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  • Kung Fu Hustle: A Spoof of Eastern and Western Cultures

    Kung Fu Hustle: A Spoof of Eastern and Western Cultures

    What do you get when you mix American culture from the 40’s and Chinese culture? The answer to this question is Stephen Chow’s film Kung Fu Hustle (2005). In this motion picture, there are clearly aspects of not only physical comedy but also a comedic spoof of both Chinese and American cultures. Being a Chinese film, it is obvious that there would be an eastern cultural influence, but throughout the film there are many instances

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: David
  • America's African American Billionaire Robert Johnson

    America's African American Billionaire Robert Johnson

    America's African American Billionaire Robert Johnson Beunkia Bowens History of Black Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Dr. Juliet E. K. Walker December 1, 2005 Bowens 2 Introduction Robert Johnson was the first black American to achieve billionaire status after selling Black Entertainment Television to Viacom. The purpose of this paper is to look at Robert Johnson as the Black entrepreneur. Johnson is as an example of a new Black entrepreneur: he achieved his wealth primary through

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Impact of Language on Corporate Culture

    Impact of Language on Corporate Culture

    Corporations, like any organization, define and are defined by a shared culture. This culture is created through the use of language first in the creation and implementation of a shared vision articulated in a company mission statement. This vocabulary steers the organization toward what will become their shared culture. This culture is then reinforced through all manners of language, evidenced in corporate communications such as press releases and company policy, the semantics of job titles

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Jack
  • Rastafari Culture - the Extreme Ethiopian Rasta Vs. the Mellow Dallas Rasta

    Rastafari Culture - the Extreme Ethiopian Rasta Vs. the Mellow Dallas Rasta

    Rastafari Culture The Extreme Ethiopian Rasta Vs. The Mellow Dallas Rasta Many people throughout the world have a hard time understanding what it means to be a Rasta. For some their troubles in understanding Rasta’s come because they look as Rastafari as only a religion. When one does this they run into many problems. This is because Rastafari is much more than a religion. It is a way of life, a social movement, as well

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Janna
  • Cultural Analysis: Brazil

    Cultural Analysis: Brazil

    Alisia Valdez Cultural Analysis: Brazil Brief History The Portuguese colonized Brazil in the 1500. The Native tribes originally occupied the land, became slaves along with the Africans after the colonization. In 1822 Brazil became independent and slavery was abolished. An end came to the royal family in 1889 and a dictator ruled throughout the 1950's. After a great deal of turnover civilian rule was created in 1985. Geography Location. Brazil is located in South America

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Anna
  • Destruction Through Excessive Pride

    Destruction Through Excessive Pride

    In the story of Oedipus Rex, Laius and Jocaste are king and queen of Thebes, and the parents of Oedipus. Laius was warned by an oracle that he would be killed by his own son. Determined to prevent his fate, Laius pierced and bound together the feet of his newborn child and left him to die on a lonely mountain. The infant was rescued by a shepherd and given to Polybus, king of Corinth, who

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Anna
  • Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas Starting any type of business is risky but for an American to start one in the Czech Republic brings about different types of challenges. Steve Kafka, an American of Czech origin born in the United States, has decided to expand his Pizza business into the Czech Republic. This paper will (1) identify major differences, incompatibilities, risks, and mitigation factor Steve faces, (2) identify comparative advantages that exist and

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • African Americans Deserve Repartions

    African Americans Deserve Repartions

    African Americans Deserve Reparations. The purpose of this research study will be to explain why I think African Americans deserve Reparations. Africa, before so many of their beautiful people were stolen by the European who viewed them as a great source of economic growth for their colonization project. African were even sent many to other parts of the Middle East, and Europe, the Caribbean, an also in South America. Although this research has explored how

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Proton Entering South African Market Internal and External Analysis and Strategic Analysis

    Proton Entering South African Market Internal and External Analysis and Strategic Analysis

    Title page Table of contents List of figures List of tables or illustrations Executive summary Introduction Body of the report (this section is further divided into as many sections as necessary) Conclusions Recommendations Appendices Bibliography/Reference list A strategic analysis of the industry is being done to determine the attractiveness of the South African Industry. To keep a sustainable competitive advantage over time an external analysis will help to determine the opportunities and threats in the

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Culture and Civilization of Spain

    Culture and Civilization of Spain

    Daniel Ables Culture and Civilization of Spain (MWF 1200p) Dr. Perez 03 September 2005 Juana la Loca Juana la Loca had many hardships throughout her life. She battled with her mother's expectations as well as her husband's expectations. Joan was mainly concerned about maintaining her marriage rather than running a country. These conflicts led to Joan going mad. Joan was the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Joan was sixteen when her catholic parents

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Artur
  • Caribbean Crucible: History, Culture, and Globalization

    Caribbean Crucible: History, Culture, and Globalization

    Caribbean Crucible: History, Culture, and Globalization Kevin A. Yelvington In the present age of globalization, it is often forgotten that these world-encompassing processes were initiated with European expansion into the Caribbean beginning more than five hundred years ago. We now see the proliferation of overseas factories enabling owners, producers, and consumers of products to be in widely distant locales. It seems to us that in the search for profits, commercial activity has recently spread to

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Culture of Time and Culture

    Culture of Time and Culture

    Culture of Time and Culture By: Stephen Kern As a better understanding of Mass Communication and Society we were encouraged to read the book The Culture of Time and Space by Stephen Kern and analyze the information given from the book and express our ideals and outcomes from it. I believe that the ideas given to the readers from the book were very appealing and interesting, especially when combining the ideas of technology and culture.

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Jack
  • A Cultural Analysis of Mexico

    A Cultural Analysis of Mexico

    To help better understand Mexico’s culture, a brief overview of Geert Hofstede’s study of different cultures would be useful. Hofstede’s cultural taxonomy helps in the understanding of cultural differences. Hofstede proposed that people carry mental programs that are developed during their childhood and are reinforced by their culture (Lustig, Koester, 2006, p.114). Through these programs, the ideas of a culture are expressed through its principal values. Hofstede conducted a study of over 100,000 IBM employees

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: July
  • Educating America’s Children on Culture

    Educating America’s Children on Culture

    Educating America’s children on Culture The diversity that America is known for derives from the fact that American foundation is based on many cultures. The mixture of so many cultures makes it hard to pinpoint what the “American Culture,” really is. A major problem within the American society is the misunderstanding of the diverse cultures that are intertwined. Today many would blame discrimination and racial profiling on ignorance, but on whose part? The definition of

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Victor
  • Culture

    Culture

    Chapter II Culture The United States is one nation with many ways of life. Understanding what we mean by “culture” and how this country is a multicultural society is the focus of this chapter. In global perspective, of course, ways of life differ even more. The 6.2 billion people living on the Earth are all members of a single biological species: Homo sapiens. Even so, differences between people within the United States, and so

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Culture Transplant-Nummi Case

    Culture Transplant-Nummi Case

    A Great Experiment Of Culture Transplant Cross-culture management, Prof. Alfred Kieser XiaoJun Ma Culture is a set of basic assumptions, which shared solutions to universal problems of external adaptations and internal integration—which have evolved over time and are handed from one generation to the next. This is a general definition of culture. Actually there are many definitions exist, some concentrated on values, others on shared patterns of behaviors and meaning. And what we are going

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Top
  • Augustine the African

    Augustine the African

    Augustine Augustine the African Augustine was born in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria) in 354 and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius (modern Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. In the years between he lived out a career that seems to moderns to bridge the gap between ancient pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages. But to Augustine, as to his contemporaries, that gap separated real people and places they knew,

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Steve
  • Obesity in African American Women

    Obesity in African American Women

    Review of Literature Introduction Despite the well-publicized health and emotional consequences of obesity, a successful weight-loss industry, and a high rate of voluntary dieting, the prevalence of obesity in African American women continued to increase. For the most part, African American women are aware of the serious health risks related to obesity. Honest attempts to diet and exercise properly usually resulted in gaining of the weight loss and additional pounds in the process. A limited

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Steve
  • Culture in My Organization

    Culture in My Organization

    Culture in my organization I work for government funded non-profit organization Catholic Charities. I will address few organizational behavior aspects in my organization: communication flow, diversity and language. Effective commutation in every organization is important and it leads to success of one organization. It is a widely recognizable fact that the communication flow is what keeps any company or organization running. However, if the communication process in the organization is in some kind of a

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Tommy
  • American Pop Culture

    American Pop Culture

    I would describe popular American culture as things we do for entertainment as a society. Something you can safely assume that your neighbor does too. Over the course of three days I compiled a list of what I assume is popular American culture. They are going to eat at Carl’s Jr., McDonald’s, Panda Express and Taco Bell. We also watched a few movies like Awake, Rendition and Just Friends. I also watched a show on

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Culture

    Culture

    Steve Kafka would like to take a chance. A chance of opening a business in a country where he was not born, however he has some cultural history associated with the country of choice. It will take a lot of determination, patience, creativity, and a lot of fortitude. Mr. Kafka would like to open his pizza business in the Czech Republic. Steve’s origin is of Czech, however, does not speak the language and is prepared

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Artur
  • Tattoo’s : A Permanent Mark on Pop Culture

    Tattoo’s : A Permanent Mark on Pop Culture

    The word tattoo comes from the Tahitian "tatu" which means "to mark something." It is arguably claimed that tattooing has existed since 12,000 years BC. The purpose of tattooing has varied from culture to culture and its place on the time line. But there are similarities that prevail form the earliest known tattoos to those being performed on people around the world today. Tattoos have always had an important role in ritual and tradition. In

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Jack
  • Extended Formal Analysis: Biographical and Cultural Criticism on the Lords of Discipline

    Extended Formal Analysis: Biographical and Cultural Criticism on the Lords of Discipline

    Extended Formal Analysis: Biographical and Cultural Criticism on The Lords of Discipline Conroy displays his life through his novel, The Lords of Discipline, to give readers a visual demonstration of how life connections can transform the entity of a novel. Conroy’s attendance to the Citadel, his family, and the South helped influence his innovative writing style. “A lifetime in a Southern family negated any possibility that he [Will/Conroy] could resign from the school under

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • A Postmodern Cultural Perspective in Lolita and a Streetcar Named Desire

    A Postmodern Cultural Perspective in Lolita and a Streetcar Named Desire

    A postmodern cultural perspective in Lolita and A Streetcar Named Desire Postmodernism has emerged as a reaction to modernism thoughts and “well-established modernist systems”. (Wikipedia, 2005) Specific to Nabokov’s Lolita and Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire is the idea that both of the novels are written under the view of postmodernism as a cultural movement and that they are broadly defined as the condition of Western society especially after World War II (period in which the

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Harry Potter as a Popular Culture - Predictions for the Future.

    Harry Potter as a Popular Culture - Predictions for the Future.

    The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling is at the heart of a popular culture. Through the analysis of the culture’s current situation and trends, elements of its probable future can be extrapolated in the areas of technology, socialisation, ownership and control. Harry Potter, like all popular cultures began on a local level in June of 1997 with the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in an Edinburgh bookshop. After early success in

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Anna