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Cultural Diversity/Religion in South Africa

doing, we become fully human, but that humanness is reliant on our connections with others. When these connections are good, embra...

Tattoos in America

in prison, and that marks them as a particular type of person, connecting them with gangs and criminal activity. Or a young person...

Substance Abuse Counseling For Diverse Populations

and Practice, 2001). As this author said, "Cultural competency emphasizes the idea of effectively operating in different cultural ...

Spanish-speaking Clients/Mental Health Nursing

"hypnosis, behavior modification, and cognitive restructuring and their shamanic equivalents" (De Rios, 2002, p. 1576). Latino imm...

Cultural Displacement and Dehumanization in Boyden's 'Three Day Road'

in a world where the history of most major nation-states is rife with imperialism and the colonial subjugation of native populatio...

Family Transferring to East Africa

are not very important to the people. Time is very flexible. 2. Positive and Negative Aspects of Pre-departure Training We can...

The Evolution of Women's Rights

the Victorian era. Unfortunately, despite attention being paid to the question of womens rights for the first time, the actual soc...

The Classroom and Cross-Cultural Competency

is especially true when dealing with children or adolescents, for whom cultural acceptance is often a critical aspect of social in...

OVERVIEW: WHOLE FOODS

in 1992, and continued expanding both organically and through acquisitions (Biesada, 2011). Its most recent acquisition was that o...

"The Bluest Eye" and Standards of Beauty

animal kingdom besides humans. Nevertheless, these standards can become a problem when they become conflated with racial character...

Struggling Organizations and the Power of Leadership

world, from London and Toronto to Tokyo and Bombay. The organization also makes extensive use of information technology in organiz...

Culture in Our Ever Changing World

Part I. Multicultural Social Work...

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Assessing Abnormal Behavior

even schizophrenia. While Hippocrates approached the issue with a scientific bent, seeking to use medicinal practices to relieve a...

Westernization of Russia/The Petrine Revolution

1689, the country was just beginning to emerge from medievalism, as Russia was largely isolated from the radical cultural transfor...

The Transition of Shinto to the Modern World

describing kami in too theological a fashion, because oftentimes these spirits are not understood to be literal spirits, but rathe...

The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Obsession with Beauty

body dysmorphic disorder, a psychological condition in which one becomes fixated on the notion that there is some grave flaw in on...

Masturbation and Sexual Health - Exploring the Cultural Perceptions

unspoken assumption that masturbation is somehow morally wrong, or even detrimental. In other words, the alternative theories are ...

Cultural Change in Early Twentieth Century Taiwan

Colonialism inevitably had incredible effects on indigenous peoples around the world. These effects are recorded in a variety of...

Love Soccer and Cultural Expectations

Starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi, the movie "Bend It...

Factors Negatively Influencing Continuity of Health Care for Black Males

From a humanistic standpoint, the distribution of health care services should occur in accordance with the principle of equality o...

The American ideal of Beauty

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

Cultural Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Troubles

Ulster to belong to the United Kingdom can be broadly aligned with their religious associations (Tonge, 2001). In Northern Irela...

Sexism in Cultural Artifacts: Dr. Pepper Ten is "Not for Women"

heavily muscled "action hero"-type spokesman who rampages through a jungle, punching snakes, firing a laser rifle, and ensnaring h...

CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND ETHICAL QUAGMIRES

Discusses ethnocentrism and cultural relativism as it pertains to France's banning of face coverings. There are 4 sources listed i...

EDUTOTS IN MOROCCO AND IRELAND: AN OVERVIEW

best to establish a local office, staffed by Irish people. Distribution shouldnt be too difficult an issue, however, nor should pr...

Google Health: Cultural Resistance to EMR Adoption

which they referred to as Google Health (McBride, 2008). The purpose of the service was to allow users to upload personal informat...

Paternity Testing - A Multidimensional Overview

a paternity test happening simply by blind chance is as low as .0001%. For this reason, paternity tests are considered scientifica...

Diversity and the Role of HR

Pomodoro, Ltd. Because of the inherent diversity in a multinational business scenario, this presents special challenges for HR pro...

Issues in Psychotherapy

to be more positive than when an alliance is either established late in therapy or not at all. A lack of an alliance early in the ...