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Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

Color Perceptions from Cultural and Scientific Perspectives

Underneath those cell layers is a layer of brown melanin (Raxworthy, 2002). By opening and closing their melanophores, a term use...

Elderly and Cultural Behavior

bias that exists in the media - particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities...

The Conflict Theory of Karl Marx and Views of Terrorism

since history was first recorded (OConnor, 2004). Acts of terrorism can be found in the Bible and they are recorded in Roman histo...

Comparing Chinese and Western Mediation Models and Considering Cultural Differences

(Noesner, 1997). Active listening teaches that numerous steps can be taken when conflict does arise to resolve it in the most exp...

Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the Classroom

that honors cultural diversity, the teacher begins the same unit by reading a Native American folktale that describes the first fo...

Cultural Diversity Honoring in Changing Classrooms

backgrounds and honored each for its individuality and uniqueness. Now imagine how these students might feel if they went from t...

Cultural Differences Between Tehran, Iran and Los Angeles, CA

three hours would be almost laughable in Los Angeles - and if a person doesnt like food (or is too full), there is little hesitati...

Alexander the Great's Artistic and Cultural Innovations

were possible under the enforced peace in the Empire under Alexander. Philosophy had in Alexander a supporter and it flourished. T...

Cultural Collage of Morocco

The issue of freedom as it related to ethnic and religious diversity appeared to be caught in a perpetual holding pattern, inasmuc...

Cultural Control and Knowledge Workers' Research

seen with many of the older crafts, or knowledge transfer, though training (Polanyi 1973). This may also be seen as the acquiring...

Taste and Cultural Capital

Honda will win; the next Lexus; and so on. There is always an ongoing battle, and an ongoing desire for new tastes to feed....

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...

East Asia's Cultural Values and Competition With Western Europe and North America

of creating a tripolar global environment. Bergsten (2001) further asserts how the only way to prevent such a detrimental occurre...

Cultural Impact on Brazil's Criminal Justice System

place great emphasis upon "inclusive definitions, neat conceptual distinctions, and broad general rules" (Scuro, 2003) rather than...

American Cultural Icon McDonald's

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

Higher Education in California

in both US and CSU systems (UC Office of the President, 1999). To help with tuition, the state adopted the Cal Grant program to he...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Human Resource Development Field and the Training Facilitator

"an organized learning experience, conducted in a definite time period, to increase the possibility of improving job performance a...

Cultural Influences on HRM

arguments regarding the lack o of equality and the presence of the glass ceiling, the way that the issue is seen and the ways it i...

Russian Masculinity and Changing Cultural Norms

sufficient enough pay to maintain his family. Bob becomes depressed, despondent and even suicidal. Bob is not alone, however. T...

KOSOVO AND IRAQ: THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

using the conflict as a stepping stone to promote democracy in the Middle East and destroying any weapons of mass destruction (Enc...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT AT DHL

fact that logistics tends to be somewhat slow when it comes to innovation and management, the advent of computers, bar code system...

Food and Globalization : Healthy Fare and Cultural Blends in Contemporary Society

also a global concern and trends have been witnessed in this area. In examining a number of writings on food, several themes emerg...

Spanish, Inca, and Aztec Cultural Similarities and Differences

reality, however, the Inca and the Aztec viewed themselves superior to the Spanish and even to the other Native American cultures ...

Cultural Conflict in The Merchant of Venice

but at a very high cost. He requires a pound of flesh for debts not paid and this is literally what it sounds like, for a pound of...