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Cultures and Film Spaceships Nebuchadnezzar from The Matrix, the Nostromo from Alien, and the Enterprise from First Contact

to prevent a Borg takeover of Earth, and to make sure that Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) makes the flight that will attract the...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Powerful Radio and Television Advertising

contention presented above. These ads show how if you just buy Vehicle X you can have the excitement of the sea kayaker and the m...

African American Hip Hop and its Influence

music, or existed in the industry of music, but has actually proven that it is the driving force for a great deal of mainstream cu...

Case Study of Overland Human Resource Management

groups of people an important element of the way in which HRM strategy can be spread. Originally Hofstede identified four ...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

China and the Development of Tourism

from America, with 1,308,627 coming from the US. From this we can see there is not only to a thriving industry, but due to the are...

Information Technology Design and Gender Bias

including illiterates, but the emphasis shift to what it terms the I-methodology. The I-methodology was able to take the i...

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Cultural Development

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

Nursing and Cultural Diversity

a strategic factor in a broader movement toward social transformation that stresses social equity (Downey 249). This transformatio...

American and Korean Business Negotiation

Business negotiations can be tricky at best, even if both parties are from the same culture. This paper examines the various stage...

Arena Chapel of Padua, Life of Christ and Giotto di Bondone's Fresco

(McGeary 152). Giotto replaced golden backdrops with hills, meadows and houses, which were familiar to his fourteenth century view...

Aspects of Identity and Relative Power

likely that those who believe no relative power exists are white and male. This is something that many people of culture, cultur...

Case Study of Checkprint Ltd.

agreement to allow for the purchase of the premises and attached land. From this perspective and the backing from the silent partn...

Youth Influence on American Society

war. At the end of the war, the social problems which had been suppressed during that time, became a part of the new focus of the...

Social Change and Rock Music

- and record labels - can break with tradition to experiment with a variety of types of expressions meant to reflect the culture (...

Transitions at Morgan Stanley

Various areas of corporate change are discussed by focusing on this one firm. Human resources and organizational culture are discu...

Relevancy of the History of Civil Rights

"Big Boy Leaves Home." In this narrative, a white woman stumbles upon two black men who have gone skinny-dipping on a hot summer d...

'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver and a Responsibility Letter

1959, and Price, like so many of his Western contemporaries at the time, believed that the inhabitants of the so-called Dark Conti...

Cubicle Anonymity and Office Space

climax of the film. The history of the cubicle is that these partitions were once heralded as an innovation and, today, they rem...

Chinese Cinematic Art

Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...

Mary Pipher's The Middle of Everywhere and Reflections of Refugees

formal education" (Pipher 334). As Pipher points out refugees (and other immigrants) are often doctors, professors, engineers, etc...

Leadership Case Study Analysis

The value is that the more people know each other, the less likely they are to try to sabotage each other or to create cliques. 2...

Mysticism in Island by Aldous Huxley

anywhere else. We are all, if we already knew it, already there" (Huxley 35) displays a sharp Taoist influence. Looking at Huxle...

Cultural Dimension of International Business by Gary Ferraro

business. The topic of cultural competence is rather overwhelming as there are thousands of cultures throughout the world. Ferraro...

Ramayana and King Arthur Myths

the Protector, one of the three great gods of the Indian pantheon, and Sita is the avatar of Lakshmi, goddess of wealth and prosp...

China and Starbucks

to others by pouring them tea. That is a sign of regret and submission" (Chinese tea culture, 2006). Finally, a newly-married coup...

Historical Changes and British Racial Discourses

races interact in that culture. These races include blacks, Asiatics, Hispanics, and Arabics to name just a few. British...

Lesser Developed Countries and Economic Development

no collective voice. It is them that we must be concerned about. If we are to effect positive change in these countries...

Japanese Anime

aspect, leading to a genre with may sub genres all of which are able to reflect some aspect of Japanese culture and as such the cu...