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Amish and Samoan Marriage Customs

forms of relationships that occur between unmarried lovers, which involved clandestine encounters. This aspect of Samoan courtship...

The Culture in the World of Comics

perpetuate a creative and productive mind; comic books, while appearing to project little more than superficial entertainment, pro...

Del Webb Company Changes Case

assets used to support not only the reduction n debt, but the apparent good performance of the company. WE need to change this. Th...

Definition of Globalization and its Dangers

expense of myriad unsophisticated societies. As such, this dichotomy of progression has rendered globalization a much-contested c...

Intercultural Communication

the interview, the American interviewers decide the German interviewee is rather rigid. They think he has no sense of humor and wh...

Ancient Civilizations: Greece and Rome Compared

the Greeks, which makes it all the stranger that it is the Roman Empire that grew and prospered, and not the earlier one. Part of ...

Collectivism and Commitment; Implications for Cross Cultural Management

tools such as 5 Ss and Six Sigma through to the general approaches of co-operative management (Katz and Darbishire, 2002). One ...

Lessons from “The Sopranos”

can be explained by the growing acceptance in our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of gl...

A COMPARISON OF CAR-MAKERS

sections. These sections consist of an overview, management report, divisions, sustainability, corporate governance, consolidated ...

Alexandria

since the city was taken over by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE (Shillington, 2005). Shillington (2005) explains: "The intermixtur...

Changing the American Culture

motivating factor. The goal of this task force is to reduce the friction between the people. Kreitner & Kinicki (2007) do go on t...

Technology and Changes in American Culture

were large multi-branched entities and several generations typically lived under one roof. This was, in fact, a necessity in thes...

Organizational Theory And Unifying A Nation

details about the exact smears that were used.] Another of the differences with the 2004 election had to do with information tech...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

Critique on the Variations of the Rapunzel Folk/Fairy Tale

Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...

AMERICANIZATION OF CHINA

have different viewpoints than their parents. The most drastic viewpoint is that of individualism versus collectivism, a precept o...

Organizational Behavior and Team Effectiveness

organizations unconscious beliefs, perceptions, thoughts and feelings. Changing culture cannot be done by edict, but estab...

The Problems at Riordan Manufacturing

with a high level of input will provide quality service to potential customers. The main problems that the company face is the re...

Interpretation of Readings on Culture, Language

and also how the idea of "class" enters into this equation. For example, Weis finds that issues concerning class, within the gener...

An Examination of Food and Culture

the chapter goes on, other ideas are expressed. There is attention given to other cultures. Yes, culture still plays a major role....

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

Afghanistan and America in The Kite Runner

cannot bring himself to intervene (Hosseini). His inability springs not so much from cowardice, though he is badly outnumbered, as...

Gender Reversal in Indigenous Culture

American Native groups as well. For many indigenous cultutes, in fact, gender-reversed individuals have played important ...

3 Sociology Issues

and he wrote in 1949 that the "nuclear family is a universal human social group" (Carlson, 2004, p. 13). The function of marriage,...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

The Iroquois War Club

The war club was, and in fact is, a formidable weapon that is associated with the Iroquois in particular. Typically only two to t...

Considering Michael Fullan’s Book “Leading in a Culture of Change”

says something interesting about leaders, namely that although we face difficult and complex problems in all areas of our lives, w...

Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

Roman and Spanish Art

head, hands and feet. There does appear to be one figure that is dressed in what appears to be almost Roman or Greek clothing, app...

Canadian Aboriginals: Evolving Identities and an Emerging Hybridity

of European descent. Interestingly, however, aboriginals were viewed simultaneously with distaste, with awe, and with envy. They...