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Culture and Personality, African Americans

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

Analysis of Two Articles

music systems profiled in the remainder of the article support this supposition and lead to some fascinating insights into the rel...

The Relationship Of Sharia Law And Islam

in the Islamic world is to cultivate and perpetuate a sense of unity where jurisprudence is concerned, otherwise known as the ongo...

Can Cultural Values Have A Significant Impact On Business Structure, Strategy And Economic Performance At A National Level?

in the following way; " if the market is the fundamental means of allocating resources then, in order to work properly, it must be...

Ethics and Laws/Healthcare Organizations

informed consent as one would with other patients, who are not of this culture. Such questions that address the role of the law ...

Mongolian Culture

deep love for their homeland (Mongolian culture). Mongolia is bordered by Russia and China and is completely landlocked; the Gobi...

Overview of Family Health Nursing

says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...

Transracial Adoption

families differ there is the potential for a number of problems. Transracial adoptions might be considered necessitated by ...

Evangelium vitae/Nos. 78-105

to freedom and responsibility" (EV 83). In this regard, he stresses the pivotal position of the Sacraments, as a means by which hu...

The Concept of Freedom in the Hispanic Culture

cases through perserverence and the willingness to invest tremendous effort in achieving their freedom. In many cases this effort...

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...

Anthropology of Rock Music

The Science Daily reports that songs with violent lyrics increase aggression ("Violent Music Lyrics," 2003). A study conducted by ...

Gary Jennings/Aztec

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

Cultural Consideration in Psychiatry

can complicate the provision of care for some Moroccan patients. Several more considerations will be outlined in the remainder of...

Italian Business Culture

of prescribed gender roles. Societies that express a high degree of masculinity (MAS), as versus femininity. High MAS cultures are...

Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

Culture and Socialization; Assessing Change

it may vary from person to person and organisation to organisation, however, when entering an organisation it is often possible to...

Leadership and the Creation or Maintenance of Positive Cultures

to ensure that the rules were obeyed and the productively was maintained or increased. (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The focu...

Popular Culture: Forging a Distinctive Identity

Each of these distinctive elements of society sprang from the pressing need to forge a distinctive self identity. Each was fed by...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

Hawaiian Sorcery

at his door, he must not "send forth his death-dealing prayers" (Kamakau 120). Wealth that he can accept is when he uses his mag...

Symbolic Representation Of National Identity

over of very specific boundaries that prove to delineate a mandated proximity and/or behavior man has imposed upon his own species...

Globalization Across Mexico's Borders and NAFTA

changed gradually but surely by this interaction. Not only are they becoming acclimatized to U.S. material culture they are becom...

The Transformation of the Role of Women in Mexico

4 pages and 5 sources. This paper provides an overview of the changing role of women in Mexico during colonialism. This paper pr...

America After Vietnam and Books by Gibson and Englehardt

In five pages this paper discusses Warrior Dreams by Gibson and The End of the Victory Culture by Englehardt in a consideration of...

Communication Theories of Walt Fisher and Kenneth Burke Compared

In nine pages Fisher and Burke are theoretically compared in terms of their thoughts regarding communication and culture's role. ...

Culture and Hui Muslims

In seven pages this paper considers how culture is defined in an examination of America's 'mainstream' culture and China's Hui Mus...

Consideration of Culture Shock

In five pages the culture shock experienced at a motorcycle rally is a catharsis for the writer who comes to realize that there is...

Early Culture of West Africa

This paper compares the Native American culture with the culture of West Africa in an overview of sculpture, dance, music, poetry,...

Rites of Male Passage in the Americas

In five pages this paper discusses how masculinity is conceptualized by the Americas in terms of gender interaction and in contras...