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interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. According to Berkes (1993), "traditional ecological kn...

woman who traveled to a foreign land, worked hard and then returned to her family would never be perceived in such a way. In fact...

sometimes goes to the lengths a westerner would consider as infringement)" (Russians, 2004). In relationship to statistics it a...

about three or four percent of the population with either Buddhist, Daoist or Muslim at one or two percent ("China," 2005). Japa...

Texts of the Worlds Religions" presents Islam as a religion which stresses that an individuals submission to Allah is what is most...

established social, historical, cultural significance, and have become a major educator of students throughout the world (Introna ...

This research paper/essay presents the writer/tutor's suggestions for how a student researcher may wish to design the student's re...

Walt Whitman contended that a city absorbs a person as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Five sources are listed in this four ...

This research paper relates numerous aspects of Irish culture and discusses how they are similar or differ from those of the US. S...

The author discusses the many ways culture can affect health and encourages a community approach to addressing the disparities whi...

have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...

in the 1960s a new wave of immigrants resulted. Since the early 1970s, roughly 250,000 "Chinese intellectuals, scientists and engi...

Interpersonal communication affects practically every aspect of our lives. This is certainly true in the educational arena. Inde...

a counter or till, only desks and tables with the products (Apple, 2012). The differentiation is based on a premium product, the p...

and others is becoming more and more diverse. Mwaura (2006) emphasizes that every culture has experienced a similar evolu...

the more contemplative nature of India, cannot function at this nonstop pace and, as such, would feel undue pressure to make a dec...

the grip of failure. Students with limited English speaking skills are routinely challenged to understand the very basics of less...

voyage, he saves the Lilliputian emperors palace from certain destruction by urinating on it in order to put out a fire that th...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

A paper of 5 pages, this essay discusses the nomadic people, their lifestyle, customs that are representative of the hunter/gathe...

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

unfortunate result. Cultural competency would have gone a long way to ameliorate the effects of 911 and to be fair, the government...

among different groups of people. As Grant-Thomas and Powell (2006) comment, the term structural racism tends to confuse people....

gender bias in the favor of men, who were lords and masters of their wives and children as well as their slaves. All male Roman c...

multi-cultural work teams can easily fail and when it is a virtual team, even more problems may emerge. Virtual multi-cultural ...

also a global concern and trends have been witnessed in this area. In examining a number of writings on food, several themes emerg...

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

important for family values. It will help keep families together, explain many. Even President Bush argued this. The article qu...

that a female writer needs a room of ones own, she means this both figuratively and literally. She says: "All I could do was to of...

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...