The story “Woman in the Dunes” was written by Kobo Abe in 1962 and it is about Niki, who is a teacher and who collects insects which live among the dunes of sand. He does not manage to get on the bus and he is invited by the village people to sleep there, but they trick him into moving in the house that can be reached only with the aid of a ladder. He is supposed to live with the widow and help her dig sand which they say to companies producing concrete while the house also has to ...

Type of text: Essay

Summary/ Synopsis: The essay under consideration presents the author’s reminiscence about the neighborhood he used to live in. His memories take us back to a housing development (Fairfax Village) in Washington, D.C. of the 1980s and 1990s. As one reads the essay, it becomes clear how much the place has changed, because Jasper provides a comparison of different aspects of life there in the past and in the present. The dangerous Village with a high crime rate turned into a quiet and expensive neighborhood with new buildings, not affordable for African-Americans any more. Yet, Kenji Jasper does his ...

Part A:

John Proctor was one of the most complex characters in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. He has both positive and negative qualities to his personality. Primarily, Proctor is honest, dependable, and a man of solid moral. However, he is not always the pillar of morality. Perhaps most noticeably is the negative propensity he has for cheating on his wife. He is lustful after one of the young girls in the village: Abigail Williams. Eventually the two begin an affair. The affair ends before the play begins, igniting Abigail’s intense jealousy toward Proctor’s wife. It also ignites the audience’ ...

Psychology 101

The seemingly picture perfect early 19th century western community comes into turmoil when the villagers are falling ill, but cannot go beyond their borders for they have a truce with frightening creatures that everyone from the village should stay inside and the creatures would stay outside their community. Towards the end, the blind character Ivy went outside the borders to get medicine for her betrothed, and the twist was revealed that the village was in fact amidst the modern day society, but was hidden from the public in the guise of a wildlife park. It is under this light where I ...

Introduction

The film Qiu Ju revolves around two people who are very stubborn. This includes Qui Ju and the political leader or head. In the film, Qiu Ju heads to the police chief to demand an apology from the political leader who caused physical harm to her husband. Because of her persistence, the police officer is forced to settle the matter. However, the political leader ends up behaving in an unwelcoming manner by throwing the compensation money on the Qiu Ju’s feet. In a counter reaction, Qiu Ju refuses to take the compensation money and decides to launch an appeal ...

In a small town, there is a box that holds power over the people. With years of experience and beyond proud veterans, the box provides a security for those who use it. Though the item is a key to a system, it is a product of foreboding. The Black Box of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” reveals a source of nature that is unquestioned and unexamined. With it or without, the wooden vessel provokes an order that is necessary for its society.
The known purpose and the reigning impact of the Black Box is indisputably Death. And following this notion is the fickleness of Human ...

In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” and Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried,” the death of a character serves as a focal point of the story. In both stories, the author builds suspense around the death, slowly revealing the fate of the character. However, while both stories feature the death of a character, Jackson uses a backdrop of normalcy to counterpoint the horror of death while O’Brien uses a foreign environment against which death seems almost routine. Each author achieves the goal of engaging the reader in a compelling narrative but they use different narrative techniques to achieve ...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, is a book that was written by Equiano himself and it tells of his biography and his life after being kidnapped together with his sister. Equiano was a famous African who participated in the British movement to abolish slave trade where slaves were taken from Africa to go and work for Americans. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is a story that recounts a story of a child born in West Africa and was kidnapped into slavery at a very tender age of 11 years. This narrative explains ...

The story of Rip Van Winkle was written by Washington Irving in the late 1760s or early 1770s, and published around 1819. He was one of America’s most influential humorist and Rip Van Winkle is his masterpiece in fiction, suggested by a German folk-tale. This story has been told leisurely by Irving with a quaint pathos and lambent humor, and he has been successful at the play of thought, language and emotions. It’s a delightful reading that grips the reader who would not get up without completing it.
Irving’s protagonist in the story is Rip Van Winkle, a rustic ...

Literatures generally show evidences about the factors that determine social status in a specific time and place. In the story, The Village Headman and the New Teacher, it shows that in Late Imperial China, those who are rich or who have a position of leadership were regarded highly by other people in the village. People who held a leadership position can give orders and were readily obeyed by their helpers. For example, when Xia, the new village head called for his helper to take his donkey, the latter willingly obliged. Moreover, the high opinion of the leader translates to ...

Tourism is an economic activity that is affected by many other factors in the industry. However, there are many factors that adversely affect the economic activity positively or negatively. This paper explains the impacts that natural disasters might have in tourism as an economic activity. Natural disasters can sometimes become a great barrier to tourism. Tourism is often described as a temporary visit to a new place especially a region or a country (Becken, & Ren, 2012). This movement to a new place can sometimes be compromised with unfavorable natural disasters. A natural disaster, on the other hand, is described ...

Olaudah Equaino

Chapter one of Olaudah Equaino presents a glimpse of the 18th century culture and way of living in a typical African village. In the initial chapter, Equaino demonstrated a reserved behavior, by humbly citing that his narrative was not intended to call attention to himself. However, he also expressed that he felt more favored by God compared to other Africans, which leads him to acknowledge how the Divine had been so merciful of him throughout his life. Consequently, his narrative was a demonstration of his high hopes to be able to help in promoting “the interest of humanity”. He ...

INTRODUCTION

Economical and industrial development are two of the most important elements on the evolutional way for any country and nationality. However, it often happens so that people discover something new and hurl themselves into using it before making throughout estimations of potential risks and hazards. This is especially common if such newly discovered entity (an invention, or mineral, or a way to dig out minerals – this could be anything) is capable of making large sums of money: then there is no particular doubt of this entity becoming incredibly popular and exploited to the extent of being overused. To top ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the traditional institution of trade and economics among the Trobriand Islanders. The primary focus is on the symbolic interpretation of the acts involved in the kula ring and in yam production, display and distribution. The first section of the paper explains the kula ring and how it operated in Trobriand society at the time of the first ethnographic description of the Trobrianders by Malinowski in 1914. The second section examines how social hierarchy is expressed in trade within the kula ring. The third section looks at the difference between symbolic gift ...

Doi Suthep-Pui National Park

Doi Suthep-Pui National Park

Rationale for choosing Doi Suthep-Pui National Park landscape

The Doi Suthep-Pui National Park is considered as one of the greatest cultural landscapes in Thailand’s Chiang Mai Province. The cultural landscape meets the high standards of international criteria on the aspects of its richness in natural aspects since it offers a scenic location of biodiversity besides having both rare and endangered species in its vicinity. The Doi Suthep-Pui National Park is critically a significant venue for a visit as it presents different cultural and natural attractions, for instance, the Phra That Doi Suthep Temple (Sponsel, 2014).
Additionally, tribal people have lived in the ...

Question 1

Cultural leveling describes how people from different cultures approach each other and try to reach common grounds regarding communication and interaction. This process is evident in Lee’s ethnographic fieldwork. Coming from white society, the researcher exhibited arrogance and considered himself superior, both intellectually and culturally, to the !Kung bushmen. He did this by extending to or cutting off the supply of tobacco from the Bushmen since he was the only source of the commodity in 1000 square miles (Lee). Besides, he neither shared his food with the Bushmen nor participated in their food-gathering activities. For this reason, the ...

Art & architecture

Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer who is well known for his direct photographic style. He is much appreciated for his way of tackling subjects of bad taste with a wit and irony. He has been collecting boring postcards for over two decades1 that have been reproduced straight and compiled them in a photobook, which was the method used by photographers to show their work. Those postcards of boring places are shot in Britain and lack any point of interest and are narrative, carrying no text. What makes the photographic images compelling is the resultant collection that sheds ...

In this paper, I discuss how the existence of man and its insatiable desire for economic growth and progress is ironically leading to environmental destruction and the disruption of this world’s natural balance. In order to prove this point, I am going to rely on my family’s experience and my personal observations. After all, experience would always turn out to be the best teacher.
My family came from Chengdu, a village in the southwestern part of China. As the second child in a family of five, I have grown up differently from how my father and his ...