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Essays 1891 - 1920

The Effects of Trends in Popular Culture

and loss of money due to gambling. A significant trend that teens have been aligned with, as a result of electronic media, is tex...

Teacher Supervision and Effective School Principals

Developing annual budgets and coordinating the use of other resources (Peterson and Kelley, 2001, p. 8). 5. Organizing efforts to ...

Children's Literature and Authentic Voices

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

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...

Leadership Case Study Analysis

The value is that the more people know each other, the less likely they are to try to sabotage each other or to create cliques. 2...

Patriarchal Culture, Gender, and the Works of Tayeb Salih and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

of Angela addresses the rituals that surround marriage in Latin American culture during this time. Bayardo brings Angela presents,...

eZine's Adverse Influence Upon Pop Culture

society. This reflection of popular culture can be quite concerning when it affects our young and moves them into the more aberra...

Cultural Practices For Memory and Learning

an adult and include conceptual reasoning" (Piaget, 2001). During all of these stages, the child "experiences his or her environme...

5 Countries, Media Industries and Telecommunications' Stakeholder Interests

When we consider the range of stakeholders some can be seen more direct than others. Stakeholders are those who have an interest i...

Expanding to the International Stage

to use hedging, the agreement to purchase dollars art a set rate in advance, or the sale of a contract to sell the local currency ...

Organizational Communication and Personal Power

have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...

Spain: “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway

people. In the United States there is no such thing as a real bullfight, or the bull runs that take place in Spain. It seems, when...

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...

Odysseus’ Revenge: Justified

story of Odysseus sets him up as a noble man, regardless of what someone may know about Greek codes of conduct. He was a noble man...

Police Culture

often are treating negatively. The infamous Serpico did blow the whistle and he paid dearly for it. First, what is police culture...

Organizational Behavior: Southwest Airlines

policy to be honest with its employees, that "through effective people management, the company had created the right type of cultu...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

Tannen on Discourse

Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...

Cross-Cultural Management

norms and behavioral traits that they were raised with (Wade, 2004). These are deep-rooted and may be difficult to change (Wade, 2...

Preparing Employees For Decision Making

which they must work? Or, on an assembly line, can an employee stop the work if they think a mistake has been made? There are alwa...

Change at British Airways

However, BAA is unable to provide a robust security search process and baggage operation, and as a result we are being forced to c...

Trustworthiness as it relates to Mergers and Acquisitions in the Leisure Economy

by movies (Fischer, 1994). Film-going would grow as would radio that first appeared in the 1920s (Fischer, 1994). It seems that b...

Selling T-Shirts to China for the Beijing Olympics

although there have been many changes in the Chinese economy with the country joining the World Trade Organisation in 2000 (WTO, 2...

Customs, Culture, and Religion of Greece

1941 to 1944 (Greece, 2005). After the end of the war a "protracted civil war" continued between communist rebels and supporters ...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

Culture and Organizational Communication of NASA

Columbia disaster, it was determined that a multitude of the problem which had been uncovered during the investigation which took ...

Culture Clash and Paragon Case Study

new company. Much of this assessment is based on assumption, as the timings appear to match and there is evidence to suggest tha...

3 Chapter Summary on Organizational Culture

things like allowing employees access to areas previously reserved for executives, or convening special employee meetings, or inst...

Peruvian Americans, Culture and Society

an equilibrium and patients may have difficulty discussing depression openly (OMH, 2005). Another Hispanic health belief is that...

Weapon Technology Advances and American Popular Culture 1920 through 1960

to make advances toward the enemy, and the advent of the machine gun in WW I replaced warfare which was fought as cavalry. The o...