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Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Food and Globalization : Healthy Fare and Cultural Blends in Contemporary Society

also a global concern and trends have been witnessed in this area. In examining a number of writings on food, several themes emerg...

KOSOVO AND IRAQ: THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

using the conflict as a stepping stone to promote democracy in the Middle East and destroying any weapons of mass destruction (Enc...

3 Sociology Issues

and he wrote in 1949 that the "nuclear family is a universal human social group" (Carlson, 2004, p. 13). The function of marriage,...

A Visit to Philadelphia

almost unimaginable and the exhaust fumes practically overwhelming the uninitiated. There is a constant roar of cars and trucks, ...

Culturally Competent Care/African Americans

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

Politics and Cultural Values

the political correctness that goes along with it have won out. This triumph is concerning to say the least. Weyrich (17) warns,...

Virtual Multi-Cultural Teams

multi-cultural work teams can easily fail and when it is a virtual team, even more problems may emerge. Virtual multi-cultural ...

Why Mass Media is "not just any business"

a whole in different ways. It is the mass media which many organizations will use in order to market there good and try to influen...

Roman Cultural Life and Architecture: Analysis and Interpretation

gender bias in the favor of men, who were lords and masters of their wives and children as well as their slaves. All male Roman c...

American Culture, Importance of Punctuality

This essay offers a first-person account of a foreign student studying in the US who must adjust to different cultural expectation...

Cultural Communication Learning Styles

among different groups of people. As Grant-Thomas and Powell (2006) comment, the term structural racism tends to confuse people....

US vs. Ireland: Cultural Patterns:

This research paper relates numerous aspects of Irish culture and discusses how they are similar or differ from those of the US. S...

Cultural Conflict in Higher Education

This paper identifies five core strategies for overcoming cultural conflict. Cooperation between administrators, faculty and supp...

The Plague by Albert Camus

This essay concerns Albert Camus' novel "The Plague," which describes the impact of bubonic plague on an Algerian town during the ...

ESL Instruction, Cross-Cultural Activities

This essay offers two lessons and activities that provide cultural instruction within the context of ESL (English as a Second Lang...

What Really Helps Diverse Team to Perform

This essay reviews a journal article and research study, entitled Cultural Diversity And Team Performance: The Role Of Team Member...

Addressing Cultural Disparities in Healthcare

The author discusses the many ways culture can affect health and encourages a community approach to addressing the disparities whi...

Obstales to Faculty Collaboration

This essay examines faculty collaboration and discusses obstacles and possible solutions that pertain to the group and cultural dy...

Human Experimentation, Genocide

This essay pertains to genocide and human experimentation committed by the Nazis, the Japanese and the US. The writer asserts that...

How Do People Perceive Risk

Risk has become a popular research topic in a number of different fields of study, each of which has its own theories. This paper ...

"Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

The True Impact of Disrupting Small Town America Inner City Ghetto or Native American Traditional Lands

This paper discusses the disintegration of cultural tradition as it relates to the physical disruption of people's communities and...

The Gospel of Luke: Social Justice

refused and reminded the rich man that he had received many good things during his lifetime while Lazarus received many evil thing...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

Crisis Communication and Cultural Competency

unfortunate result. Cultural competency would have gone a long way to ameliorate the effects of 911 and to be fair, the government...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

Psychological Counseling Questions

the attraction and to what, it any extent, it will impact on performance. There are choices; this may include referring the studen...

Cultural Conflict in The Merchant of Venice

but at a very high cost. He requires a pound of flesh for debts not paid and this is literally what it sounds like, for a pound of...

Transcultural Assessment - Arab-Americans

(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...