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Essays 1981 - 2010

Cinematic Director Fatih Akin

as reflecting reality depicting unusual events or situations, but presenting real conflicts and issues that reflect this history o...

Corporate Plan of Global Strategy and Early Internal Resource Assessment

into Europe. The companys history has been to scout out prime locations where their product is expected to thrive and then capita...

Values Axiom of Max Weber and the Immigrant Experience

Prestige is the degree of respect or importance attached to an individual or cultural group. As will be explained below, each of ...

Lesser Developed Countries and Economic Development

no collective voice. It is them that we must be concerned about. If we are to effect positive change in these countries...

Essays on Health Care

before, with the result that there is a "pill" for virtually any physical condition. Individuals taking any kind of ethical drug ...

Belgium and Spanish Immigrants

The country on the whole is a stable and "cautiously progressive ... liberal democracy" but it is still plagued by tension between...

Globalization Theories and China's Starbucks

for their parents as a way to thank them for all they did in bringing up the young people (Chinese tea culture, 2006). Tea in Ch...

Ethics Case Study

In five pages customs and a foreign country's treatment of women are explored in this case study that takes a memorandum style reg...

Stereotyping and Discrimination

In twelve pages this paper discusses how cultural stereotypes lead to incorrect assumptions that are discriminatory. Nine sources...

Racism and Culture Defined in 'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois

to keep at least a semblance of their culture together. In fact, there has been somewhat of a movement to restore black culture in...

Communicating Upwards

This 10 page paper describes how messages are commuicated upwards in cultures. It assesses situations in which both the power dist...

The Unpopular Affirmative Action

In this paper consisting of four pages it is argued that cultural racism deeply embedded in American society required the necessit...

Cubans and Mexicans in the United States A Perspective Comparison

In 8 pages the Hispanic conditions as they relate to Cubans and Mexicans are considered first during the 1800s and then in terms o...

Theories of Anthropology

In a paper consisting of seven pages Emile Durkheim's functionalism, Julian Steward's cultural anthropology, and Franz Boas's psyc...

Barriers to Wal Mart Operations in China

retained. China is a communist state; the leaders are not capitalists although there are moves towards a more capitalist economy w...

Japan's Infant Mortality Rates

In 5 pages this paper examines how infant mortality in Japan has declined due to a variety of cultural, economic, and social reaso...

Greek Culture and the Original Olympic Games

of the Games. Whether they existed before that year is unknown, and there was debate many years ago as to whether 776 BC could be...

Culture of Mexico and Inferiority Perceptions

In six pages this paper discusses Leopoldo Zea's perceptions on Mexican cultural inferiority. Three sources are listed in the bib...

Symbolic Interaction in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

true, but there will also be certain established parameters which must not be crossed. To do so marks the individual as deviant in...

United States and Britain, Differences in Manufacturing

that "UK manufacturers productivity lags between 25 to 30 per cent behind US companies in the same sector" (Willmott, 2001; p. 3)....

Effective Counselor Traits

or members of a family attempt to gain an understanding of self and others that will enable them to effectively solve problems and...

Melting Pot Theory and the United States

facto segregation. There were no people melting into one another as the theory would claim. Of course, there is no literal transla...

Substance and Symbolism of the African Mask

reminiscent of African culture as a whole is to miss the point of the masks intent. There are a variety of masks and they are mean...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Population, Australia and the Chinese

is much to be said in favour of countries working cooperatively to solve population issues: if we take the former, however, it is ...

History of Russia in a Combination of 4 Papers

kingdom, ruled by Vladimir, stretched all the way to the Black Sea (History, 2005). Yaroslav the Wise succeeded Vladimir, and und...

Egypt Invasion by Napoleon and Culture Clashes

that in Egypt, he would not be able to simply occupy and conquer as he had previously. For, here was a firmly entrenched religion...

An Overview of Singapore

4.0% Others (Sikhism, Confucianism, etc) 0.6% Finally, literacy is high in Singapore, as revealed by the following chart. It has ...

The Indo Caribbean Experience as Found in A House For Mr. Biswas

what makes some relationships as viewed by outsiders particularly scandalous. Indeed, the role of class in society represents bot...

Women and Taoism

They developed the idea of Dao (which we know as Tao, meaning "way" or "path") "as the origin lf all creation and the force-unknow...