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Larry DelViscio

Sources - 1 views

Sources http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Asia-and-the-Pacific/Samoa.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/United-States-Pacific-...

started by Larry DelViscio on 29 Apr 11 no follow-up yet
Larry DelViscio

Due Saturday - 1 views

If you haven't started yet the site is samoainfo.wikispaces.com. A good reference as to what it should look like is the contemporary issues and colonialism pages, done by Jeff. If everyone's pages ...

started by Larry DelViscio on 28 Apr 11 no follow-up yet
Larry DelViscio

Colonial Regime - 0 views

Early on the islands were eventually divided up between the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom (Samoa Tripartite Convention). Germany took Western Samoa, the US accepted Tutuila and Man...

started by Larry DelViscio on 14 Apr 11 no follow-up yet
Larry DelViscio

First Contact - 2 views

French were actually 2nd Europeans in Samoa led by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. Dutch Roggeveen was first but did not really have any contact with the islanders.

misisonary UK Germany United States

Larry DelViscio

Samoa Missionary History - 0 views

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    Brief but detailed history of the missionary endeavors in oceania specifically the Samoan islands.
Ted Delia

First Settlers in Samoa - 1 views

Despite its reputation as an exotic far-away land Samoa was in fact as busy as a shopping mall from the mid-1770s when trading ships, sailing along the spice route and looking for the Great Souther...

Samoa Settlers

started by Ted Delia on 14 Apr 11 no follow-up yet
Ted Delia

Simoan culture and Family life - 4 views

The Samoan people have up to twenty dwellers in their homes at the same time; all family, these people do not concern themselves with privacy. Everything is done together and as many ancient cultur...

family

started by Ted Delia on 30 Mar 11 no follow-up yet
Ted Delia

More indepth Simoan Political System - 0 views

http://amsamoa.net/politics/organization-of-the-fono.html#more-16 This article talks about most branches of the Simoan Government and also talks about how long each term of office is and talks abo...

Simoa

started by Ted Delia on 30 Mar 11 no follow-up yet
Ted Delia

Samoan Political system overveiw - 0 views

ABOUT SAMOA - POLITICS Samoa is a democracy with its own flavor. The unicameral parliament, the Fono or Legislative Assembly, operates as a party political system, and is led by a prime minister, ...

Samoan Politics

started by Ted Delia on 30 Mar 11 no follow-up yet
J Scott Hill

Samoainfo - home - 6 views

Larry DelViscio

Culture of Samoa - 0 views

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    Overview of the culture
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    According to the Ethnologue, there are 6 total living languages in American Samoa, and there are 2 living languages in Samoa.
Larry DelViscio

Modern Samoan Mobility and Urban Adaptation - 0 views

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    Pretty good article about the process of Samoans' movement to Hawaii and the mainland U.S. Focuses on the transformation of their culture, extended family, their chief and title system, and visiting patterns.
Larry DelViscio

Languages of Oceania - 0 views

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    Here's a list of the languages in Oceania. There's a link to each individual language and something about it.
Larry DelViscio

Topics for Debate - 3 views

I have more written down but just a few bullets opposing language's effect on thought: - conciousness regardless of language - colors - language limiting thought - America be different if English w...

started by Larry DelViscio on 16 Feb 11 no follow-up yet
Larry DelViscio

The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis - 0 views

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    One of the first sites that came up on google, but a more thorough, more easily understandable explanation of the hypothesis. It's valuable because it provides citations supporting the hypothesis and other information directly from Sapir and Whorf
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