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Cultural Identity and Commerce

example for environmental leadership and responsibility, not just in the world of beauty, but around the world" (Aveda [1], 2004)....

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...

RV Travel, the Retirees, and American Culture

is a relatively expensive endeavor as RVs do not get great gas mileage. In addition, their RV is not often their home. It is their...

'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

Can Cultural Values Have A Significant Impact On Business Structure, Strategy And Economic Performance At A National Level?

in the following way; " if the market is the fundamental means of allocating resources then, in order to work properly, it must be...

Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease

their native primitive cultures and European colonial modernization. Back in the 1940s, few Nigerians were accorded the opportuni...

Livy's History of Rome/Heroes & Villains

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Royall Tyler/The Contrast

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

Kelly's Expanding the American Dream

able to construct homes inexpensively (Kelly, 2004). Additionally, he would bypass union workers for those who came at a lower pri...

Italian Communication Style

a consensus through the means of argument and debate (Kenna and Lacy, 1995). Therefore, the speech pathologist may note that Itali...

Mary Pipher's The Middle of Everywhere and Reflections of Refugees

formal education" (Pipher 334). As Pipher points out refugees (and other immigrants) are often doctors, professors, engineers, etc...

Ozu/Tokyo Story

film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...

U.S. Hispanic Groups

of the Roman Catholic Church" though there are a growing number of non-Catholics in the population (Mexican American, 2006). The ...

Cultural Identity and Intercultural Communications

what African American men cannot do, rather than what they can do. 4. Bill experienced White stereotyping of Blacks, and offered ...

American Cultural Contributions of Elvis Presley

latter, which was written by singer/songwriter James Taylor, became a staple of Elviss extensive musical ensemble, performed at vi...

Culture in Alberto Rios's Nani and Marilyn Chin's Turtle Soup

the person who is coming home from work: Chin then directly enters into the conversation as an outside voice addressing the "Bab...

Cultural Diversity and a Mexican American Teacher

"Classroom instruction can be designed to connect the content of a course with students backgrounds" (Cultural Diversity in the Cl...

African American Slaves and Their Cultural Dislocation

the initial feeling which overcame the slaves which was that "at some moment, all ones imprecations, all ones pleas to ancestors, ...

American Families v. Chinese Families

the woman more "desirable" and therefore more likely to marry and not be a burden on her family any longer (Family Structure, 2003...

Issues in Minority Education

must come. When black Americans were first freed, the desire to become educated was strong. Being able to read and write, they...

A Society of 'Post Work'

Lopez outlines the political situations that have led to the economic and cultural conditions of the present day in Puerto Rico. S...

A Societal Application of Cultural Economics

that humanitys constant quest for the concept of meaning through the acquisition of material goods and this journey of cultural un...

Chinese Culture and Parenting Approaches

2002). Furthermore, the idea of mien (face) is very important in the Chinese culture and very directly related to respect and t...

Culture and Science Conflict

formed a Native American Heritage Commission to attempt to police the digs (Sacred Burial Grounds: The Controversy Continues, 1992...

Modern Native American Literature and Cultural Conflict

Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing

two worlds, the tropical island and the cold city, and which would later surface in my dreams and in my poetry" (Cofer 1990, 15). ...

Multicultural Person and Sociology

has the lovely olive skin and dark thick glossy hair so apparent in her Kiowa people. Some of Pamelas in-laws, especially the old...

Education and Native Americans

programs exist with the purpose of offering health-care services to this population specifically. Many more improvements have b...

'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven' and 'Smoke Signals'

This 7 page paper compares Alexie's 1993 book with the Chris Eyre 1998 book that was inspired by the film and its representation o...