So many others were absorbed by the growing cultural industry that was birthing through the TV and commercialism. ... If people can look past the simple surface of things that they are presented with, then they control the development of culture. ... My friend told me that there is a split in the black culture on using the term. ... So in the above situation both men were black skinned but one chose to identify with a particular ethnic term and the other did not. ... I think that because of this philosophy and its dominance in the early Twentieth century it caused many ethnic people to separ...

• Word Count: 3593
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• Grade Level: High School

There are many people out there who claim that the media has no affect on them, which is just a plain fallacy. ... But if they claim that they have not been influenced by the media, then why wouldn't they choose the no-name cola? ... He then refers to the brain. ... In my opinion, there is definitely no arguing against that. ... Then there's the mother, who is the perfect wife, and mother. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Yanomamo are no different. ... There is no tool or technique so complex that it requires specialized knowledge or raw materials, and each village, therefore, can produce every item of material culture it requires from immediately available resources (Chagnon 1997: 49). ... They do this by stroking the sides of the frog, causing it to excrete the poison, then boil it down to intensify it. ... There is no written language, and numbers are limited to one, two, and more than two (http://www.uwec.edu). ... Apart from this, there is no other clothing. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There was no better way to promote assimilation then European education, which became the backbone of the policy to ensure it. ... There were religious pressure groups that advocated the government to standby these treaties and enable the Indian to become more civilized through education and religion for the real world. ... The cooperation, in which there may have been treaties for education requested by Aboriginal's, does not mean the parents were ready to give up custody of their children to the state. Regulations were also enacted that removed the authority of Indian parents over thei...

• Word Count: 3568
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kung were a very studied group including their language, culture, and economic organization. ... Obviously, there is already a misconception about the bushman. ... This in no way makes them animal like, wild, or undomesticated. ... If these prisons' were to be set up, the culture would be forced and therefore in no way a comparison to early persons. ... Kung maintain a level of egalitarianism so that no one person is revered more than the next and so that no one thinks they are any better than the next. ...

• Word Count: 3399
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• Grade Level: High School

There are three Gothic generations, into which the culture can be categorised. ... It appears members join in their teens, and then depending on the individual may leave when they reach their twenties. ... On Alicia Porter's website "A study of the Gothic subculture" (under "Are Goths a Gang", p.3) she refers to the website "There's Gothic and then there's GOTHIC", where a Goth depicted why they though youth want to identify with the subculture: "True Goth has less to do with the external appearance, and more to do with what's inside. ... Vampires also interest Goths,...

• Word Count: 3502
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Our religion believes that we have to wait for the Buddha or the Dead people to eat first and then it is permitted that we may eat. ... Then, my mom tried to help me and said, "This is the United States." ... Then, he will visit regularly, usually once a week on Saturday or Sunday evening. ... Having been granted permission, the couple then visits each set of parents, usually bringing gifts of food or wine. ... Then, they would discuss the date, time, and make all other necessary arrangements. ...

• Word Count: 3671
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• Grade Level: High School

The conception of culture as an abstraction led, first, to a questioning of the reality of culture (inasmuch as abstractions were regarded as imperceptible) and, second, to a denial of its existence; thus, the subject matter of non-biological anthropology, "culture," was defined out of existence, and without real, objective things and events in the external world there can be no science. ... But no one who holds the view that the difference is one of degree has adduced any evidence to show that animals are capable of a kind of behavior that all human beings exhibit. ... There is no reason or e...

• Word Count: 4734
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

You begin your mission " to see if there are any survivors left in the wreckage. ... Besides all the technical innovations for how movies are made, not too much has changed with the genre since then, but that by no means means that it has lost any popularity. ... Up through the early twentieth century, novels, even if they had fantasy elements, were still regarded as fairy tales. ... No other work of fiction has had even remotely close to as large of an impact on fantasy as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. ... Who hasn't been sitting at school or work and wishing they w...

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National Advertisers, big business, governments, working class people and sports enthusiasts in Canada all revel in the brilliance of this modest trophy, and the way it encompasses Canadian dreams and societies struggles by just being there. ... Players were as much the offenders as the spectators. ... The culprits then proceeded to kick the bowl into the Redeau canal after a night of alcoholic celebration. ... The cup would be taken back to the club to be boasted about until the next challenge came; sometimes there would be two or three challenges for the cup in one season if the weather...

• Word Count: 3815
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the beginning, people from England immigrated to America, and then other European countries followed. The American natives were treated as immigrants and forced to migrants into the western land due to Manifest Destiny in the 1860s. ... In the article, Citrin points out: The mean for the United States sample is lower than in a majority of the countries, but the confidence intervals suggest that there is no statistically significant difference between the US mean and those of many other countries.9 Thus, Americans' preferred level of immigration – that is, a lower level– is...

• Word Count: 2954
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Although there are many differences in general societies, some issues such as women in the workplace, and images in the media, stand across many borders. ... There is a heavy emphasis on family, religion and social issues. ... Polygamy was legal in Vietnam until 1959; at that point only the first wife a man took was then considered his wife, all others were dissolved. ... Unlike the research I found from other countries there is no emphasis on eco- friendly or environmental practices. ... Priya lived there first fourteen years of her live before moving to the U.S. ...

• Word Count: 2503
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• Grade Level: High School

There are some cultures ignorant to the fact. ... Also charged were the parents of the victims. The defendant's lawyer said "If the trial can help bring about an end to this custom, then it will be useful. ... No physician's help was sought because the family believes in faith healing. ... There should be no confusion in religious exemption from third degree murder. ...

• Word Count: 3097
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• Grade Level: High School

I moved out right after high school and have been paying for all my expenses with no parent help ever since I moved out and have always been very Independent. ... I used to be a courtesy clerk at a grocery store and my manager never treated us employees as if we were less then him and it made everyone respect him and enjoy working for him way more. ... There is another movie I watched a while ago where a bunch of people were in this experiment. All the people were kept in a prison for a certain amount of days and some people were made to be the prisoners and other people were made to be the g...

• Word Count: 3913
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Within America there is a large population of peoples who have been, and continue to be, oppressed in this land of the free. ... Why would a student care about loans and interest computations if they see no relevance to this in their lives? ... When they answered incorrectly, they were criticized and given the answer. ... When mistakes occurred, they were encouraged to try again (Farley, 2000). ... It is quite likely that a student, once placed in a lower track, will remain there indefinitely unless otherwise challenged. ...

• Word Count: 2650
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is no surprise that different cultures have different values and beliefs. ... Keywords used in my database search within Infotrac College Edition, ABI, and Expanded Academic were: "Intercultural Communication-Japan- "Doing Business in Japan- "Doing Business with the Japanese- "First Impressions- "First Meetings- "Cross-cultural Communication- Most of the keywords were successful in providing me useful data. ... No one is completely independent in Japan; they must always be conscientious about others (Condon 9). ... There are several virtues highly valued in Japan. ......

• Word Count: 8160
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• Grade Level: High School

Language & Culture No one in other majors will be more sensitive than us about the relationship between language and culture since we are English majors. ... When we do try to specify any such relationship, we run into problems that are no less formidable than those just mentioned: we may be misled by the "obvious". ... It seems that there is no satisfactory definition that enjoys a general acceptance by scholars of all sciences. ... It is no doubt that Chinese people and people of English-speaking countries would have different cultural or emotional associations and values of the two words....

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As stated by LaFromboise and Foster (1989), the challenge then becomes the development of ethical decision-making that reflect a convergence of our current knowledge about multicultural counseling theory and ethical reasoning. ... The essentials of this model have been described by Forester-Miller and Davis (1995) in these seven steps: (a) identify the problem, (b) refer to the code of ethics and professional guidelines, (c) determine the nature and dimensions of the dilemma, (d) generate potential courses of action, (e) consider the potential consequences of all options and then choose a co...

• Word Count: 5041
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• Grade Level: Graduate

As stated by LaFromboise and Foster (1989), the challenge then becomes the development of ethical decision-making that reflect a convergence of our current knowledge about multicultural counseling theory and ethical reasoning. ... The essentials of this model have been described by Forester-Miller and Davis (1995) in these seven steps: (a) identify the problem, (b) refer to the code of ethics and professional guidelines, (c) determine the nature and dimensions of the dilemma, (d) generate potential courses of action, (e) consider the potential consequences of all options and then choose a co...

• Word Count: 5041
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

There is a long-standing and, to a degree justifiable, mistrust of the "White Man" by indigenous people in America. ... Their livelihoods were taken away, catapulting the race into poverty and denying them a sense of purpose. ... There are myriad reasons that Kim feels as she does - attending boarding school off the reservation for much of her formative years, losing her mother to an accident, etc. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Product and Position According to marketing manager, 2009 there are a lot of new products that are sold in the Chinese market, and some of them have special recipes for Chinese people. ... According to marketing administrator in Beijing 2009, when the Chicken Bundle of Old Beijing was initially introduced to the clients in February 2003, the item was presented a play of Beijing Opera, and after then it turned out to be more well known. ... Choosing Place In spite of the fact that the KFC saw the enormous population and business sector space in the China, there were some prickly issues. ... Be...

• Word Count: 4923
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While I wanted to stick to my own list, some of my students were in favour of including short stories from other regions such as South Asia, Africa, Latin America and Caribbean Islands, being prone to embrace the works from periphery. ... Accordingly, they did it, and following a discussion and a mutual review, we were able to select some topics for our term papers, thus resolving the tension between my students and me. ...

• Word Count: 2530
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate