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  • Cultural Assessment of the U.S. Navy

    Cultural Assessment of the U.S. Navy

    Mission Statement The US Navy has founded its self with being an organization that will train and activate skilled combat naval personnel. The official mission statement taken off their web site states, “The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas.” (http://www.navy.com) The Navy also prides itself on the adventurous spirit it takes to embark on a career

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    Essay Length: 1,990 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Culture

    Culture

    Cultures are always changing -- bit by bit, story by story. And there are segments of every culture that resist that change. In Spain some argue that siesta is important because long lunches build relationships. They don't like the idea of Spanish culture becoming more European (or, some say, more American). Then, there is cultural change that comes far too slowly. Last week I read a disturbing story from the Allai Valley region of Pakistan.

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    Essay Length: 290 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Top
  • West African Culture

    West African Culture

    Brief History From the 1500s to the 1700s, African blacks, mainly from the area of West Africa (today's Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Dahomey, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon) were shipped as slaves to North America, Brazil, and the West Indies. For them, local and tribal differences, and even varying cultural backgrounds, soon melded into one common concern for the suffering they all endured. Music, songs, and dances as well as

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    Essay Length: 1,341 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Yan
  • Understanding the Cuban American Culture

    Understanding the Cuban American Culture

    Miami Florida has the biggest Latin population than any other city in the United States. The majority of Latin’s being of Cuban descent. Since the Cuban revolution there have been constant waves of immigrating Cubans to Miami. The result has been a Cuban American society that has created culture diversity within. In order to understand the Cuban American culture you must understand its ethnic origin, politics, and the varying times of immigration. CUBAS ETHNIC ROOTS

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Culture of Ireland as Influenced by British Rule

    The Culture of Ireland as Influenced by British Rule

    The beautiful, lush green vegetation of Ireland is often a lasting memory of the country of Ireland. However, after some time, the absence of trees is noted by many. In a sense, that positive and negative side of the physical landscape of Ireland is analogous to Ireland's experience of being ruled by Britain for hundreds of years. In 7,000 BC, during the stone-age period, hunters from Britain settled in Ireland. Thereafter, around 3,000 BC, farmers

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    Essay Length: 623 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Hip Hop Culture

    Hip Hop Culture

    HIP HOP CULTURE Music. It seizes to amaze me how this five letter word has the immense power to influence, change, and identify someone’s entire persona. It’s like an adrenaline rush that overcomes your entire body, thoughts, and emotions. While standing in a crowd at a concert, you are completely succumb to the music in which you fail to realize the make-up, which was once perfectly set, is now completely sweated off, or how the

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    Essay Length: 974 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Vika
  • Permanent Impact of the Counter-Culture on Today's American Society

    Permanent Impact of the Counter-Culture on Today's American Society

    “What is not illusionary is the reality of a new culture of opposition. It grows out of the disintegration of the old forms, vinyl and aerosol institutions that carry all the inane and destructive values of privatism; competition, commercialism, profitability and elitism…It’s not a “youth thing” by now but a generational event; chronological age is the only current phase”. The previous quote was written by Andrew Kopkind in Rolling Stone on the Woodstock festival

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Organizational Culture

    Organizational Culture

    Three general types of organizational culture—constructive, passive-defensive, aggressive-defensive: The organizational cultural inventory measures 12 sets of normative beliefs or shared behavioral expectations associated with three general types of cultures, Constructive, Passive-Defensive, and Aggressive-Defensive. Constructive cultures—in which members are encouraged to interact with others and approach tasks in ways that will help them meet their higher-order satisfaction needs, are characterized by Achievement, Self-actualizing, Humanistic-Encouraging, and Affiliative norms. Constructive styles strongly associated with satisfaction and low stress

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    Essay Length: 1,813 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Cultural Competence

    Cultural Competence

    The American Academy of Family Physicians website defines cultural competence as: "A set of congruent behaviors, attitudes and policies that come together as a system, agency or among professionals and enable that system, agency or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. The word "culture" is used because it implies the integrated pattern of human thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values and institutions of a racial, ethnic, religious or social group. The word competence

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    Essay Length: 1,036 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Jack
  • Comparative Culture

    Comparative Culture

    Abstract In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the role of religion in the cultures in the United States and an Arab nation of Egypt. Comparative Culture Essay The roles that Religion have played in developing the cultures of the United States and the Arab nation of Egypt have many similarities and differences, such as beliefs, laws, and social norms. I am going to start by talking about the history of religion in

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    Essay Length: 886 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Victor
  • Cultural Values

    Cultural Values

    Society is built upon values and beliefs of what people feel are important. Values within the American culture can be quite different. My values and beliefs originated from my God fearing parents. Being raised, disciplined, and loved by my parents helped me to develop my personal value system. As a young child, my thoughts, my ideas, and my behavior were immature. When there was a family gathering or family outing, I would run around, touch

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    Essay Length: 1,132 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Max
  • The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas Nancy Kelley University of Phoenix MBA 501: Forces Influencing Business in the 21st Century A. Lutz February 2007 Globalization and overseas business expansion has brought about the need for in-depth understanding of culture differentiation. When conducting or contemplating cross cultural business ventures, it is important to understand the culture before communicating one’s desires. This paper will focus on the cross cultural challenges of doing business overseas, with special

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    Essay Length: 1,152 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Brazilian Culture

    Brazilian Culture

    Culture Brazilian culture is a Latin American culture of a very diverse nature. It's main influence comes from Portuguese, due to colonial ties with the Portuguese empire that spread the Portuguese language, legal system and other cultural inheritances. Other important influences came from African and Amerindian people creating a diverse multicultural and multiethnic society. Religion in Brazil is very diverse, about ninety percent of Brazilians declare some sort of religious affiliation. Roman Catholics make up

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    Essay Length: 679 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Jessica
  • 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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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Mike
  • 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
  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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

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