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  • 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
  • Past and Current Trends of Drug Abuse in the United States

    Past and Current Trends of Drug Abuse in the United States

    Past and Current Trends of Drug Abuse in the United States Drug abuse has changed over the years due to the trends that Americans face from the encouragement of different cultures. The abuse of substances creates many health problems. The following will discuss the past and current trends of drug use and the effects these drugs have on the health of the individuals who abuse the drugs. The use of cocaine in the United States

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    Essay Length: 693 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Edward
  • 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
  • The Cultural Identity Within Asian Writing Systems

    The Cultural Identity Within Asian Writing Systems

    The Cultural Identity Within Asian Writing Systems The style of Asian writing seems to be completely different from that of the western writing systems. For starters, many western languages are phonetic: words are spelled out with symbols that represent sounds. The way that a word looks has nothing to do with the meaning of the word. On the other hand, the most recognized form of Asian writing, Chinese characters, are completely pictographic. A single character

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    Essay Length: 3,052 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Janna
  • Kaiser Permanente and Oracle Corporation - Organization and Trends

    Kaiser Permanente and Oracle Corporation - Organization and Trends

    Introduction This paper will compare and contrast the perception of organizational power and politics among Kaiser Permanente and Oracle Corporation, it will compile a list of strategies for managing stress, as well as evaluate the business and ethical considerations of operating organizations on a global scale, finally, the paper will assess the evolutionary trends in organizational behavior and how they might impact organizations. Organizational and Trends Perception of Power Kaiser Permanente focused on keeping various

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    Essay Length: 2,122 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Anguilla - a Changing Economy and a Changing Culture

    Anguilla - a Changing Economy and a Changing Culture

    Anguilla A Changing Economy and a Changing Culture The Caribbean has long drawn tourists to its beautiful beaches and tropical isles. The islands that make up the Caribbean all have their own histories, cultures, and atmospheres. Some Caribbean islands became tourist hot spots decades ago, and others are only beginning to develop their tourist industry. The island of Anguilla has recently emerged as the "it" location for celebrities and the wealthy alike. This paper will

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    Essay Length: 2,405 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • United States of America and the Amish: Mainstream Culture and the Minority

    United States of America and the Amish: Mainstream Culture and the Minority

    United States of America and The Amish: Mainstream Culture and The Minority What does it mean to be Amish? They dress different and their lifestyle is different, but is that the only difference between the Amish and the people of the mainstream American culture? America's 150,000 member Amish minority, which is situated throughout the U.S. mainly in Indiana, Ohio, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been one of the most successful among the nation's religious and

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    Essay Length: 2,517 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Steve
  • Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimension and Motivation

    Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimension and Motivation

    Model of National Culture To date, the most common way to study and draw conclusions about organizational behavior across cultures and explain the differences that exist is to use Hofstede’s framework. Prof. Geert Hofstede conducted perhaps the most comprehensive study of how values in the workplace are influenced by culture. Geert Hofstede analyzed a large data base of employee values scores collected by IBM between 1967 and 1973 covering more than 70 countries, from which

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Janna
  • Covert War: Nature Vs. Culture in the Last of the Mohicans

    Covert War: Nature Vs. Culture in the Last of the Mohicans

    In James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, a superficial reading might depict the novel as the story of a battle between societies. Yet there is an underlying depiction of a far more vast conflict. From the beginning of the novel, the reader is guided by descriptions of the struggle between the two entities. Cooper writes, “there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it

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    Essay Length: 429 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Russian Demographic and Cultural Analysis

    Russian Demographic and Cultural Analysis

    Russia Cultural Analysis A- Population As of 2007 Russian Federation ranks tenth in the world with a total population of 141,377,2 people as of July 2007.(NationMaster). The biggest city in the Federation is the capital, Moscow, at 10,415,400 people(NationMaster). The overall sex distribution in the Russian population is 0.859 males/female however in the 15-64 year old range the distribution is much closer at 0.93 males/female. Even more interesting is the distribution between men and women

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    Essay Length: 1,224 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: David
  • Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate,") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significant importance. Different definitions of "culture" reflect different theoretical bases for understanding, or criteria for evaluating, human activity. Culture has been called the way of life for an entire society. As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mikki

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