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  • Service Culture and Relationship Management Courses

    Service Culture and Relationship Management Courses

    Service Culture and Relationship Management Courses An Overview Purpose Of This Overview To put Socitm Learning’s 5 offerings in the areas of service culture and relationship management in context to enable potential customers to select the most appropriate type of solution to meet their needs. It also aims to give a feel for the cost of various options. Lead Tutor And Facilitator All of these courses are run for Socitm by Mike Sayers of

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    Essay Length: 318 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Vika
  • Cultrual Cultural Deprivation the Hispanic Challenge

    Cultrual Cultural Deprivation the Hispanic Challenge

    Cultural Deprivation: The Hispanic Challenge Why do some groups not succeed in academic settings? One theory brought up in “Understanding inequality” suggests that the gap in the socioeconomic status drives the inequalities in the school system. The low and working class have less time and income to intervene with schooling. This means they have less time to meet with teachers, hire tutors, and provide continuous transportation. Therefore the lower class can’t possibly compete with the

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    Essay Length: 707 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Mike
  • Identity

    Identity

    Identity, the hardest question to answer: Who am I? Personality traits that people pick up from past experiences and knowledge help define who they are in a certain setting. People live their lives in a constant search for who they are, or what they like; while everyone is busy making plans, the perception of their surroundings change what they want. A persons identity is true to only the setting that they currently are in;

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    Essay Length: 828 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Meaning of Culture

    The Meaning of Culture

    Culture is a term which is brandished with little regard to its actual meaning, likely due to the fact that there are hundreds of definitions trying to capture the essence of culture. One such definition, provided in a social psychology textbook, states that culture is ‘the enduring behaviours, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next’ (Myers & Spencer, 12). While this is

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    Essay Length: 312 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Wendy
  • John Locke on Personal Identity

    John Locke on Personal Identity

    I think that Locke's arguments for his ideas are sound, and I agree with what he is saying. Locke was a micro based ideologist. He believed that humans were autonomous individuals who, although lived in a social setting, could not be articulated as a herd or social animal. Locke believed person to stand for, a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different

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    Essay Length: 1,803 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Janna
  • Cultural Issues

    Cultural Issues

    Cultural Issues of Gender, Gender Roles, and Their Treatment of Men and Women The purpose of this paper is to compare Japanese and Middle Eastern Arab- Muslim cultures concerning the issue of gender, gender roles, and the treatment of women and men throughout history. Muslim women and men, in the Middle East, definitely differ from Japanese men and women, particularly in current issues of marriage, workforce, education, family, and social living. Although they may have

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    Essay Length: 2,075 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Victor
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper As defined by Webster's 1913 Dictionary, "Ethics is a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions". Ethics are standards of behavior that tell us how human beings ought to act in the many situations in which they find themselves. On the other hand, the word value has many meanings and may be

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    Essay Length: 754 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Dimensions of Culture Values and Communication

    Dimensions of Culture Values and Communication

    Running head: Dimensions of Culture, Values, and Communication Dimensions of Culture, Values, and Communication Bob Dussault University of Phoenix Abstract The author will examine culture, values and communication by exploring his own experiences. Experiences reviewed are feeling at odds with a cultural norm, perceptions regarding a group that are excluded from the dominant culture, and situations where being categorized as a cultural outsider might provide benefit. Dimensions of Culture, Values, and Communication Communication, as defined

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    Essay Length: 888 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Artur
  • American Culture of Pop Music

    American Culture of Pop Music

    I.Invasion of American Popular Music After World War I, American popular music -- blues, jazz, and Tin Pan Alley songs -- swept Britain, much as British music invaded the United States in the 1960s. American songs such as "Chicago" and "Manhattan" were consistently among the most popular tunes in Britain in the 1920s. As a result of the invasion of American popular music, Britain was influenced by such culture. The Beatles and other British rock

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    Essay Length: 955 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Sociological History of Boston Massachusetts as It Relates to Work and Culture

    The Sociological History of Boston Massachusetts as It Relates to Work and Culture

    Boston is both the capital of and the largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is considered the unofficial capital of the New England area, and one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most expensive places in the country to live. Its citizens are known as “Bostonians” and their city is home to the nations first school, first college, and has been called “The Athens of America” for its great intellectual and cultural influence and

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    Essay Length: 1,773 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture

    Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture

    Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture Through language, bias has proliferated in our culture against both women and men. Language expresses aspects of culture both explicitly and implicitly. Gender expectations, behaviors, and cultural norms, are determined through language. A divide between the sexes has developed which includes language usages, intention, and understandings. This has created obstructions to communication between the genders. When anthropological linguists look at a language, he/she takes into consideration the “world

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    Essay Length: 1,569 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Tommy
  • How Popular Culture Affects Race

    How Popular Culture Affects Race

    HOW POPULAR CULTURE AFFECTS RACE The popular culture particularly visual media affects our opions and attitude towards race and racial minorities group. our assumptions about race and racial minorities are both successeded and reflected in the streotypes presented by the visual media. i strongly believe in the George Gebners scientific examintaiton of televison that how we perceive ourselves and how we view those around us are affected by what we see on television. Visual

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    Essay Length: 1,362 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Artur
  • Ways in Which Race and Ethnicity Relate to Culture

    Ways in Which Race and Ethnicity Relate to Culture

    Ways in Which Race & Ethnicity Relate to Culture ----------------------------------- Examining the ideas and beliefs within ones own cultural context is central to the study of Anthropology. Issues of Race and Ethnicity dominate the academic discourses of various disciplines including the field of Anthropology. Race and Ethnicity are controversial terms that are defined and used by people in many different ways. This essay shall explore the ways in which Anthropologists make a distinction between

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    Essay Length: 1,689 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Jessica
  • “just a Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth”

    “just a Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth”

    Within the broad, yet ever increasing issue of “tween” culture are many causes that are co-related. These sources form the foundation as to why children are becoming more and more desensitized to what once would have been considered a “moral standard” for their age sector. In this particular journal article taken from “Signs”, Gayle Wald focuses on the cultural construction of female youth with a spotlight on the music industry. She introduces her readers to

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: regina
  • Postmodern Review of Niebuhrs Christ and Culture

    Postmodern Review of Niebuhrs Christ and Culture

    Christ and Culture, authored by H. Richard Niebuhr in 1951, is a book which discusses how a Church or a Christian is to interact with ones culture. Niebuhr systematically answers this question by placing the church into the following five categories they have utilized through history to answer this question: "Christ against culture," "the Christ of culture," "Christ above culture (Christ synthesizing with culture)," "Christ and culture in paradox," and "Christ the transformer of culture."

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Cultural Narcissist

    The Cultural Narcissist

    The Cultural Narcissist "The new narcissist is haunted not by guilt but by anxiety. He seeks not to inflict his own certainties on others but to find a meaning in life. Liberated from the superstitions of the past, he doubts even the reality of his own existence. Superficially relaxed and tolerant, he finds little use for dogmas of racial and ethnic purity but at the same time forfeits the security of group loyalties and regards

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    Essay Length: 2,468 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Cell Phone in Today Culture

    Cell Phone in Today Culture

    Ring, Ring Your Freedom Away Mobile phone also known as a cell phone to some people has come along way. Starting out as a bulky, undependable phone of the past; where only the business man and the wealthy can afford this piece of expensive technology. To the present day low cost personal item with everything you need on the go. However the way cell phones are being used nowadays is so distracting that we can't

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    Essay Length: 924 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Identity Theft

    Identity Theft

    Although it seems that identity theft is very easily accomplished there are steps that can be taken to prevent one from becoming a victim. Fist off, shred credit card receipts, old bank statements, and bills using a 2-way or cross cut shredder before throwing them away and remove your name from mailing lists for pre-approved credit lines and telemarketers. Shredding in a cross cut shredder prevents people from being able to piece together the shredded

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    Essay Length: 375 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • History of Rave Culture

    History of Rave Culture

    The idea that "techno usually has NO message, no image etc. it is faceless" is certainly not one that is embraced by enough of a majority for it to be considered an intrinsic property of techno itself, but rather an indication of what Mr./Mrs./Ms. ALLES NAAR DE KLOTE is getting out of it. This is an important distinction that needs to be made, I think, when discussing exactly what the nature of the state of

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    Essay Length: 957 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Anna
  • Brandstreet and Female Identity

    Brandstreet and Female Identity

    There are not too many "major" female writers in American Literature, and writing, traditionally, has always been viewed as a masculine activity. It is therefore very interesting, and even ironic, that the first author published in the newly established Puritan society on the American soil, Anne Bradstreet, was a female. Indeed, Bradstreet's poems are filled with female presence. However, I also sense that Bradstreet's feminism is held in check by her Puritan values, and there

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    Essay Length: 340 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Culture Defined

    Culture Defined

    Culture can be defined as the specific learned norms of a society that reflect attitudes, values, and beliefs. Major problems of cultural collision are likely to occur if a firm implements practices that do not reflect local customs and values and employees are unable to accept or adjust to foreign customs. A very serious cultural mistake can negatively affect a firm’s relationship with the host nation. Consistent with the notion that culture is the set

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    Essay Length: 329 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Cultural Influences on Leadership and Organizations:

    Cultural Influences on Leadership and Organizations:

    CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONS: PROJECT GLOBE Robert J. House, Paul J. Hanges, S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla, Peter W. Dorfman, Mansour Javidan, Marcus Dickson, and About 170 GLOBE Country Co-Investigators to be listed by name and institution Running Head: Project GLOBE Robert J. House The Wharton School of Management University of Pennsylvania Paul J. Hanges Department of Psychology University of Maryland S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla New York School of Industrial Labor Relations Cornell University Peter W.

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    Essay Length: 3,328 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Does Tv Affect American Culture

    Does Tv Affect American Culture

    Does Television Shows Reflect American Culture? There are many movies and television shows that reflect American culture. A show or movie must address some current societal problem or trend in order to truly reflect American life; murder, rape, racism, and, on a less serious note, parties, shopping, and sports are topics that deserve serious consideration by the public and the media. The show Beverly Hills 90210 attempts to be an accurate portrayal of the life

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Bred
  • What Is America? That Has Been the Question Many People from Different Cultural Values Have Asked.There Are Various Points of View of What America Consists Of.Some Are Positive, Some Are Negative, but What Is the Reality Behind This Вђњidealвђќ Plac

    What Is America? That Has Been the Question Many People from Different Cultural Values Have Asked.There Are Various Points of View of What America Consists Of.Some Are Positive, Some Are Negative, but What Is the Reality Behind This Вђњidealвђќ Plac

    What is America? That has been the question many people from different cultural values have asked. There are various points of view of what America consists of. Some are positive, some are negative, but what is the reality behind this “ideal” place? Bharati Mukherjee an American writer from an Indian background, shared her experiences in Imagining Homeland and what migrating to another environment is all about. Many people, especially minorities, have the dream and desire

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Can the Nation-State and Culture Combine Forces to Reduce Interpersonal Violence in the West?

    Can the Nation-State and Culture Combine Forces to Reduce Interpersonal Violence in the West?

    Can the nation-state and culture combine forces to reduce interpersonal violence in the West? Violence is a difficult term to define, but for the purposes of this assignment violence can be defined as a crime or the threat to commit a crime by one person upon another person, and that usually that has negative physical or emotional effects upon the victim. Violence in Western society has been increasing steadily and has become a major concern

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Mikki

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