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Cultural Impact on Brazil's Criminal Justice System

place great emphasis upon "inclusive definitions, neat conceptual distinctions, and broad general rules" (Scuro, 2003) rather than...

Alexander the Great's Artistic and Cultural Innovations

were possible under the enforced peace in the Empire under Alexander. Philosophy had in Alexander a supporter and it flourished. T...

Cultural Collage of Morocco

The issue of freedom as it related to ethnic and religious diversity appeared to be caught in a perpetual holding pattern, inasmuc...

Cultural Control and Knowledge Workers' Research

seen with many of the older crafts, or knowledge transfer, though training (Polanyi 1973). This may also be seen as the acquiring...

Taste and Cultural Capital

Honda will win; the next Lexus; and so on. There is always an ongoing battle, and an ongoing desire for new tastes to feed....

Spirituality, Cultural Ethnocentrism, and Narcissism in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

of the Old South, which is where she bases her identity. She sees the antebellum era and everything about the Southern values in t...

Ownership of Cultural Property

property, these "Rs" are restitution, restriction and rights. Restitution would return items to the current governments in place ...

Cultural Oppression in Rabbit-Proof Fence and Storyteller

- and still is to a great degree - the focal point of cultural existence speaks to the way in which Silko (1989) reveals the strug...

Ethnocentrism v. Cultural Relativism

are utilizing an ethnocentric approach or a prejudiced approach. When we are more open to facts rather than our own expectations ...

East Asia's Cultural Values and Competition With Western Europe and North America

of creating a tripolar global environment. Bergsten (2001) further asserts how the only way to prevent such a detrimental occurre...

Cultural Differences Examined

this concept. In exploring family and cultural issues and belief systems that emanate, how has that affected Maries personal belie...

Elderly and Cultural Behavior

bias that exists in the media - particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities...

James Rachels and the Theory of Cultural Relativism

as backward and wrong. They are even more critical of such practices as infanticide, a practice affecting female infants among th...

Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

Buddhism's Cultural Transitions

China is great, but Kitagawa (1980) argues that it truthfully had not had a vital influence on the principles inherent in Chinese ...

U.S. and Japan Cultural Memory Influences of the Atomic Bomb

the United States make it as clear as possible that there was to be no more armed conflict. This second attack was instrumental i...

American Cultural Icon McDonald's

Quito, Ecuador, antiwar protestors burned the statue of Ronald McDonald; in Paris, protestors smashed in the windows (Walker 2003)...

Comprehending Cultural Relativity

version: "Radical cultural relativism holds that the beliefs, values, and modes and organization of behavior of one culture can ne...

Historical, Cultural, Political, and Business Issues in Good as Gold by Joseph Heller

more than a few nonwhite faces, he would immediately head for another resort" (Buhle, 2003, p. 71; Heller, 1979). Buhle ar...

Cultural Understanding of Chinese Women Through Literature and Art

woman who traveled to a foreign land, worked hard and then returned to her family would never be perceived in such a way. In fact...

Cultural and Political Autonomy Preservation Struggles of Native American Leaders

the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in r...

Literature and Dangerous Male Cultural Socialization

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

Fashion, Cultural Theft, and Ethnic Influences

was the case in Darwin when an Aboriginal tribe brought a case against a textile manufacturer for the use of scared symbols on the...

New Media Technologies and Their Cultural Implications

currently exists does not give content providers absolute control over how users use their material, but it can place some prohibi...

Cultural Effects of Negro Spirituals

and so realize their place in the world. Such was the convoluted logic of pre-Civil War America. However, the spirituals were much...

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...

Endangered Species Conservation, Cultural, Economic, and Political Constraints

interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. According to Berkes (1993), "traditional ecological kn...

Cultural Care in Russian Families

sometimes goes to the lengths a westerner would consider as infringement)" (Russians, 2004). In relationship to statistics it a...

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...

Themes of Cultural and Moral Relativism

tribes would simply allow certain effeminate men to take on female occupations (153). Seemingly, their plight was accepted. They w...