In the article "High Culture Goes Hands-On", author Judith Dobrzynski explores the role museums should, or should not, represent in contemporary society. ... However I believe that sometimes a memory that comes organically through familiarity is better understood than scholarly work that seems to cater to only the few. ... The museum needs to know whom they are catering to, and today they should expect everybody to come. ... It becomes a social space where visitors can bounce back in participatory learning. ... With a time of change come authors like Dobrzynski who suggest a cle...

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In the story Arnold tells her he is not going to come in the house, she has to let him in. ... Put it back right. She picked it up and put it back" (320). ... We need to constantly be aware of where we are going and look back on where we have been and see if we have made the right decisions. ... Connie was going nowhere important. ...

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I come from the land of the long white cloud and I am proud to be Māori, the natives of New Zealand. ... One belief I'm going to share is when we go out diving for seafood like, fish, oysters, crayfish, mussels, and cockles, you have to give your first catch back to the sea (Tangoaroa, God of the Sea). ... If we want our kaimoana (seafood) to be plentiful in years to come, we have to pay our respects to Tangaroa and give your first catch of the day back and only take what you need. ... We want to send their spirit back to Hawaiki in which we believe to be the final resting place for ...

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Back home in India, Lata was happy, energetic and funny. ... Let's go home." ... She was brought back to the present () Lata sat in the car and burst into tears. ... When she comes back from the movie that almost brought her back to India for three hours, she sits in the car, and begins to cry. ... This is also the case In The Boss Came To Dinner, where the mother and the son are also very different when it comes to culture. ...

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It is a story about a little girl who goes on a surrealistic adventure to find places and characters that were not found in her world. ... For example, in chapter six Alice comes to the home of the Duchess. ... People everywhere have a common yearning to let go and speak their minds, without feeling as if they shouldn't. Alice speaks freely and without holding back, if something is on her mind she will say it without hesitation. It is a quality that many people, and many cultures, are forced to hold back from, but wish they had. ...

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It was my first time going to El Salvador and I was very nervous and scared, I didn't know what to expect. ... Back home in Virginia we usually have high temperatures with humid air. ... My mom came in and told me that she was going to the market with my aunts to buy food for dinner and asked me if I wanted to go. ... I remember my mom asking me if I liked it so far and me nodding yes, when in reality I wanted to scream and tell her how much I wanted to go home already. ... The day was finally here and it was time for us to come back home to the United States. ...

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Lieutenant Dunbar goes to meet the Sioux, his Indian friends, who see him playing with a wolf and his friends name him "Dances With Wolves". ... Dances With Wolves goes and gets each man a gun and they destroy the tribe and it's leader with only one Sioux life lost, Stone Calf. ... Dances With Wolves and Kicking Bird go on a ride to a white hunter's cabin where they see garbage and animal carcasses lying about. ... Dances With Wolves goes back to his fort to get his journal where he finds that others have come and they seize him. ...

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Popular culture comes to us in many ways. ... The more we try to hide from it, the more close it comes. Back in the old days, 1950-1970, popular culture started to influence people all around the world. ... Once again, popular culture comes in many different forms, music, television, and films. ... The further we go from pop culture, the closer it comes....

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My dad comes into the room at 5 am and tells us that it's time. ... "Celine come on we're always late because of you!... I want to ride on a donkey's back up the rocky hills of Greece. ... In the summer of 2013, we had the privilege to go to Cancun for one week. ... Yet, sometimes going to an unfamiliar place is not comforting. ...

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Wild, maniac, unsophisticated, uneducated, vulgar these are all words that come to mind when I think of prehistoric or primitive. ... Culture, after all, is associated with the changes a society goes through over time. ...

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Men, women, children and families have come to seek freedom from persecution or to seek opportunity that does not exist in their own country of origin. ... Back on the roller coaster playing "Spanish Roulette," he "laughs sarcastically at himself thinking he is probably going to back down" (572). ... The poem "America" also speaks to dichotomy, the decision to come to America and continue to live here even though you hate it. ... "Once a year I come in asking questions. ... I know how hard it is to go" (413). ...

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For example, much of our choice in clothing comes from France. ... All of the races in America live amongst each other, go to work together, go to school together, and even enjoy pastimes such as golf together. ... Fast food hamburgers originate from Germany, baseball comes from England's cricket, and so on. ... I could go to China, live there, pursue a career there, and develop a group of friends there. ... It describes someone who doesn't let these many differences hold them back from loving and uniting with their other fellow citizens to form one well-bonded country. ...

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A few years back, girls did not go to school no matter their social status. "My grandmother fought to be able to go to school" he said. ... I wanted to know if he would consider going back to India to his homeland and his response was, "Sometimes I get overwhelmed and I miss my family in India. I would like to go back but my wife and kids don't. ... As a person who did come from another country, I can connect to everything that he was telling me. ...

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No matter where you go you will run into some other culture, custom or language. ... The idea of language as a culture is one that stems back from the beginning of time. Ancient man's culture comes directly from their language. ... Another problem that comes up when deciding on a universal language is; what language is it going to be? Who will decide which language is going to be used throughout the country? ...

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The history of my people is what I am interested the most about because it informs us of how people act nowadays due to the teachings of back then. ... Memories only come in one set to each person; therefore, everyone must value their memory. ... Precious moments that would never come again would always remain in the memory of the person. ... Family is indeed the most important, ethnicity is just what comes with me when I was born and I respect that the most. ... Life would be very different if I had no values, and I'm pretty sure it goes for everyone as well. ...

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Eddie challenges the value of family honor because there are a few scenes in the play that seem to state Eddies love for Catherine goes too far, and that it is not merely the love a father figure shows to his niece. ... This shows that Eddies love for Catherine goes too far and that it is not merely the love an uncle has for his niece, it is more than that. ... This makes Eddie so mad that he waits for Marco to come back and challenges him in the middle of the street, demanding that Marco "gives him back his name". ... Alfieri is symbolic of the person on the bridge looking down onto the co...

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Are there any factors other than cultural factors that enable an individual to come out of poverty? ... In some cultures only men work because women are not allowed to go out and work and their labour power remains unused and get wasted. Had this not been the case, the family would have come out of the existing poverty utilising the skills of both husband and wife. ... For example, let's assume that a person would want to go out and work hard to earn money but the area has curfew, if there is little stability in the environment of a person, he or she would not be able to come out of a pr...

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In the first chapter, Hall goes through the colony chronologically under the French rule. ... As a military post and due to the constant threat of the large Indian populace, not many wanted to go to Louisiana. ... She then goes through the different tribes of the area and talks about their relations to Colonial Louisiana. ... Her arguments in this chapter are the highlight of the book as everything comes to a point in describing why the culture in the lower Louisiana colony was so heavily Africanized. ... There are understandably times when she shoots off statistics, but that backs up her arg...

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If you know where you are going to do business get a basic knowledge of the language. ... When coming to a new country you are going to feel distressed. ... The initial trips over and the start up cost are going to set a company back but not cripple them. ... We feel that if we can rush and come to a conclusion that each side is happy with the deal. ... The way people from a different country comes to a decision can tell a lot about them. ...

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If only one culture lives by the ocean then the other cultures are not going to have customs in their culture that has to do with the ocean. ... Some cultures aren't very opened minded because they like things the way they were and when tourists come to their area they send them right back out. ...

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My father comes from Cuban decent. Now as Cuban's go, were talking about a loud and lively bunch. ... My mother comes from the Nicaragua. ... Instead I had to go to work. ... By the time I got home, it would be too late to go out and play. ...

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The problem goes back to the idea of generational transmitting of culture. ... The internal drives that come from one's family of love and caring for others in a society will drive the culture. ... When I asked how far back he had traced his ancestry he said he only knew as far back to his great grandparents, but seeing as most black people came from Africa he did not need to look very hard. ... He said that is was because for all he knew his family could have come over after the slave trade or was from some other part of the world. ... Now that people are looking back into their famil...

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The lyrics from the song "Capitalism Stole My Virginity" by The International Noise Conspiracy come to mind: "Robbed out of our bleeding hearts, smashed our illusions, tore them all apart, now we are unsentimental, unafraid, to destroy this culture that we hate." ... No matter where you go or what you do, advertisements are everywhere, continually providing the unnecessary desire for someone or something. ... It is clear that in American popular culture the dominant male figure goes out and saves the world and ends up getting the girl in the end. ... For the majority of Americans, based on...

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It is common among anthropologist to gift the culture they go out to study. ... In the interim of being admitted into the village and as he goes out to get more supplies, he contracts Malaria and goes through caring for his illness. ... He would wait for them as they come in from the fields and attempt getting information on what they had done. In the evening he would go over his notes and prepare on what he could work on the following day. ... However he is able to come back to England with 7 notebooks full of data and his camera. ...

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Therefore, for children that belongs to two cultures is not easy to find their identity, especially if they come from immigrant families. ... It also happens to be that Mabry comes from a poor family in which his mother was struggling "working 24 hour a day cases as a practical nurse" to be able to provide a life for herself and her children. ... He takes the initiative and goes to get his schedule while his family still struggles back home. ... However, he is not held back by his environment like his unsuccessful brother who "has to cope with potential unemployment and prejudice", but instead...

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