Tag: Culture
Shamanism Report Essay
Witch doctors, psychics, mediums, spiritualists are but just a few of the many names associated with Shamans. Many of us have heard these names...
Arts of the Contact Zone
For the twelfth grade English curriculum, we had to read and learn about the Arts of the Contact Zone by Mary Louise Pratt. This...
Multiculturalism A Good Idea
Multiculturalism is a part of any country. There are Jews in Germany, Poles in Ireland, Asians in Canada and so on. I believe multiculturalism...
The doctrine of Karma
The doctrine of Karma is a spiritual doctrine based on the theory of cause and effect. Although Karma does not exactly fit the definition...
The Growing Need For The Aware
We as Americans need to become more sensitive to our use of language because with the increasing number of ethnic groups in the country...
The Samurai: Warrior and Ruler of Ancient Japan
Few countries have a warrior tradition as long and exciting as Japan. It is a tradition found in the Samurai, the loyal and self-sacrificing...
The Foundations Of Reincarnation
Reincarnation is the belief that after death, one's soul keeps existing and is reborn another person or animal. It keeps reborning until it redeems...
The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
Massive black rebellions, constant strikes, gigantic anti-war demonstrations, draft resistance, Cuba, Vietnam, Algeria, a cultural revolution of seven hundred million Chinese, occupations, red power,...
Arts of Africa
After attending several exhibits on Africa and its culture I picked one that I found most interesting. Built around 15 B. C. the Temple...
English Culture Essay
The definition of culture can defined as, the behaviour patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought especially as...
Cross-Cultural Management: Transformations and Adaptations
If you answered C to all three questions, you probably have a reasonable grasp of cross-cultural orientations. The growing population of international students and...
Culture and Values Terms
High culture is a term referring to the "best of breed" (from some elitist viewpoints) cultural products. What falls in this category is defined...
Soap Operas – Sociology Of The Media And Popular Culture
Traditional soap opera dialogue is not unlike the pop-artist Roy Lichtenstein's stylised magnification of the commonplace in his satirical paintings of the 1960's. Coupled...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Self-deception is a particularly destructive characteristic of West Culture. Life is The Will To Power; our natural desire is to dominate and reshape the...
The Role Of The Hippie In American Culture
American society and culture experienced an awakening during the 1960s as a result of the diverse civil rights, economic, and political issues it was...
Multiculturalism in Canada
Canada has long been called "The Mosaic", due to the fact that it is made up of a varied mix of races, cultures and...
The issue of American culture
The issue of American culture and its globalization has raised a lot of controversy. The era of globalization is becoming the preferred term to...
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God is set in the 1920's, before secularism became dominant. It begins with the image of a mask, when he...
Analysis of the Human Cultural Identity
This paper is intended to contain the analysis of the human cultural identity, as seen in the following five historical cultural periods: Enlightenment Culture;...
Cultural Diversity in Business
In their eagerness to avoid the courts and editorial pages, most firms in America, and increasingly in Europe, now pay close attention to the...
Chinese and American tradition
Throughout the book, the conflict between the mothers, their Chinese tradition, and language and the daughters, their American tradition, and language are evident. Suyuan...
Multicultural Education Essay
America has long been called "The Melting Pot" due to the fact that it is made up of a varied mix of races, cultures,...
Plains Indians Essay
For many tribes of Plains Indians whose bison-hunting culture flourished during the 18th and 19th centuries, the sun dance was the major communal religious...
Cultural Relativism Essay
The thesis of meta-ethical cultural relativism is the philosophical viewpoint that there are no absolute moral truths, only truths relative to the cultural context...
The Kalapalo Indians of Central Brazil
The Kalapalo Indians of Central Brazil are one of a few surviving indigenous cultures that is uniquely protected by a national reserve in lowland...
What is Y2K and What Effect Did It Present On Modern Culture
Two seemingly small digits may turn January 1, 2000 from a worldwide celebration into a universal nightmare. Affecting companies worldwide, many pay millions upon...
History of the counterculture
The 1950's in America were considered a true awakening of youth culture. If this is true then the 1960's was a decade of discovery....
Symbols Of Herbalism
Using plants for medical purposes is an idea that has been around throughout history. Many different types of peoples, cultures, and religions use what...
The Many Types Of Cults
There are many types of cults in the world, cults are everywhere but you just do not see them. Every person in the world...
The Chinese Culture
This report is about the myths and beliefs of the Chinese culture. It's about the stories the Chinese created to explain the world around...
Speak Your Mind: The Censorship Controversy in American Culture
On a rainy morning in Detroit, Michigan, a twenty-something year old man by the name of Marshall Mathers awakes to hear a pounding on...
The Day of the Dead
Imagine yourself in a cemetery, commemorating your great-grandpa. Dia De Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) is celebrated in Mexico on November 2nd....
Egypt and Mexican Culture
For many centuries people have been fascinated by ancient cultures and treasures. During the last two centuries the science of archeology and modern inventions...
American Indian Stories
It was approaching dusk as the conspicuous line of dark vans entered the reservation. These vehicles served the purpose of furnishing transportation for about...
Is High Culture Superior to Popular Culture, and if so Why
For about a century, Western Culture has really been divided into two cultures, the traditional type of ‘high culture’ and a ‘mass culture’ manufactured...
The Bull Fighting
The immediate reaction of many non-Spanish people to bull fighting is that it is sick, animal killing, unmoral entertainment. To many others around the...
The Differences In The Cultures
This paper outlines the differences in the cultures of the United States versus Asian Indian and Vietnamese cultures. I will look at these countries...
Burial Practices of the Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman Cultures
Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman practices of preparing the dead for the next cradle of humanity are very intriguing. These two cultures differ in a...
The Importance of Bonds Shown Through Sema in Greek Song Culture
The Homeric epic, Odyssey, begins with the invocation of the muse. The muses are the goddesses of total recall. Their name is "a reminder"...
Cultural Diversity in the Armenian Community
The cultural context for the Armenian person is the result of upholding and defending a way of life and values that have been maintained...
The Life of the Egyptian Bedouins
The Bedouin people of Egypt can easily be described as a people with no place to call a home. Studying the Bedouins show that...
The Essence Of Pop Culture
I spent some time online trying to answer my question and time after time I was led to the same direction: pop culture is...
Culture vs Race
Anthropologists have always had their discrepancies with the word culture and its background significance. There have been numerous definitions that have filtered through the...
Egypt, A Mixture Of Well Educated And Uneducated People
The majority of people have various ways of viewing cultures. Because of close-mindedness and lack of cultural education, people have a difficult time interacting...
The Kalapalo Indians of Central Brazil
The Kalapalo Indians of Central Brazil are one of a few surviving indigenous cultures that are uniquely protected by a national reserve in lowland...
Rave Culture and Its Effects on Popular Culture
What is a rave? Raving is a highly subjective experience. One person's best rave is another person's worst. Any attempt to analyze rave culture...
Cause of the Culture wars
Even a casual observer of the American culture cannot help but be impressed by the increasing degree of polarization not only of American politics,...
Types of cults in the world
Cults There are many types of cults in the world, cults are everywhere but you just do not see them. Every person in the...
A look at cults
On November 18, 1978, in a cleared-out patch of the Guyanese jungle, Reverend Jim Jones ordered the 911 members of his flock to kill...
Ethnocentricity and Jan Pettman
Jan Pettman (1986:6) claims that ethnocentricty "is a vital ingredient inaracist ideology" and upon contemplation, she is probably correct. D'Souza(1996:522) is right when he...
