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Tutorial on Cultural Understanding

companys policy - she fired the employee who was stealing and called the local authorities to report it. She filled out all the re...

Journey in Sembene Ousmane's 'God's Bits of Wood' and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's 'Ambiguous Adventure'

obstacles, the people maintain their stalwart conviction to ultimately seek out a better existence. Kanes Ambiguous Adventu...

Will Ferguson's Generica and Jeremy Narby's The Cosmic Serpent

shamanistic view of life and found that there were significant correspondences between the view of molecular biologists and that o...

Midwifery Understanding Through Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies

research "offers insight into emotional and experiential phenomena in health care to determine what, how, and why. There are 4 es...

Economy of Malaysia

its back on its Asian neighbors. Seven countries of the world receive 68 percent of Malaysias total exports. These represe...

Understanding the Old Testament by Bernhard Anderson

of envisioning and grasping the full significance of difficult passages. In his preface, Anderson outlines his general approach....

Understanding International Conflicts by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

In five pages this paper presents a text overview and also examines the theories and concepts contained within. There are no othe...

Thematic Analysis of Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow

In ten pages this paper discusses the themes of suffering and evil as uncompromisingly depicted by Doctorow in his Western frontie...

Elite Theory and Understanding Public Policy by Thomas Dye

and without duress, and is competent. At least two physicians must agree that the patient is likely to die within six months. Th...

Comparing World Wars in Two Works

of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...

Western Thought and Universal Law

society with a particularly interesting view. He notes that the driving force of contemporary romanticism in the social sciences i...

Understanding of Spirituality and Popoh Vuh the Bible

When we consider the Popol Vuh we see that this is an ancient Mayan text that has many stories and tales. Further more it...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

The Tradition of Chinese Medicine

of traditional Chinese medicine, it is important to also understand that it is not only a collection of ancient remedies and pract...

Cultural Understanding and the Reflections of Photography

as have the analytical techniques which have been developed to evaluate historical films and photographs. Photography can b...

Differences in Silence in Poetry of the East and West

was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...

Excess Achievement in the Entertainment Industry

The Movies It was in the 1920s that Hollywoods film industry was born. These were the days of...

Western Civilization Development and the Impact of Christianity

In thirty two pages this paper assesses the far reaching influence of Christianity upon Western civilization's development. Thirt...

Western Civilization Architecture

The original castles prior to reflecting architectural influence lacked much style or finesse; in fact, they were relatively munda...

Sixth Century Codex of Justinian

regard to the constant oppression of overtaxation; in their attempts to "escape from the burdens" (Hanson PG) of unfair economic o...

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Film Analysis

by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...

Comparative Analysis of Women in Kung and Islamic Cultures

of the book over and over and over again. The sense of modesty is important to the people and while it is especially true for wome...

Universe Understanding, Technology and Science

soon be within reach (Cook 34). But it is important to remember that a rationalist approach to the whole of existence does not lea...

Social Security Program Understanding

of the Primary Insurance Amount at age sixty-two or waiting to get one hundred percent at age sixty-five. Normally the future val...

High Medieval Period of Western Europe

In five pages this paper considers the High Medieval Period of Western Europe in an overview of various political and social chang...

John Woo's Film The Killer

In five pages this paper reviews the 1989 film by director John Woo entitled The Killer and considers the influence of Western mav...

Iran's Islamic Revolution

In six pages this paper examines the Islamic revolution taking place in Iran in terms of its impact, its spread to Egypt, and the ...

Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris

So, if our stone age ancestors did not give up their hunter-gather lifestyle and invent agriculture in order to improve their life...

Western Classical Literature and Women

was forbidden to her, period. It was not her place to try to reason why; it was her place to obey without question. This is what w...

Peace is Every Step by Hanh

bits of philosophy. For example, transcendental meditation is thought by some westerners as being a way one opens the door to the ...