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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,...

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...

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...

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...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

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....

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

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

Bipolar Disorder from Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Perspectives

have a variety of manifestations and patients are typically classified as either Bipolar I, Bipolar II, or Unipolar based on the s...

Roland Case and Penney Clark's The Canadian Anthology of Social Studies

the globe, to armchair inquiry into such things as films, television and music of contemporary urban life. While anthropology may ...

Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism

were Europeans. Hence, the plight of the American Indian is thoroughly ignored. Cultural relativism on the other hand looks at all...

Black and Outsider Culture

sexual orientation, and consequently these different facets may take on different degrees of priority at different times in their ...

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...

Modern Native American Literature and Cultural Conflict

Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...

1960s' Culture

come around, Americans were frantically attempting to launch a man into space, more to keep up with the Soviets (who had already l...

Michael Page International and Globalization

will likely thrive during the twenty-first century. The firm started as a partnership, but evolved. It went public in 2001, which...

Man and Icon John Wayne

a football player. Ford then told Duke to "try to tackle him" (PG) and Duke attempted it but was thrown roughly to the ground. W...

1970s Technological, Scientific, and Cultural Events

opponents" (Anonymous Watergate and Nixons resignation 20f2b85ea95). Many high ranking officials were involved and all of the info...

Community, Cultural Diversity, and Academic Achievement

are even internal differences in the drop out rate among Hispanics in regard to the place of origin. This is true both in regard ...

Education and Native Americans

programs exist with the purpose of offering health-care services to this population specifically. Many more improvements have b...

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,...

'Mysterious' Land of Eastern Europe

they had stepped back into history. These travelers brought back the mythology of the Balkans, which included tales of the undead,...

International Women's Movements and Issues of Globalization

issues is a situation which traces its roots far back into history. The indigenous women of Latin America have been suppressed by...

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...

Italian Poet Giuseppe Ungaretti

(Scire et. al., 2002). Ungarettis accomplishments would be numerous. He would start writing after joining the Italian ar...