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Rap Music: Social Meaning

affair of choppy strophes of braggadocio chanted over an endlessly repeating bass line and drum track. But there is more to the m...

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...

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...

Cultural Capital: Muhammad Ali

capital can be made into monetary wealth but one must also understand that cultural capital is not necessarily only involved with ...

Tattoos in America

in prison, and that marks them as a particular type of person, connecting them with gangs and criminal activity. Or a young person...

Hispanic Cultural Diffusion

dominant theme in the culture and in America today. In fact, government agencies publish bilingual literature and it is hard to pi...

Film American Pie and Sex

just not appeal to me....Yes, the movie does have that somewhat annoying trait of finding gut-wrenching humor in the very existenc...

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...

An American Literature Study

There is no question that Bradford was a Puritan, and as such, offers his religious views and interpretations throughout his writi...

Globalization and Sociocultural Change

means by which to create such commodities faster, cheaper and within "laboratories or non-traditional environments" (Technology-Af...

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria Market Assessments

entering the market. Saudi Arabia is not a democracy and does not have any political parties or elections. The country is ruled b...

Group Work and Alderian Therapy

to move beyond only the routine approach to group work, she still provides an overview of group counseling theory as a foundation....

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Article Critique/Suspected LD

the pre-test due to differences in cultural background make significant improvement, but children with "true language impairment" ...

Substance Abuse Counseling For Diverse Populations

and Practice, 2001). As this author said, "Cultural competency emphasizes the idea of effectively operating in different cultural ...

Spanish-speaking Clients/Mental Health Nursing

"hypnosis, behavior modification, and cognitive restructuring and their shamanic equivalents" (De Rios, 2002, p. 1576). Latino imm...

The Pastoral Rule By Pope Gregory The Great

The virtues and qualities of Pastors as described by Gregory are applicable in any age. For instance, Pope Benedict XVI cited Pope...

Cultural Practices Reflecting the Unity Between the Spritual and Material World Among the Indigenenous Cultures of Africa and the Americas

however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...

Critiquing 'The Life of an Imperial Monument: Hagia Sophia after Byzantium' by Gulru Necipoglu

deal of architectural, cultural and religious renovation and change. Summary & Critique Necipoglus article compares the Hagia Sop...

The Cultural Construct of Gender

been responsible for designing womens role in myriad societies; many of these devices used in earlier centuries were related to re...

Medical Profession's Cultural Clashes in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

far the most common cause of illness is soul loss"(Fadiman 8). What is most interesting about this book is that Fadiman...

Market Planning and Cultural Barriers

Therefore culture is wide and varied, but considering the amount of different aspects it covers we can see that it will also be ea...

Asians and Beliefs on Health

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

Hospitality Industry According to Kluckhohn, Strodtbeck, and Hofstede

situations and how far they will go to create stability and masculinity/femininity, the extent by which society emphasizes asserti...

Dropout Rates in High Schools

go to college in the first place. As is noted above, these choices, and the factors influencing them, can vary radically between ...

Aboriginality

Our societal construct of "aboriginality" most often goes hand-in-hand with our construct of "indigenous". There are no hard and ...

Zen Buddhism of Japan

suffering, and that this suffering could only be escaped through giving up selfish desires. This spiritual "enlightenment" could b...

African American Poet Langston Hughes

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....

Nursing Profession and Hispanics

of the great need for Hispanic nurses which has been created by the growing Hispanic population, this occupational choice presents...

Ethnography Art

to these questions while lending considerable insights into how certain prejudices continue to be perpetuated in the twenty-first ...