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The Plague by Albert Camus

This essay concerns Albert Camus' novel "The Plague," which describes the impact of bubonic plague on an Algerian town during the ...

How Do People Perceive Risk

Risk has become a popular research topic in a number of different fields of study, each of which has its own theories. This paper ...

"Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

The True Impact of Disrupting Small Town America Inner City Ghetto or Native American Traditional Lands

This paper discusses the disintegration of cultural tradition as it relates to the physical disruption of people's communities and...

Wolfgang's Theoretical Perspective on Homicide

This research paper pertains to Marvin Wolfgang's theoretical perspective on homicide and focuses on his Subculture of Violence th...

American Culture, Importance of Punctuality

This essay offers a first-person account of a foreign student studying in the US who must adjust to different cultural expectation...

Obstales to Faculty Collaboration

This essay examines faculty collaboration and discusses obstacles and possible solutions that pertain to the group and cultural dy...

Human Experimentation, Genocide

This essay pertains to genocide and human experimentation committed by the Nazis, the Japanese and the US. The writer asserts that...

What Really Helps Diverse Team to Perform

This essay reviews a journal article and research study, entitled Cultural Diversity And Team Performance: The Role Of Team Member...

Adjusting to Retirement

research as the "most important predictor of mortality, morbidity and well-being in adulthood" (Lowis, Edwards and Burton, 2009, p...

A Refutation of Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations

There are many theories that attempt to explain the violence that seems to be such an inherent...

Managing a Multicultural Workforce - Challenges and Approaches

business across cultures, including managing cross cultural employees bases. This presents a number of challenges for management; ...

The Gothic Cathedral, Principal Characteristics

This research paper describes the fundamental features of gothic cathedrals as well as the cultural meaning that these buildings h...

"Troy" and "The Iliad" - A Comparison

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at "The Iliad" and the 2004 film, "Troy". The changes in the latter are explained throu...

Discussion of Conspicuous Consumption and An Ad Analysis

habits of individuals as they buy, use and then dispose of or recycle goods and services (Murnane, 2008). Thorstein Veblen coined ...

To Kill A Mockingbird, a 1960s Perspective

adaptation of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move eac...

Ideas of Love and the Influence of Culture

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at cultural influence. The influence of culture on normative issues such as love is de...

India and China - Tapping into Foreign Markets

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at marketing in foreign countries. Cultural norms of India and China are examined for ...

Communication Across Cultural Gaps

The issue of cross cultural communications is discussed looking at how and why individuals from different cultures may find it dif...

Style and Substance: Analyzing the Film Scarface (1983)

Brian De Palma's film Scarface is analyzed in terms of aesthetics, narrative, cultural and historical contexts in 5 pages. The bi...

Prevalence of Divorce, Cultural Assimilation

also more pressure on couples to work out their differences and learn how to live amicably and keep the marriage intact. 2. My so...

Assessment of the United Kingdom as an FDI Host Nations for R&D in Biotechnology

development facility. It is assumed that one country that the firm will not consider is Germany. The existing partnership is in th...

THE POPULARITY OF FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

it on her own site - and from there, word-of-mouth helped promote the book. The stories were offered for free, which makes this "r...

Mao's Cultural Revolution and Durkheim

its members a sufficient degree of homogeneity" (Durkheim, 1956). As is obvious, such an ethos was the entire justification behind...

Cultural Factors Affecting Drug Counseling

The United States is becoming progressively more multicultural over time. Social diversity is, in fact, something that must be ta...

Violent Media and its Cultural Effects

games by young players (Teng, Chong, Siew, & Skoric, 2011). The researchers attempted to produce a "clear consensus" on this subje...

21st Century Globalization - An Overview

a troublesome income disparity in the local sense in many of the nations where it is most championed, such as the United States, g...

Culture and Disadvantage in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples

would usually be lag by approximately two years in terms of numeracy (QS A, 2003). The lower performance level has been attributed...

British Morale in World War II and the Role of Information

the Psychological Study of Social Issues in the 1950s sought to analyze the matter, but faced the endemic difficulty of separating...

Identity and Puerto-Rican Americans

whole, as the US Census bureau indicates that 25 percent of all living on the mainland and 55 percent of Puerto Ricans living on t...