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  • Body Language: A Look at Asian Cultures

    Body Language: A Look at Asian Cultures

    Body Language: A Look at Asian Cultures Body language is indeed a powerful and useful form of communication with many forms and interpretations. How one uses body language, and how another interprets it, is one of the most intriguing parts of any society. The communication patterns of Asian languages serve to reinforce traditional cultural values and beliefs. Consistent with the primary value of preserving harmony and face in human relationships, Asian languages utilize communication patterns

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    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Top
  • What Image of Native Culture Is Given by Clorinda Matto De Turner in Aves Sin Nido?

    What Image of Native Culture Is Given by Clorinda Matto De Turner in Aves Sin Nido?

    Clorinda Matto de Turner’s novel Aves sin nido was published in July 1889. It’s release caused great controversies amongst intellectuals; some praising it for its accurate portrayal of Peruvian life, such as the then-president Andrйs Avelino Cбceres who wrote a letter of praise to Matto de Turner saying that her novel had stimulated him to pursue much needed reforms, and others condemning it for its social critique of the national model of Peru and

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    Submitted: May 11, 2010 By: Anna
  • The History and Culture of Buddhism in Korea

    The History and Culture of Buddhism in Korea

    Place of Publication: Dongguk University Press Seoul, Korea 1993. <br> <br>I. Introduction: <br> Buddhism is the root of Korean culture despite periods of rise and decline in popularity. Buddhism combined with Confucianism is the combined practice of the Korean culture today. Buddhism was used to satisfy personal needs and Confucianism was used to satisfy political needs, all needs were met by intergrading the two philosophies. The combination of the two practices has knitted the Korean

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    Submitted: May 11, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Cultural Facism

    Cultural Facism

    Hiring women in a high stressed, fast paced environment with sexual harassment litigations and punitive damages rising as a result of the Civil Rights Bill of 1991 is the concern of Sarah J. McCarthy, a restaurant/bar owner and the author of “Cultural Fascism.” McCarthy describes the working relationship between male and female employees in her restaurant/bar normal considering the disposition of the individuals and the atmosphere in which they work. She explains that flirting and

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    Submitted: May 11, 2010 By: Jon
  • Malaysian Culture

    Malaysian Culture

    Malaysia's population of over 19 million inhabitants presents the external business traveller with a minefield of cultural dilemmas. The country is strongly divided along ethnic lines with the three largest ethnic groups being (in order of size) Malays, Chinese and Indians. In addition, there are a number of smaller indigenous peoples in the territories of Sarawak and Sabah. That this amalgam of races and ethnic diversity has been moulded together and has (post the awful

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    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Organizational Culture Impact

    Organizational Culture Impact

    Introduction Organizational culture is a set of key values, assumptions, and beliefs that are shared by an organization’s members. The combined key values create a custom attitude or culture that is followed by the organization’s members. The culture represents the “personality of the organization” (McNamara, 1999). Through the observation of employee behavior one can help predict an organization’s culture that influences its business attitude. Organizational culture can also help distinguish two companies from each other.

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    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: regina
  • Effects of Consumer Culture on Society

    Effects of Consumer Culture on Society

    I believe that consumer culture has had a negative effect on society. I believe this for many reasons, one of them being that Americans are, in a way, brainwashed into believing that we “need” something, or they have to look a certain way to fit in. advertising companies don’t just target adults, they also purposely target young children. They do this because they know that children’s brains are not fully developed and are very easily

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    Submitted: May 13, 2010 By: Janna
  • The Effects of Capitalism on Black Culture

    The Effects of Capitalism on Black Culture

    America’s black population, despite the civil rights movement, still has a long way to go in the United States before it is on equal footing. While the law protects blacks from overt racism, there is a litany of problems facing the black community, many of which relate to lack of opportunity for meaningful employment, absence of role models and very little political representation. Also as we will see, even though racism is frowned upon

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    Submitted: May 13, 2010 By: Edward
  • American Sign Language Culture

    American Sign Language Culture

    American Sign Language Final Imagine this, you are at a restaurant with your all your family after a cousin graduates from high school. Everyone is happy about his new accomplishment laughing, telling jokes, and remembering embarrassing stories from when he was younger. You are sitting in your seat, watching everyone enjoy him or herself, but you do not really understand what is exactly going on. You are deaf, and unless the person speaking is looking

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    Submitted: May 13, 2010 By: Bailey
  • Youth Violence

    Youth Violence

    Youth Violence Youth violence is an escalating problem in American society today. There are many different factors that can be blamed for this problem. During the last decade of the twentieth century people began searching for answers to this dilemma which is haunting America. Many tragic school shootings have taken place within the last decade that have gained the attention of the public. As of now, no one can give the right answer to the

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    Submitted: May 14, 2010 By: Victor
  • Cultural Challenges in Overseas Business

    Cultural Challenges in Overseas Business

    A major challenge of doing business internationally is to adapt effectively to different cultures. Hodgetts and Luthans (2005) define culture in terms of characteristics and acquired knowledge. Acquired knowledge that people use to interpret experience and generate social behavior forms values, creates attitudes, and influences behavior. This can relate to businesses, where culture is not inherited or biologically based but rather learned (Hodgetts, Luthans, & Doh, 2005). Steve Kafka, an entrepreneur trying to pursue the

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    Submitted: May 14, 2010 By: Top
  • Organizational Culture

    Organizational Culture

    Schein defined organizational culture as "a pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that has worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems." Organizational culture is often viewed as the bases to organization effectiveness. Developing and cultivating leadership is a major

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    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: Doretha
  • Organizational Culture

    Organizational Culture

    I chose the Goodwill Industries for my organization. This organization’s culture appeals to me because they have a blend of everything. They have elderly, disabled, and healthy people that work as employees. The culture in my area is White and American Indian (predominantly). It does not matter who or what you are they will help you with employment or they will hire you. To me this is a wonderful thing to see come together. Goodwill’s

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    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • Organizational Behavior Trends

    Organizational Behavior Trends

    This paper will examine two distinct topics, ethics in decision-making and the impact of technology on work-related stress. King and Spalding is use as an example in the discussion of ethics. We will examine the dependence on technology, the associated stress, and measures one can take to eliminate or reduce technology-related stress. We will include an example of a typical morning on the help desk at King and Spalding. Each day we are faced with

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    Submitted: May 16, 2010 By: Bred
  • Methods of Biblical Counseling - Is Television Violence Threatening to Americas Youth?

    Methods of Biblical Counseling - Is Television Violence Threatening to Americas Youth?

    Methods of Biblical Counseling Is Television Violence Threatening to Americas Youth? Does the violence scattered across the screens in the homes of Americans cause the unsuspecting watcher to commit sordid acts of wanton violence? While many people seem to hold to this line of thinking there are strong arguments that buffet the conclusion and insist that there is no promotion of violence in what is paraded in living rooms across the land. A wide

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    Submitted: May 16, 2010 By: Mike
  • Cultural Theory in the Works of Tarantino

    Cultural Theory in the Works of Tarantino

    1. Substructural capitalist theory and postdialectic Marxism The main theme of Werther's[1] essay on cultural theory is a subpatriarchial reality. But if capitalist destructuralism holds, we have to choose between semanticist pretextual theory and the preconstructivist paradigm of reality. "Sexual identity is fundamentally elitist," says Sartre. Cultural theory states that the collective is impossible. It could be said that Reicher[2] holds that we have to choose between neopatriarchialist feminism and the dialectic paradigm of

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    Submitted: May 16, 2010 By: Victor
  • Advice to Youth

    Advice to Youth

    Advice to Youth If I could revisit the days of my youth then I would change so much, and accomplish my dreams through the use of my sage-like knowledge and eternally valuable experience that has been accumulated throughout my ephemeral life-time. Unfortunately I can only do this vicariously, but I would like to tell the youth of today my advice to them so that they may live a more prosperous life. First, one of the

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    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Youth Suicide

    Youth Suicide

    Suicide claims a life approximately every forty seconds worldwide. Australia’s youth are not exempt, and are in fact particularly susceptible, with over 2000 adolescents successfully suiciding each year and more than 60 000 attempting it (Joiner 2005). This paper will attempt to discover why. What propels some young people into suicidal behaviour, and how are they resisting nature’s strongest instincts of self-preservation? As well as attempting to answer these questions, indicators of suicidal behaviour will

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    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Steve
  • Culture in the Law

    Culture in the Law

    Culture in the Law The law in the US is presented and treated as neutral, but with a closer examination, one is able to see this is a huge misconception. Letti Volppwrites on this subject in her essay, Asian Women and the cultural Defense. In the essay she examines two cases involving Chinese Americans, whom she also refers to as Chinese as well as a representation of Asian people. She examines the difficulties surrounding the

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    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Clash of the Cultures in Ballard's Empire of the Sun

    Clash of the Cultures in Ballard's Empire of the Sun

    "Young Goodman Brown" Symbolism, something that figuratively represents something else, is prominent in many literary works. One piece of literature that stands out as a perfect example of symbolism is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." This story is completely symbolic, and provides a good example of an allegory, or a story in which concrete items or characters represent abstract ideas. Hawthorne uses both objects and people as symbols to better support the allegorical tones throughout

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    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Sociology - Culture

    Sociology - Culture

    Sociology Behind the materialistic definition of culture that culture is fine art, dining in costly restaurants, having the money to satisfy ones need, and living a luxurious life, there lays an additional meaning. In a much universal term, sociologists have defined culture as the concept which includes the shared products of human alignments. What do sociologists mean by the term “products”? In sociological manifestation, products not only mean physical objects but it also means

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    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Hip Hop Culture

    The Hip Hop Culture

    Since the early to mid 90’s, hip-hop has undergone changes that purists would consider degenerating to its culture. At the root of these changes is what has been called “commercial hip-hop". Commercial hip-hop has deteriorated what so many emcees in the 80’s tried to build- a culture of music, dance, creativity, and artistry that would give people not only something to bob their head to, but also an avenue to express themselves and deliver a

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    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Youth Gangs

    Youth Gangs

    Our community is not the only community currently having gang problems. Many small towns and rural areas are experiencing gang problems for the first time. In small communities, citizens jump to the mistaken conclusion that gangs are present. This occurs because small groups of delinquents are common, even in the smallest rural communities. Juveniles enjoy hanging out together, and the reality is that juvenile delinquency is often committed in groups. The visibility of these groups,

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    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Culture Clash Essay

    Culture Clash Essay

    Jaclyn Dignan Culture Clash Paper 2/1/07 The one thing that humans have a hard time understanding is that animals do not think like humans at all. Their mentality is living off of food, shelter, and sex. Culture Clash really helped me realize just how confusing an animal’s behavior really is. It’s not impossible to get to an animal’s level of behavior using Pavlov’s operant and classical conditioning, which is fascinating. A few of the more

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    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Singapore Culture

    Singapore Culture

    As Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of Chinese, Malay, Indian and European immigrants, the culture of Singapore expresses the diversity of the population as the various ethnic groups continue to celebrate their own cultures while they intermingle with one another. For example, one can find a Malay wedding taking place beside a Chinese funeral. Singapore has achieved a significant degree of cultural diffusion with its unique combination of these ethnic groups, and

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    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Kevin