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Western Cultural Visions and National Geographic Magazine

in manner that applies to Western ideals. In fact, it seems as though most of the pictures and stories only inform us about how th...

Eastern and Western Civilization and Nationalism

been far behind on the nationalist bandwagon, however. Since the collapse of the former U.S.S.R., in particular, nationalism has ...

Art from Classical,, Romanesque, Gothic, and Early Renaissance Periods

As Adams indicates, the archaic smile is now gone and stylization has decreased. Another marked change involved the materials used...

All About Nationalism East and West, Positive and Negative

within the last two centuries. The United States itself first proclaimed its independence in 1776. Just a few years late...

Arnold, Stewart, and McNeece's 'Perpetrators as Victims Understanding Violence by Female Street-Walking Prostitutes'

potentially enter into this equation as well. Arnold, Stewart, and McNeece identify the fact that many prostitutes enter th...

Two Canadian Historical Writings Compared

In Peter MacLeods (University of Ottawa) 1996 article "Catholicism, Alliances and Amerindian Evangelists during the Seven Years Wa...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

History and Linguistics of the Jamaican Creole Language

example of the many languages which are participating in the "Latinization" of the English language and are important in the lingu...

Third World Countries and Corruption

(Internet source). Even those nations which seem to receive the greatest amount of assistance from their international "friends" i...

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

at a bar before moving on and a Native American woman deposits a three-year-old girl in her car and begs her to keep the child. ...

Universality, Cultural Diversity, and Human Rights

the imposition of a single set of standards it is argued that there is a loss of cultural diversity, but it is also argued that th...

Cultural Differences and Business Communications

They may all rely on email, fax transmission, and other forms of immediate and electronic communication but they are still steeped...

Canterbury Tales and Understanding Geoffrey Chaucer

host is asking if the next can outdo the story offered by the Knight. In the following lines we see the words and the general per...

Occidentalism Article by Margalit and Burma and Global Hatred of Western Culture

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

Western Roman Emperors and Power Disintegration

When discussing the fall of the Roman empire, what is actually being discussed is the fall of the "western" empire (including Ital...

Understanding the Relationship Among Nations Through the Use of Game Theory

$50 billion due to the events of September 11, they are reluctant to willingly allow insurance coverage due to the inability to ca...

'Bearing Illness and Injury' Review

...purpose of this study was to describe the process of bearing illness and injuries among individuals with catastrophic illnesses...

Customer Understanding and Information for Commercial Purposes

company of System Management Software, Inc. (SMSI), and is an indication of the way in which it was the internal development that ...

Body Image Perceptions and Western Society

is essentially a rejection of the traditional values and argues for an "authority of our own experiences" (Bordo, 1993, 283). In p...

Theme of Revenge in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 'The Inferno' by Dante, Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles, 'The Odyssey' by Homer

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Western Dental Clinic and Business Information Systems

to major transportation lines, people from outlying areas also come to see the dentists. The clinic itself was founded by ...

Understanding Judicial Reasoning Controversies, Concepts, and Cases by Roland Case

jurists find that the letter of the law does not fit the case in question; as such, the jurist must settle disputes that are unabl...

Anthropology and Cultural Understanding According to Nancy Scheper Hughes and Renato Rosaldo

power that Scheper-Hughes and the people of Ballybran have in common, as well as how they share these kinds of power, it will be i...

Iranian Women

were enjoying these achievements, those who were from the traditional sector of society reacted negatively, saying in public that ...

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

State of Texas is More Western Than Southern

simply because it was one of the nations most important cattle producing states. This was not a state that caused people to thi...

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...

Western Civilization of the Future

countrys blossoming authority. The two incidents that prompted such a drastic stance toward foreign policy dealt with Russi...