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The Warning of '1984' for Today

who dominate over one another. The novel not only addresses such realities as governmental control over the media, economy and pe...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...

Dante Alighieri's Inferno and Medieval Cities

and Hollander 161). Dante comments to Virgil that the mosques inside the city can clearly be seen. The translators also comment th...

Distinctions That Shaped the U.S. Culture from Old Europe

This "novel way of life" according to Pringle (1998), "then diffused across the Old World" (p. 1446). However, these societies Ne...

Implementing an Anti Fraud Organizational Culture

exists which is prone to abuse by either employees or public. * Financial Issues - Where individuals or companies have fraudulent...

Culture and Communication

significantly hampering their ability to work beyond the psychological hindrance toward, for example, promotions and raises. What...

Social Expression in Art

conditions of poverty during their particular reconstruction. Clearly such a time would evoke many forms of creative artistic expr...

The Russian State Symphony Performs

trumpet and drum, a Minuet and Gavotte harkening back to more elegant times-the former filled out with celeste in a manner suggest...

Candide by Voltaire and Women

(Voltaire Chapter 8). She began living the life of a prisoner of war for the most part. One author notes she was "ill-used by othe...

Hawthorne, Faulkner and the Element of Culture

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

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...

Pakistani Lesbian 'Joy' Interviewed in an Example of Cultural Diversity

felt separated from the American culture at times, even though I was born American. Joys view about homosexuality, though, goes a...

Various Cultures and Views on Spirituality and Death

that deny death and try to defy it. In the United States for example a great deal of money is spent on prolonging life. Every minu...

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...

Russian Culture in the Film Window to Paris

to the history of this powerfully great city, "Like the magic of a Russian fairy tale, St. Petersburg grew up with such fantastic ...

Gender Laws Creation and Culture

(Yuval-Davis 621). One particular area in which gender is a cultural construct is the manner by which different societies r...

Literature and Culture in Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, and Amy Tan

her white friends would agree with her that she was about as Chinese as they were, indicating she really possessed little of that ...

Stress as Defined by Erik Erikson

So epigenesis means that one item develops on top of another in space and time... extended... to include a hierarchy of stages, no...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Definitions and Theories of Political Culture

a result of this complexity, political culture "remains a suggestive rather than a scientific concept" (Chilton, 2005). ...

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...

Contrasting and Comparing Hispanic and American Cultures

all necessary variables is often not as simple as it sounds. For example, those who have found their way to higher management pos...

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...

Attitudes About Ageism

with people looking upon the elderly as slow, incapable, broken down and virtually worthless individuals. The notion of ageism is...

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...