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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...

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...

'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...

'Amerka, Amerka' by Anton Shammas

(ICA), Shammas was literally forced to view some "nature" while in the Southwest, which resulted in what sounds like a miserable t...

Culture and Science Conflict

formed a Native American Heritage Commission to attempt to police the digs (Sacred Burial Grounds: The Controversy Continues, 1992...

Body Image Perceptions and Western Society

is essentially a rejection of the traditional values and argues for an "authority of our own experiences" (Bordo, 1993, 283). In p...

The Urban Evolution of Paris

the Right Bank, this traditional barrier had to be extended by another structural wall in the fourteenth century (Diefendorf, 1991...

Library Science Challenges

Libraries need to respond to those challenges by initiating programs that will cater to the needs of present and future users, in ...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

19th and 20th Century Development of Russia

the wealthy. Many were secretly considering an end to Tsarist rule. A small attempt at revolution by the Decemberists sought to de...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare Critically Analyzed

to those who have never read the play or viewed a theatrical production. It is the story of a young Danish prince, a Wittenberg U...

Multicultural Person and Sociology

has the lovely olive skin and dark thick glossy hair so apparent in her Kiowa people. Some of Pamelas in-laws, especially the old...

Global Culture and the Impact of the Aryan Race

and America was just the place for which they were searching. However, when they arrived onto the Native American soil, they turn...

Taking Steps Toward Organizational Change

This may be true, but it depends on the type of change that is being sought. If the change is one that is a large one in totality,...

TV Comparisons of Friends and Three's Company

democrat and one-time peanut farmer Jimmy Carter became president, there were significant differences in attitudes among the older...

U.S. and Turkey Dating and Selection of Mates

is the mother who stays at home and cares for the children and the father who works outside the home in order to provide financial...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...

From the Glittering World by Irvin Morris and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Rocky was killed, Emo became an alcoholic and Tayos condition was left uncured by white medicine (Austgen, 2002). Tayo again has...

Rosaldo and Scheper Hughes Anthropological Study Approaches and Limitations

rational-choice theory while studying the Ilongot head hunting beliefs and their change to Christianity (Rosaldo, 1980, 1989). To ...

Origins of Moral Virtue

as it applies to moral virtue is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotation to its concept; howeve...

Post 1945 the Netherlands

of the Labour Party and Kok was also the Prime Minister (The Economist, 1998). His opponent was Frits Bolkestein from the Liberal ...

The Significance of Social Networks for the Communities of China

people to make their own destinies - to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear that they would ne...

History and Legacy of the Volkswagen AG Company

such a car (Caryl, 1996). The projects first director, Ferdinand Porsche, was a "nuts-and-bolts" man who was able to help turn Hit...

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

United States, Japan, and Flexibility of Labor

can make the new technological developments as well as embrace them. The reason for this success has been the adoption of ...

Mesopotamia and Egypt

depending on outside influences from other cultures. If there is migration from one culture to another, then the behaviours of bot...