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Cultural Essays and Term Papers
Is The Internet Bring A New Era Of American Cultural ImperiaThe Internet has emerged as the most rapidity adopted communication medium in history. The Internet by design is de-centralized, inexpensive, uncensored, and accessible from anywhere in the globe. Bill Gates contends that the Internet is first step along the “Information Superhighway”, which will ...
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Cultural Standards Are All That We Have
Our world is a melting pot of different cultures, each one unique in its own respect. Who we are, and what we generally believe to be true or right is a product of what our society values. Because our way of living is what we were raised to believe as “right”, it is often hard to ...
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Cross Cultural PsychologyPsychology is a science with abounding applications. It pertains to nearly all aspects of human life and behavior. It reveals mysteries about people, and culture as well. Psychology plays a large role in the field of Anthropology, a field devoted piecing together the puzzle of cultures around ...
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Cross Cultural PsychologyPsychology is a science with abounding applications. It pertains to nearly all aspects of human life and behavior. It reveals mysteries about people, and culture as well. Psychology plays a large role in the field of Anthropology, a field devoted piecing together the puzzle of cultures around ...
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Cultural Anthro - Karl Marx“Where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise an extreme- either out of the most rampant democracy, or out of an oligarchy.” This was once said by Aristotle who was probably the first to recognize the importance of a middle class. A powerful debate whether the ...
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Cultural RelativismThe thesis of meta-ethical is the philosophical viewpoint that there are no absolute moral truths, only truths relative to the cultural context in which they exist. From this it is therefore presumed that what one society considers to be morally right, another society may consider to be morally ...
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Cultural Diversity In SchoolsSince early American history, schools, like society, have addressed
cultural diversity in different ways. In the colonial days, some attempts to
adjust to cultural differences were made in the New York colony, but the
dominant American culture was the norm in the general public, as well as most ...
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Bridging The Gap Between Cross-cultural CommunicationBuilding effective communication skills and relationships within a single culture is often challenging. Bridging the gap between different cultures makes building communication skills and relationships even more difficult. I will discuss some of the challenges of cross-cultural communication and ...
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The Poetical Work And Polynesian Cultural InheritancesThe poetical work of Albert Wendt, Apirana Taylor, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Hone Tuwhare, Keri Hulme, Gloria Rawlinson, J. C. Sturm, and Roma Potiki all have voices that are informed by and reflect their Polynesian cultural inheritances in various ways. The main ways in which these ...
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Cultural Inheritances In PolynThe poetical work of Albert Wendt, Apirana Taylor,
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Hone Tuwhare, Keri Hulme,
Gloria Rawlinson, J. C. Sturm, and Roma Potiki all have
voices that are informed by and reflect their Polynesian
cultural inheritances in various ways. The main ways in
which these inheritances ...
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Cross-Cultural EthicsAn old Vietnamese proverb states, "The law of the Emperor stops at the village gate." This saying illustrates the principle that rules tend to lose their power as they get further away from their source. The distance needs to be measured both in miles and cultural norms. Different cultures and ...
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Cultural RelativismThere are many speculations on morality, what it is, and why we should be moral. Morality is a confusing subject. Many of the meta-ethical outlooks that have been proposed for this subject have been criticized and omitted as they were incompetent. Problems would arise from these theories. With ...
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Television: Technology and Cultural FormRaymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. His work laid the foundations for the field of cultural studies and the cultural ...
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Cultural Anthropologyis a term that is in everyday lives and topics. When one thinks of anthropology they think of the study of old remnants commonly referred to as archaeology. This, however, is not the only form of anthropology. There are four types of anthropology and they are archaeology, biological ...
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Cultural Literacy According To E.D. HirschAccording to E.D. Hirsch, to be culturally literate is to possess the basic
information to thrive in the modern world. It is the "grasp on the background
information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has." In
his book, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, ...
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Madonna and Cultural CapitalismIn the works of Madonna, a predominant concept is the distinction between closing and opening. If cultural pretextual theory holds, we have to choose between cultural capitalism and poststructuralist theory.
“Society is unattainable,” says Bataille; however, according to Brophy[1] , it is not ...
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Cultural Differences Between Americans And SpaniardsAs a U.S. Navy veteran, I have seen countless differences between the
American culture and other countries’ cultural differences while being
deployed overseas. By far one of the most interesting to me was revealed
during a seven month deployment to Spain. The term Siesta would probably
mean ...
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Bless Me, Ultima: The Cultural Distress Of A Young SocietyAn answer to the discussion question of whether or not there is a
defined border culture would need a great number of years in field research, but
we can also observe a few of the characteristics of such border culture just by
looking at scholastic essays and books related to the topic. Within ...
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