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Mexican Americans' Culture and History

Mexican American identity in San Antonio, then, demonstrated the self-definition that took place that separated the Spanish Mexica...

Pragmatic Failure in Reference to Translation

human existence. Factors such as race, gender, and sociopolitical status, are all social facts and each influences a cultures lan...

Plastic Surgery

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

International College Students and Cultural Adjustment

with a focus on studies that relate problems of acculturation, cultural adjustment and counseling in higher education. These stud...

The Origins of Racist Attitudes in Modern Times

of security" (Fuentes, 2004). Journalist Dale Maharidge, in his latest book Homeland, "answers that question and raises many mo...

The Region of Calabria

peninsula is separated from the rest of northern Italy by Basilicata; the Ionian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea serve as nautical east/wes...

Mayan Technological, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Development

Mayan culture (Brady, 1995). There appears to be little differentiation in individual wealth levels as can be determined from exa...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

Cultural Industries, Tensions, and Interrelationships

sources, but the need to compete and innovate to attract attention and income is similar. There are the presence of economies of s...

Contemporary Cultural Production and Studying Celebrities

impressionable period, and what children hear or read during this critical period can determine the value system which dominates t...

The Nature Lover Subculture

and Ryan, 2003). As a result, a number of German hiking societies developed with the Friends of Nature with its motto Free Mounta...

A Globalization View

governments (405). For example, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on September 11, 2001 caused "s...

James Rachels and the Theory of Cultural Relativism

as backward and wrong. They are even more critical of such practices as infanticide, a practice affecting female infants among th...

Cuba and Healthcare

problems with its water supplies as extensive deforestation has taken place over the last century which have taken its toll on the...

Health Care Communication

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

The Ethics of Guanxi in Chinese Business Strategy

of guanxi to the time of Mao, to the time when being able to call in a few personal favors might mean the difference between eatin...

RCMP's Culture and Organization

responsible for the administration and enforcement of these laws. In turn, the provincial governments are also allocated the enfor...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Genius or Culture Thief: Andy Warhol

This research paper offers an overview of the life and art of Andy Warhol. The writer presents the question of how Warhol's career...

“Same Kind of Difference as Me”

even today. There is a well defined societal gap between the rich of this country and the poor. Typically, the rich echelon of o...

An Overview of Singapore

4.0% Others (Sikhism, Confucianism, etc) 0.6% Finally, literacy is high in Singapore, as revealed by the following chart. It has ...

Oligopoly and Global Media Culture

This paper consists of 7 pages and discusses how European audiences are having nonEuropean cultural values imposed upon them by th...

Overview of Consumer Culture

Consumer culture is the focus of this overview of eight pages that examines it from the theoretical perspectives of Veblen Thorste...

Department Store and its History

other retail considerations. This revolution was not limited to retailing considerations alone, however, but extended all the way...

Bipolar Disorder from Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Perspectives

have a variety of manifestations and patients are typically classified as either Bipolar I, Bipolar II, or Unipolar based on the s...

A Cultural Anthropology Overview

his a "holistic" science, taking everything in context as humanity as a whole, rather than one that involves just a portion of som...

Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers

a somewhat anonymous international style which was not particularly Malaysian. The winning architects, Cesar Pelli and Associates,...

Overview of Germanic Cultural History

In seven pages Germanic cultures are considered in this historical overview of its sphere of influence, increased Germanic tribe i...

Culture and History of the Eastern Woodlands' Miami Indians

In eight pages this paper presents a cultural and historical overview of the Miami Indians. Six sources are cited in the bibliogr...