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Obesity/Hispanic Women in Tillman County, OK

$1,109,950 in additional medical costs for the county (OSDoH, 2007). Additionally the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDoH)...

Plastic Surgery

plastic surgery as a cultural phenomenon, that is, why people choose to have elective surgery. Types of plastic surgery It is a ...

Approaches to Learning

important to explore. II. Different Approaches to Learning Leaning is something that many believe occurs automatically. They ...

Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Multicultural Lit. and Teaching Diverse Classrooms

and how instruction impacts the learning culturally diverse students populations (Teliez, 2004, p. 43). According to Pedersen and ...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Japanese Issues

economy, as Japan continued to have huge trade surpluses both with the US and Europe (Gordon 315). Consequently, there was conside...

Globalization Across Mexico's Borders and NAFTA

changed gradually but surely by this interaction. Not only are they becoming acclimatized to U.S. material culture they are becom...

Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales

French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

US. Versus Egypt: Role Of Culture And Religion In Education

Correspondingly, there is a battle being waged by parents and educators alike that says a public school education sorely lacks whe...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

Italian Business Culture

of prescribed gender roles. Societies that express a high degree of masculinity (MAS), as versus femininity. High MAS cultures are...

Implementing Care Following Leininger’s Theory

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

Italian Communication Style

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

Community Report, Casper, WY 82604

Symphony Orchestra, also asserted that his election categorically refutes the concept that "rugged Western individualism and homop...

Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Approach to Human Interaction

is indebted to both of these predecessors. Kenny (2008) observes that "Anyone familiar with Goffmans dramaturgical approach will n...

Self-Expression Across Cultures

From a personal perspective, I find that listening to music is a valuable form of self-expression that is prominent in my life. I ...

Deviance Across Cultures: Girl Gangs Around the World

feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate" exploded in a small town outside Naples (Israely, 2002, p. 32). The le...

Fadiman/Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

with their prescribed regimen for controlling the childs epilepsy (Simon, 2003). They became so frustrated that they brought charg...

Social and Medical Perspectives on Dying

would be no point where it would be judged morally justified to harvest viable organs from donors (Browne, 1983). It often gives c...

1960s' Television and the Star Trek Series

was signed by some of the greatest names in science fiction, such as Poul Anderson, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon (1966: St...

Law Enforcement, Cultural diversity and Community

of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...

3 Sociology Issues

and he wrote in 1949 that the "nuclear family is a universal human social group" (Carlson, 2004, p. 13). The function of marriage,...

Culturally Competent Care/African Americans

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

Assessment of Graffiti Through Qualitative Research

same wavering existence. Q. Why art and not some other form of expression? A. Art is a cultural expression, one that does not rec...

Overview of the Latino Family's Life Cycle

use of "Latino" and "Latina," which are Spanish words, have been viewed as more inclusive and politically correct (Delgado-Romero,...

Our Kind Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where Are We Going by Marvin Harris

interpretations. It is important for the one to understand that there exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives,...

'Mysterious' Land of Eastern Europe

they had stepped back into history. These travelers brought back the mythology of the Balkans, which included tales of the undead,...

Rosaldo and Scheper Hughes Anthropological Study Approaches and Limitations

rational-choice theory while studying the Ilongot head hunting beliefs and their change to Christianity (Rosaldo, 1980, 1989). To ...