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Southern Africa's Ju/'hoansi Tribes

In seven pages this paper examines this tribal culture's transformation form foraging to herding and farming. Seven sources are c...

The Transformation of the Family Culture Changing Family Concepts

5 pages and 8 sources. This paper relates the changing views of the family in modern culture, including the redefining of the fam...

Singapore, Racism, and Discrimination

In three pages this paper examines the culture of Singapore and the inherent prejudice that results from having a 'dominant cultur...

Overview of Killer Orca Whales

In five pages Orca whales are examined in an overview that includes pelagic, transient, and resident cultures as well as differenc...

Perspectives on Multiculturalism

A 5 page review of the essay Crossing Cultures in Crossing Cultures Readings for Composition, a book edited by Myrna Knepler, et a...

In Defense of Gaming

the most important issue is "the way youre thinking that matters" (Johnson 40). In other words, Johnson focuses on the fact that ...

Cheyenne Culture's Sacred Pipe

In five pages this paper examines the cultural significance of the return of the Sacred Pipe to the Cheyenne. Three sources are c...

Soviet Union Under Josef Stalin and Jewish Culture's Decline

the same fate as many of the Jewish leaders when he was to be executed at Stalins command many years later. II. Stalins Outward...

Mesoamerica's Zapotec Culture and Persia's Sasanid Culture

In 7 pages the Mesoamerican Zapotecs are compared with the Persian Sasanids in terms of military policies, cultural and religious ...

2 Different Cultures' Trickster Myths

trees trick the Trickster (Parks 132). The Trickster is a comic figure fragrant of laughter, humor, and irony. Paul Radin ...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Reservation Blues

(Johnson). The narrator relates with obvious pride he learned the "names of the notes in both clefs," as a young child and could ...

Global Cultures' Interconnectedness

which can be seen as signifying something - in other words, to everything which has meaning within a culture," states David Chandl...

The Body In Consumer Culture: Performing Masculinity

buff model. Indeed, it can easily be argued that while there is some form of embellishment in most advertising, employing bodybui...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

The Amish Culture

use of or involvement with modern conveniences. Their choice to eschew the intrinsic benefits of contemporary technological advan...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...

"Fairness" in Pay Inequities

are paid substantially less for comparable work and responsibilities compared to the private sector in the job families analyzed" ...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

The Smart Car in the US

market, it many ways it was ahead of its time, however the last few years have been much better, by August 2008 the sales levels w...

3 Education Research Proposals

policies, implementation and use may occur, impacting different stakeholders. 2. Methodology To assess the way popular media a...

All in the Family, Values, and the Television Sitcom

first introduced to America in the episode entitled "Meet the Bunkers" that CBS originally aired on Tuesday, January 12, 1971 at 9...

General Psychology Questions

Aristotles views are valuable to modern psychology because they have overcome any attempts at disproval and still stand as viable ...

Music as a Reflection of Society

2008). The fact that controversial songs or literature emerge is something that in fact is not only a reflection of the problems s...

The South Beach Diet

of customary carbohydrates, the body is slowly reintroduced to complex carbohydrates in order to determine how much a particular p...

An Ethical Dilemma

in the firms code of ethics. The student has split loyalties, there is the loyalty that is owed to the manager. The manager is one...

Considering the Maya

plights of war ... as the common people devoted themselves to the cult of their rain gods and peacefully tilled their fields {milp...

The Non-Neutrality of Technology

comes to dealing with the junk mail, both snail mail and email, that comes pouring into our homes, it is something else when the i...

Technology is Not Neutral

think we "fit" the services they offer. While this may be merely annoying when it comes to dealing with the junk mail, both snail ...

Use of Metaphor in Popular Songs

but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thi...

Reallocating Marketing Budgets

found that Internet technology is very often an inexpensive and profitable way to advertise their products and services. Many com...