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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...

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...

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...

Teacher Supervision and Effective School Principals

Developing annual budgets and coordinating the use of other resources (Peterson and Kelley, 2001, p. 8). 5. Organizing efforts to ...

Children's Literature and Authentic Voices

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

Arguing against Klein's No Logo

factory workers at the "Kaho Indah Citra garment factory on the outskirts of Jakarta" (Klein xvii), where the workers make the equ...

Jewish Burial And Mourning Customs

This also explains why autopsies of Jewish people are not allowed (Chabad.org, 2005). Besides the fact that this type of procedure...

Accommodating Cultural Differences In Esl Classroom

styles of cognitive learning by offering both individual and group work to students. For instance, some of the assignments would b...

Shanghai and the Jazz Age

p. 6). This community was comprised of "a number of musicians, singers, stage and taxi dancers, and cabaret and dance hall proprie...

Working by Studs Terkel and the Character Jack Currier

have perfectly followed the Phenomenological Model Of Work and Culture, always keeping his life and his identity predominantly ma...

'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer Compared

could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...

Informational Literature and Language

In five pages this paper examines authors' language in three organizational culture articles. Three sources are cited in the bibl...

Gonzalez's and Flores' Studies of U.S. Latinos on Cultural Hybridity, Free Trade Zones, Immigrant Myths, and Political Participation

compared to only 31 percent of non-Hispanics. Previous to this many Hispanics were not allowed to vote because they could not beco...

Folklore and Traditions of the Amish

Anabaptists were, in their early history, very prosecuted and many were even put to death by the Catholics and Protestants (The Am...

Innovation and Communication Promotion and Organizational Structure

viewing employees only as cogs in a wheel, cogs to be replaced when they were inefficient or worn out. These approaches have take...

Perrier Bourdieu and Cultural Capital

capital may be seen as a inherent representation of the modern world. It is interesting to note that in the ideas of culture Bou...

College Campuses and Merton's Deviance Theory

desire for material security, success, and comfort on one hand, and limited opportunities to achieve these things on the other han...

Nurture and Nature in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

nature holds a great sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same ti...

Ancient Egypt's Votive Statues

regarding the relationships between ancient Egyptians and their rulers and the popularity of certain cults. The focus of the book ...

Working by Studs Terkel and Babe Secoli

bad day and how her family will state they should not talk to her, but then she laughs, "this is not a policy to bring home your w...

Japanese Lost Tribes?

that appears to illustrate the story of Isaac, which is recorded in the book of Genesis in both Jewish and Christian scripture. Th...

Susan Anderson's Model of Social Cognition Transference

that sensory memories are those which are gathered by ones senses and that a specific sensory memory is generated for each specifi...

Middle East Social and Political Authority from 500 to 1500 CE

life that impacted cultural mores throughout the Middle East (Hourani). The Rise of Islam According to Albert Hourani, aut...

An Ernst and Young Organizational Analysis

were rumors of collapse and in fact, the following year, the payroll was cut and some partners even had to go ("Ernst," 2002). In...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

The Commonalities and Influences of African Mythology

the changes which have occurred vary according to the specific African culture being discussed, there are certain commonalities wh...