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Substance Abuse Counseling For Diverse Populations

and Practice, 2001). As this author said, "Cultural competency emphasizes the idea of effectively operating in different cultural ...

Spanish-speaking Clients/Mental Health Nursing

"hypnosis, behavior modification, and cognitive restructuring and their shamanic equivalents" (De Rios, 2002, p. 1576). Latino imm...

Non-Western & Western Music

"Cubop," an "appellation (that) aptly symbolizes the new equipollent level of cross-cultural musical integration that differentiat...

The Top 5 Global Media Companies: Ownership, Corporate Linkage and Political and Cultural Implications

the Western world. Most of this ownership, in fact, rests in the United States. The corporate connections of these media...

Cultural Consideration in Psychiatry

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

Cultural Capital: Muhammad Ali

capital can be made into monetary wealth but one must also understand that cultural capital is not necessarily only involved with ...

Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales

French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...

Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease

their native primitive cultures and European colonial modernization. Back in the 1940s, few Nigerians were accorded the opportuni...

Livy's History of Rome/Heroes & Villains

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

The Importance of Consumption in Cultural Globalization This

which is seen as more of a mainstream perspective. For Castells globalisation represented the universalization of the global capit...

Rap Music: Social Meaning

affair of choppy strophes of braggadocio chanted over an endlessly repeating bass line and drum track. But there is more to the m...

Gift Giving in Homer's Odyssey

he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...

Examining the Personal and Cultural Background of an African-American

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

Cultural Issues: 9 Article Overviews

process, the twins ultimately grow up to be two very dissimilar individuals due to their respective upbringing. II. CULTURE AND N...

Ethics and Laws/Healthcare Organizations

informed consent as one would with other patients, who are not of this culture. Such questions that address the role of the law ...

Gaman/A Japanese Cultural Concept

allow the young Emperor, age 8, to fall into the hands of Genji warriors, a "Nun of the Second Rank," instructs the boy to make h...

Accommodating Cultural Differences In Esl Classroom

styles of cognitive learning by offering both individual and group work to students. For instance, some of the assignments would b...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

Cultural Competency

in relationship to human development categories. In looking at this perspective one author notes, in quoting another, that, "Psy...

Cultural Fashion Interpretation in Pants Saggy and Baggy

clothes, the noshi, and clothing worn during hunting, the kariginu were both made up generous jackets coming to the hips and pants...

Cultural Competency For Social Workers

or similarity (Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice, 2001). As this author said, "Cultural competency emphasizes the i...

Transracial Adoption

families differ there is the potential for a number of problems. Transracial adoptions might be considered necessitated by ...

Cultural Basis of Education, Pedagogy and Educational Psychology

are based largely on the work of early behavioral theorists such as Freud, Erikson and Piaget (Ollhoff, 1996). These men and other...

The Lebanese/Israeli Crises: How The Media Handles This Social, Economic, Political And Cultural Issue

as significant as its ability to impart information. The theory of agenda setting asserts that mass media do not tell people outr...

Article Critique/Suspected LD

the pre-test due to differences in cultural background make significant improvement, but children with "true language impairment" ...

Cultural Diversity/Religion in South Africa

doing, we become fully human, but that humanness is reliant on our connections with others. When these connections are good, embra...

Tattoos in America

in prison, and that marks them as a particular type of person, connecting them with gangs and criminal activity. Or a young person...

Hispanic Cultural Diffusion

dominant theme in the culture and in America today. In fact, government agencies publish bilingual literature and it is hard to pi...

Mary Pipher's The Middle of Everywhere and Reflections of Refugees

formal education" (Pipher 334). As Pipher points out refugees (and other immigrants) are often doctors, professors, engineers, etc...