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Social Construction, Social Shaping, and Technological Determinism

the process of change, and that technology is an instrumental component in the transformation of organizational and social structu...

U.S. National Structures, Politics, and Race

protect women at all times from any misfortune that could occur. Whether that misfortune could lead to or result in physical harm...

Should Cultural Artifacts be Returned to Their Countries of Origin?

1. "claims concerning the restitution of cultural properties to their ocuntries of origin" 2. "restriction of imports and...

The Relationship Between Europe and Africa

in the early 18th century that the Fulani people east of present-day Sierra Leone invaded to convert the people of present-day Sie...

Overview of Cyanobacteria

from a site in South Africa" showed that there were a surprising number of organic compounds in the mix (p. 23). Watanabes analysi...

Social Concept of Social Stratification

the first case we deal with increases of wealth, power, or occupational standing of social groups, as when we talk of the decline ...

Middle East Culture and Negotiations

and her Middle Eastern neighbors. Well then embark on a literature review to determine the main differences between the nations - ...

Culture, Personal Preference, and Taste

of the valuer" (Ollivier et al, 2001). II. CONSUMERISM Human nature is defined by myriad elements, not the least of which ...

Evolution of Christianity from Judaic Roots

scholarly and historical thought on this subject offers guidance on these issues. Christianity "was born of Judaism: it was the ...

Rousseau: "Second Discourse"

tribes" (Delaney, 2006). And so we cannot know precisely what Rousseau meant by these definitions. The first part of the Discours...

"Caucasia"

maiden name with a venomous clarity-need to go back to Cambridge" (Senna, 1998, p. 21). Then he continues that he needs to go to R...

Earth and Mars

formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty million years ago. This explanation is commonly referred to as the...

Popular Culture: Forging a Distinctive Identity

Each of these distinctive elements of society sprang from the pressing need to forge a distinctive self identity. Each was fed by...

The Japanese Samurai

century, for example, the Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to overthrow the shogunate, the defacto government vying for power w...

Social Learning and Social Control

genders. "Testosterone exerts powerful effects on human bodies, helping make them stronger and bigger. It also increases sex dri...

Analysis of the U.S. Bill of Rights

of the Bill of Rights, 2002). This was in Philadelphia and representatives from all 13 states convened here for this purpose (A B...

God and the Trinity Doctrine

was opposed by Athanasius, the deacon of the main church in Alexandria (Bolton, 2002). The Bishop of Alexandria, Alexander, heard...

An Exploration of Anthropology by Andrea Lee

to parade as white folds illustrates how she wanted her kindred to be just as proud of their true racial roots as they were with t...

Asset Allocation and Stochastic Optimization

approaching, being one that that is more dynamic and flexible, suitable as a tool for analyzing decision problems under uncertaint...

An Exploration of Horoscopes

or the time and place of any other significant event that is being explored. While their validity is still doubted by many, other...

US Welfare State, its Origins and Complexities

convinced that "the need for immediate relief outweighed the need for long-range social insurance programs" (Kingson and Berkowitz...

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 ...

Paher's Las Vegas (Book Report)

the beginnings of this citys origin. Of course, the book only provides general information and there is only a set amount that can...

The Bible And The Koran

texts because it is accepted by a religion as the Word of God or the Word of Allah, in Islam. All religions have a sacred text upo...

The Bible And The Koran - Christianity And Islam

on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...

Human Life and Its Origins

34). Religion offers an alternative scenario, but science has yet to come up with a logical explanation for how this new informati...

Thailand's Cultural Diversity and its History

excpetionof the South was under these hinduiz ed Mon-speaking people (Rajadhon, 2002). Subsequently, during 957 - 1257 the same ar...

American Blackface and its Origins

It has been said that blackface was some of the most bold, blatant and extreme stereotyping in American history (History of Blackf...

Theater History

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

Bob Marley's Reggae Musical Legacy

inspired by the Cuban marimbula (American...Fredericks). Nevertheless, despite these diverse influences, musicologists agree that ...