An Assignment (n.) is how one person's deadline becomes another person's weekend.
An Assignment (n.) is another person's decision about how your Tuesday goes.
An Assignment (n.) is a problem set by someone who already knows the answer.
An Assignment (n.) is work whose real product is evidence that the work was done.
Filial piety (n.) is the Confucian virtue of respect, obedience and care owed by children to their parents and ancestors.
Filial piety (n.) is the debt children inherit before they learn the currency.
Filial piety (n.) is a matter within a limited face-to-face family. It means taking one's proper station according to generation, sex, and age within a group which includes hardly more than one's father and father's father, their brothers and their descendants.
Filial piety (n.) is earned by revering the child — He that will have his son have a respect for him must have a great reverence for his son.
A Function (n.) is any detail within the narrative whatsoever, be it a phone ringing or what not.
Function (n.) is the dynamic opposition between the electronic global and the face-to-face local.
Function (n.) is the discoverable interconnections of the social structure and the processes of social life.
Giri (n.) is the Japanese word for social obligation, the duty owed to others through one's relationships.
Giri (n.) is the debt you feel before anyone sends an invoice.
Giri (n.) is a constellation of related meanings including (1) moral principles or duty, (2) rules one has to obey in social relationships, and (3) behavior one is obliged to follow or that must be done against one’s will