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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...

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...

A Cultural Anthropology Overview

his a "holistic" science, taking everything in context as humanity as a whole, rather than one that involves just a portion of som...

Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers

a somewhat anonymous international style which was not particularly Malaysian. The winning architects, Cesar Pelli and Associates,...

The Nature Lover Subculture

and Ryan, 2003). As a result, a number of German hiking societies developed with the Friends of Nature with its motto Free Mounta...

Plastic Surgery

plastic surgery as a cultural phenomenon, that is, why people choose to have elective surgery. Types of plastic surgery It is a ...

Pragmatic Failure in Reference to Translation

human existence. Factors such as race, gender, and sociopolitical status, are all social facts and each influences a cultures lan...

The Origins of Racist Attitudes in Modern Times

of security" (Fuentes, 2004). Journalist Dale Maharidge, in his latest book Homeland, "answers that question and raises many mo...

International College Students and Cultural Adjustment

with a focus on studies that relate problems of acculturation, cultural adjustment and counseling in higher education. These stud...

Mexican Americans' Culture and History

Mexican American identity in San Antonio, then, demonstrated the self-definition that took place that separated the Spanish Mexica...

Identity and Puerto-Rican Americans

whole, as the US Census bureau indicates that 25 percent of all living on the mainland and 55 percent of Puerto Ricans living on t...

The Ethics of Guanxi in Chinese Business Strategy

of guanxi to the time of Mao, to the time when being able to call in a few personal favors might mean the difference between eatin...

Cultural Analysis of Ferragamo

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Ferragamo. Discussion questions are answered to provide an overview of the organizat...

RCMP's Culture and Organization

responsible for the administration and enforcement of these laws. In turn, the provincial governments are also allocated the enfor...

OVERVIEW: WHOLE FOODS

in 1992, and continued expanding both organically and through acquisitions (Biesada, 2011). Its most recent acquisition was that o...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

Mayan Technological, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Development

Mayan culture (Brady, 1995). There appears to be little differentiation in individual wealth levels as can be determined from exa...

The Region of Calabria

peninsula is separated from the rest of northern Italy by Basilicata; the Ionian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea serve as nautical east/wes...

An Overview Perspective of Quebec

leading traders of the north even before European contact (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 1995). Utilizing their strategic lo...

A Globalization View

governments (405). For example, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on September 11, 2001 caused "s...

James Rachels and the Theory of Cultural Relativism

as backward and wrong. They are even more critical of such practices as infanticide, a practice affecting female infants among th...

Guatemala's Mayan People

business conducted in Spanish and schools are based on Spanish as well as bilingual programs that are thought to be transitional...

Chinese Cinema in the early 2000's

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the Chinese cinema from 2000-2007. This paper includes four different film from China and t...

Cultural and Political Influences on Human Development

This 3 page paper gives an overview of human development. This paper includes how cultural values and practices, public policies, ...

Dancing and Fela Anikulapo's Music

This 4 page paper gives an overview of how African beats and music have influenced dance. This paper includes Fela Anikulapo's mus...

View of Women, Two 1950s Romantic Comedies

This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...

Cuba and Healthcare

problems with its water supplies as extensive deforestation has taken place over the last century which have taken its toll on the...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

Cultural Industries, Tensions, and Interrelationships

sources, but the need to compete and innovate to attract attention and income is similar. There are the presence of economies of s...

Contemporary Cultural Production and Studying Celebrities

impressionable period, and what children hear or read during this critical period can determine the value system which dominates t...