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  • A Shape to Fill the Lack: As I Lay Dying, by Willian Faulkner

    A Shape to Fill the Lack: As I Lay Dying, by Willian Faulkner

    One of Faulkner's central themes in the novel is the limitation of language. From the inability of the characters to communicate with one another, to Addie's singular distrust of words, to the unlikely vocabulary the characters employ in their narration, Faulkner explores the inadequacy of language to express thought and emotion. Many characters communicate only through platitudes. As a result, they create misunderstanding rather than understanding between people. Through the varying perspectives that Faulkner chooses

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    Essay Length: 870 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Australian Cultural Genocide

    Australian Cultural Genocide

    The Australian treatment of the aborigines was cultural genocide, and there is no way to make amends for their actions. Cultural Genocide (or in this case ethnocide) is a term used to describe the deliberate destruction of the cultural heritage of a people. “Article 7 of the �United Nations draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples’ (26 August 1994) defines �Cultural genocide’ Indigenous peoples have the collective and individual right not to be subjected

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    Essay Length: 433 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: July
  • Andy Warhol: A Pop Culture Icon

    Andy Warhol: A Pop Culture Icon

    Andy Warhol: A Pop Culture Icon Henry Matisse once said, “The freedom of the artist is in reality the impossibility of following the path beaten by all others.” In other words, the degree in which an artist interprets the world that is laid out before him is what makes him unique. Andy Warhol was a master at creating a distinctive account of what came before him and what presently surrounded him. It was this rare

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    Essay Length: 1,547 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Vika
  • Arts and Culture - Romanticism

    Arts and Culture - Romanticism

    Arts and Culture Romanticism was a period in the 1800’s when people took on a new outlook on art, music and life itself. It was a period where everything seemed to be connected to nature and emotions. Anything and everything a person created could be considered art, as long as it was original. The whole idea was that everyone created something of their own and it is original and that is art. This time was

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    Essay Length: 787 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Values are a belief, a mission, or a philosophy that are meaningful to a person or organization (Posner). Whether they are personal, organizational, or cultural values, these values not only define ethically acceptable boundaries for the decision-making process, but also steer the individual towards the most socially accepted decision (Finegan). Values are commonly understood as preferences or indicators for what we believe. These values are quite interesting to describe.

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    Essay Length: 297 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Janna
  • Assessing Delta Air Lines Corporate Culture

    Assessing Delta Air Lines Corporate Culture

    Assessing Delta Air Lines Corporate Culture This paper will discuss the corporate culture of Delta Air Lines, Inc. The team agreed that assessing Delta’s corporate culture would definitely be a learning experience. Delta Air Lines, Inc. provides air transportation for passengers and freight throughout the United States and around the world. As of February 1, 2006, Delta (including its wholly owned subsidiaries, Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. and Comair, Inc.) serves 244 domestic cities in 46

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    Essay Length: 3,292 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Edward
  • American Culture

    American Culture

    в… . American Mainstream The main content of American culture is the emphasize on individuals' value, the pursue of democracy and freedom, the promotion of deploitation and competition and the need of realistic and practicality. Its core is individualism: self first, personal need first, pursue of individual benefit and enjoyment, emphasize on achieving individual value by self-strive and self-design. This type of intentionally build up of personality and pursue customized individualism has its pros and cons,

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    Essay Length: 710 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Andrew
  • How Business Culture Can Influence an Organisation Move Toward International

    How Business Culture Can Influence an Organisation Move Toward International

    1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Culture [Culture] generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Different definitions of "culture" reflect different theoretical orientations for understanding, or criteria for valuing, human activity. (Wikipedia. 2005) People from different countries have different cultures. People from the same country also have different families and backgrounds. Therefore their behaviours, attitudes or values, are not the same. What are the reasons for this? Culture is

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    Essay Length: 1,626 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Hum 105 - Cultural Heroes

    Hum 105 - Cultural Heroes

    Cultural Heroes A cultural hero demonstrates cultural values. A cultural hero faces and overcomes struggles. A cultural hero is famous. A cultural hero may be living or dead, though more often dead. Often after their death, mythologies are developed embellishing their positive features. Herakles and Joan of Arc are examples of classic cultural heroes. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is a modern cultural hero. All three a well known and are remembered for their character and accomplishments.

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    Essay Length: 1,573 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Culture Shock

    Culture Shock

    Culture Shock I grew up in a wealthy villa it Italy. I had a large family and even larger circle of friends. I went to pre-school following with first and half of first grade and surpassed everyone in my class which to me was an enormous achievement even for a six year old. Also, joining the swim team I had medals and articles in the local paper being such a great young swimmer. I had

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    Essay Length: 1,011 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Cross Cultural Management - Dancom Case Study

    Cross Cultural Management - Dancom Case Study

    Drawing on theories of both cross cultural management and motivation, discuss the factors influencing the contrasting behaviour of both the hosting insiders and outsiders at Dancom. What could be done to help the outsiders become more involved? To understand the case we have to first understand the theories of cross culture management and motivation.... we would be later on moving to the introduction and issues at Dancom. The last but not the least would be

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    Essay Length: 2,086 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Values are “the central beliefs and purposes of an individual or society” (Values, 2006, ¶ 2). In other words, values and ethics are the right and wrong way of behaving, in the eyes of the in beholder. Individuals develop values based on lessons taught and reactions to situations. Societies as a whole create what qualifies as normal or acceptable behavior. Personal, organizational, and cultural values influence decisions and may

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    Essay Length: 1,273 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: regina
  • Culture - Power Distance

    Culture - Power Distance

    Culture - Power Distance This is a determinant basic to all societies that Hofstede has named. It is describing the distribution of "power" among individuals and groups in the society, and how inequalities in power are dealt with in these societies. Inequality of power is a basic fact of life. It cannot be 100% eliminated. Iit is impossible to have _no_ power distance, because this means everyone is exactly equal (skills, actions, genetics, etc) unless

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    Essay Length: 1,506 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Max
  • Definition of American Culture

    Definition of American Culture

    Definition of American Culture Throughout American history we have had acknowledged many different traits on culture that no other foreign country or culture might have. Our unique ways of handling ever day life differ from any other culture in the whole entire world; many of these traits can be terrible things and some not as bad. Most Americans of society have shown that we are so far in common with each other and the traits

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    Essay Length: 1,057 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Jack
  • Cultural Norms for Wal-Mart

    Cultural Norms for Wal-Mart

    Wal-Mart emphasizes low prices, not sales and unlike competitive flyers, they use professional models. Wal-Mart focuses on ordinary people including their associates. The flyers also devote an inordinate amount of space to community oriented and patriotic topics. Unraveling the symbolic puzzle presented by the distinctive elements of Wal- Mart flyers draw our attention to the importance of retail and retail symbolism. Published research offers many reasons for Wal-Mart’s success in the US market. Its exemplary

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    Essay Length: 410 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Geeks & Pr0n - a Study of the Culture Behind the Underground Realm of Cyber Pornography

    Geeks & Pr0n - a Study of the Culture Behind the Underground Realm of Cyber Pornography

    Geeks & Pr0n: A study of the culture behind the underground realm of cyber pornography. The spawning of the public Internet as we know it today provided a brand new type of communication, virtually unrestricted, and naturally, as with nearly every other form of communication, has been exploited by pornography. This newly-invented category of pornography, to be called “cyberporn,” would not only revolutionize its own industry, but also help to speed the development and growth

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    Essay Length: 1,646 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Black Elk's Cultural Displacement and His Relationship with Nature

    Black Elk's Cultural Displacement and His Relationship with Nature

    In Black Elk Speaks, John Neihardt depicts the tragedy of a culture that can no longer support its traditional ideals. In their own terms, the Sioux have lost the sacred hoop of their nation. But they did not lose it through a lack of faith or other internal weakness; they lost it, almost inevitably, to the forces of economic greed when white Americans expanded westward in search of more land and more goods. Their

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    Essay Length: 911 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Monika
  • Circuit of Cultural Analysis - Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture

    Circuit of Cultural Analysis - Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture

    Circuit of Cultural Analysis: Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture Representations of gender are portrayed as essential norms in today’s culture, creating standardized myths and sexism within society through the media. The normative portrayals of gender in society consist of stereotypical roles and images that are created through media devices such as, film, television, popular fiction, music and advertisements. Judith Butler draws on the idea of gender performativity and explains how

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    Essay Length: 4,490 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • Japan’s Culture of Suicide

    Japan’s Culture of Suicide

    Japan's Culture of Suicide In American society, if a child is murdered or dies of an unknown cause, the unfortunate situation is hardly considered honorable. In Japan, however, they pride themselves on belonging to a culture where self sacrifice for one's country or family is though to be more honorable than dying at the hands of another man, or living a life full of regret or shame. The glorification of killing oneself is an aspect

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    Essay Length: 1,776 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Pop Cultural Elements of Military Cadences

    Pop Cultural Elements of Military Cadences

    Pop Cultural Elements of Military Cadences "HUT, TWO, THREE, FOUR...HUT, TWO, THREE, FOUR..." What do a bunch of grunts calling out raunchy marching cadences have to do with pop culture? There's more to the cadence then just keeping soldiers in step, there is a deep sense of pride, patriotism, unity, motivation, and nostalgia, which can be found within these songs. The Military cadence is used to motivate, inspire, and foster company cohesiveness while keeping soldiers

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    Essay Length: 1,132 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Vika
  • Leadership and Org Culture

    Leadership and Org Culture

    Abstract Culture permeates all aspects of any society. It acts as the basic fabric that binds people together. Culture dictates tastes in music, clothes, and even the political and philosophical views of a group of people. Culture is not only shared, but it is deep and stable. However, culture does not exist simply as a societal phenomenon. Organizations, both large and small, adhere to a culture. Organizational culture determines how an organization operates and how

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    Essay Length: 424 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Victor
  • Uae Cultural Analysis

    Uae Cultural Analysis

    United Arab Emirates Country Notebook Cultural Analysis Executive Summary United Arab Emirates is a country that is built of several different emirates located on the peninsula of the Persian Gulf. The country was occupied by Great Britain up until 1971. After the removal of the British government the seven Sheikdoms became independent and formed the UAE. The country has a typically desert climate with ocean access on both sides of the country. Located in

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    Essay Length: 3,500 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Edward
  • Why Do Humans Have Cultures?

    Why Do Humans Have Cultures?

    To answer this elusive question it is necessary to define the term culture (there is not a static definition), "Culture means the total body of tradition borne by a society and transmitted from generation to generation. It thus refers to the norms, values, standards by which people act, and it includes the ways distinctive in each society of ordering the world and rendering it intelligible. Culture is...a set of mechanisms for survival, but it provides

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    Essay Length: 1,153 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Steve
  • Culture Influences Through Mass Media

    Culture Influences Through Mass Media

    Culture Influences through Mass Media Our culture is highly influenced by mass media by promoting celebrities and ordinary people who do astonishing things into a stereotype that we base our lives on. Society as a whole is represented in the mass media and impacts our culture and how we relate on a daily basis. As much as we would like to believe that we have control over our own lives, the mass media impacts

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    Essay Length: 713 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Fatih
  • The Cultural Aspects of "the Bonesetter’s Daughter"

    The Cultural Aspects of "the Bonesetter’s Daughter"

    One’s cultural background can affect the way they speak, live, and for an author, the way they write. Amy Tan’s works are direct reflections of this impact. As an Asian-American author, Tan uses the cultural values of Chinese women in American culture in her novels. In order to fully understand Tan’s writing I believe one first needs to understand not only Tan’s personal background but, the Chinese culture of which she is a product. Chinese

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    Essay Length: 916 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Bred

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