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After-School Program Grant Case

This case focuses on one professional who is applying for a grant to expand his after-school. He wants to hire a friend as program...

US vs. Ireland: Cultural Patterns:

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

How Different Groups Deal with Death

This paper explores how different cultures and different religions deal with death. One study revealed differences among three dif...

Historic and Contemporary Prejudice Against Native Americans

This 5 page paper discusses how mainstream white culture has treated Native Americans as inferiors throughout much of our country'...

Windows on the 70s, MASH and All the President's Men

This essay describes and analyzes "All he President's Men" (1976, directed by Alan Pakula) and "MASH" (1970, directed by Robert Al...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

This book review pertains to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The writer argues that this is a hilarious satire th...

Influences on Education

This essay pertains to the influence of parenting, home life and school culture on student outcomes. The writer also discusses suc...

Tourism and National Value Systems

This essay pertains to the influence of national values systems and their impact on organizational culture and employee working re...

Iraqi Languages: Kurdish

This research paper pertains to the Kurdish language, which is a principal language spoken in Kurdistan region of Iraq. The writer...

Heroism in the Ancient World: Gilgamesh and Achilles

This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...

Global Issues, Centrality of Identity

This paper summarizes the points made in three of the students previous papers, which encompass the needs of older adults, global ...

Five Conceptual Ways of the Construction of Blackness

This paper reviews key literature like Cornel West Race Matters and WEB Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk to explore the manner in w...

Colonialism

This essay/research paper, first of all, defines colonialism and discusses how it can be differentiated from imperialism. Then, t...

Societal View, Post-Menopausal Women

This research paper address the manner in which American culture perceives post-menopausal women. The writer addresses this within...

Espoused Values vs. Actual Behavior

This essay discusses what happens when there is a discrepancy between espoused organizational values and what is actually practice...

The Societal Manifestation of Good and Evil

The author discusses the variation that exist in regard to how people perceive good verses evil. This variation leads to conflict...

Article Review on Global Marketing

There are many pitfalls with global marketing. One is that words, phases, gestures, humor, and other issues do not translate very ...

NDEs and Religious Ministers

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

Article Critique, Duranti

This essay offers a critique of a 2003 article by Alessandro Duranti, which is entitled "Language as culture in U.S. anthropology:...

Current Fashions in Risk Management

Risk management takes place organizations with the use of different tools and approaches. This six page paper looks at three appro...

Health Interdisciplinary Teams

Each profession has its own culture that incorporates beliefs, attitudes, values, customs, behaviors, and ways of communicating. C...

Social Research and Education

Since the survey was conducted using material submitted by the childrens family members or caregivers, there...

TV Comparisons of Friends and Three's Company

democrat and one-time peanut farmer Jimmy Carter became president, there were significant differences in attitudes among the older...

Language Barriers to Students from Indonesia, Japan, China, Croatia and Turkey Entering the United States

is the mental lexicon, which is the mental representation of the forms as well as the meanings of the words and the morphemes in a...

White Supremacy and Skinheads

defiance to abide by accepted principles is a primary reason why they are often regarded as trouble-making societal fringe desirin...

NY Television and Cultural Messages

wanted to visit. Perhaps the episode that most prominently features differences in race and ethnicity is when Jerry convinces the ...

Understanding Death Through Rituals

within some of todays Chinese societies include wailing and white banners placed upon the home to indicate death; wearing all whit...

'The Rains Came' and 'Memoirs of a Female Physician'

is condemned even by her own mother. Throughout the...

Culturalism from the Views of Several Theorists

attitude. In trying to evaluate society with a myriad of insights, several culturalists can help to provide these. They too look a...

3 American Authors and Perspectives on Forced Cultural Assimilation

family depicted in this book after all represents a rather blas? view of America. On closer consideration, however, it becomes ap...