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Cuba and the United States: Manifestations of Cultural Value

century is an era of increased globalization in which national and cultural boundaries are eroded and cultural perspectives are be...

Cultural Influences, Archaeology, and City Morphology of Classical Athens

the epitome of this planning. Many of the same criteria which are used to ascertain contemporary cities can be used to...

Cultural Differences, Psychological Premises, and Conversational Styles

In five pages the ways in which psychological premises and cultural differences can manifest themselves in conversational styles a...

Japan, France and the Cultural Dimensions of Hofstede

In five pages this paper examines Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions within the context of Japan and France in terms of business manag...

Overview of Inter Cultural Communication

importance of human relationships and interactions over stringent social boundaries. "Many things may occur at once (since many p...

Comparing Cultures American and Korean Nonverbal Communication

holistic cultures have a greater propensity for listening with their eyes rather than with their ears, and so their body language ...

Samuel M. Wilson's 'The Emperor's Giraffe'

Cultural assimilation is the focus of this 5 page paper, as Wilson theorizes that cultural clashes often lead to common ground and...

Prescriptions and the Elderly

A large proportion of our elderly take multiple medications for multiple conditions. This has led to a situation known as polyphar...

Program to Reduce Number of Medications Taken

As people grow older they tend to develop multiple physical illnesses and sometimes, mental illnesses or mental health problems. T...

Growth In Later Adulthood

the meaning of life" (Your text, p. 515). The very old knows about the uncertainties in life and they have lived through many of l...

Affordable Urban Housing for the Poor and Elderly

2002). Already, urban areas gain approximately one million additional residents each week (Meeting the urban challenge, 2002). ...

Education And Senior Centers

active role in adult education by virtue of already having a facility full of eager learners. Some might not be aware of just how...

U.S. and Abuse of Senior Citizens

This 5 page report discusses the fact that the majority of the population is aware that there is a serious problem in America wi...

Psychology And OCD

dozens of times a day or making sure the coffee pot is unplugged even though she remembers unplugging it are just some of the beha...

Behavior Modification & Stopping Procrastination

with strategies adopted from cognitive therapy, are applied to a variety of situations and needs, such as schools and classroom be...

Diagnosed Disorder: OCD

food poisoning; from that point forward in young Ruth Deanes life, she was controlled by an invisible force that made her life a l...

The Importance Of Studying Psychology

the truly mentally imbalanced individuals with those who displayed antisocial behavior far different from their unstable counterpa...

Biopsychology

infants learn the opposite lessons required for living within a civilized society, which ultimately causes him to display uncontro...

Analysis: Two Articles on Aging

conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...

Nurses Knowledge of Prevention Strategies for Constipation in Elderly Patients who are Bed Bound: A Health Promotion Study

of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...

Interview with an Elderly Individual

ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...

Depression in Elderly Women

This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...

Proposal for Therapeutic Touch Study

treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...

Pet Therapy for the Elderly

topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...

Financial Crimes against the Elderly

abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...

Los Angeles Air Pollution and Healthy People 2010

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

Elderly Divorce

life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...

Gibbs Cycle Analysis of Constipation in the Elderly

First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...

Role of Public Health Nurse/Diabetes Care

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

Pain Management Literature Review

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...