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Recalling the deceased unites the Chinese Americans since the past is an essential component of the present and future. The multicultural aspect of the United States of America calls for a mutual respect for each other’s ethnicity and customs. It is imperative that individuals respect and welcome this diversity of ethnic customs
Even though the co-existence has been fairly harmonious to the extent that there has not been a full-scale ethnic cleansing or civil war based on these differences; there have always been underlying tensions. However, the true basis of inequality lies in differences in economic power and lifestyles of people of different races and ethnic groups brought about by historical imbalances.
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British culture was inexorably influenced by the happenings during the long 19th century. “The history of Europe in the last two hundred years is that of the extension and contraction of political power in the world, of the creation and redistribution of a global economic network, of cultural supremacy and cultural relativism.”
Every season eh introduced a new clothes line and met with success. He had to expand to accommodate an exclusive clientele. For his American venture, his designs were tailored differently. He himself was fond of dressing up for occasions and he loved to attend the balls. Dior died of a heart attack while holidaying at Montecatini.
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‘I just believe what I cannot see.’ These famous words of Gustave Moreau’s suggest a contemplative, assertive character. We are assured by biographers, however, that he lacked confidence, never aligned himself with movements or groups, and attached himself with a kind of obsession to objects and souvenirs of his happier days.
Since the invention of technologies making it possible to widely distribute text and images within the past century or so, symbols have become more sophisticated. Society has improved our understanding of the effectiveness of a given image and manipulation of symbols in the form of advertising has become a science in itself.
Fundamentally true is the point of view according to which mass culture is the phenomenon of multi-factorial. Therefore, when elucidating the nature of popular culture plays a key role is an axiological analysis of the value-semantic complex underlying this phenomenon. Mass culture is the problem which is primarily social and anthropological.
Leadership is the process of influencing people to work or act towards the attainment of specifically defined goals. There have been a significant number of literature covering the nature, theories, and applications of leadership and culture, and their effect on job performance and satisfaction. These theories are appropriately applied through strategic leadership in both Coca Cola and Pepsi.
After the Renaissance, writers in America have followed a new style or method of storytelling and versification. The expression of national spirit is another major characteristic of the new American style. The number of narrative poems written during that period has remarked the spirit of American nationality.
It can be argued that the city of Miami, one of the most coastal cities in the world and located in the United States, offers most of these attractions. However, Miami’s attractions are matched by the city of Dubai, one of the most coastal cities in the Middle East.
Light-skinned African Americans have passed as white since the United States was a mere colony. Literature and cultural examples of racial passing can be found in a multitude of sources. Reasons for passing included but were not limited to, unequal segregation, love, opportunities denied to African Americans, and fear.
It can take subtly essentializing and paternalistic forms, but generally speaking, it reinforces imperialistic ideas about the Orient that were first transmitted by Western explorers. Not all of these ideas are necessarily bad, but some critics believe they have come to dominate the West’s public perception of Eastern cultures, to the point of drowning out authentic Eastern voices.
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“The Lord of the Rings” is a fantasy novel by JRR Tolkien. This epic story is started as a sequel to “The Hobbit” an earlier author’s work, which was a simple fantasy book written for children. However, Tolkien developed it into a complex tale of the usual theme of good versus evil. He wrote it in stages in the period between 1937 and 1949.
Day of the Dead (El Dia de Los Muertos) is a Mexican holiday that is also celebrated by Hispanic-Americans that recognizes the past dead in society. The holiday is celebrated the first two days of November and occurs in conjunction with All Saints’ Day on November 1 and All Souls Day on November 2. The first day is used for the recognition of infants and the young, whereas the adult dead are recognized on the second day.
Fashion has emerged as a global phenomenon and this scenario has transformed the way people perceive fashion. In the world, traditions have new meaning and sense for consumers. On the other hand, businesses and governments are concerned and active for providing better products and services to the right consumers, at the right place and time.
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This activity would work well among the senior students because, in a couple more years, they would be off to either pursue college studies or to apply for work. This activity would help the students reconsider the present course and direction of their lives and somehow look into what they want their future to look like.
Among the Arab countries, UAE fully supports the role of women. UAE has produced world-renowned women in the field of education, business and politics. Reem Al Hashemi served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in the UAE Embassy in Washington. Shikha Lubna Al Qasimi is the first Emirati woman to be appointed as Minister of Foreign Trade.
It is also even more difficult to understand how one’s cultural background affects our communication styles with people from our own culture as well as with people from other cultures. With the aim of understanding cultural communication fully, the following will provide a nice overview of my own cultural background.
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Culture consists of the foods that we cook and eat, our living arrangements, communication with society, and our behavior. In order to get a full picture of the culture in a general sense—and culture more specifically related to South America—we should like at four important aspects: Values, beliefs, norms, and behavior.
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Florida State is occupied by people of different cultures. There are dominant cultures and minority ones and their core values, lifestyles, and other cultural practices are quite different. Minority cultures include Hispanic and African Americans among others. Hispanic culture is associated with anybody with linguistic or cultural antecedents in Spain.
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The greatest impetus for the presence of Westerners in the Middle East today is oil. It is a strategic resource and the revenues derived from it have supported modern infrastructure and urban development projects in most of the Arabian Peninsula. Because of oil, the region has acquired political and military significance to most Western countries.
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The author explains that when they finally arrived at the village, the first sight they saw was the poor countryside filled with small thatched cottages scattered across the foot of a huge mountain. The life did not seem to change much in these years, unlike other parts of China.
The manga comics, through the portrayal of their real-life heroes actually convey the message of inevitability to the readers. No matter how strong or capable a person is, he has to pass through all the ordeals that a human being is destined to face. This is how, actually, the process of living life is done, and this is how we celebrate our humanness.
The author of the paper states that the education system is also in regular pursuit of development and expertise in students. One way is by using different instructional strategies and methods while teaching. Strategies determine the approach a teacher may take to achieve learning objectives.
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The cultural identity of one, then, may prove to be different from another because they belong in different cultures. With this, the differences are amplified and sometimes turn into cultural discrimination that can and may hinder one’s personal development. Culture is defined as the entirety of a group’s religion, language, and customs.
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Hodkinson writes an in-depth grounded-theory research book on the Goth or Gothic subculture, focusing on aspects of the culture founded in dance, music, cultural expressions, fashion, mannerisms, slogans, and other aspects of culture or subculture as it is presented information and rejection of the mainstream culture.
The original pamphlet of the film contains Kurosawa’s own reflection regarding the philosophy of its making: “An action film is often an action film only for the sake of action. But what a wonderful thing if one can construct a grand action film without sacrificing the portrayal of humans.” (Yoshimoto, 2000, p. 240)
How we perceive the cultural traditions of others depends largely upon our own cultural experiences and, to a degree, our cultural biases. In the case of wedding traditions, different cultures incorporate behaviors that tend to reinforce their cultural beliefs and norms. Our psychological reaction to these behaviors, rooted in our own set of cultural values.
The king who later proved to be one of the greatest in history turned the course of the history of the Malis. He helped them prosper, gave them stability, and created the route or way for future kings. The Gikuyu revolt is changing the hands of power from one gender to another. It clearly results in the final suppressing of women in society.
In fact, Athens is widely considered as the birthplace of arts as a lot of creative talent and incomparable works were made during this period. The sculptures depicted the human body in all its finesse and paved the way to portrait painting on wood and hide and later to mosaic art, ceramic works, vase painting and terracotta statuettes.
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Sioux Indians are bilingual and they preserve their native, Lakota/Dakota language with utmost care. “The Sioux language is euphonious, sonorous, and flexible, and possesses a more abundant native literature than that of any other tribe within the United States, with the possible exception of the Cherokee”.
Being European -- like being British -- cannot be defined by ethnicity or religion. Europe is all about multilayered loyalties -- the national and European overlying and interlocking with the local and the regional”. Most of the prominent religions and ethnic groups in the world are staying in different countries or regions of Europe.
The differences in culture were evident as the French treated their polytechnics as the cream of their society whereas the English engineers were treated as mechanics (Lentz, 2001). While the British hired experienced tunnelers, the French hired unemployed workers and trained them to become tunnelers.
Hip-hop can also be called a liberation movement in the form of diverse culture, at the same time, it was also a civil rights movement started by the marginalized and oppressed inner-city youths. It can also be called “a means and method of expression thriving on social commentary, political critique, economic analysis, religious exegesis, and street awareness while combating longstanding issues of cultural prejudice etc.
No compromise is possible with radical Islam. America has to retaliate with clarity to defend freedom and human dignity. Study the historical analysis of terrorism in 1200; whenever they got an opportunity the fundamentalists have used the sword to promote the religion of their class. The worst enemies of Islam are the fundamentalists.
Since the first publication of the Horatio Alger novels, one theme has consistently permeated American popular culture, and film in particular. Achieving the ‘American dream’ has been a perpetual focus of cinema from the depression through the modern era.
Many of the Norse tales regarding the gods center upon war, battling evil, and a great deal of death. These are reflected in many of their stories, including the epic of Beowulf. In contrast, the Greeks had stories that might also end with a great deal of bloodshed, but this was usually instigated by concerns of love.
The reading titled “Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond”, written by Walker Connor will provide the contextual background for this think-piece exercise. The basis for the formation of ethnonational bonds is never fully based on fact and evidence, but rather on some vague but convincing feeling of kinship within a group of people.
After Rome's collapse, the world was plunged into the Dark Ages, eventually emerging from the Gothic period into the Renaissance period between 1300 and 1500. With the discovery of Rome's classic art and architecture, there was renewed interest in the deities that had once been important to these people.
She showed great passion and talent for painting still life pictures that by the time she was fourteen, her parents decided to send her to study under renowned still-life painter Willem van Aelst (Greer, p. 242). Under his tutelage, she perfected her craft of producing images which were as near to the real images as possible. She used models from her father’s preserved collection of plants and insects.
The ‘five-phase theory’ is an evolution of the dualistic yin yang theory. Everything in the universe corresponds to a combination of five fundamental phases. These “are not static entities but rather five stages in the evolution of any phenomenally existing thing which also engender and restrain each other in a constantly changing and dynamic way”.
However, some religious factions who strongly oppose the medium of cinema and these religions' followers are strictly banned from watching movies. Though there is such restriction existing among different religious groups, they violate the rules very often.
“The term ‘Renaissance’ might now be defined as a model of cultural history in which the culture of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe is represented as a repudiation of medieval values in favor of the revival of the culture of ancient Greece and Rome” (Campbell, 2004, v-vi).
According to the essay findings, it can, therefore, be said that Andros is the bonefish capital of the world and home to some of the world’s finest fishing areas so we were very eager to go and had high hopes for good catches. The author of the paper states that upon arriving on Andros Island, the fresh air was immediately noticeable.
This research tells that we seem, most or all of us, to at least have the capacity to be able to appreciate art, to know how very special it is, whether or not our appreciativeness itself constitutes the act of a separate sense, or some conjoining of the senses; sense here being used in both its physical and psychic 'senses.'
A number of exhibits such as Cyberworlds, Nuclear Matters, Success and Innovation, Contemporary Japanese Fashion, Australian International Design Awards, etc., show off new trends and inventions that offer new perspectives in guests. Such displays open up the minds of guests into new horizons that may not have been ventured by anyone else.
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This research will begin with the statement that the characteristics of ESL learners are rooted in their culture and native language. Social and educational background begins at a very young age, a time when a person is acquiring knowledge and embedding this knowledge in their own personality forming their traits and characteristics as a person.
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This research will begin with the statement that Chinese Lion Dance has long held the entire western world in its trance and with each passing day is becoming ever more popular with a continuously increasing fan following. Lion, as represented by the mount of Manjusri, is generally considered to be a guardian creature in Buddhist culture.
This research will begin with the statement that Sophocles’ Antigone is a play that puts emphasis on morality in quite a tragic way. It is a play that depicts a conflict between two somewhat different assertions, namely, the claim of the state to the submission of an individual and the claim of the individual to abide by one’s own conscience.
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The subtle layers of light with their accompanying shades of shadows lend a completely different dimension to the creation that goes well beyond the conventional three dimensions. The interplay of lights of varying intensity seems to create interconnected zones that segue into one another without the slightest hiccup all the while strictly maintaining their individual existence.