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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,...

Using Cultural Dimensions to Compare Two Different Organizations

a counter or till, only desks and tables with the products (Apple, 2012). The differentiation is based on a premium product, the p...

Ideas of Love and the Influence of Culture

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at cultural influence. The influence of culture on normative issues such as love is de...

Cultural Barriers are a Hindrance in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

been removed. Likewise, one may look at a culture, seeing only the outward manifestations, but without removing barriers it is imp...

Discussion of Conspicuous Consumption and An Ad Analysis

habits of individuals as they buy, use and then dispose of or recycle goods and services (Murnane, 2008). Thorstein Veblen coined ...

To Kill A Mockingbird, a 1960s Perspective

adaptation of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move eac...

Assessment of the United Kingdom as an FDI Host Nations for R&D in Biotechnology

development facility. It is assumed that one country that the firm will not consider is Germany. The existing partnership is in th...

THE POPULARITY OF FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

it on her own site - and from there, word-of-mouth helped promote the book. The stories were offered for free, which makes this "r...

Mao's Cultural Revolution and Durkheim

its members a sufficient degree of homogeneity" (Durkheim, 1956). As is obvious, such an ethos was the entire justification behind...

Prevalence of Divorce, Cultural Assimilation

also more pressure on couples to work out their differences and learn how to live amicably and keep the marriage intact. 2. My so...

Cultural Influences on Attitudes to Schizophrenia

have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...

Chinese Americans, A Cultural Assessment

in the 1960s a new wave of immigrants resulted. Since the early 1970s, roughly 250,000 "Chinese intellectuals, scientists and engi...

A Refutation of Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations

There are many theories that attempt to explain the violence that seems to be such an inherent...

Adjusting to Retirement

research as the "most important predictor of mortality, morbidity and well-being in adulthood" (Lowis, Edwards and Burton, 2009, p...

21st Century Globalization - An Overview

a troublesome income disparity in the local sense in many of the nations where it is most championed, such as the United States, g...

Cultural Factors Affecting Drug Counseling

The United States is becoming progressively more multicultural over time. Social diversity is, in fact, something that must be ta...

Twenty First Century Cultural Artifacts and Ideologies

643 Life in the twenty-first century has become more of a...

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 ...

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...

Overview of The Bahamas

22,000 of this number were children under 15 (Rutledge 55). While mother to child transmission has greatly declined in wealthier c...

Assessing Student Tolerance and Respect for Cultural Differences

The creation of a self-assessment questionnaire about the level of empathy and respect for other cultures can be utilized to evalu...

Changes in Education: The Field of Science and Social Change

about science instruction that falls into areas of ethics have influenced how many science educators pursue instructional content....

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...

Organizations and Cultural Change

organizational results (Burns, 1978) Transformational leadership works to promote cultural change within an organization by allow...

Consumer Goods and Social Values

basic and fundamental article of clothing; it is likely that all but a few individuals in Western society own at least one shirt. ...