Some of the most interesting and difficult of these questions arise in conjunction with traditional Aboriginal culture- (Maddock, 1982) The author gives us an example of how problems with Aboriginal people originated: the fact that many of us do not understand their culture and their way of life. ... Marriage, relations of kinship, ritual, mythology, the ordering of persons in clans and classes, relationships to land and to non-human forms of life are all written in great detail in different chapters. In the first chapter of the book titled "Remodelling Society", the author immediately bri...

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To name a few, there is the authors like Poe, Twain, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Frost. ... The students who have knowledge of there ancestors can prevent another Great Depression from occurring in America or they could learn a way to come to a solution instead of going to war. Not only does classical education have history added into the literature it also has a wider range of language used, a more developed writing style, and the authors of the material are more educated and able to promote their feelings through words. ... Because of America's great diversity of people from the start o...

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Chinua Achebe, In the author of Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe compares the destruction of the Igbo people's culture to the damage done to Western civilization caused by World War I. ... Okonkwo's reaction to Western culture illuminates the author's message that when cultures collide, one will inevitably be destroyed in the process.culture can be utterly destroyed by the other. When Western ideas are introduced into Igbo society, cultural collision occurs and facilitates great change within the Igbo community starts to abandon its by decreasing the importance of traditional ...

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Two authors, who have each taken opposite sides of the debate on bilingual education in America, are: Richard Rodriguez and Ariel Dorfman. ... Ariel Dorfman is an Argentinian author who struggled throughout his life to find a balance between the Spanish and English languages. ... " (World Authors) Richard Rodriguez is a Mexican American Author who also struggled with bilingualism during his early life. ... Rodriguez certainly presents a strong case for not implementing bilingual education, as he became an author in English and was able to develop his own sense of belonging in American so...

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This can be a great opportunity to learn about other cultures without having to leave our doorsteps. ... By living in a multicultural nation, it is a great opportunity for people to learn more about other cultures and languages. ... A great example is the Hispanic American author Julia Alvarez, which after mastering in her primary language and making it useful by becoming a successful author, never denied her Hispanic background. ...

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This statement is similar to the beliefs of the Lakota, as described by Black Elk when he speaks, "Great Spirit, Great Spirit all over the earth the faces of living things are all alike," (6). Both authors also highlight the loss of respect in the relationship with the earth. ... I really felt as if Black Elk told me his story, not some author, and I felt directly connected to his struggle. ...

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Carnage and Culture, written by Victor David Hanson, is a very informative and intellectually honest work that was capable of tackling some of the touchiest subjects regarding the history of Western warfare by professors and historical authors alike. Also taking a method which has been seen to be somewhat loathed by critics, he has made Carnage and Culture work in such a fashion that Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Women and War wrote that, ˜ Hanson is courting controversy again with another highly readable, lucid work Together with John Keegan, he is our most interesting historian of ...

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Margaret Mead and Elise Boulding made great contributions to the social sciences world of the United States. ... Elise Boulding was a sociologist and author of great works regarding peace research. ... Her work shows a great presence in societies of peace and of cultures. ... American society will forever be changed because of the great contributions that Margaret Mead and Elise Boulding made....

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Jimmy Whitty was potentially full of promise as Artie mentioned all his great feats, like his talent at impersonation and dancing, "but he assaulted a policeman who took him up into a back alley to belt him around.... Aboriginal people appear to have great respect for their ancestors and elders, as well as a strong belief in reincarnation. ... There was a low angle shot of Ridjimiraril as he rose to "begin his death dance" accompanied by mournful singing and clapsticks, signifying the great respect indigenous people had for their leaders and the dead. ... Respect isn't a qu...

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Armes speaks in great depth about parallels he sees engendered by economics, culture, history, and ideology in terms of Third World filmmaking. ... In Rethinking Third World Cinema the authors present a paradox within their own definition of Third World, and with most scholarly accepted definitions. ...

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The effect of using "I" and "cool" so many times and right next to each other gives the reader a sense of the reader's tone, mainly an air of deserved superiority that may initially seem pompous of the author but provokes the reader into continuing the story in order to ascertain if these claims can be proven true. ... When he uses the metaphor "Cooler than a polar bear's toenails," (367) not only does he now appear to be exaggerating for the sake of stressing "cool," but also the reader understands with this image that being cool in not necessarily a great thing, but more something ...

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The rest came from books written by worldwide famous authors in my research field such as Nelson Brooks, Claire Kramsch... ... Next, English already represents a big variety of culture, for example, Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and so forth. ...

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"Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood" by Richard Rodriguez is a narrative of the author's childhood as he and his family learn to speak English and become more comfortable with their American identity. ... We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, [and] the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better. ...

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"Wonderful" and "foreigner" were, equally, markers of particularly great distance between protagonist and reader. ... Small wonder, then, that the British authors who enjoyed the greatest popularity among Bulgarians were among those who expressed lower-middle-class views. ...

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As an engaging cultural critic, professor at New York University, and author of numerous books on the themes of education and technology, Neil Postman is well positioned to comment on the relation of technology to culture. ... In Chapter 10 ("The Great Symbol Drain"), Postman discusses how the symbol drain is both a symptom and a cause of a loss of narrative. ...

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Abstract Marketing is a term usually reserved for the process of marketing a product, service, or idea to the final consumer in a certain market. However, the purpose of this paper will be to show how culture's elements and specifically language can impact the marketing process of an organization. ...

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Abstract Ravaged by war, violently pushed out of their home country, separated from their extended family and friends, and evacuated to a foreign country where they have no commonality, Vietnamese refugees faced the worst after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. Although they are caught between two ...

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