...is the idea that an item is given in order to receive something in return. The society in which we live in is commercial, we base our exchanges on money and materialistic items for our benefit; whether it is for survival or based upon our simple wants such as things that are usually given as gifts. Other societies, like the Kula tribe of the Trobriand Archipelago Islands, believe in the idea of gift giving not for trade or a system of bartering, but for the natural well-being of their society. They use it as a way to regulate their society. The Kula tribe of the Archipelagoes Islands participates in a system known as the “Kula Ring” in which typically the men of this and surrounding societies meet with one another in the ceremonial trade of armshells and necklaces. Although the trade is within the surrounding islands, there are some islands which are exempt and others that are known for their slow exchange causing other islands to dislike trading with them. Although these items are considered “gifts” they are never kept permanently; they are usually traded amongst one another over and over again, but there are exceptions. Few of the members of the Kula Exchange have permanent gifts which are family heirlooms, these men are the seen as more influential within the society. In fact, this trade is also a way to distinguish class within the tribes of these islands; the men with the most pieces or permanent pieces are placed in a higher status than others. The men with many armshells...
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...hindi isang laro at ito ay isang pustahan an kung sino ang mga may ari ng kanilang tali..dahil ang sabong ay isa ring sugal.samakatuwid ito ay hindi magandang impluwensyang nangyayari sa loob ng isang sabunangan.. ang aking buod tungkol sa kwentong sa pula sa puti Mga tauhan: kulas-mahilig mag sabong celing-pumupusta ng palihim sioning-ang matalik nna kaibigan ng mag sawa castro-ang nagturo kay celing kung paano mang daya teban-masunuri pero mahina ang ulo maring kikay-pinagkukunan ng sabon sa pula sa puti -si kulas ay isang sabungarero na halos araw araw ay laging nasa sabungan pero lagi siyang natatalo sa laban,kaya sa isip isp niya ayaw na niyang mag sabong kaylanman at ayawa niya ring makita ang sabungan.. si celing ay isang asawa ni kulas na tinatago sa kanyang asawa na si kulas na pumupusta sa sabungan upang si kulas ay matalo man siya na man ay nananalo para hindi sila maubusan ng kwarta .. umuwi si kulas sa kanilang bahay na naka simangot . at tinanong ni celing kung bakit siya ay nakasimangot at ang sabi ni kulas natalo na naman ako ! ayoko nang mag sabong kaylanman at ayoko na rin makita ang sabungan na iyan. sabi ni ..sabi ni naman ni celing buti namn natauhan ka narin sa wakas ... oh siya kulas...
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...Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski Bronislaw Malinowski and Anthropology In 1910 Bronislaw Malinowski came to London, England. Almost instantly he fell in love with the city and its social structure. He was fascinated by the aristocracy and wanted to be a part of this elite class but he lacked financial capability so he provided the only thing he can offer, his great intellect. He attended the London School of Economics and immersed himself into the field of Anthropology. It was during this time that Anthropology was considered to be an inexact science best studied at a distance due what the nature of their subjects, who they consider as “savages”. As Malinowski began his study of Anthropology, specifically the Australian Aborigines, he found out that the accounts of previous anthropologists were inconclusive, prejudiced and needed a strong dose of scientific discipline. In 1914, he was given the chance to travel and go on a grand tour of Australia and its territories. After three months of travelling, he reached Papua New Guinea and at its east coast, he was able to reach the Trobriand Islands. It is here that he would build his legacy as the father of modern anthropology. The Natives of the Trobriand Islands In his book The Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Bronislaw Malinowski describes the striking features of the Trobriand natives “There are men and women of tall stature, fine bearing and delicate features, with clear cut aquiline profile...
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...Sa Pula Sa Puti IV-3 Group 4 CHARACTERS: Celing – Lalaine A. Doble Kulas – John Russel Magaling Renan – Renan Galang St. Peter – Renz Allen Ramos PROPS: Shenery Nanali Ronnel Roxas Jennylou B. Dela Rosa Mikelvin Dela Cruz SCRIPTWRITER AND DIRECTOR: Reggie Rey C. Fajardo ------------------------------------------------- Scene 1: Celing’s Point of View Celing: This place once gave the sparks of my life and also in this place I ended my miserable life. This room was once mine. Obviously because if this was not mine, what am I going to do here. I just dream of having a big and happy family where I can see my children talking to their parents. I just want to have children that will come to me and call me “Mom”. But it didn’t happen. Why? Look there. Yes! There. That fighting cock ruined my life. Yes it’s true. That fighting cock turned all my dreams into nothing. By the way, why do I have to stick myself here? Why do I have to remember the days when I was with Kulas? Why? Well as they say, “Life must go on.” and since I’m dead. My death must go on. Hahahahaha. Scene 2: Kulas and Celing (Kulas is dreaming.) Celing: Once upon a time a few mistakes ago I was in your sights, you got me alone. You found me. You found me. You found me-e-e-e-e. I guess you didn't care, and I guess I liked that and when I fell hard you took a step back without me, without me, without me-e-e-e-e. And he's long gone when he's next to me and I realize the blame is on me...
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...1.Humanismo at Ideyalismo LUHA RUFINO ALEJANDRO I Walang unang pagsisi,ito'y laging huli Dalong aking luha...daloy aking luha, sa gabing malalim Sa iyong pag-agos,ianod mo lamang ang aking damdamin, hugasan ang puso-yaring abang pusong luray sa hilahil Nang gumaan-gaan ang pinapasan ko na libong tusin! II Nang ako'y musmos pa at bagong pamukad yaring kaisipan May biling gayari si Ama't si Ina bago sumahukay "Bunso,kaiingat sa iyong paglalakad as landas ng buhay, ang ikaw,y mabuyo sa gawang masamay dapat iwasan." III Ng kapalalua't ang aral ni Ama't ni Ina'y hinamak; Sa inalong dagat ng buhay sa mundo'y mag-isang lumayag, Iniwan sa pampang ang timbulang baon na aking tinanggap Nang ako'y lumaki,ang pahat kong isip ay biglang nagpakpak,aon na aking tinanggap IV Malayang tumungga sa sarong may lason ng kaligayahan Na ito'y huli na'y nakilalang alak na nanatay. Ang piangbataya'y dapat magpasasa sa kasalukuya't Isang "Bahala na!" ang tanging iniukol sa kinabukasan! V Kaya naman ngayon,sa katandaan ko ay walang nalabi Kundi ang lasapin ang dila ng isang huling pagsisisi; tumangis s alabi ng sariling hukay ng pagkaduhagit Iluha ang aking palad na napakaapi! VI Daloy, aking luha...Dumaloy ka ngayon at iyaong hugasa Ang pusong nabagbag sa dagat ng buhay; Ianod ang dusang dulot ng tinamang nga kabiguan, Nang yaring hirap ko't suson-susong sakit ay gumaan-gaan! 2. Pagsusuri sa pormalismo Sa Aking Bayan Simon A. Mercado 1 Kumislap...
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...Buying local food, eating local food is such a good thing we all should participate! I totally agree the benefits of eating local you mentioned, and there may some different opinion on limitation of local food model. First of all, the local food is not only associate with geographical concept, it is also about ecological system and social relationship. It is not simply about the distance you between the food production region, but also the perceptive of ecological unit in whole system and the relationship between consumers and producers. The "local" also in term of feeling closer to nature environment and see and trust the people who grown the food you and your family eating. Furthermore, in fact, local food is the same or less experience than supermarkets in general as far you chosen the seasonal and right food. People who buy food from supermarkets instead of local food stores are just too lazy to go to grocery store frequently and spend time to consider their food. Industrial food supply chain isolate people from their food and cause us to spent money on medical. Local food is greater quality and can fit anyone's budget, all take is willingness with your food purchases. Price is not a reason, it is a excuse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLOGSX_l2B8 Watch this video from 00:14, it brief introduced a local grocery store, Sundance Natural Foods. It is also my one of my favorite stores in Eugene. This store is only sale organic and local food. One of their rules to selecting...
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...I immediately fell in love with yoga. After my first class I knew that this was something that was going to stick with and improve at. And I did. I have now been practicing yoga for a year and a half and I’m am so proud to call Kula my home. Before starting yoga, I was a competitive dancer. I enjoyed it at the time but I was scared of getting hurt. 90% of the girls of danced with had weekly chiropractor visits and they were only 14 years old. Dancing at a competitive level is like a ticking time bomb. You knew that repetitively pushing your limits over, and over again was terrible for your body yet you couldn’t stop because that would make you a quitter. We had ‘stretch‘ classes where we would have to go into the splits (the monkey...
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...conclude with the reason behind the selection of this topic and my own personal ethical view of employee theft. What is Employee Theft? What is employee theft? Employee theft is defined as “any stealing, use or misuse of their employer’s assets without permission to do so” (Walsh, 2000). Employee theft is in a category also known as employee deviance. Further broken down employee theft is divided into two subcategories property deviance and production deviance. “Property deviance includes employee behaviors that involve the unauthorized taking, control, or transfer of money or property of the formal work organization by an employee, either for the employee’s own use or for sale to another, during the course of occupational activity” (Kulas, McInnenerey, Demuth & Jadwinski, 2007). Production deviance has also been referred to as work withdrawal behavior. Certain work withdrawal behavior “can...
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...Reading Guide, Mauss, The Gift Anthropology 125A/Econ 152A Economic Anthropology Reading Guide for Mauss, The Gift NOTE: use this guide to the extent that you find it helpful. You will hopefully have already read through the reading once. The guide is long because I often include quotations from the book. You can use this to reexamine points that I think important. I ask many questions. I do not expect you to be able to answer them. Ponder over the quotations and questions for a second. That pondering, even for a second, will help you focus better on sections in the coming week as we figure out the answers together. ------------------------ Consider this quote. Don’t worry if you don’t know everything he is referring to. Be sure to think about the sentence in bold: Note: “Utilitarianism” in Mauss refers to “liberalism,” (or economics as you are taught it and ‘market society’ as we have studied it in this course: focused on the individual as homo economicus, who puts individual self-interest first, and in where society is organize through and via the free market) “{In The Gift] Mauss summarily eliminates the two utilitarian ideologies that purport to account for the evolution of contracts: “natural economy,” Smith’s idea that individual barter was aboriginal; and the notion that primitive communities were altruistic, giving way eventually to our own regrettably selfish, but more efficient individualism. Against the contemporary move [i.e. at the time that...
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...Courtney Tavares Professor Johnson English 1111-18 20 October 14 The Hawaiian Language What happens when a language dies? Is it possible to create a community of new speakers without altering the language in any way? Language evolution is a natural process among native speakers. A wide variety of languages are slowly becoming extinct as their speakers begin to die out or assimilate to other cultures. Of the 6,000 spoken today, it is said that approximately 50% of those will have become forgotten by the year of 2100. The history of each and every one is a part of each speaker’s culture, values, and traditions. As the voice of the people is lost, so is their identity. The loss of languages has harmed cultural diversity around the world. It is crucial to prevent this loss by protecting the endangered languages around the world. Though it is one of the smallest regions of the United States, Hawaii is famous for it’s resort environment and exotic beauty. Dreams of vacation on bright beaches and clear water fill young people’s heads. From the towering volcanoes to the mirroring cities, the very image of Hawaii is paradise. One of the strongest components of this culture is the language, Hawaiian, or “Olelo Hawai’i”. Hawaiian language has an ancient history rooted in Polynesian languages. The number of native Hawaiian speakers has begun dwindling; it has been slowly displaced by English language. Hawaiian is a Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family. Austronesian...
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...it. What emerges is a category of things that combine elements of both commodities and gifts, as these have been theorized within anthropology. While first cycle commodities are purified of their sociality, the hybrid second-hand thing derives its ontological status as well as social and commercial value precisely from retaining ‘gift qualities’, produced by its circulation. Keywords: Second-hand, circulation, material culture, retro, vintage, growing, gifts, commodities Appelgren, Staffan & Anna Bohlin: “Growing in Motion” Culture Unbound, Volume 7, 2015: 143-168. Published by Linköping University Electronic Press: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se Thus, one of the most important and unusual features of the Kula is the existence of the Kula vaygu’a, the incessantly circulating and ever exchangeable valuables, owing their value to this very circulation...
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...Analogy Employee theft is very serious. Thirty percent of businesses fail because of employee theft (Kulas, McInnerney, DeMuth, & Jadwinski, 2007 as cited in Geesey & Rocha, 2012). The research also states the factors that affect employee theft to include the workplace environment, employee age, employee gender, and employee’s tendencies to steal. According to Moorthy, Seetharaman, Arokiasamy, & Marimuthu (2010), employees with a lower stake in a company have a higher tendency to steal. Teenage pregnancies occur due to various reasons some of which include social pressure, coerced sexual relations, and lack of information and availability of contraceptives (UNICEF, 2012). It is such a huge problem because of its ability to affect the growth of a community and the world at large. Poverty, reduced health, and maternal mortality result from teenage pregnancy (Gennari, 2013). The similarity between both employee theft and teenage pregnancy is a lack of self-control (Geesey & Rocha, 2012). “People committing crimes and analogous behaviors in adolescence and in adulthood start manifesting conduct problems early in life,” (Pratt & Cullen 2000, p.932 as cited in Geesey & Rocha, 2012). Employee theft in the past was largely ignored, however, it is now controlled and prevented through proper planning and execution (Geesey & Rocha, 2012). Small business owners and managers have been in charge of such planning and execution because of the impact...
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...Submitted by: Waqas Ahmed Student ID: M003416757 Module: MGT3201 – Global Business Strategy Module Leader: Dr Qiuping Li Global Business Strategy: Case Study – Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria: Operating in a Fragile State by Dr. Isaiah A. Litvak 21 March 2011 1 Royal Dutch Shell ◦ 1907 - Merger of Shell Transport & Trading Company Ltd. and Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Shell) ◦ 1936 - Shell operations started in Nigeria – Shell D’Arcy (Shell Nigeria) ◦ “Royal Dutch Group of Companies proved more than 50% of Nigeria‟s oil and gas reserves” – (Parboteeah, 2011) Nigeria ◦ Formed by Britain in 1914 - “…the colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, governed by „indirect rule‟ through local leaders” (BBC News, 2010) ◦ High poverty and deteriorated political and security stance since existence ◦ Worldwide economic importance – Huge oil reserves ◦ 80 % revenues to Nigerian Government through oil reserves Global Business Strategy: Case Study – Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria: Operating in a Fragile State by Dr. Isaiah A. Litvak 21 March 2011 2 Compliments ◦ Support to Nigerian economy Criticism ◦ Oil Pollution (Jolly, 2011) ◦ Development of communities ◦ “Shell invests $1bn on Nigerian oilfield” (BBC News, 1999) ◦ “Currently the Delta gets 13 percent with the balance going to the central government and other states” (Ruseckas, 2009) ◦ Employment for Nigerians (Parboteeah, 2011) ◦ Involvement in violence – Ken SaroWiwa (Pilkington,...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0262-1711.htm JMD 31,10 PRACTITIONER CONTRIBUTION Toward applied Islamic business ethics: responsible halal business Muatasim Ismaeel UniKL Business School, University of Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and 1090 Katharina Blaim Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Eichstaett/Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the opportunities of using halal regulation and certification as a mechanism for applying Islamic business ethics in contemporary world. Design/methodology/approach – The current practices of halal regulation and certification and literature on Islamic ethics were reviewed, to identify a practical approach for Islamic business ethics. Findings – Islam allows and accepts different levels of ethical commitment. A multi-level Islamic ethics framework and a multi-level halal certification approach are proposed to facilitate the implementation of Islamic business ethics in a relative context. Two major developments can enrich halal business practices: harmonization of global standards and governance structure, and integrating responsibility and ethical issues in halal standards. Practical implications – The proposed framework and developments can enrich halal regulation and certification practice. Originality/value – The paper emphasizes the importance of flexibility and adaptability...
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...The Pursuit of Happiness Should people leave their countries? This is a question that all of us need to concentrate on in our society to answer it. A young man who had a fight with his father decides to leave home to be independent. A person who fails in love goes to another country to start his life over again. Even some for inexplicable reasons want to live abroad to pursue their dreams. There are many other stories all around the world that have been mentioned in the newspapers, magazines or even TV shows. Whatever reason that makes them emigrate, they all end up having one thing in common, which is to be happy. Human beings were created to live together peacefully and worship God in this world. People should live in balance and have the rights to follow their instincts for better opportunities. There are many countries all over the world, and each one has its own special culture. Some countries have become very developed while others haven’t yet. For this reason, some people decide to go to foreign countries to have better prospects and opportunities. Among many places, the United States of America is one of the most desired countries. In the article “Can the American Dream Be Continued?” Don Tow claims, “The U.S. is a country full of opportunities, and they are there for your taking if you are willing to work toward it. This reputation is what attracted so many millions of people from all over the world to come to this country during the last 200 years, especially during...
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