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The Relevance of Culture for African American Students: Methodology

American learners? The goal of this study is to better understand the impact of African American culture on the academic achi...

My Community's Racial Overtones

live in a town overrun by religious zealots with little tolerance for anyone who is not of their ilk. Native Americans are more a...

IBC Inflammatory Breast Cancer

dose of antibiotics, after which time -- when the indications do not disappear -- further testing in the form of biopsy, ultrasoun...

Ideology and Religion of Islam

In twenty one pages this paper discusses ideology and religious practices of Islam in a consideration of cultural misconceptions b...

Filipino American Life

California (05B). The majority are foreign born (05B). Unlike the Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants for example, where current ...

Ancient Civilizations and the Significance of Writing

In five pages this paper discusses how the ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia achieved cultural expansion thr...

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR AND MARKETING

a powerful tool for any marketing plan, whether it involve movies, clothes or new gadgets. Meanwhile, as the United States...

Leadership in Entrepreneurial Cognition

provides guidance in decision making as well, ensuring that the organization stays on the track that its leaders have predetermine...

"Marketing, the ethic of consumption, and less-developed counties"

identification is (more or less) closely bound up with what one owns or consumes" (Brenkert, 1998; p. 93). These are the people t...

The Importance of Managerial Understanding of a Culturally Diverse Workforce

are apparently immersed in the American technological culture, that in other cultures hospitals are seen as places where people lo...

AN ARTICLE ANALYSIS ON MUSLIM LEADERSHIP, MOTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT THOUGHT

up doing business globally. Going back to Merriam-Webster, the definition of methodology involves the set of procedures us...

Australian Cross Cultural Experiences

at the dominant culture as the principle culture and then at others which have subsequently entered, this undermines the indigenou...

Social Identity According to Bourdieu

culture is not superior to that of working class cultures, only different. Failures that are classified as class related, such as ...

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Creating a Personal Ethical Philosophy

that this is wrong. They believe that there is an intrinsic morality and that women should not be executed for committing adultery...

Italian-American Culture

in their religion, they rely upon its influence to see them through difficult times. This strength allows them to overcome obstac...

Designing Entertainment Venues

gambling establishments has served to completely transform otherwise impoverished communities and even afford them the ability to ...

Global Negotiations

as opposed to American English, in Japan it may be American English, and even in this there are differences in meanings and infere...

American Society Problems

of Navajo and Zuni reservations and this is widely seen and known by most. And, it seems that no matter how educated they become, ...

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...

China's Modernity and the 'Crucible' of Shanghai

other areas of Shanghai are marked Chinese" (Goodman, 2004). Researchers have discovered that studying Shanghai in particular "sh...

Families, Gender, and Cultural Roles

paper, well examine the structural-functional paradigm and determine how it pertains to the role of gender in the family. Well the...

Personal Essays and Cultural Backgrounds

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist who passionately portrayed the ongoing class struggle between the peasantry and t...

Cultural Images in the Media

The broader version promoted by Hall is that a "text" of any kind - "be it a book, movie, or other creative work - is not simply p...

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...

Ape Tool Utilization and Language

sticks are the primary example of such primitive tools. Apes select these sticks, modify them, and use them to entice ants to cra...

Workplace Diversity Management

many talents to the table. At no time do such disparities threaten to weaken the future workforce when one considers the number o...

Researching Language Across Cultural Lines

to this perspective is the fact that external forces also impact the linguistic development of a region, and as a result, linguist...

Social Work, Sexuality, and Gender

of counseling in culturally diverse populations and the way in which this can influence the patient/therapist relationship. Perha...

Counseling Gays and Lesbians

to seek additional mental health support following his diagnosis of HIV infection. There are two different sociocultural compon...