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Asian countries (Moran & Keane, 2004). In other words, they dispute the idea that their people are affected by American media. Evi...

Boots are made to easily slip on or off in case a horse goes wild and the riders foot is stuck in the stirrup. Boots that come off...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

manage them more effectively. Mayo undertook the Hawthorne studies, here a group of workers were separated and given special treat...

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

Japanese practices, their values and culture in development and the actual practices need to be examined. After this evidence indi...

Governments ownership of land "continues to hamper growth in the industrial sector as entrepreneurs are unable to use land as coll...

in the Islamic world is to cultivate and perpetuate a sense of unity where jurisprudence is concerned, otherwise known as the ongo...

Trinity, both the father and son, as well as the pure spirit. This is a very difficult concept (how can anyone be both father and ...

excellent sense of humor" that made him popular with his troops (Syvertsen). His values and character, and his rapid conquest of m...

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

in Pauls company is an older man, Katczinsky, a man who has a family back home. He perhaps serves as something of a strong foundat...

far more influential) and the United States (where religion is not a major influence). It is perhaps also important to understan...

What is interesting to note when viewing Fallows assessment is that the same elements that he critically views in terms of the Fil...

of personal self-determination and responsible freedom that the realities of modern life and institutions seem to deny" (11). In t...

other cultures are quite different and thus cannot be expected to be like western cultures. The judgments that would initially ...

for war, but success really depended on a favorable relationship with the gods. This helps explain the importance of the priestly ...

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

The first point to be made here would be that the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) is one of the major traditional national holi...

of nobles, officials, merchants and peasants alike. Even more importantly Henry the Great cared about his people and his country....

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...

Indeed, the organization of nationalism was spurred on due to the role played by patriotic clergies. Mazower (2002) indicates ho...

and 3. Chinas policy towards the Soviet Union and its leaders as opposed to those it formulated in regard to the U.S. and its lea...

those resources. The latter culture, that associated with the fur trade, is of particular interest when discussing the developmen...

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

of power and influence as change came to the western civilization(s). Within each region discussed by Spielvogel we see differe...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

force in this particular body of the state. The army did not only serve as our armies do today, but also as simple police forces t...

produced relaxed a great deal. The move toward a "market economy" from one that has been state-run has been slow, however ...