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Violence at Schools/Research Issues

color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...

History of Traditional Costumes for Chinese Weddings

reciprocate human generosity, and therefore there is a custom of offering food, money, etc. in the name of the deities that is oft...

An Examination of a Tool for Aggregate Assessment

Erie, Pennsylvania (Minnis, 2002). As is the case here, the aggregate for which this tool was developed is that of persons over t...

Saudi Arabia and Health Care

to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...

Case Study of China's STS Manufacturing

produced relaxed a great deal. The move toward a "market economy" from one that has been state-run has been slow, however ...

Roy Model and Infection Control

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Gatsby and Larsen's Passing

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

Euthanasia and Opposition to Its Practice

The arguments in support of euthanasia center around quality of life issues, pain and suffering, and the common good (Kowalski, 19...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

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...

Australian Social Classes and Health Care Inequalities

conflict theory reflects the basic elements of social life (Turner, 1974; Chambliss, 1974). Human nature is defined by myri...

Possibility of Universal Health Care in the US

"no taxation." Joe Blankeneau reports "the United States is the only modern, industrialized country without some form of un...

American Cultural Icon McDonald's

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

Human Resource Management Expatriate Issues

legislative requirements for working conditions. Acts such as the Employment Rights Act 1996, and Employment Protections (part tim...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

Sights and Culture of the Pow Wow

this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...

Cultural Diversity and the Dynamism of History by Sasaki Takeshi

what governs overall cultural behavior. Working upon the assumption that, for at least the most part, people live their lives out...

A Globalization View

governments (405). For example, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on September 11, 2001 caused "s...

Welfare State in Great Britain and Changes

welfare are in the minority and it is viewed as being an extremely negative situation. In the United Kingdom, people live on gover...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Alternative Adult Education Models

adult education within the confines of a college, university or junior/community college. Adult students attend such institutions ...

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 ...

Failed Approaches and Major Events Pertaining to White and Native American Interaction

chapters of the history of European domination in the so-called "New World" sometimes took slightly different directions. Such wa...

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...

Terrorism and Accounting

the regulations. For example, Prince Salman, Governor of the Riyadh Province is known to have said "If beneficiaries had used ass...

Senior Citizens and Long Term Care

Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...

Autism Speaks and the Importance of a Cultural Diversity Action Plan

standards and expectations. DAPs identify objectives and delineate time frames for achieving those objectives. They also provide...

Asthma Effects on Minorities in School

treatments available to them in fighting the disease. Their reactions are significantly reduced by using oral corticosteroids, eno...

Avoid Stereotyping

of a culture do not think and behave in the same way. Cultural constructs should be perceived as temporary or tentative thoughts...

Propaganda in China

government (or any government, really), Communist China has to create the illusion that the system is the best for its people. Thi...