Tonga

organization was egalitarian with clans as matrilineal. Both are similar because of the heavy impact of European culture on both societies. European influence changed the gender roles, political structure, and the social hierarchy of each group. The Tonga political system is a chiefdom based on the typology created by anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service. Chiefdoms have specific criteria such as a medium…

doesn't let this stop him in any way, he actually embraces it and it takes him to new levels. he could have let his nervous tic embarress him and even hinder him, but instead he has traveled to "69 different locations, including India, Kuwait, Bhutan, Tonga, Timbuktu"(McGarth) and many more. This started as a friend of his videotaping him dancing and posted in on the web, on the third attempt the internet swept through and loved it. He started off dancing alone, and sometimes for audiences…

Kohistani Violence & Road Construction: Conflict is found in virtually every culture worldwide. Therefore, most cultures see some level of violence as a result. The Kohistani people living in Thull, Pakistan, a small village near the Afghan border, are no exception. However, their violence has evolved over time. The changing nature of their violence can be accredited to the construction of a road. The road exposed these people to a market economy, thus altering their subsistence strategy.…

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories plus a Complete Novel. Secaucus, N.J.: Castle, 1978. Print. The Adventure of the Empty House is one of the short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes about Sherlock Holmes. This story tell how Holmes comes back from what everyone thought was his apparent death at the hands of Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Holmes (in disguise) surprises his faithful companion Dr. John H. Watson after bumping into…

Polynesians were intelligent explorers who settled in remote islands in the pacific. The Polynesians are descendants of the Lapita people who lived on the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The Lapita people settled in Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu. Most of the Polynesian islands are small and soon would have become overcrowded. This forced people to look for new places to live. In addition, the Polynesians were a warlike people. Chiefs often fought…

For my first presentation, I chose to go over polygamy courtship and marriage by Kiersten Warde. Polygamy varies from your typical relationship in that it is a marriage involving one man and multiple women, like stated in the presentation, polygamy in Greek translates to “often married”. While this practice is illegal in the United States, it is still practiced in other places around the world today. Although, even in places where polygamy is accepted the man is truly only married to his first…

King George the VI died in February 1952, leaving the throne to his twenty-five year old daughter Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, who was on her honeymoon in Kenya when the news of her father’s death first reached her ears (Smith 3; Schultz 380; “Her Majesty the Queen”). This victorious queen delved Britain deep into a period of economic prosperity. She is so loved; she receives nearly three hundred letters per day (“Her Majesty the Queen”). Queen Elizabeth is the most traveled of Britain’s…

Introduction Learning is the act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curve. It does not happen all at once, but builds upon and is shaped by previous knowledge. To that end, learning may be viewed as a process, rather than a collection of factual…

PAY AND PERSONNEL INFORMATION BULLETIN (PPIB) 17/06. The Command Pay and Personnel Administrator (CPPA) course has been updated on Navy e-Learning. The updated course identifier is PERS2-PAYPERS-CPPA-CPPATRAINING-V1.0. These updates were specifically designed for a better alignment with the new CPPA role and the NEC 95AD initiative and requirements. The updated course is one component of the mandatory training requirements for all CPPAs in MILPERSMAN 1000-021 Paragraph 4.a.(1). The…

since women are the workers for their agriculture. In this society, all the wives take care of each other’s kids as well as tend the farms and pigs. Certain cultures have rules to prevent any fighting and tension that may occur. Societies like in Tonga, the first wife married in, has the overall say against future wives (sister…