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Russian Masculinity and Changing Cultural Norms

sufficient enough pay to maintain his family. Bob becomes depressed, despondent and even suicidal. Bob is not alone, however. T...

Food and Globalization : Healthy Fare and Cultural Blends in Contemporary Society

also a global concern and trends have been witnessed in this area. In examining a number of writings on food, several themes emerg...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

KOSOVO AND IRAQ: THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

using the conflict as a stepping stone to promote democracy in the Middle East and destroying any weapons of mass destruction (Enc...

Cultural Mediation/High School Teaching & Learning

cultures go about learning and how teaching strategies can be implemented from a cultural perspective in order to provide for the ...

Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism

the fact that many companies are now doing business in a global marketplace. Ethnocentrism is the idea that methods, materials, or...

Cultural Scene Analysis of Paul Haggis’ 2005 Film Crash

on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...

Technology And Cultural Change: Three Sociological Perspectives

once-omnipotent mode of communication known as TV. Television has been an untouchable resource of information and entertainment f...

Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

The Importance of Consumption in Cultural Globalization This

which is seen as more of a mainstream perspective. For Castells globalisation represented the universalization of the global capit...

Renaissance Art

during this period that Europe began to recover from the repercussions of the Black Death, as well as rampant political disorder a...

The Cultural Messages of "Beauty and the Beast"

to "active" and "aggressive" pursuits. This is not the model we find in Beauty and the beast. In the fairy tale itself (this expl...

Assessing the Culture of the Company through News Articles Applying International Management Cultural Dimension Models

cultural influences. Looking at the background of both these countries there are similarities and differences which will help plac...

Domestic Violence And Immigrant Hispanic Women

dominance, a reality much of which is attributed to - or blamed upon - religious underpinnings. Laughton (1995) notes how women h...

The Counter-Cultural Jesus In Mark's Gospel

little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone ...

Cultural Needs of Chinese Women in Childbirth

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

"Season Of Migration To The North" - Influence Of Western Education

in contempt of threatening the cultural foundation of rural Africa. While the narrators intent was laced with good intention for ...

Ambiguity And Humor

listening or reading audience knows precisely the speakers intent, the order of the words brings forth a humorous image of Mrs. Ab...

The Impact of Cultural Diversity in the Hospitality Industry

values and beliefs. These may be seen as isolated within the company, or reflections of the wider general culture of the area or r...

Views in Cultural Anthropology

is accomplished via a cycle of war, ritual slaughter of pigs and subsequent regrowth of the pig population. This cycle typically t...

Nature and Cultural Representation

the very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or s...

Women in Labor and Pain Control's Cultural Aspects

pain and also in how nurses from various cultures perceive the pain of their patients. As this suggests, Weber (1996) provides a c...

Immigrant Cultural Identity in Jose Antonio Villarreal's Pocho

home from school one day, looks at his house, and notes the following: "On the floor of the living room, where two of the girls sl...

Schizophrenia and the Cultural Symptoms Developed by Marvin K. Opler

with certain cultural elements of personality such as homosexuality (latent and overt) to predict the possibility of schizophrenia...

Cultural Analysis of the Corn Mother Myth

First Mother (PG). Kloskurbeh, the Great Uncle, taught humans what they needed to know, and also taught their children how to sur...

Counseling Techniques and the Effects of Cultural Variables

techniques can become particularly complex in the case of traditional cultures and cultures which have derived distinctive differe...

UK, Japan, and Business Cultural Differences

the physical infrastructures destroyed. However, now we see a country which is renowned for high quality high tech goods, such as ...

Overview of Cultural Relativism

the social customs imbedded in such actions, there cannot be any clearly right or clearly wrong standards; without question, any a...

Cultural Mores and Nursing

view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...