Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was a popular American writer, cultural, and visual anthropologist. Throughout her career, Margaret Mead has also conducted over twenty field trips (Yans-McLaughlin 2000). In addition, Mead’s fieldwork focused on the development and growth of adolescents. The reason why I chose Margaret Mead is because of the tremendous contributions that she has made to the field of anthropology and the public. In addition, I find it very astounding that Mead “offers a resolution of the old…

The argument of Margaret Mead makes in her essay, Warfare Is Only an Invention – Not a Biological Necessity, is completely valid. She claims that warfare is learned and is as much of an invention as the justice system and that until a different behavior comes to replace war and make it unnecessary, humans will resort to warfare. She is not unhopeful that another invention will develop to replace war, explaining that propaganda against war and exposing the true impacts of violence will help to…

written by Margaret Mead is about Americans’ attitude of choosing food and eating habits. The author is trying to debunk the normal phenomenon in the United States --- obesity. At first, she questions the reason why not a few number of Americans is obese from their occasions of eating, such as having festival fever in Christmas. But then she realised that daily abundance of food is the main factor contributing to the problem of obesity in the United States. In the rest of Mead’s essay, Margaret…

Gender and sex are not synonymous. We’re taught to believe that being born male makes you a man and being born female makes you a woman, but this is simply not the case. There are many parallels in Margaret Mead’s article “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies” with what we learned in class this term about gender roles and how they are learned and not “natural”. In her article she elaborates that gender roles are learned and provides evidence using the Arapesh, Mundugumor, and…

tribulations of character that plague the mead hall and Beowulf. The mead hall symbolizes the center of civilization. Heorot itself is allegorical for a holy place or church, where the community meets. This is another example of how Christianity overlays the Pagan elements of the story. In fact the two fit together and augment the significance in the sanctity of the drinking hall. Hrothgar, King of the Danes, had many successes in war and he built a mead hall to attest to his newfound power. The…

traits that are unique to themselves. In each of the confrontations, Beowulf has to handle the situations differently because not every monster is the same. Grendel is an interesting character in the Beowulf. He is an ogre who basically haunts the mead-hall owned by Hrothgar. He looks somewhat like a man, with two legs, two arms, and a head. However, his strength and size is incredible; he is able to defeat dozens of men at a time. He uses his brute force to overpower men and kill them.…

Greatness is only rewarded to those who seek it, not to those who wait for it to be handed out. Accordingly, producing movies based on great works of literature means translating the original work into something that not only has a great moral, but that is also visually captivating throughout the entire duration of the film. Beowulf the poem was published by an anonymous author in the 900’s and reflects the Anglo-Saxon civilization which had just recently converted to Christianity at the time of…

In the epic poem, Beowulf, the protagonist Beowulf engaged in three battles. In the first battle Beowulf fights Grendel to help the Danes. The second battle was between Beowulf and Grendel’s mother as a result of Beowulf killing her son. The third battle was between Beowulf and the Dragon. Although the three battles had many things in common, they also had several differences. The battle between Beowulf and Grendel was aggressive. It showed the strength between the masculine figures.…

wreaking havoc on the great mead-hall, Heorot, the hero travels to Denmark to fulfill this quest. After Beowulf arrived to Denmark, Grendel set out from his swamp in search of blood. When Grendel breaks into Heorot, he quickly turns to retreat when he meets Beowulf. Beowulf wrestles the monster to the ground, gathers his strength, and rips the beast’s arm off of his body. Grendel then retreated to his home and died from the wound he received in battle.…

Beowulf fought three different battles in the story, one with Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon. Beowulf prepared differently for each battle, and each battle had a different outcome, except that Beowulf killed each of the three monsters that he had fought. Beowulf went to Heorot to fight Grendel, the monster that had been terrorizing the Danes, because he thought that he was the only one that could kill the monster and decided to prove that he could kill Grendel. Before the battle with…