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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...

'British Stiff Upper Lip'

Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also f...

Oppression and Language Skills

Los Angeles, and lived in the region for at least a decade as an adult. In this region there are numerous field workers, many of w...

Passion, Influences, and Martyrdom of Perpetua

equal before God, including women. Indeed, the road to female freedom and self-expression has been paved with patriarchal intoler...

Cultural Traditions and Technology

had to change some things, in his heart he is, perhaps, doing exactly what he and those before him have always done: worship The M...

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

Ancient Literature and Cultural Characteristics

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

Cultural Differences and Business Communications

They may all rely on email, fax transmission, and other forms of immediate and electronic communication but they are still steeped...

Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers

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

Chinese Culture and Parenting Approaches

2002). Furthermore, the idea of mien (face) is very important in the Chinese culture and very directly related to respect and t...

Thailand's Cultural Diversity and its History

excpetionof the South was under these hinduiz ed Mon-speaking people (Rajadhon, 2002). Subsequently, during 957 - 1257 the same ar...

Medea, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Gender Roles

dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...

Marketing and Management Across Cultures

epistemologies and moralities (Westwood, 2001, 242). Epistemology There are several ways to define epistemology, bu...

'Beowulf' and Christian Beliefs

emphatically Christian as in a tone mildly so" (125). John Niles has written that "Attempts to show a specific correlation betw...

Memorials, Monuments, and Cultural Memory

In seven pages cultural memory is defined and it is considered in terms of how it is reflected in memorials and monuments such as ...

Nursing Responses to Healthcare Cultural Differences

In a paper consisting of 4 pages the surgical complications regarding a member of the Jehovah's Witness patient as described in a ...

Cinema and Sexuality

crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...

Cultural Importance of the Circumcision Ritual

and special friends are assigned honorary roles in the ritual. For instance, one honorary role is that of "Sandek." Julie describe...

Australia and Domestic Abuse

In ten pages domestic abuse is examined within the context of Australia in a description of family violence causes and how women i...

Benefit Inequality and International Business

In nine pages this paper examines the inequality of benefits as it pertains to international business in an assessment of the pros...

El Indio by Gregorio Lopez Y Fuentes

does not employ the use of obvious character names or recognizable places. Clearly, El Indio touches upon centuries of subj...

Call to Action by Ralph Waldo Emerson in The American Soldier and the Answer by Walt Whitman in Song of Myself

individuals freedom and dignity. He espoused the self as the most important entity. In transcendentalism, the person aspi...

Overview of the Low Country Cuisine of the American South

meals of the items they had on hand. In earlier times a person could not necessarily go to the market and procure any type of foo...

U.S. Racial and Cultural Divisions in the Film Alien Nation

In a paper consisting of four pages there are similarities noted between the divides of culture and race that exist in the United ...

A Business in Canada and the Establishment of a Production Facility Elsewhere

In a report consisting of 12 pages the situation of a Canadian company's efforts to set up a production entity in another country ...

Cultural Myths and 'The Aeneid' and 'The Odyssey'

In six pages this paper examines cultural myths and the portrayal of heroes in this comparative analysis of the works by Virgil an...

The Culture of Tibet

This 11 page paper discusses some of the facets of Tibetan culture, including the environment, politics, and changes in traditiona...

English Usage and Its Ramifications

In five pages this research paper examines the rapidly spreading English language and the cultural effects of this increased usage...

Philosophy and Cultural Relativism

own regions. For example, in New York it is legal for a woman to remove her shirt on a public, city street but few do so as they r...