The book consists of 7 parts, 8 chapters and 181 pages. The table of contents list the page numbers of chapters so it is easy to navigate this book to look for relevant information. ... The book explores the Aboriginal culture with a view to bring out its prevailing themes and foremost characteristics. ... In the first chapter of the book titled "Remodelling Society", the author immediately brings up the idea of assimilation and how badly the Aborigines reacted to it. ... (Healey, 1998) The author argues in the book that the Aboriginal community in general were harshly treated by Br...

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Consequently, the book review will draw attentions on dissimilar themes witnessed in the book such as domestic issues, place of women in the African society, parenting, childbirth, marriage, family relationship and poverty (Holloway& Bidwell, 2006). ... The book further draws attention to the challenges affecting women in the society. ... Through the book, it also comes to disclose that rape is also a common issue that faces women throughout the globe. ... The book further reveals the many problems affecting women in Mali. ... Incidences of cultural and social challenges came out in the bo...

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After reading this book by Kuipers I felt it deserved a review that would make at least honest attempt to give proper credit for the wonderful insights that the author makes in this book. ... Prior to reading this book by Kuipers, the previous books that I have read in linguistics have been somewhat hard to follow for me personally, however, with Kuipers book I felt as though it was making one point after another which with a much easier flow, making it easier to follow. I will now try to give you a brief summary of this book as I see it. ... This book analyzes the process of language chan...

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Gwendolyn Hall is the author of the book "Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century." ... The book is a phenomenal read and it could even appeal to the general public. ... The last point in the book that Hall makes in this book is that the Louisiana cultural tradition of racial openness couldn't be entirely destroyed. ... At the end of the book, she also provides us with four different appendices on different topics that she touched on throughout the book. ... My favorite parts of the book were when she was discussing the cultural s...

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Then follows a series of low angle to long and full shots of the Amish and Book working on the barn with no dialogue; loud and euphoric music starts playing during the aforementioned montage of shots symbolising the Amish working in unison and a series of mid shots featuring Book and Daniel sharing a drink and working together as Daniel slowly accepts Book shows Book's acceptance into the Amish community. The interjecting mid shots and the boisterously euphoric music accompanying the montage with no dialogue at all during the montage as well as Book's acceptance heightens the effec...

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A "Technopoly" (a word postman capitalizes throughout the book) is a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. ... The function of chapter 11 (the last chapter in the book) is to provide readers with a conclusion to all ideas and concerns expressed throughout the book, to offer advice to those readers whom are truly concerned with the effects of Technology, and to suggest a way to possibly end Technopoly. The placement of "The Loving Resistance Fighter" is essential in understanding the book. ... The friendly tone used throughout the book...

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Many things can be said about Madonna: unconventional, anti-institutional religion, feminist and gay movement icon, a shrewd business woman, and, as quoted in Pamela Robertson's book, Guilty Pleasures, "She's become a repository for all our ideas about fame, money, sex, feminism, pop-culture, even death." 1(Page 117) Michel Dion's essay, "Madonna in the French Press"2, reveals the reasons why the French Press react to Madonna in such an extreme fashion, and one reason would be what he calls the "religious transgression". ... Highly controversial book of nude photos, Sex, release...

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Fashion is one of the few areas where Marling's book depicts the "growing generational divide" of the 1950s, and the "sack dress" was at the center of that divide (41). ... Although her Picture Cook Book, first published in 1950, remained a best seller throughout the decade, the Betty Crocker character aged rapidly in the 1950s "a new makeover transformed her into an older and wiser, more mature and motherly figure. ... Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book emphasized such time saving devices. ...

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In the book, the characters were more spirited, in the Victorian sense, lacking that exuberant, while the characters in the movie were just the opposite, as they were far more energetic and spirited in their portrayals of the character. ... The director of the movie though, maintains the comedic nature of the film as a way of allowing the adaptation to address the same themes as the book: class, culture and gender (Wilson 2006: 323-4). The movie has no choice but to be different from the book because it seeks to present the story, which was originally intended to be for an early nineteenth ce...

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Jane Tompkins, author of "Indians," questions the validity of every research, every history book, and every opinion turned fact that has been written. ... In almost every history book she read different interpretations of the same story was found. ... Students hear what teachers want them to hear, and many teachers validate what they are teaching because they read it in some book claiming to be the truth. ...

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In historian Lynn White's book, Medivieval Technology and Culture Change, he argues that various technological advances within the field of agriculture related directly to monumental social, economic, and cultural changes of Europe. ... In White's book, he specifically sites the importance of the heavy plow, horse collar, and use of horse power as key innovations that led directly to Europe's rise to power. ...

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In the West, for example, Matthew Arnold defined culture in his 1869 book, Culture and Anarchy, as "the best that has been thought and said in the world." ... For example, Raymond Williams defined culture in his 1965 book, The Long Revolution, as "a particular way of life which expresses certain meanings and values not only in art and learning, but also in institutions and ordinary behavior. ... Carey, who defined communication in his 1988 book, Communication as Culture, as "a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed." ...

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For example, from Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, Alice writes about the pain and experiences that she has faced or has witnessed. ... Alice writes and communicates in her book the way her culture engaged and wrote when using their own literacy, thus, helping her keep her cultural literacy meaningful. ... When reading from the book The Color Purple, what one gains from the text can be different then what many others may gain from this kind of text. ... This kind of language that is used in the book is similar to the language of people from the South. ...

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According to Barbara Miller's book, "Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World," anthropology encompasses three subfields; the first being "primatology" which is the study of the nonhuman members of the order of mammals called primates. the second is paleoanthropology which is the study of human evolution through the evaluation of fossil records. and the third subfield is the study of contemporary human biological variation, which explains differences in the biological makeup and behavior of humans (DNA, body size, shape, nutrition, disease). ...

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In her introduction to her book, Appiah mentions that these international disputes have arisen typically when governments assume the responsibility to act for their citizens, "And the possibilities of good and of ill are multiplied beyond all measure when it comes to policies carried out by governments in our name" (Appiah, xii-xiii). ... In the introduction to his book "A Brief History of Neoliberalism," Harvey examines the process in which markets succeed when their governments create an infrastructure that allows individuals to make their own market decisions while simul...

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In the book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, William McNeill proposed a theory that explained the social relations of civilizations in the old world from 500 B.C. to 1500 A.D. His Fourfold Cultural Balance theory states there were four distinct zones (Europe, Middle East Afric...

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Edward W. Said, a professor at Columbia University, studies the flaw in the perspective of the "Orient" by the "Occident" in his essay, Orientalism. Within the book, Said refers to the "Orient" as the Asiatic regions east of Europe - specifically the Muslim Orient - such as Egypt, Iraq, Iran, India...

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Dogbe's book, Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies: "the socially learned ways of living found in human societies it embraces all aspects of social life, including both thought and behavior."" ...

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While choosing for a particular issue to discussed the different leadership styles of men and women; I decided to research on both the military and the global business. There are increasing numbers of women in the military as well as increasing numbers of women around the global business. My goal in...

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Defining Intelligence The theory of intelligence has been a subject of confusion its conception. The search for one explicit definition for intelligence has been pondered over for centuries, and to this day has never been fully achieved. Many have attempted to define intelligence, but none ha...

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Living in Two Worlds: An Analysis on Culture and Education Have you ever though what does the word "culture" means? Well, throughout life people refer to this word as art, beliefs, behavior, ideas or activities relating to literature, art, and music of a particular society or group of people. Howev...

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Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism is the doctrine that the moral rightness and wrongness of actions are relative to a culture. Our moral principles describe social conventions and must be based on the norms of our society. In our rapidly changing world a convergence of various cultures is a...

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Dracula, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, a fantastic book partially based upon the congenital fears of a people in the Victorian era; the night, perverse sexuality, compulsion, blood lust, aggression and impurity. ...

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To begin this essay the common perceptions of globalization and culture will be put forward to clearly define that which is the topic at hand. Culture is as defined by many to generally consist of values, traditions and practices that occur within any given society. This also incorporates attitude...

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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. - Anne Frank Each individual who walks this earth represents a unique system of beliefs. Western and Eastern ways of thought differ in specifics, yet require one to do the good and attempt to live a lif...

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