Spoehr, Alexander. Majuro, a Village in the Marshall Islands, Tobin, Jack A. Toggle navigation. Culture Name Marshallese; Marshall Islander. Marshall Islands. History and Ethnic Relations Emergence of the Nation. Urbanization, Architecture, and the Use of Space The Marshall Islands have rapidly urbanized since the s, first with employment opportunities on Kwajalein and more recently with rapid population expansion on Majuro. Food and Economy Food in Daily Life.
Social Stratification Classes and Castes. Political Life Government. Social Welfare and Change Programs Since the s, numerous social welfare programs have been available, supported by the United States, various religious groups and, since independence, other Pacific Rim nations. Marriage, Family, and Kinship Marriage. Socialization Infant Care. Etiquette The Marshall Islands is a ranked society in which elders rank above those who are younger and chiefs rank above commoners.
Religion Religious Beliefs. Medicine and Health Care In addition to local medical practitioners who oversee births and treat illnesses, a system of American-style medicine is available through two underfunded urban hospitals and local health clinics on each atoll. Secular Celebrations Throughout the years of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, United Nations day was an important holiday, but that has now been replaced by Marshall Islands independence day. The Arts and Humanities Graphic Arts.
The State of the Physical and Social Sciences Considerable physical and social science research has been conducted but local islanders work largely as assistants on these projects, not as project designers. Bibliography Carucci, Laurence M.
Also read article about Marshall Islands from Wikipedia. User Contributions: 1. I really like this article, it's remain me of my own Island, also remain me of my peoples,I really misses all my friends and my families back home,I been here in the unite state about 10 years,I came here to find my education to stand for my own Island,and stand for my peoples in the Marshall Island,I have dream about my peoples and my land,but thats was only one people knows about my dream,is our heavenly father,.
My family's came down here to give us a quality time to find our education and go Back home and raise the Marshall Islands. Also i mella have my own Goal;I want to finish high school and college and get my DEGREE's, go back home and help the students their and teach them everything i learned from my schools at Hawaii. Anyways thanks for telling me informations about my own culture and islands. I wish I was back in the Marshall Islands.
I've heard so much fascinating things about the Island. The nice, calm weather, their foods, the ocean. Practically, everything. SImone deBrueys. Thank you for the information! I am doing a project for school and this information is very helpful!!
Thank you again! Damn Alee Kattu Terminator.. Obet Kilon. I hope this artilce gave us enought information about the Marshallese people and the government.
This is a good source to start doing research for those who never really experienced the Marshallese life. I was born and raised in the Marshall Islands, and I know how the people and the government struggle to find easier and better ways to live. We had faced many challenges in the past, and we still them face them today, but we never give up now matter what. And good opportunity here at united states, allready miss my country and my fastfriends at Marshall Islands.
Brittaney Jieta. I wanna know if this articl has a map of marshall island, and even shows their food picture and their clothes. I am making a presentation about marshallese way of life and i wanna know everything about marshallese way of life.
Thanks Q. Chi De Brum Muller. Very intrique site and i love the article as well - i am interested to learn more about the islands and study their culture -. This article is very very interesting.
JoJo Talley. I am in my sophomore year of high school, and I want to move to the Marshall Islands to go to the College there.
Is it a good idea? I want to study Marine Conservation and the like, and feel that actually being at the ocean would benefit my education greatly. I live in Oklahoma, and have never been to the ocean, but I have always felt a need to move as close to it as possible. I have done a considerable amount of research, and everything I have heard is good, but I need a little reassurance before I move half way across the world. Thank you, Jasmine Young. Feel free to contact me with any information or advice at mssouthernrebel gmail.
Can someone help me to know a history about my grandfather Abner Lepen he was a Sailor in the late 's and early 's. For what I have learned that he was takened by German people on there boat then he ended up in Honolulu, Hawaii in the s. Can someone help me learn about my ancestry and history. Harry M. Would you please give me information as to how an island got the name Delap, and what was the origin of the name and what your did it acquire the name?
Any info. Would help me trace my roots. Wonderful peaceful and loving people live on Ebye. I lived on Kwajalein for two years and actually volunteered at Gem and Calvary schools. If I ever get a chance to go back I will. It was a wonderful experience. Raxanna Asher. This was a great article of the Marshall Islands. I was reading all of the comments about how everyone wants to take a stand for the Marshall Islands, and I am impressed by the numbers. So for those who said they want to make a stand for the Island, please and I encourage you to network among your brother and sister islands whether its Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia.
We are all one and with their help, we can take a strong and prideful stand for our island, with the help and support of our brothers and sisters!
So take advantage of networking and resources that we have as Marshallese. Tom Whelan. Could you tell me the significance of the Marshallese stick dance. Does it have a military origin? Does is have an origin involving good or bad spirits? Or does the dance have an origin related to fishing, farming, etc.? Arina Mizutani. This is a great information of our islands and you guys did a great job on this which brought many lost Marshallese out there to know their heritage.
However, I was thinking if you and your office get to answered all these people's questions! And how far you guys know more than any of these because I'm doing my Marine Biology project based on our traditional Marshallese marine science which include our own understanding and memories from what they use in the old days.
My main concern here is that I see only few tools that were using in the old days. Alan Custin. Sorry to hear climate change may affect the existance of. Mils bey. I need Marshallese traditional beliefs and gods. Where does the name "Namur" come from?
Hope someone can help. Thank you for this great article. For some weird reason I am obsessed with Marshall Islands, this helped a ton. Hi guys, I am not from Majoro or Marshall Island but really love to read this stories about that place I will probably visit there someday I wish i went bck 2 marshall island bekoze i was like my everything and to thanks to the person who wrote this article it mean a lots.
Carly Chimp. Marshall Islands is sinking that is what I know also is there turtles in Marshall Islands? Indeed, from the outcome Data proves to be an effective translator for Picard, expressing the concepts that might otherwise would have been dismissed as rants. His effort is essential in calling the old crew to action and devising the solution of creating a static warp shell.
How can this emulation of human empathy be considered anything other than admirable? The coordination of Enterprise crews across space and time would not have been possible without a legacy of shared experiences to draw from.
The strongest example of this legacy is demonstrated in the present. Here the relationships are no longer new, and also not yet weathered by distance: the ties that bind have formed a strong sense of familial community. While the Continuum might have considered this bonding to be a waste of effort, looking at how the history of it plays out proves otherwise. The value of this may have been something that was not immediately apparent to Picard himself.
Viewed at a scale in billions of years, they are material gains that ultimately come and go, however positive they might be. But I did. And even in-universe, the example set out by the crew of the Enterprise-D was especially rare. Ethical issues were examined with fairness and reason.
Crises were engaged with inventive ingenuity. Interpersonal dilemmas were resolved by separating the people from the problem. Their paradigm also acknowledged human history for all its faults and folly, and proclaimed that the means by which this future lives were borne from the lessons of those mistakes. Viewed as a whole, the series made their efforts feel like an achievable standard that we can hope to one day achieve. The inclusive world of Star Trek has been a constant inspiration in career paths outside of his writing life.
An email will not be created automatically. It proved immensely popular, with several advantages over the fountain pen—a smooth ball bearing instead of a scratchy nib, and an instant-drying ink that only had to be refilled once every six months. November: The Slinky toy was demonstrated at Gimbel's department store in Philadelphia. November The Nuremberg trials began, military tribunals prosecuting prominent members of the leadership of Nazi Germany for their crimes in World War II.
With World War II over, the news lightened up considerably in July 1: Nuclear testing began in the Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, the first of 23 detonations by the United States between and July 4: The post-Holocaust outbreak of violence known as the Kielce Pogrom in Poland was conducted by Polish soldiers, police officers and civilians who killed between 38 and 42 people.
July 5: Bikini swimsuits made their debut on a Paris beach but quickly spread to beaches everywhere. July Dr. December The landmark holiday movie "It's a Wonderful Life" had its premiere; it opened to mixed reviews. December Las Vegas began its transformation into the gambling capital of the U. Sometime in , the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient Hebrew and Aramaic documents stored in caves on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, were discovered.
February Polaroid cameras were introduced at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City, just in time for all those baby shots. June: U. Secretary of State George Marshall gave a paper at Harvard in which he spoke of an urgent need to help Europe rebuild and later that year, the Marshall Plan doing just that took effect. July Jewish refugees from France attempting to reach Palestine aboard the Exodus were forcibly turned back by the British. After the Nationalist Party in South Africa won a majority of seats in the parliament, they established "practical apartheid" in the country, a white supremacist strategy that would last another four decades.
January The philosopher and leader of India Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by an advocate of Hindu nationalism. March: British astronomer Fred Hoyle, appearing on a BBC radio program, described the current theory of how the universe began as "one big bang at a particular time in the remote past," making the notion accessible to the public imagination and even though he didn't at the time accept it.
President Harry S. Truman quickly recognized the new nation. It was refueled in the air four times. August The Soviet Union conducted the first nuclear bomb test,in what is today Kazakhstan.
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