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Past and Present Fairy Tales

human spiritual life and then comes back with a message." The usual heros adventure will start with someone "from whom something ...

Traditions of Irish Folklore

The enduring customs and cultural traditions reflected in Irish folklore are examined in 6 pages with the sacred thorn, the Sidhe,...

The New Indian Generation Moves Away from the Practice of Arranged Marriages

In a paper that contains ten pages the changes in attitudes regarding Indians that relocate to the United States are examined in t...

Epic Oral Poetry Tradition

In seven pages this paper examines the epic 'Beowulf' in a consideration of the poetic oral tradition. Seven sources are cited in...

Media Imperialism in Asia

Asian countries (Moran & Keane, 2004). In other words, they dispute the idea that their people are affected by American media. Evi...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

Argument Against Gay Marriage

to everyone, therefore, nobody is denied equal protection of the laws that exist (Benne and McDermott, 2004). Activists also argu...

Cultural Practices Reflecting the Unity Between the Spritual and Material World Among the Indigenenous Cultures of Africa and the Americas

however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...

Chivalry: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

the challenge but it is Gawain who understands that this is not necessarily a wise move for Arthur is king and it should be one of...

Artistic Traditions: Egypt and Greece

A 4 page paper which examines the reasons for differences in the artistic traditions of the Egyptians and the Greeks as suggested ...

Traditional Practices and Child Abuse Distinctions?

an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....

Values Axiom of Max Weber and the Immigrant Experience

Prestige is the degree of respect or importance attached to an individual or cultural group. As will be explained below, each of ...

Doing Business in Russia

even less access to any goods and services other than those of the traditional culture. A class dichotomy quickly developed...

Party Systems, Political Transition, and the Areas of the Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia

all too often what also comes with the concept of nationalism and cultural conformity is the requirement of just one culture; this...

British Company Cavendish and Diversity Management

Relations Act: if the organisation is perceived as supporting discrimination in this way, not only does it leave itself open to le...

Comparing Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...

Hawaiian Kingdom's Ali'i Ruling Class

foresight that brought all of the various Hawaiian Islands together. He was to be the last of the great Hawaiian rulers, for after...

Change and Continuity During the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...

'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot from a Modernist Analytical Perspective

glimpses into an embittered world in transition, in which survivors of the war hoped of finding amid the debris and dead bodies a ...

Myth, Fact, and Early Christianity

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

Irish Scholar Gareth Higgins

War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

Catholic Tradition Aspects

that the entire Christian movement was galvanized and energized by an unseen agency, the Holy Spirit (Ottati 1044). Believers in J...

Comparing Tradition and Land Lovers

In 5 pages Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony are compared and contrasted iin order to evalu...

Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

another, results in a convoluted narrative in which attempts to redress injustice are not always successful and it appears that th...

British Literature's Mainstream Tradition and Peripheral Culture

of literature which, although derived from the centre, must be constituted as peripheral since they do not follow in a direct line...

Hopi Traditions and 'Koyaanisqatsi' or Life out of Balance

In five pages this concept is examined within the context of the Hopi way of life and its ceremonial rituals. Six sources are cit...

Romantic Tradition and Le Morte d'Arthur and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

In six pages this paper discusses how these works represent variations in the romantic genre. There are 2 sources cited in the bi...

The Basque Tradition

but amusing chatter among themselves, laughing at times and it is this apparent joy that draws in the crowd causing them to share ...

Hindu Tradition and Renunciation

This is taken to mean that dharma is that which forms the foundation for holding everything together in a coherent form and can ap...