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  • Star Wars Pop Culture Icon

    Star Wars Pop Culture Icon

    American popular culture has always been a market for sales. Everything that is and has made pop culture what it is in America has been built through commercialization. The ability to sell the main product and then the countless other revenue items that go with that product define American culture. Today in the United States a person would be hard-pressed to fined a movie showing in theaters that does not have a soundtrack out, t-shirt

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: regina
  • Historical and Cultural Comparisom Between Canada and Usa

    Historical and Cultural Comparisom Between Canada and Usa

    The tourist potential of the climatic, landscape, historical & cultural resources of Canada, & New York (USA) The designations I have chosen are both on the American continent. The statistics used are based on the European traveller. Because of the vast difference in population density of Canada and the U.S.A, I have decide to centre my comparison around the vast metropolis of New York and western Canada (Calgary-lively city lake Louise-scenic resort) Canada is situated

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    Essay Length: 2,988 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Janna
  • Religions and Japanese Culture

    Religions and Japanese Culture

    Religions And Japanese Culture Many religions are popular within the Japanese culture. Two of the most influential religions, Shinto and Buddhism that help shaped a lot of Japanese values are Shinto and Buddhism, played a large role in shaping Japanese values. Numerous similarities and differences run between these two religions; nonetheless, the Japanese often believe in more than one religion at the same time. This is possible due to the polytheistic nature of most popular

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    Essay Length: 748 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Globalisation - How It Affects Both Trade and Culture

    Globalisation - How It Affects Both Trade and Culture

    Globalisation has made a great impact in the world by helping businesses, technologies and cultures spread throughout the globe. Today there is 12 times more world trade in goods and money than there was in 1945. (Globalisation and trade, 2001) While this can be considered as fact, there still remains a dispute about whether a global marketplace will be beneficial to everyone. Some people believe that globalisation does have the potential to create many opportunities

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Pop Culture Meets Hip-Hop

    Pop Culture Meets Hip-Hop

    Pop Culture Meets Hip-Hop Popular culture, otherwise known as “Pop Culture,” is defined by Encarta’s Online Encyclopedia as values that come from advertising, the entertainment industry, the media, and icons of style and are targeted to the ordinary people of today’s society. Some of the more influencing displays of pop culture today include movies, teen icons, clothing, celebrities, sports, and one of the most influential things, music. The music industry plays a huge role in

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Bred
  • M&a: Culture Integration

    M&a: Culture Integration

    In 2001, James M. Kilts, then newly appointed as chief executive officer of Gillette Co., replaced two-thirds of the company's senior management team and trimmed 3,700 jobs, more than 10% of the company's work force. Employees of the century-old company thought they had seen the shake-up of all shake-ups. Just wait until they see what Procter & Gamble Co. could have in store. In announcing the $52.4 billion takeover of Gillette, P&G's CEO, A.G. Lafley,

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: David
  • Language and Culture in an Immigrant Society

    Language and Culture in an Immigrant Society

    The professor of my linguistics anthropology course this year, stepped up to the podium on the first day of class, and surprised us all with his feelings regarding language. He began by telling us that he specializes in human misery, perhaps insinuating language is a source of misery. Dr. Song is a Korean immigrant and the sounds of his own language repulses him. Growing up in modern society America has made him cringe at the

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • Appalachia Culture

    Appalachia Culture

    Many people have different views on what Appalachia is, I grew up thinking that Appalachia meant people were dirty, poor, illiterate, inbreed and we also called them mountain people. As I grew up I realized that most of the things they went through and had a hard time with, I was dealing with the same problems. So what exactly is Appalachia? Well you will find out as you read on. Appalachia is no longer the

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Understanding the Vampire Myth in Slavic Cultures

    Understanding the Vampire Myth in Slavic Cultures

    In seeking to understand the vampire myth in Slavic cultures I found myself intrigued by the essay, Forensic Pathology and the European Vampire, exclusive to Alan Dundes's, The Vampire: A Casebook. Within this essay, an enticing and new interpretation of the vampire is offered by historian, Paul Barber. Uniquely, Barber approaches the vampire myth with the notion that " most if not all of the beliefs surrounding the vampire can be explained in terms of

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Edward
  • Concept of Culture

    Concept of Culture

    Anthropology introduces culture as a means to perpetuate human existence, because without culture, we would not exist. Individuals are created biologically, while persons are created by social society. Anthropologists firmly believe that our existence is dependent on culture, because culture shapes the social roles people fill on a day to day basis. Without these social roles, people would not know how to express emotions or respond to any given circumstance because we understand everything through

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Victor
  • Arthur Anderson Culture and Its Downfall

    Arthur Anderson Culture and Its Downfall

    1.1 Aspects of Andersen’s culture that would be signals of a dysfunctional culture. • Inability to question superior’s practices and incapability to suggest new ways of doing things in all areas of the firm. • Andersen’s organization, culture and practices were derived from the old structure, which were still seen as the best practices even if outdated. At the organization, new trends of the market and new competitors were not going to change any of

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    Essay Length: 1,243 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: regina
  • Cultural Materialism

    Cultural Materialism

    When it comes to anthropological theory the combination of several established ways of thought often result in a completely new and independent way of thinking. Cultural Materialism is one of these children theories that resulted from a coming together of social evolutionary theory, cultural ecology and Marxist materialism (Barfield). The goal of cultural materialism is to explain politics, economics, ideology and symbolic aspects of a culture with relation to the needs of that society. From

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Singapore Culture

    Singapore Culture

    Singapore may have traded in its rough-and-ready opium dens and pearl luggers for towers of concrete and glass, and its steamy rickshaw image for hi-tech wizardry, but you can still recapture the colonial era with a gin sling under the languorous ceiling fans at Raffles Hotel. It is this carefully stage-managed combination of Western modernity and treasured Eastern and colonial past that makes Singapore such an accessible slice of Asia. Lying almost on the equator,

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Andrew
  • So You Want to Have a Positive Cultural Encounter?

    So You Want to Have a Positive Cultural Encounter?

    What would it be like to visit unknown relatives in the vast expanses of Africa? What would you do if you were stranded on an island inhabited by strange and unfamiliar Indians? How would you react if you were saved from starvation during a cold winter by friendly natives? Society today has been shaped by the cross-cultural adventures and experiences of history. What if you were able to have an experience like these and

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Popular Culture and Print Media

    Popular Culture and Print Media

    Running head: POPULAR CULTURE AND PRINT MEDIA Popular Culture and Print Media Nancy Young University of Phoenix SOC / 105 March 14, 2008 Two of the oldest forms of advertising, would be print media, and word of mouth. There are several forms of print media advertising, such as newspaper and magazines. But these are not the only way advertizing is put into the public, there are many other successful ways ads can be thrown into

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Anna
  • Method Acting and 1950’s American Politics and Culture

    Method Acting and 1950’s American Politics and Culture

    Method Acting and 1950’s American Politics and Culture Throughout the twentieth century, method acting had been experimented with and practiced in the United States. The method had derived from Stanislavski’s “system” at the Moscow Art Theatre and was then given its own identity by method pioneers in the Group Theatre, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Elia Kazan. Through the early 1900’s, the method had begun to gain recognition in American theatre, but swiftly attained considerable

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Yan
  • Ethnographic Research Paper: French Culture

    Ethnographic Research Paper: French Culture

    Ethnographic Research Paper: French Culture A common saying goes like this, “You cannot judge a book by its cover.” This saying may have many meanings, but to a social and cultural anthropologist, it signifies that no-one should pre-judge others on their values, beliefs and interests just by their appearance. In order to understand and be familiar with a culture, one has to perform a series of ethnographic research from fieldwork, participant observation, ethnology to something

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Cultural Diversity in Our Community

    Cultural Diversity in Our Community

    Cultural Diversity in Our Community NAME Axia College of University of Phoenix Cultural Diversity I was walking down the street the other day when I stopped and took a hard look at all the different people, businesses, and cultures that surrounded me. My first thought was "wow, we really live in a world that is held together by a wide variety of ethnic groups." Without all the different cultures and influences that I have experienced,

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Culture of Heavy Metal Music Listeners Around the World:

    The Culture of Heavy Metal Music Listeners Around the World:

    People who listen to heavy metal music are often seen as a minority group in most cultures and countries, but is it possible that heavy metal music listeners have a distinct culture of their own that transcends the dividing lines of nations? This paper is intended to research and report the similarities between heavy metal listeners across the world. In order to do that I will be splitting the world up into four major categories

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    Essay Length: 1,431 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mike
  • Hewlett Packard (hp) Culture

    Hewlett Packard (hp) Culture

    Formal elements of an organization such as structure, strategy and technology have gained a lot of importance in past. Success of Japanese corporation in the 1980’s got the focus to other side of an organization. Values, belief and attitudes held by management and organization, which form informal elements, play a significant role in an organization. An organization can be best represented by an iceberg. The part which is visible above the water and easy to

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Clan Culture

    The Clan Culture

    The Clan Culture As Cameron and Quinn describe each culture in great depth in the context of for-profit companies, this paper will summarize the cultures and apply them to the foundation setting. Starting from the top left box of the quadrant, the Clan culture is one that is similar to a family-run organization. The culture is marked by “shared values and goals, cohesion, participativeness, individuality, and a sense of we-ness” (Cameron & Quinn, 1999, p.

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Bred
  • Haitian Culture: Impact on Nursing Care

    Haitian Culture: Impact on Nursing Care

    Haitian Culture: Impact on Nursing Care The Republic of Haiti is in the western part of the island of Hispaniola in the West Indies. It is densely populated and has the lowest per capita income in the western hemisphere (Kemp, 2001). The population of more than seven million is made up of mostly descendents of African slaves brought to the West Indies by French colonists. The horrible conditions in Haiti, such as crushing poverty, unemployment

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Janna
  • China Cultural Revolution

    China Cultural Revolution

    The Cultural Revolution was a movement in China during1966-1976. This revolution was a power struggle within the Communist Party of China. This struggle grew to include large portions of Chinese society, which eventually brought the People's Republic of China to the brink of civil war. The revolution was launched by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, in order to regain control after the Great Leap Forward. During the Great Leap Forward

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Yan
  • Cultural Genocide of the Aborigines

    Cultural Genocide of the Aborigines

    "Cultural Genocide of the Aborigines" In the 1800s, the aboriginal tribes of Austrailia's population was estimated around 0,000. There were hundreds of languages, religions, and traditions, which vaired greatly among different tribes. In 1788, British colonization of Australia began in Sydney. The most immediate effect of the British settling in Australia was the spread of new diseases. The Aboriginal tribes had not been exposed to various types of diseases that the British brought with them,

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Maasai Cultural Breakdown Paper

    The Maasai Cultural Breakdown Paper

    The Maasai Cultural Breakdown Paper “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” Proverbs 14:34. This is a quote from a web site (http://www.peopleteams.org/maasai/culture.htm), that defines parallels to the culture of the Maasai. The Maasai Culture is from Southern Kenya. The culture is very family based, with many families being quite large. The Maasai own a total land area of 160,000 kilometers ( http://maasai-infoline.org/TheMaasaipeople.html ). Some of the physical characteristics

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Anna

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