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Essays 601 - 630

TV's Historical Evolution

the Royal Institution in London, England. Images appeared on his television set which were complete with tonal gradations of light...

Cherokee Indians' Mortuary Practices

which the Cherokee deal with the dead has, of course, changed considerably over time as well. While today Cherokee mortuary pract...

Department Store and its History

other retail considerations. This revolution was not limited to retailing considerations alone, however, but extended all the way...

Ancient History and Interactions Across Cultures

the Romans. Through looking at gender conditions as it relates to the Greeks and Romans we can gain some understanding of pre-cl...

Cultural and Political Views of the Vietnam War

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

Gender Roles and the Impacts of Cultural and Social Inflences

doesnt let this bother her in the least (Hurston, 1999). Interestingly, despite Janies assertiveness and her obvious independen...

Definition of Normalcy

tall should weigh somewhere between 125-140 lbs, but the cultural message is clear: thin is in. Therefore, many who are a normal w...

Cultural Mores and Nursing

view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...

Our Kind by Marvin Harris

an agricultural standpoint, it makes perfect sense. The farmer who slaughters and eats his cattle, including his oxen, cannot plow...

Europe, Asia, and Advertising Psychology

Whats more, consumers care little what brand they purchase as long as they can believe that the machine they purchase will be reli...

Our Kind Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where Are We Going by Marvin Harris

interpretations. It is important for the one to understand that there exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives,...

'British Stiff Upper Lip'

Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also f...

Oppression and Language Skills

Los Angeles, and lived in the region for at least a decade as an adult. In this region there are numerous field workers, many of w...

Passion, Influences, and Martyrdom of Perpetua

equal before God, including women. Indeed, the road to female freedom and self-expression has been paved with patriarchal intoler...

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...

Trade Barriers and International Business

strategy in the country. In order to trade a company needs to have a license of authority from the government and to be able to ge...

Europe, White Goods, and Market Segmentation

to another, and channels of communication set up which will target the appropriate groups....

A Cultural Anthropology Overview

his a "holistic" science, taking everything in context as humanity as a whole, rather than one that involves just a portion of som...

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

Marketing and Management Across Cultures

epistemologies and moralities (Westwood, 2001, 242). Epistemology There are several ways to define epistemology, bu...

Medea, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Gender Roles

dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...

Ancient Literature and Cultural Characteristics

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

Cultural Differences and Business Communications

They may all rely on email, fax transmission, and other forms of immediate and electronic communication but they are still steeped...

Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers

a somewhat anonymous international style which was not particularly Malaysian. The winning architects, Cesar Pelli and Associates,...

Chinese Culture and Parenting Approaches

2002). Furthermore, the idea of mien (face) is very important in the Chinese culture and very directly related to respect and t...

Thailand's Cultural Diversity and its History

excpetionof the South was under these hinduiz ed Mon-speaking people (Rajadhon, 2002). Subsequently, during 957 - 1257 the same ar...

HR Management Issues

human resource management. The first role of personnel management may be seen in the recruitment of staff. It is in this that we w...

Culture of Mexican Americans

The irony of the great American dream becomes quickly apparent. Never-the-less, Mexicans continue to seek that dream as a means o...

Cinematic Comparison of Threads, The Day After, and Testament

(originally produced to be shown on PBS, but later received theatrical distribution), which starred Jane Alexander and focused upo...

A Societal Application of Cultural Economics

that humanitys constant quest for the concept of meaning through the acquisition of material goods and this journey of cultural un...