Margaret Mead

This conclusion came about through lack of interaction with female members of the community. To counteract this inequality several anthropologists mirrored the actions of previous anthropologists, for example Margaret Mead chose to single out the women in Samoa to study adolescence. Mead has often been criticised for the lack of male interaction included in her work, despite the lack of female interaction included in the work of past anthropologists. Derek Freeman in particular set out to…

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." (Andre Gide). English 101 is a course at Tacoma Community College, a building block for other classes as the course helps improve writing essays which make a substantial percentage of work completed. The course requires a unique perspective of English due to higher writing expectations that push the boundaries of thinking. Using such high standards, students can grow as writers while learning…

As a middle school education student, I am taught to create engaging lesson plans and units based on the 5E instructional model. This model splits learning units into four major parts: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. These steps get students involved in their learning, allowing them to connect with the information being taught, helping them to better retain it. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn,” said Benjamin Franklin. This is…

We, as anthropologists, observe and collect data and inform our fellow anthropologists on the nature of humanity and its many manifestations, but to what purpose does this endeavor serve? This accumulated wealth of knowledge, if let to gather dust, will surely fit a similar role of salvage anthropology. Saving the final glimpses of vanishing cultures in order to preserve and study these snapshots as a time capsule of humanity that once was. Observations are made, theories formulated, structures…

Atina Grossmann restates the opinion of anthropologist Margaret Mead, “Whenever a people feels that its food supply is in the hands of an authority, it tends to regard that authority as to some degree parental” (118). Although considerably negative, authoritative provision of bread rations provided security of the…

The Inevitability of War on Humans Many people, countries, and nations claim to wish for world peace, but have they really done anything in order to achieve that wish? All throughout history war has gone on. Overtime, technology has improved making war even more lethal. Although everyone knows that war only leads to debt, death, and disaster, people still support war efforts and want to rise to power over other countries and nations. People feel that in order to be powerful, they must destroy…

in New York City, said that they have longer school days, longer school year and they would even do “wake-up calls” if the students are late consistently. “It is basically establishing a very strong school culture of high expectation.” – she said. Margaret Raymond, director of Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) said: “More and more charter schools students are doing better because they are getting anywhere from three to ten extra weeks of instruction compared…

Since the beginning of history, art has been used as a way to express the feelings a nation faces during one of society’s biggest tragedies: war. When the city of Guernica in Spain was mercilessly bombed by the Luftwaffe, Pablo Picasso began working on his painting titled Guernica to show the Spaniard’s disdain for the war. Similarly, Bernie Boston captured his photograph titled Flower Power during a protest for the Vietnam War. These two works of art share many differences, both obvious and…

Margaret Mead, an American Anthropologist, once stated “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” First Lady Michelle Obama strongly supported this statement with the “Let’s Move!” initiative to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity in the Unites States. It is with her movement to assist in recreating how children think about the importance of nutrition and physical activity. Practicing ADPIE, I have Assessed, Diagnosed, Planned, Implemented and Evaluated obesity specifically…

When anthropologist viewed regarding children, they were mainly studying them as learners that are inducted into cultural and social world of adults. Thus, an anthropologist Margaret Mead in the year 1930s mentioned about the cross cultural variation under child rearing practices, and often argues shaping about the cultural differences taking places in adult personalities. From past four decades, the anthropologists continued similar…