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One of the cultural differences - the willingness for American parents to drive long distances and sit in traffic for long periods...

a measure of internal consistency. Items in an instrument are considered to have internal consistency, that is, similar constructs...

factory workers at the "Kaho Indah Citra garment factory on the outskirts of Jakarta" (Klein xvii), where the workers make the equ...

portrait of the Byzantine Empire, Runciman shows us a civilization caught in the middle of a number of forces: the Turks invaded f...

and the Issue Group on Sustainable Shipping (IGSS) are the coordinating agencies seeking the cooperation of the European Union, OS...

in fact, rests in the United States. While the worlds top five media corporations control both electronic and print forms...

the Western world. Most of this ownership, in fact, rests in the United States. The corporate connections of these media...

prongs. The other prong, however, relates to traditional medicines. The term "alternative" refers to those alternative approaches...

a result of this thinking. During this time, education changed dramatically; it went from being a "fragmented and varied provision...

and embarked on a plan of self-improvement that would later define his leadership (Riechers, 2003). An impatient man who had tire...

seen with a study on Chinese music by J van Aalst in 1884 and Japanese music with F T Piggotts Music and Musical Instruments of Ja...

is thought to have healing properties and it is known to lower blood pressure for example. Yet, meditation stems from Buddhism (Vi...

from its past and divorced it from having any real sense of future. "The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally fo...

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

that the secular governments. Priests were often criticized as being greedy and extortionate. As a result of this unrest conflict...

This paper contrasts and compares the pregnancy and birth rituals of Asian and Western cultures in ten pages. Five sources are ci...

territories" a process that wasnt stopped until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 (Holy Roman Empire, 2005). As to the various empe...

the skin (Kuhn, 2000). Then, the practitioner may flick, manipulate, or rotate the needles to achieve the desired effect (Kuhn, 20...

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

criticism. Regardless of the form, however, it is an acknowledged fact that most forms of communication operate on a basis of rec...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

on twelve clay tablets. The epic tale is of a Babylonian king, two-thirds god and one-third man. Another key character in the stor...

the centralisation of political power as potent nation-states emerged throughout Western Europe. The Northern Renaissance was also...

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

programs have changed in recent years and whether important events, including the events surrounding the September 11 bombing of t...

by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...

to the brink of a new world direction. Interestingly, however, that direction would end abruptly as the leadership of China fell ...

demands that change should take place in order for all students, regardless of ethnic or racial background, to feel that they are ...

also has fertility connotations ("The Nude...History"). However, in Greek art, the nude takes on a different function, as Greek ar...

astronomers attempts to describe the motion of all heavenly bodies, including the earth. It was Galileos discoveries that are ofte...