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Cultural Assumptions in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

beyond the fact that the English essentially control them and find a level of peace somehow. But, in the end it seems that each ch...

Corporate Sector and Cultural Diversity

twenty-five percent African-American, ten percent Asian-American and seventeen percent Hispanic -- had plans to leave their curren...

Spanish Language as Cultural Expression

in a particular cultural and language community-that is, language allows us to be able to communicate in a culturally appropriate ...

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...

Discussing Death, the Obligations of Living, and Cultural Variation

death as well. It is, after all, the family who is charged either directly or indirectly with putting the body to rest once the l...

Cultural Impacts of Imported Media

resist imported media is over and is replaced by an interest in the hybridity or interstitiality of contemporary cultures (2001). ...

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

The Cultural Heritage of the West and Its Ancient Roots

in the article "Key Iraqi weapons official held" in relation to topics studied in the roots of Western Culture deal primarily with...

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...

Bilingual and Cultural Education Related to Critical Theory

the collective and tries to provide an understanding of how current social conditions have come about them, and how they interact ...

Cultural Considerations When Counseling Latino Clients

(Degado-Romero, 2001, p. 207; Pumariega, 2000; Koss-Chioino and Vargas, 1999). Researchers have also found that generally Latinos...

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...

Summarizing Four Cultural and Social Sciences' Articles by Littlejohn, Lont, Curtis, and Bakhtari

McBer and Company in 1980 (coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pace-setting, and coaching) Bakhtari developed four h...

Economic and Cultural Adversity Effects on the Women of Ethiopia

Bogalech Aldemu of the Womens Affairs Department of Ethiopias Prime Minister contends that gender discrimination not only exists i...

Ancient Cultural Development and Anthropomorphic Gods

addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...

Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in a Consideration of Whether or Not Cultural Anthropology is a Science

to an invalid who is totally dependent on her parents for her care. The tragedy here, as is true in many respects in the cross-cu...

Young Girl's Cross Cultural Observations of Ritual and Religion

varied types of ritual which characterize her new home and the interrelationships between the various members of her new family. ...

Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism

were Europeans. Hence, the plight of the American Indian is thoroughly ignored. Cultural relativism on the other hand looks at all...

Modern Native American Literature and Cultural Conflict

Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...

Madame Butterfly and Cultural Context

while, the duplicity of each of these dichotomies becomes apparent. In fact the first direct comparison would be that of Gallimard...

Immigrant Cultural Identity in Jose Antonio Villarreal's Pocho

home from school one day, looks at his house, and notes the following: "On the floor of the living room, where two of the girls sl...

3 American Authors and Perspectives on Forced Cultural Assimilation

family depicted in this book after all represents a rather blas? view of America. On closer consideration, however, it becomes ap...

Strategy and Cultural Synergy

For culture to be a positive influencing factor it should be cohesive and consistent. The absence of organisational culture can le...

Anthropology and Cultural Understanding According to Nancy Scheper Hughes and Renato Rosaldo

power that Scheper-Hughes and the people of Ballybran have in common, as well as how they share these kinds of power, it will be i...

Disintegrating Cultural Identity fo Aymara Peoples?

of society. In short, to outwardly encourage assimilation would be nothing short of advocating the quest for control. The ways i...

Cultural Realities and the Works of Flannery O'Connor

OConnor (1925 - 1964) Novelist oconnormain.html). This illustrates her intense position as it involves the secular world that surr...

NY Television and Cultural Messages

wanted to visit. Perhaps the episode that most prominently features differences in race and ethnicity is when Jerry convinces the ...

Art of Ana Mendieta, Frida Kahlo, Cultural Identity and Self

arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...

Creative Cultural Expression and Rap Music

would seem, other rappers (performers of RAP music) claim that it has its roots in the work of the German band Kraftwerk (Cashmore...