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HOFSTEDE'S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS: U.S., VIETNAM AND CHINA

Some years later, Hofstede added a fifth dimension, that of Long-Term Orientation. LTO determines the degree to which a society em...

Democracy in the United States

Is it possible to have a true democracy in these conditions? The outlook is not promising. In a speech at the University of Calif...

Overview of the Chicano Band Los Lobos

began celebrating their cultures and communities in song with the Chicano variations of Woodstock festivals being staged throughou...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

The Media and Body Image

that most people look nothing like the people on television. One need only look at statistics concerning obesity in the nation and...

THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

Critique on the Variations of the Rapunzel Folk/Fairy Tale

Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...

Financial Reporting Practices in the United States of America

Compliance is tedious, but it seems to be necessary in a world that is subject to accounting mishaps and corporate fiascos. This i...

A Re-evaluation of the John Adams Presidency

The laws were not popular and while they had been reversed by Congress for the most part, or were simply not renewed, Adams was co...

Obesity

Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

Handicapped Law Outside the United States

day-to-day activities" (DDA, 1995). This seems to fall into line with what most people understand as a reasonable definition of a ...

Discrimination Against Homosexuality And Women In The United States

a national telephone survey of 1,283 heterosexual, English-speaking adults to establish their beliefs and prejudices about how AID...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Josiah Bartlett: Founding Father

as is the case with many other unsung people from history. One must see, and understand, exactly how Josiah was important, despite...

The United States and the Discipline of International Relations (Article Review)

detrimental. The claim is reasonable if true. That is, if it is the case that the U.S. academic classroom does not contain a diver...

Divorce Rate

a substantial number of divorces that would not have occurred otherwise" (Why Divorce Rates Increased, 2008). This is something th...

Applebaum and Batt's The New American Workplace, Transforming Work Systems in the United States

that the American workplace, and indeed the world workplace in general, has undergone tremendous changes in just a relative short ...

Douglas Porpora's How Holocausts Happen, The United States in Central America

there to the Jewish Holocaust of World War II is an overt distortion of the facts and circumstances. Even given his misguid...

Trade Agreement Between Singapore and the United States

totally open entrepreneurism (Singapore, 2003), and its success results from the governments active courting of international busi...

Relations Between Russia and the United States and the Continuing Effects of the Cold War

Russian Revolution was all for naught. Communism was a dismal failure and Russia is now a poor country while the U.S. is seen as t...

Fireflies of the Eastern United States

the females attention away from competing males (Nevins, 1999). Species also vary according to their flight pattern, the time of...

Black Studies and America's Cultural Assumptions

home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated w...

1979 Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt and America's Mediator Role

Minister Menachem Begin. With an olive branch extended, the U.S. wasted little time in initiating diplomatic efforts to promote p...

4th Quarter 2002 U.S. Economy Performance

at the overall figures, this rally in the second quarter meant that the economy was still seen to grow in the year, showing an inc...

'Dumping' and Exports of German Steel

2002, the US Commerce Department ruled that structural steel beams imported from seven foreign markets, including Germany, were du...

Injury and Safety Impacts of Bicycle Helmet Laws

enter emergency departments as a result of bicycle accidents (Business Wire, 1997). Over sixty percent of those individuals who d...

Native Americans and Africans Compared

members of particular racial and ethnic groups which are often compared in relation to the majority or dominant group within the p...

Gravitational Center of Globalization and Has It Shifted Away from American and Toward East Asia and Europe?

and political consequences as the U.S. and foreign economies slow" (p. PG). The very essence of globalization is that of ch...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...