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Cultural Competency For Social Workers

or similarity (Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice, 2001). As this author said, "Cultural competency emphasizes the i...

Nursing and the Culture of Japan

and individuality as young children, they begin to assimilate their role in Japanese culture via such conventions as school unifor...

1960s Cultural Revolution

(increases in drug use) (Garrett 288). A prominent feature of the decade is that young people became alienated from the traditiona...

Canada's New Influx of Immigrants and Depression

its highest level in 70 years (Canadas ethnocultural, 2004). Statistics show that Canada welcomed 2.2 million immigrants between 1...

Euro Disney's Challenges and Problems

One of the cultural differences - the willingness for American parents to drive long distances and sit in traffic for long periods...

Social Work, Sexuality, and Gender

of counseling in culturally diverse populations and the way in which this can influence the patient/therapist relationship. Perha...

English Hooliganism and its History

century, there were youth gangs known respectively as Hectors, Scourers, and Mohawks prowled the streets at night, accosting young...

Designing Entertainment Venues

gambling establishments has served to completely transform otherwise impoverished communities and even afford them the ability to ...

American Society Problems

of Navajo and Zuni reservations and this is widely seen and known by most. And, it seems that no matter how educated they become, ...

Japan and Abortion

of her people when she states that "Fetuses should be buried properly in accordance with socially accepted ideas even when they ar...

The Education System in Brazil

Social indicators in Brazil suggests that there is inequality in various aspects of human life, and this includes areas such as ed...

Human Resource Management Expatriate Issues

legislative requirements for working conditions. Acts such as the Employment Rights Act 1996, and Employment Protections (part tim...

Sights and Culture of the Pow Wow

this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...

History of Traditional Costumes for Chinese Weddings

reciprocate human generosity, and therefore there is a custom of offering food, money, etc. in the name of the deities that is oft...

Qualitative Research and Ethnography

fact that there is a larger number of women than men in part-time jobs within an organisation might reflect personal choice on the...

Independent Discipline of Psychology and the Impact of Sociocultural Forces

1997, p. 463), psychology eventually came to represent the very essence of mental performance. Throughout history, there have bee...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

Bittersweet Memories of Home by Alice Patterson Patience

To say the entire point of Bittersweet Memories of Home relates directly to the fight for ones historical existence within the new...

British Cinema Censorship Prior to 1945

Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

Comparative Metropolitan Research of Vancouver, British Columbia and Seattle, Washington

fastest growing fields" (CANMET, 2003) there is good reason to believe Vancouver will continue to seek out viable options for its ...

Cultural and Performance Studies and Communication

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

Questions on Communications Theory

In eight pages communications theory is considered in a series of questions that discuss such issues as cultural and social influe...

Asian Cultural Concepts and Social Research

What is interesting to note when viewing Fallows assessment is that the same elements that he critically views in terms of the Fil...

A Comparative View of Female Protagonists

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

Significance of the Neolithic Revolution

However, as Childe (2003) points out, adopting cultivation did not mean that the communitys lifestyle became sedentary,...

Globalization and Sociocultural Change

means by which to create such commodities faster, cheaper and within "laboratories or non-traditional environments" (Technology-Af...

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria Market Assessments

entering the market. Saudi Arabia is not a democracy and does not have any political parties or elections. The country is ruled b...

A Comparison of the Tales of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...

Singapore and China

leave after anther two years (CIA, 2003). The position of the country is now as one of the worlds strongest economic countries, wi...