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Discrimination and Its Impact on Racial and Cultural Understanding

some periods of history than in others (Sowell). Author Shelby Steele writes that "whites in America today are fearful of being co...

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, But Never Won the Battle of Cultural Clashes

course of the novel. They are products of a highly conservative Latin culture, which is in stark contrast to an American culture ...

Cultural Influences in the Purchase Decision

subcultures with these cultures, where there may be influences that impact on the way marketing is perceived and received that wil...

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 Differences in Workplace

This paper responds to several questions about a scenario, such as how nonverbal cues can lead to misunderstanding and conflict, h...

African American Diabetics, Cultural Competency

This research paper/essay presents the writer/tutor's suggestions for how a student researcher may wish to design the student's re...

Cultural Identity

individual. As Pires and Stanton (1997) note, "Ethnic identity may vary between individuals and for the single individual over tim...

Mental Health Parity Act: Interplay of Policy, Cultural And Societal Attitudes Within Clinical Social Work Practice

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

New York City The Importance of Cultural Diversity

Walt Whitman contended that a city absorbs a person as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Five sources are listed in this four ...

Various Workplace & Cultural Issues

cultural groups encounter when looked upon through narrow-minded perspectives. It has long been said that the United States...

Cultural Perspectives on Art

be as tall as six feet, the addition of an ornate headdress may also symbolize the political power, prestige and authority of the ...

Organizational Culture And Cultural Diversity: The Meaning Of Culture

Being able to actualize, even if just in ones mind, the corporations ultimate goal when faced with adversity is instrumental in fo...

Appalachian Patient: Cultural Considerations For Medical Treatment

proximity and/or behavior man has imposed upon his own species. Social norms play an integral role in both setting and meeting th...

Mark Monmonier's "From Squaw Tit To Whorehouse Meadow" - Changes To America's Cultural Landscape

respect local tradition (Monmonier 71). The place-naming process outlined in Monmoniers book illustrates the transitional ...

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...

Cultural Communication Learning Styles

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

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 ...

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...

Cultural Differences; GE and DEWA

2003). From this it is apparent that the culture may be within the firms, but it is also likely to be influenced by external force...

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...

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...

Cultural Considerations and the U.S. Health Care System

and others is becoming more and more diverse. Mwaura (2006) emphasizes that every culture has experienced a similar evolu...

Cultural And Gender Influences In Education And Organizations

the grip of failure. Students with limited English speaking skills are routinely challenged to understand the very basics of less...

Gulliver/His Cultural Tools

voyage, he saves the Lilliputian emperors palace from certain destruction by urinating on it in order to put out a fire that th...

How Different National Cultural Perspectives Can Impact Negotiations In A Multicultural Context

the more contemplative nature of India, cannot function at this nonstop pace and, as such, would feel undue pressure to make a dec...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

The Counter-Cultural Jesus In Mark's Gospel

little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone ...

Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

Cultural Consideration in Psychiatry

can complicate the provision of care for some Moroccan patients. Several more considerations will be outlined in the remainder of...

The Cultural Messages of "Beauty and the Beast"

to "active" and "aggressive" pursuits. This is not the model we find in Beauty and the beast. In the fairy tale itself (this expl...