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At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Cultural Images in the Media

The broader version promoted by Hall is that a "text" of any kind - "be it a book, movie, or other creative work - is not simply p...

Personal Essays and Cultural Backgrounds

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist who passionately portrayed the ongoing class struggle between the peasantry and t...

Overview of the Text When I Was Puerto Rican

In six pages this paper discusses the US and its Puerto Rican culture in a text overview that includes cultural variations, the La...

'Milton's Imperial Epic' by J. Martin Evans and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

intent of colonialism as an example of divinely inspired imperialistic politics and unabashed expansionism. Arguing with Evans "Im...

A Historical World View of Female Genital Mutilation

an exclusively Islamic practice. FGM is a cross-cultural and cross-religious ritual and is in most cultures primarily a social pra...

American Daughters and Asian Mothers

In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...

Effective Counselor Traits

or members of a family attempt to gain an understanding of self and others that will enable them to effectively solve problems and...

Identity and Fashion

(Hannover and Kuhnen, 2002). Another result was that those dressed in a more formal manner described themselves more quickly than...

Symbolic Interaction in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

true, but there will also be certain established parameters which must not be crossed. To do so marks the individual as deviant in...

British Museum Sesostris III Statue

to change, a significant development given the importance of funerary ritual and art in later stages of the cultures evolution. ...

An Overview of Singapore

4.0% Others (Sikhism, Confucianism, etc) 0.6% Finally, literacy is high in Singapore, as revealed by the following chart. It has ...

Culture and Child Abuse

In five pages the African American community is considered in terms of the incidences of child abuse in other cultural comparisons...

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon and the Postal System

In five pages this text examines how the author portrays his view of the postal service and its cultural impact. Three sources ar...

The Heroic Aeneas

In a paper that consists of eight pages the definition of hero throughout the course of cultural history is considered in support ...

Creating Utopia

This 7 page paper discusses current perceptions of what utopia is, and how to achieve it. The writer argues that there is an emerg...

Global Marketing Issues

result in costly withdrawals, as when Caterpillar Inc. recently was forced to close a factory in Scotland. Careful study of foreig...

Mozambique and Possibilities of Freshwater Prawn Fishery

In five pages the species Macrobrachium rosenbergii freshwater prawn, its cultural methodology, and the possibilities for Mozambiq...

Citibank Asia Pacific Information Systems and 'Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom'

In ten pages this paper uses case study data regarding Citibank's Asia Pacific information systems and applies the cultural saying...

Chinese American Communities and Cultural Anthropology

In nine pages this paper examines U.S. Chinese American communities and their traditions in this discussion of cultural anthropolo...

Cultural Anthropology Study of Japanese Americans and Their American History Influence

In nine pages cultural anthropology is applied to the culture of the Japanese Americans in hopes of understanding their U.S. histo...

U.S. Southwest and Cultural Influences of Mexico

In six pages this paper examines the cultural influences of these 2 border countries in an assessment of pros and cons with assimi...

Self Concept According to George Herbert Mead

In five pages Mead's self concept is examined in I and Me definition applications along with social cultural nature of self also c...

The Art of Healing and Frontier Medicine

This paper addresses various facets of medicine during the settlement of North America. The author addresses various cultural med...

Treaty of Versailles and Consequence of Revolutions in Asia

dynasty nearly three millennia ago (Diamond 78). Therefore, feuding between the various, similarly ordered Asian countries is an ...

An Article of Cultural Identity Issues Involving British Asians Reviewed

S. Johal's article 'Brimful of ‘brasia;' British Asians and Issues of Culture and Identity' is reviewed with an emphasis upo...

Literature and Modernism

In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...

Comparing 'Oroonoko' and 'Persian Letters'

uncle was without children, he had been designated his uncle?s heir and began using his name at that time.) The Persian Letters ...

Post First World War Culture and Radio

In six pages this paper examines the cultural significance of radio since the First World War and how it led to TV and Internet me...

Cultural Concepts from an Anthropological Perspective

a unclouded awareness of that specific anthropologists viewpoint and his or her own cultural indoctrination. The Last of the Yahi ...