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  • Managing Culturally Diverse

    Managing Culturally Diverse

    Running head: Managing Cultural Diversity Managing Culturally Diverse Work Groups within an Organization Natasha Avies Troy State University Dr. Earl Ingram November 28, 2004 Abstract Cultural diversity has become widespread within many organizations today. The work groups in these organizations are increasingly being staffed by culturally diverse employees. The cultural differences exhibited in the groups can enhance or weaken the function of the work group, especially in a predominantly homogenous environment. These multicultural work

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Monika
  • Gang Culture (short)

    Gang Culture (short)

    Gang membership is on the rise nationwide. Why are we seeing an increase? Several reasons - 1. Identity - Kids join to be a part of something. To be known as a Crip or a Blood offers identity. 2. Recognition - Acknowledgment for 'accomplishments' that they do not receive at home. This recognition builds gangbangers’ "juice" or rep within the gang. 3. Discipline - The gang, after being 'jumped in', becomes the child’s surrogate family.

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Summarize and Discuss the Tensions Apparent in Contemporary Cultural and Communications Policy Debates. Include a Case Study Analysis of a Specific Policy Statement, Which Names and Discusses the Specific Rhetorical Frameworks Informing the Author's State

    Summarize and Discuss the Tensions Apparent in Contemporary Cultural and Communications Policy Debates. Include a Case Study Analysis of a Specific Policy Statement, Which Names and Discusses the Specific Rhetorical Frameworks Informing the Author's State

    First and foremost there are several approaches to the defining what is media policy. It is defined by Garnham as ‘the study of the ways in which public authorities shape, or try to shape, the structures and practices of the media…the study of the reasons for these policies, both in the sense of the reasons given by policy makers for their policies…in the sense of the economic, social, political and cultural forces to which the

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Bred
  • Cultural Relativism: A Moral Fallacy

    Cultural Relativism: A Moral Fallacy

    Cultural Relativism: A Moral Fallacy Cultural Relativism is the theory that all belief's are equally valid and that truth itself is relative, depending on the situation, environment and individual. Those who hold the belief of Cultural Relativist, hold that all beliefs are completely relative to the individual within a cultural identity. In this essay, I will show that cultural relativism is unreliable as an ethical theory by showing the irrationality of the arguments that support

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Texts in Conversation: How the New Yankee Stadium Reflects American Culture

    Texts in Conversation: How the New Yankee Stadium Reflects American Culture

    Texts in Conversation: How the New Yankee Stadium Reflects American Culture Historical: Since the late 1800’s, Baseball and the United States have had significant cultural changes and had strongly influenced each other. In it’s early forms, Baseball was a sport that was sparingly played in the New York/New Jersey region of the U.S. In 1845, Teams such as the “New York Nine” and the “Knickerbocker Club” were already beginning to play organized games of baseball

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: David
  • Cultural Diversity and Business

    Cultural Diversity and Business

    In a globalized world it gets increasingly important for multinational companies to understand that cultural diversity can affect the business by building communication barriers. Cultural differences do not just mean that people speak different languages, it is also the way they think and feel and what traditions they have. Therefore we have to analyze how this diversity can influence the communication and what the consequences are. The old Japanese parable of the monkey and the

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century

    Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century

    Critical Reflection “ Uplifting the Race” Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century Uplifting the Race is a rather confusing yet stimulating study that goes over the rising idea and interests in the evolution of "racial uplift" ideology from the turn and through the twentieth century. In the first part of the book, Gaines analyzes the black elite obsession with racial uplift ideology and the tensions it produced among black intellectuals. Gaines

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Cross Cultural Management Jordan

    Cross Cultural Management Jordan

    Executive summary Transjordan separated from Palestine by Britain after the World War I, gained in 1946 its independence. In 1950 it is renamed Jordan. After King Hussein’s death in 1999, his son King Abdullah II assumed the throne of this constitutional monarchy. Jordan’s ethnicity is at 98% Arab and 92% are Muslims. Jordan acceded to the World Trade Organization in 2000, and began to participate in the European Free Trade Association and had a free

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Anna
  • Graffiti Culture

    Graffiti Culture

    I have chosen to do my essay on the sub cultural art form: Graffiti.. Graffiti though very controversial, is recognized in many circles, but different circles have different opinions of the art form, much like traditional art, we have the people who hate it and think it is a mess, and we have the people who appreciate it, in graffiti’s case, yes a lot more people hate it than appreciate it, but usually its because

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Artur
  • Culture Bound Syndrome

    Culture Bound Syndrome

    Windigo Culture Bound Syndrome (CBS) is defined by the DSM-IV as recurrent, locally specific patterns of deviant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Such patterns of behavior are indigenously considered to be an "illness" or at least an affliction, and most have names specific to the region or culture in which they originate. Many CBSs are not literally syndromes; they are more like ways

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Janna
  • Motorcycle Diaries Movie Summary

    Motorcycle Diaries Movie Summary

    Motorcycle Diaries Directed by Walter Salles As most potential viewers know, this film is based on diaries and letters to home written by Ernesto "Che" Guevara during a motorcycle and foot tour of a significant portion of South America during the early 1950s, years before Guevara achieved international renown as a Communist and Latino revolutionary. Thus, the film functions as an attempt to get at the heart of the person who preceded the myth. The

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Max
  • Discuss the Musical Construction of at Least one Character from Wagner’s Salome.Describe How the Composer(s) Use(s) Musical Techniques to Contribute to the Construction of Your Chosen Character(s).You Should Also Consider the Cultural, Historical and Mu

    Discuss the Musical Construction of at Least one Character from Wagner’s Salome.Describe How the Composer(s) Use(s) Musical Techniques to Contribute to the Construction of Your Chosen Character(s).You Should Also Consider the Cultural, Historical and Mu

    For the purposes of this essay, I have chosen to concentrate on the characters portrayed in Richard Strauss’ 1905 opera, Salome. The majority of the attention will be placed on Salome herself, but other characters will be referred to where applicable. Before the composition of Salome, Strauss had risen to prominence through his numerous tone poems, a form established by Franz Liszt in the mid 19th century, the most notable of which are Don Juan

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Bred
  • Braxil - Gography and Culture

    Braxil - Gography and Culture

    Brazil Geography & Culture Brazil has a rich culture and amazing geography features. Brazil is one of the largest and most populous countries in the world. It is one of the biggest countries in South America, its capital is Brasilia, and its largest city is Sao Paulo. Brazil has amazing geographic features, Sugar loaf Mountain in the city Rio de Janeiro, also the formations of limestone in the state of Minas Gerais. During the colonial

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: July
  • Summary of Zheng- He

    Summary of Zheng- He

    Zheng He was a Muslim eunuch who served as a close confidant of the Yongle Emperor of China during the Ming Dynasty. He went on voyages to Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Java, Ceylon, India, Persia, Persian Gulf, Arabia, the red sea Egypt, and the Mozambique Channel. The number of his voyages vary depending on method of division, but he travelled at least seven times to The Western Ocean with his fleet. The fleet comprised 30,000 men

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Francis Bacon (nonfiction, British Author)

    Francis Bacon (nonfiction, British Author)

    We get neither better nor worse as we grow up but more like ourselves. “Francis Bacon was born at 63 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin on 28 October 1909, of English parentage. His father, a former captain in the British army, moved to Ireland to breed and train racehorses. His mother, Winifred Bacon was from the wealthy Firth family from Sheffield. The family was based in County Kildare and rented Cannycourt House, a large residence near

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Summary/response Essay

    Summary/response Essay

    Summary/Response Part-time Employment Undermines Students Commitment to School Summary: In the essay, “Part-time Employment Undermines a Student’s Commitment to School” by Laurence Steinberg, it explains how studies show that teenagers that work while attending school are more likely to loose their commitment to school. Steinberg tells the affects on students when they work more than twenty hours a week. His theory was that students are more susceptible to losing their interest in school, while

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Max
  • We Cannot Understand War Without Understanding Culture

    We Cannot Understand War Without Understanding Culture

    “We cannot understand war without understanding culture” “Involvement in two world wars and the Cold War transformed America into a “crusader state” convinced of the superiority of its institutions and way of life and intent on imposing them on the outside world. ” Whether fought at home or abroad every war is to impact all parties involved. Such example of staggering influence on one country’s culture is no more evident then in America’s involvement in

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mikki
  • An Analysis of the Business Cultural Issues Raised by the Article; Knowledge Transfer, Knowledge Replication, and Learning in Non-Equity Alliances: Operating Contractual Joint Ventures in China (wang, Y. Nicholas, S. 2005)

    An Analysis of the Business Cultural Issues Raised by the Article; Knowledge Transfer, Knowledge Replication, and Learning in Non-Equity Alliances: Operating Contractual Joint Ventures in China (wang, Y. Nicholas, S. 2005)

    An Analysis of the Business Cultural Issues Raised by the Article; Knowledge Transfer, Knowledge Replication, and Learning in Non-equity Alliances: Operating Contractual Joint Ventures in China (Wang, Y. Nicholas, S. 2005) Introduction The objective of this report is to discuss the business culture that exists in China and Hong Kong, through the examination of the influence of the historical and philosophical developments of the two countries and hence evaluate the reasons for the successful development

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: regina
  • Gender Roles in Iranian Culture Through Three Stages of Era

    Gender Roles in Iranian Culture Through Three Stages of Era

    The roles of the genders in the Iranians cultures is unique and remarkable .specially the roles of the women in these stages of era starts with different modes of life and classification of the community in last century .this means that women have been treated like second class of habitants. At the first glance we can review the role of women unfavorable and full of misery and degrading willfully by the ruling body in the

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Cultural Differences in Joint Ventures

    Cultural Differences in Joint Ventures

    ESSAY TOPIC (1) :A joint venture is affected by the cultural distance between two partners. In what ways are joint ventures and types of international collaboration affected by cultural differences? INDEX INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………2 What is culture?…………………………………………………………………2-3 The Cultural Orientation Model……………………………………………….4 The cultural Gap…………………………………………………………………5-6 Understanding Cultural Differences………………………………………….6 The Challenge of Cultural Success…………………………………………..7 Cross-cultural training as a solution…………………………………………8 The effectiveness of the cross cultural training programs………………8-9 Future Directions for Cross-Cultural Training and International Business Assignments……………………………………………………………………..10. Conclusion………………………………………………………………………..10 BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………………..11 INTRODUCTION

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Influence of Technology on Adolecent Culture

    The Influence of Technology on Adolecent Culture

    Running head: THE INFLUENCE OF TECHNOLOGY ON ADOLECENT CULTURE The Influence of Modern Technology among adolescents Within the United States of America Abstract Over the past decade, modern day society has implemented the growing use of technology as an every day occurrence. We have replaced books with computers, land lines with cell phones and handwritten notes with emails. Although this process has been gradually changing over time, it appears that within the last couple

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Summary of Plato’s Euthyphro

    Summary of Plato’s Euthyphro

    Summary of Plato's Euthyphro Socrates encounters Euthyphro outside the court of King-Archon in Athens and is asked why he is there. Socrates proceeds to tell Euthyphro that he has been called to court on charges of impiety by Meletus. Euthyphro asks Socrates how Meletus came to his accusation. Socrates tell Euthyphro that Meletus accuses him of corrupting the youth of Athens by being a maker of gods and that he invents new gods while denying

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Is Studying Culture Important

    Is Studying Culture Important

    If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it. (S. I. Hayakawa) From the highest parts of Canada to the lowest plains in Australia cultures vary from country to country, city to city, and region to region. The world with its advancements in technology has become smaller and smaller. We are

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Top
  • Cross Cultural Business Experience in Middle East

    Cross Cultural Business Experience in Middle East

    1. Introduction Almost everyone in business these days is working in some type of multi-cultural environment - at the office or with customers & colleagues around the world. Dealing in a multi-cultural environment requires proper understanding of basic etiquette at work, communication processes and behavioral aspects. All communication is cultural. It draws on ways we have learned to speak and give nonverbal messages. We do not always communicate the same way from day to

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Janna
  • Cultural Interview and Assessment of a Muslim Immigrant

    Cultural Interview and Assessment of a Muslim Immigrant

    Cultural Interview and Assessment of a Muslim Immigrant Nursing 464 University of Phoenix November 13, 2006 In rural central Kentucky there are is not a notable cultural diversity as seen in larger more populated areas. In fact, most immigrants are migrant workers from Mexico or Guatemala. However, there are a small number of Muslim immigrants from the Middle East. Muslims are a very religious culture that some would consider a strict sect. In Danville,

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Janna

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