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Cultural Traditions and Technology

had to change some things, in his heart he is, perhaps, doing exactly what he and those before him have always done: worship The M...

Expatriates and Their Writings

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

History and Traditions of the Ashanti

The capital of the Ashanti kingdom, Kumasi, was taken by the British in 1873 and the kingdom became a British protectorate at the ...

Chinese and Mexican Communication Across Cultures

When addressing someone in China, one should remember that in China, family names come first. So for example, Mr. Li Hongjun would...

Comparing Buddhism's Different Forms

did not want to support the offspring of the religious leader. Yet, whatever the reason, attachment is a concept that is very impo...

Chinese American Woman and the Conflict of Dual Roles

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

The History and Operations of Alcoholic Anonymous

When Rowland returned to America, he found both spirituality and sobriety with an evangelistic organization called the Oxford Grou...

India, Africa, and the Effects of European Music

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and the Roles of Tradition and Myth

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

Social Research and Epistemology

Rene Descartes, who formulated the innovative idea that sensory information is not a reliable foundation on which to base knowledg...

Socialization as a Link between Individuals and Society

parents who are members of that culture, and who raised them in it (ONeil, 2006). The second layer of culture is that of a subcul...

'Good' and 'Bad' Tradition in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

Cultural Change in Kung San

A paper of 5 pages, this essay discusses the nomadic people, their lifestyle, customs that are representative of the hunter/gathe...

Early America, England and Rights of the Individual

right to political participation and freedom of religion, became the motivating forces behind the English Revolution of 1640, whic...

The Influence of Music on Trahce in African Tradition Religions

The writer presents an examination of the role music plays in trance. The paper looks at both shamanic and possession trance, the ...

The Western Tradition of Psychology

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

Catholic Tradition Aspects

that the entire Christian movement was galvanized and energized by an unseen agency, the Holy Spirit (Ottati 1044). Believers in J...

'Tradition and the Individual Talent' by T.S. Eliot

not a personality, in which impressions and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways. Impressions and experiences which...

Traditions and Language

that angle. Heaths study followed the students into the schools during the first few years of desegregation and this is where sh...

Don Higginbotham's George Washington and the American Military Tradition

was developed to address people face-to-face and not only through written material. This puts a somewhat personal touch to his wor...

International Relations and Traditions of Liberalism and Realism

system is one of anarchy, with no common sovereign... * "A second corollary is that the state ... acts in a consistent way... * "F...

'Beowulf' and Its Representation of Heroic and Christian Traditions

a rather powerful enemy. Thus, one sees heroic feats on either end, but also, there is Christian love and the love of a parent tha...

The Basque Tradition

but amusing chatter among themselves, laughing at times and it is this apparent joy that draws in the crowd causing them to share ...

Spiritual Traditions of Catholicism

In fact, rather than disregarding the authority of the Bible and scripture, Diana pointed out that some of the more controversial ...

Native American Oral Tradition: Parallels in the Literature

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

A New England Tradition: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”

they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...

The Tradition of African Healing

This 8 page paper examines the role of several different African healers: the diviner, the herbalist, and the traditional healer. ...

American Religious Tradition Experiences

In ten pages the various experiences involved in the American religious condition are examined in a consideration of the firsthand...

Tradition and Changes of Japanese Women

In five pages this paper discusses gender perceptions in Japan in a consideration of the traditional images of women and recent ch...