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Cultural Norms for Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart emphasizes low prices, not sales and unlike competitive flyers, they use professional models. Wal-Mart focuses on ordinary people including their associates. The flyers also devote an inordinate amount of space to community oriented and patriotic topics. Unraveling the symbolic puzzle presented by the distinctive elements of Wal- Mart flyers draw our attention to the importance of retail and retail symbolism. Published research offers many reasons for Wal-Mart’s success in the US market. Its exemplary
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Geeks & Pr0n - a Study of the Culture Behind the Underground Realm of Cyber Pornography
Geeks & Pr0n: A study of the culture behind the underground realm of cyber pornography. The spawning of the public Internet as we know it today provided a brand new type of communication, virtually unrestricted, and naturally, as with nearly every other form of communication, has been exploited by pornography. This newly-invented category of pornography, to be called “cyberporn,” would not only revolutionize its own industry, but also help to speed the development and growth
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Black Elk's Cultural Displacement and His Relationship with Nature
In Black Elk Speaks, John Neihardt depicts the tragedy of a culture that can no longer support its traditional ideals. In their own terms, the Sioux have lost the sacred hoop of their nation. But they did not lose it through a lack of faith or other internal weakness; they lost it, almost inevitably, to the forces of economic greed when white Americans expanded westward in search of more land and more goods. Their
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Circuit of Cultural Analysis - Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture
Circuit of Cultural Analysis: Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture Representations of gender are portrayed as essential norms in today’s culture, creating standardized myths and sexism within society through the media. The normative portrayals of gender in society consist of stereotypical roles and images that are created through media devices such as, film, television, popular fiction, music and advertisements. Judith Butler draws on the idea of gender performativity and explains how
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Japan’s Culture of Suicide
Japan's Culture of Suicide In American society, if a child is murdered or dies of an unknown cause, the unfortunate situation is hardly considered honorable. In Japan, however, they pride themselves on belonging to a culture where self sacrifice for one's country or family is though to be more honorable than dying at the hands of another man, or living a life full of regret or shame. The glorification of killing oneself is an aspect
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Pop Cultural Elements of Military Cadences
Pop Cultural Elements of Military Cadences "HUT, TWO, THREE, FOUR...HUT, TWO, THREE, FOUR..." What do a bunch of grunts calling out raunchy marching cadences have to do with pop culture? There's more to the cadence then just keeping soldiers in step, there is a deep sense of pride, patriotism, unity, motivation, and nostalgia, which can be found within these songs. The Military cadence is used to motivate, inspire, and foster company cohesiveness while keeping soldiers
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Leadership and Org Culture
Abstract Culture permeates all aspects of any society. It acts as the basic fabric that binds people together. Culture dictates tastes in music, clothes, and even the political and philosophical views of a group of people. Culture is not only shared, but it is deep and stable. However, culture does not exist simply as a societal phenomenon. Organizations, both large and small, adhere to a culture. Organizational culture determines how an organization operates and how
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Uae Cultural Analysis
United Arab Emirates Country Notebook Cultural Analysis Executive Summary United Arab Emirates is a country that is built of several different emirates located on the peninsula of the Persian Gulf. The country was occupied by Great Britain up until 1971. After the removal of the British government the seven Sheikdoms became independent and formed the UAE. The country has a typically desert climate with ocean access on both sides of the country. Located in
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Why Do Humans Have Cultures?
To answer this elusive question it is necessary to define the term culture (there is not a static definition), "Culture means the total body of tradition borne by a society and transmitted from generation to generation. It thus refers to the norms, values, standards by which people act, and it includes the ways distinctive in each society of ordering the world and rendering it intelligible. Culture is...a set of mechanisms for survival, but it provides
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Culture Influences Through Mass Media
Culture Influences through Mass Media Our culture is highly influenced by mass media by promoting celebrities and ordinary people who do astonishing things into a stereotype that we base our lives on. Society as a whole is represented in the mass media and impacts our culture and how we relate on a daily basis. As much as we would like to believe that we have control over our own lives, the mass media impacts
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The Cultural Aspects of "the Bonesetter’s Daughter"
One’s cultural background can affect the way they speak, live, and for an author, the way they write. Amy Tan’s works are direct reflections of this impact. As an Asian-American author, Tan uses the cultural values of Chinese women in American culture in her novels. In order to fully understand Tan’s writing I believe one first needs to understand not only Tan’s personal background but, the Chinese culture of which she is a product. Chinese
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The Dolls House by Patricia Grace
A contributing factor to the short stories, The Doll’s House by Patricia Grace and the Pedestrian by Bradbury, is the two characters that we come to admire. Through the characterisation of Kezia Burnell and Leonard Mead we are able to understand the main idea of the stories. Kezia Burnell is a girl who offers an alternate way to the common paths of thinking in her prejudiced society. She presents a change to the prejudiced traditions
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The Cultural Identity Within Asian Writing Systems
The Cultural Identity Within Asian Writing Systems The style of Asian writing seems to be completely different from that of the western writing systems. For starters, many western languages are phonetic: words are spelled out with symbols that represent sounds. The way that a word looks has nothing to do with the meaning of the word. On the other hand, the most recognized form of Asian writing, Chinese characters, are completely pictographic. A single character
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Anguilla - a Changing Economy and a Changing Culture
Anguilla A Changing Economy and a Changing Culture The Caribbean has long drawn tourists to its beautiful beaches and tropical isles. The islands that make up the Caribbean all have their own histories, cultures, and atmospheres. Some Caribbean islands became tourist hot spots decades ago, and others are only beginning to develop their tourist industry. The island of Anguilla has recently emerged as the "it" location for celebrities and the wealthy alike. This paper will
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The House of Mirth and Daisy Miller
Edith Wharton’s “The House of Mirth” mainly describes the need of a woman to be married to a wealthy man and how she attempts to find the most appropriate suitor. “The House of Mirth” also observes the tedious physical and mental decline of a young woman who, because of her own weakness and indecisiveness, falls from social distinction into poverty and griminess. The story presents a cruel measure of reality and ends quite sadly. Instead
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United States of America and the Amish: Mainstream Culture and the Minority
United States of America and The Amish: Mainstream Culture and The Minority What does it mean to be Amish? They dress different and their lifestyle is different, but is that the only difference between the Amish and the people of the mainstream American culture? America's 150,000 member Amish minority, which is situated throughout the U.S. mainly in Indiana, Ohio, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been one of the most successful among the nation's religious and
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Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimension and Motivation
Model of National Culture To date, the most common way to study and draw conclusions about organizational behavior across cultures and explain the differences that exist is to use Hofstede’s framework. Prof. Geert Hofstede conducted perhaps the most comprehensive study of how values in the workplace are influenced by culture. Geert Hofstede analyzed a large data base of employee values scores collected by IBM between 1967 and 1973 covering more than 70 countries, from which
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Covert War: Nature Vs. Culture in the Last of the Mohicans
In James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, a superficial reading might depict the novel as the story of a battle between societies. Yet there is an underlying depiction of a far more vast conflict. From the beginning of the novel, the reader is guided by descriptions of the struggle between the two entities. Cooper writes, “there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it
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Russian Demographic and Cultural Analysis
Russia Cultural Analysis A- Population As of 2007 Russian Federation ranks tenth in the world with a total population of 141,377,2 people as of July 2007.(NationMaster). The biggest city in the Federation is the capital, Moscow, at 10,415,400 people(NationMaster). The overall sex distribution in the Russian population is 0.859 males/female however in the 15-64 year old range the distribution is much closer at 0.93 males/female. Even more interesting is the distribution between men and women
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Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas
Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate,") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significant importance. Different definitions of "culture" reflect different theoretical bases for understanding, or criteria for evaluating, human activity. Culture has been called the way of life for an entire society. As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of
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Star Wars Pop Culture Icon
American popular culture has always been a market for sales. Everything that is and has made pop culture what it is in America has been built through commercialization. The ability to sell the main product and then the countless other revenue items that go with that product define American culture. Today in the United States a person would be hard-pressed to fined a movie showing in theaters that does not have a soundtrack out, t-shirt
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Historical and Cultural Comparisom Between Canada and Usa
The tourist potential of the climatic, landscape, historical & cultural resources of Canada, & New York (USA) The designations I have chosen are both on the American continent. The statistics used are based on the European traveller. Because of the vast difference in population density of Canada and the U.S.A, I have decide to centre my comparison around the vast metropolis of New York and western Canada (Calgary-lively city lake Louise-scenic resort) Canada is situated
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Religions and Japanese Culture
Religions And Japanese Culture Many religions are popular within the Japanese culture. Two of the most influential religions, Shinto and Buddhism that help shaped a lot of Japanese values are Shinto and Buddhism, played a large role in shaping Japanese values. Numerous similarities and differences run between these two religions; nonetheless, the Japanese often believe in more than one religion at the same time. This is possible due to the polytheistic nature of most popular
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Globalisation - How It Affects Both Trade and Culture
Globalisation has made a great impact in the world by helping businesses, technologies and cultures spread throughout the globe. Today there is 12 times more world trade in goods and money than there was in 1945. (Globalisation and trade, 2001) While this can be considered as fact, there still remains a dispute about whether a global marketplace will be beneficial to everyone. Some people believe that globalisation does have the potential to create many opportunities
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Pop Culture Meets Hip-Hop
Pop Culture Meets Hip-Hop Popular culture, otherwise known as “Pop Culture,” is defined by Encarta’s Online Encyclopedia as values that come from advertising, the entertainment industry, the media, and icons of style and are targeted to the ordinary people of today’s society. Some of the more influencing displays of pop culture today include movies, teen icons, clothing, celebrities, sports, and one of the most influential things, music. The music industry plays a huge role in
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