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A History Of Body Piercing Throughout Society
1,236 words... therefore cause it to be pierced like the lobes of the ears of an infant pierced for earrings. " The Palang (often incorrectly called Ampallang) is a piercing that occurred among the Dayak, Kenya, Kelabit, Dayak, and Iban tribes of Sarawak on the Island of Borneo. It involves piercing the Glans of the Penis horizontally, and the insertion of a barbell. The term "Palang" translates as "Crossbar" in Iban and can be related to the timber roof supports of the longhouses of the tribes of the area...
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Ben R Finney Polynesian Outliers A Computer Simulation Sharp
1,751 wordsAndrew Sharp claims in his Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific published in 1956 that the Pacific Islanders did not possess the necessary navigational and sailing technology to deliberately navigate the distances between islands of the Pacific when colonizing these islands. He claims colonization was random and accidental. However, more recent studies from 1972 on of Pacific navigation suggest deliberate navigation and colonization was possible and did take place. These studies have been supported b...
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Returned To England Royal Society
454 wordsCaptain James Cook Captain James Cook was born in Marton-in-Cleveland, near Yorkshire, England. He was born on October 27, 1728. In 1759, after the fall of Quebec, Cook became master of the flagship Northumberland. He had had previous experience in this as an apprentice at a shipowners called The Walker Brothers. He attracted the attention of the Royal Society by calculating the longitude of Newfoundland. He also observed solar eclipses to discover things like this. First Voyage: Cook was made a...
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Life After Death Museum Of Fine Arts
2,219 words-Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) -Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? - 1897 -Oil on Canvas, 5 feet by 12 feet -Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? , is the self-acclaimed masterpiece of Paul Gauguin's career. It represents the culmination of his ideas and beliefs that he acquired throughout his life as a painter. Many visual characteristics of the painting, such as the color, line, and light are unrealistic in nature, but serve to e...
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Generation To Generation Sense Of Belonging
1,326 wordsThe Pacific is a place of mystery and savagery, and yet is know to many as paradise. The Pacific is ten thousand miles wide and holds twenty-three percentage of the worlds languages. What makes the Pacific so intriguing? The people and their culture have mystified so many people, and yet their history was never written down, instead it was orally pasted down from generation to generation. Thoughts on the natives origin, migration, and survival have puzzled other nations due to their lacking of w...
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Men And Women Women And Men
1,342 wordsSocial stratification is a system which exists in most societies, and distinguishes between individuals and / or groups according to their socially-defined attributes, and gives them different statuses according to these attributes. This system is so widespread because humans invariably show variation, with some being better skilled at certain things than others, and these differences lead to people becoming more or less " useful" to society. What this essay will look at is the ways in...
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