This section of my site is simply a place to store my essays from Year 2 onwards of my University Degree. I do not rate them as particularly good or bad but by storing them here I feel they may at least be useful to students doing similar subjects. Either that or they may help someone get to sleep sometime ..

Essays for the academic year 1996-1997 /Essays for the academic year 1997-1998

Social Anthropology 2:

Social Anthropology (Essay 1): 'Can Anthropology tell us anything about the difference between primitive and scientific thinking?'

Social Anthropology (Essay 2): 'Religion, far from being "the opium of the people", is actually an unlimited and potentially fruitful resource. In times of material and spiritual hardship people can draw on it to fuel resistance' (David Lan). Do you agree?'

(NB: You may wish to read this stuffy essay or you might want to hear my account of an amazing event (with pictures) which leads on from the essay topic)

Social Anthropology (Presentation notes): 'Women are like cattle' - Notes from Women, warriors, and Patriarchs (Melissa Llewelyn-Davies).

Social Anthropology (Project): 'The Space Project - Greenside Car Boot Sale'

East Asian Civilisation:

East Asian Civilisation - (Book Review): 'Everyday life in early Imperial China - during the Han Period' - Michael Loewe (1970)

East Asian Civilisation (Essay 2): 'Compare and contrast Confucian and legalist ideas on the way to govern a state. Did these two schools have anything in common at all?'

East Asian Civilisation (Essay 3): 'Identify and discuss the treatment of two major themes in classical Japanese poetry.'

Technology and Society:

Technology and Society (Essay 1): 'Comment on the distribution of Research and Development expenditure between different countries, institutions and fields.'

Technology and Society (Essay 2): 'Did mechanisation 'free workers from useless toil' or has it led to the degradation of work?'

Technology and Society (Essay 3): 'Do men and women have different responses to/ relationships with Information Technology? Discuss with examples.'

Essays for the academic year 1997-1998:

Due to the structure of my course this final year there may not be so much in the way of essay content.

East Asian Civilisation II:

East Asian Civilisation II (Essay 1): Discuss the reasons for the shortcomings of nineteenth century Chinese ‘self-strengthening’

East Asian Civilisation II (Essay 2): An account of the Meiji Restoration and the changes which came about in its wake.

East Asian Civilisation II Book Review: A review of 'Modern Japanese Society 1864 - 1994'

 Social Anthropology 3:

All that's left for me now is TWO exams at the end in 'Ritual and Religion' and 'Kinship' and then I am free at last!!!

Race, racism & the other: Enlightenment Philosophers and the early experiences of black Africans in Britain.

 Refugee Issues: Who helps the helpers? An insight into the effects of relief work on the staff, and looking at ways to prevent and cure them.