Essays on Gatherer

Demographic aging refers to the shift of the age structure or age distribution of a population as the population moves towards older ages. The effect of demographic aging is a decline in fertility transition, reduced mortality rate of older persons, increased dependency ratio and a shrinking labor force. Historians see a great divide between the traditional and modern view of aging. In traditional societies, families maintained closer ties for their entire lives. Besides, the people kept childhood friendships active as they moved into old age and community members integrated. Cultural values entrenched a strong respect for the elderly, which ...

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Executive Summary Deere is a company that deals in the manufacturing and distribution of a diverse range of agricultural, commercial, consumer, construction, and forestry equipment. Lately, the company’s margins in the gatherer chain have been reducing. This chain constitutes one of the most popular products sold by the company’s Agricultural Products Division. The diminishing margins were mainly attributed to increased market competition and the increasing purchase cost of the chain from Saunders. This paper aims at evaluating this issue and, subsequently, providing solutions to the problem. Deere operates in a market that is highly competitive. As such, ...

The psychology, history, and nature are in continuous change, and it is necessary to understand the approach that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had in past. It can be said that “A brief history of Humankind” is the best way to get into the past. In one of its chapter, there is a strong statement that summarizes many things in one line, and that is “our brain and minds were adapted to a life of hunting and gathering.” Many psychologists believe that present day social and psychological characteristics are designed after a long pre-agricultural era. And thus, today the way the ...

The concept of “whiteness” is, of course, silly on its face. “Pinkness,” or perhaps, “very light tanness” would be more accurate. Nevertheless, the term is deeply embedded into cultural discourse. “White privilege” is the phrase of the day. “White Man’s Burden” was the public face of the reasoning for British imperialism. White men (no women need apply in those bygone days) not only “could” govern their poor, benighted “colored” brethren better than they could govern themselves, it was an affirmative duty to bring superior culture and civilization to the savages. In the history of the United States the ...

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Question 2 The Paleolithic people lived in an egalitarian society where no member of their tribe was more or less important than another. Both men and women were equally important to the survival of their people. This is because while men would hunt. The women were the ones that provided the tribe with its real sustenance. The people depended more on the nuts and berries that the women could forage then they did on the meat that the men could obtain. This is because hunts were not always successful and when they were it did not guarantee that all ...

Did Human Bipedalism Evolve from a Knuckle-walking Ape Ancestor Did Human Bipedalism Evolve from a Knuckle-walking Ape Ancestor

Introduction

The narratives of human evolution are one of the oft-told scientific stories whenever the topic of the origin of man crops up. However, this topic is also one of the thorniest and most highly contentious. There are major disagreements in the manner in which man first came to be, and every interpretation of almost every new find on the matter will be sure to find opposition among scholars on the field (Harcourt-Smith & Aiello, 2004). While there are numerous causes of disputes ...

Zika virus is viral infection, that is known to physicians since 1947. In 2015, the World Health Organization established its outbreak in South America: the illness began to spread rapidly around the world, and in February reached Europe. After this fact, Zika virus was declared a global threat (Faye, Zanotto & Sall 2014) The incubation period consists of ten days. The main symptoms for Zika virus are headache, rash, fever, malaise, conjunctivitis, and pain in the joints. Nausea, vomiting, and stomach problems may also appear. Such symptoms can be facilitated with the help of paracetamol. Recovery occurs within 7-10 days. ...

Fear is a relative term, at least from the human perspective. This suggests that humanity has experienced its own sets of fears, depending on the prevailing dangers of a particular physical environment and epoch. In this regard, it has always been common knowledge that survival is an integral part of every species, including the Homo sapiens, and that compromising the sense of safety of animals and humans is most likely to instigate a reaction of fear. As such, it can also be said that fear is a beneficial aspect of existence, given that it triggers reactions of alertness, fighting ...

Introduction

First discovered in the year of 1976 after an outbreak in South Sudan (Gatherer, 2014), Ebola is considered as one of the deadliest medical conditions effecting the world along with cancers and AIDS. The disease is highly communicable and contagious even after the death of the victim and, therefore, has become deadlier in a world that is well connected, with thousands of people travelling from one place to another (Goeijenbier, van Kampen, Reusken, Koopmans and van Gorp, 2014). The recent outbreak in the African continent has led the world to shift gears to high alerts for any prospective Ebola victims ...

Issue 1- Ethics and Legal Environment

The situation that Arnold the CEO of gun manufacturing company found himself in is very critical. There are two conflicting and touchy issues that Arnold needs to give attention. It is an ethical dilemma situation that needs him to carefully weigh the options. There is a public outcry from the shareholders that Arnold must remove Mac from the Board of director of the company. It is challenging because the shareholders are the backbone of the company and whatever they demand must be attended to. Likewise, Arnold has to consider the profile of Mac, especially how much he has tried to ...

Background

The quality of marriage is a very essential part of the family life that influences the health and well-being of an individual. Several studies have associated the quality of marriage to the quality of life of people. Some studies reported that a better marital quality is closely linked to less depression resulting to better health. To cut short, better marital quality may lead to a positive outcome in life. There are several factors that determine the quality of a good marriage. Some of these factors include ethnicity, gender and the like (Bowman and Dollahite). At present, there has been a revolutionary change all ...

2-1. Food Foragers, Hunting and Gathering, and ‘Insulting the Meat’ and Egalitarianism

Food Foragers Food foragers are essentially ‘in tune’ with their environment such that they have developed the senses and the skills to forage for food. Foragers survive by fishing, hunting, and gathering edible plants in their surroundings. Since foraging not only requires skill but also shared efforts among people in the community. For this reason, foragers were the ones that put together the fabric of ‘community’. “It was as foragers that we became truly human, acquiring the basic habits of dealing with one another and with the world around us that still guide the behaviour of individuals, communities, ...

Lewis' placed the society of neediness inside family, concentrating on the society of machismo among Mexican and Puerto Rican men, youngsters' enthusiastic ties with their moms, and the effect of movement on family progress. Lewis contended that these gimmicks helped the generation of a society of neediness from which poor populaces were not able to digest themselves. So also, the Moynihan Report contended that family structure was a focal clarification for the progressing instructive and monetary drawbacks confronting low-wage American blacks: the Negro group has been constrained into a matriarchal structure which, in light of the fact that it is too out ...

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

In the above quotation, Jared diamond 1987 asserts that, the agricultural revolution marked a backward step in societal development. In his theory, he postulates that Agriculture led man to hell as it did not deliver the splendors of civilization. Based on the evidence on the reduced physical conditions of the human race, diamond argues that, the expansion of agriculture has resulted into malnutrition, spread of epidemic disease, and famine. In his work, he believes that ancient hunters and gatherers were better off than the contemporary lifestyles. These pessimistic views overlooks most of the problems that agriculture has solved and seek ...

Type 2 diabetes is increasingly becoming prevalent form of a disorder among children. This is largely driven by lifestyle factors that could lead to increased body weight, just like in the case of adults. Genetic and family factors, environmental factors like maternal gestational diabetes and intrauterine retardation in growth and lack of physical activities during adolescents and childhood have resulted in an increase, in the levels of insulin resistance that are considered crucial in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes among the young. Type 2 diabetes is linked to microvascular diseases with an indication of greater nephropathy risks as opposed ...

Introduction

A society is a group of people living with a given geographical confine and sharing the same culture. Political institutions and commonality in ideas also form the larger framework of the concept of society. Societies have been described in terms of their technological abilities. Some societies command greater control of their environment whereas others rely on the changes of the environment. The later characterizes preindustrial society. These are societies that were small in size and earned their livelihood from immediate resources in the environment through farming. This paper will therefore discuss societal farming in the preindustrial era and proceed to offer a ...

The similarities between the characters in that the major characters are members of the same family. All of them have dark complexion and all are part of the same hunter-gatherer group. The characters in this play are: Jo; this character is 22 year-old. He is the protagonist of the story. Jo is short and muscular. He is observant and curious. He is also skilled tool and weapon maker. He is strong and determined however his skills are limited and cannot match the skills of his cousin Yan. Zay; he is the father to Zay and the leader of ...

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Women through the Evolution Human evolution is one of the most interesting topics in history. This is mainly due to the fact that evolution helps in explaining the journey taken by humanity from the past to the present. There are different stages which man went through during the evolution. There is the hunter-gatherer period, then the agricultural period which was followed by the industrialized agriculture. During all these stages, there are some major aspects which have been under scrutiny and have proven to be quite interesting. One of these is the role of women during the two periods. ...

While we do not have written records from the Paleolithic Era, the vast majority of our information has been gleaned from archaeological and ethnographic comparisons to other hunter and gatherer cultures that exist more contemporaneously, to gain a bit of insight as to how these individuals lived. In the Paleolithic era, also known as the "Old Stone Age," which lasted until approximately 12,000 BC, human beings (homo sapiens) were effectively evolved to more or less how we appear now. Our brains were nearly the size of modern humans, and we were used to standing on two feet, which freed ...

What were the settlements and lifestle of the people living in during the Mesolithic (i.e. Kebarans discussed in Ristvet, Ch 2)? The settlement and lifestyle of the people who lived in the Mesolithic period comprised of people who had a nomadic lifestyle .They were hunter gatherers who had adopted fishing as one of their characteristics. What are the consequences of farming, in terms of both physical health of people and changed social relations, economics, etc? (Diamond 1987 and Ristvet Ch. 2) The adoptability of farming brings forth the improvements of the health of people .farming enables ...