1000 Search Results for Language and Gender
Fifty Shades of Grey
Since its availability to the reading public, the novel Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James has all but exploded in sales. The buyers are mostly women. Another phenomenon since then is the wide array of opinions the book has soli Continue Reading...
This occurrence is primarily due to the fact that one of the central tenets of feminism involves analyzing the exploitation of power in terms of its effect upon women. For the most part, a study about terrorism and intelligence relating to this fact Continue Reading...
Diversity Affects Communication
Distinct and unique cultures are developed when people live and work in association. These diverse cultures assemble an affluently varied collection of standards and customs. The consequential cultural diversity not o Continue Reading...
Human Resources Best Practices: The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company (Hershey) is a world leader, not only in the manufacture of chocolate, but also in ethical behavior. Employing approximately 13,600 people worldwide, Hershey markets its product Continue Reading...
Othello" by William Shakespeare, "Oedipus the King" translated by Robert Fagles, and Girl by Jamaica Kincaid. These are dense and rich pieces of writing that have stood the test of time. These works continue to influence and offer insight in the mod Continue Reading...
I have been volunteering lately with a church called Rod of God Ministries. I asked the Rod of God what they needed from me and they responded frankly with some embarrassment.
"We need someone to clean our toilets."
At first I thought the man was Continue Reading...
Daycare Inclusion Support Plan: Punjabi Heritage Background
In order to most successfully begin the inclusion process of a 3- to 5-year-old Punjabi child into a standard daycare facility located in the Brisbane Metropolitan Area, one must first unde Continue Reading...
International Students
"There is never a time when I miss home the most than when I look outside and I see feet of snow on the ground. I don't think I will actually get used to the weather in the U.S.A. I always seem to forget to bring heavy coats a Continue Reading...
Percussion Teacher
In forty-five hours of teaching percussion, I have learned to apply various learning theories to my work. I believe a greater understanding of these theories has improved my pedagogy and enhanced communications and interpersonal c Continue Reading...
American Political Parties
The Political Impact of Media Bias
From 1962 to his retirement in 1981, Walter Cronkite led America through such pivotal events as the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal as Continue Reading...
Art After 1980
What is art? That question has been dissected and examined from every perspective for millennia. When the concept of modern art is brought up, the immediate impression is a large canvas with solid-colored geometrical shapes that is su Continue Reading...
Juliet herself, though ostensibly a virgin, is certainly not innocent in this regard; though certain strains of chauvinism have been purportedly found in this and others of his plays, Shakespeare certainly cannot be accused of granting males a mono Continue Reading...
Thus, this needs assessment is required in order to determine the best ways to use resources in order to obtain maximum results for students. In order to conduct the assessment, then, data must be collected and analyzed. First, to address the proble Continue Reading...
" Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (2007): 68+.
A background of Woolf's early life and her continued social and historical consciousness throughout her life.
Eide, Marian. "The Stigma of Nation': Feminist Just War, Privilege, and Responsibility Continue Reading...
Today, however, that is not the case and Native American children are encouraged to become bilingual at young ages.
Children are currently encouraged to speak English however because of the many different language within the Native American race (N Continue Reading...
Culture and Counseling
In her book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, author Anne Fadiman recounts the life and death of a little Hmong girl living in Merced, California. Lia Lee had what Western doctors call epilepsy, and which the Hmong hav Continue Reading...
Interpersonal Attraction
Klohen, Eva C. & Shanghong Lao. (2003) "Interpersonal Attraction and Personality." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Vol. 85. No 4, 709-722.
Although the 'rules' of interpersonal attraction, or the mysteriou Continue Reading...
Kung of the Kalahar Desert
The Nyae !Kung tribes are nomadic groups that have lived in the Kalahari Desert in northwest Namibia, the Cuando-Cubanga province in southeast Angola and in northeast Namibia (Jenkins 2001). These nomadic hunter-gatherers Continue Reading...
Ethnographic/Social Considerations
Hall (1987) examined the effects of the one child policy from a cultural/anthropological and ethnographic perspective. Her study revealed that such policies unwittingly result in a cultural change in attitudes, b Continue Reading...
Joyce Carol Oates and the Traits of the Mid-Twentieth Century Writer
Just as society changes over time, writing changes over time. Writers today rarely write in the same forms as Shakespeare once did. As well as style, the subjects of writing change Continue Reading...
causes of teen violence, "Missing the Mark" by Jackson Katz and Sur Jhally, and "Stop Blaming Kids and TV" by Mike Males. Katz and Jhally argue that teen violence is a male-centric occurrence caused by socialization that promotes violent masculinity Continue Reading...
Kiefer, K. (2007). Chapter 8: Do students lose more than they gain in online writing classes? In Joe Lockard and Mark Pegrum (Eds.), Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and the Internet (pp. 141-151). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
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Ethiopia and their effect on U.S. Interests
REASONING ASSESSMENT OF ISSUES IN ETHIOPI
Cultures within Ethiopia
Ethiopia and their ability to influence a Local Issue 5
Ethiopia Influence on Regional Issues
Issues in Ethiopia and their effect on Continue Reading...
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monstrosity by Judith Halberstam
The Gothic Tradition
Judith Halberstam discusses many different facets of the Gothic tradition in the first chapter of her book entitled Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and Continue Reading...
Negotiation
The famous military strategy of "divide and conquer" doesn't just work on the battlefield. Sebenius describes the manner in which then-Treasury Secretary James Baker convened and conducted the so-called Plaza Accords in 1985 to form an i Continue Reading...
Trifles
Susan Glaspell's one-act play Trifles is frequently anthologized, and for good reason (Makowsky 59; Cerf 103). The play differs from a traditional drama in a number of ways, including its structure and narrative content, but arguably its mos Continue Reading...
Military
Steihm, J.H. (1996). It's Our Military, Too! Women and the U.S. Military. Pennsylvania: Temple University Press.
This book is central to studies on gender discrimination and institutionalized sexism in the American military. Given that the Continue Reading...
Business Communication Across Cultures
Business
Communication is a necessary challenge that each person faces daily. Communication is an aspect of business that is necessary to success and achievement. Many countries in the world are industrialized Continue Reading...
Native Americans
Describe what is known of the tribe's pre-Columbian history, including settlement dates and any known cultural details.
Before Columbus came to the "New World," the pre-Columbian era, the Cherokee occupied an area that today is wes Continue Reading...
Playwright Israel Zangwill
Is United States of America in the second decade of 21st century a melting pot -- the kind of melting pot that was envisaged by Israel Zangwill close to 104 years ago? The answer is an overwhelming no. Today more than ever Continue Reading...
Breda O'Hara-Davies (2010): The paradox of English, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural
Development, 31:2, 107-118
In this article the author explores the contradictions present as a result of teaching English within the Brunei society. The s Continue Reading...
Individual Communications:
People tend to assume that individuals from different color, age, religion, political views, gender, and race are difficult to communicate with. As a result of these assumptions, they start erecting barriers to effective c Continue Reading...
Christianity
Why should Christian theology be contextual? Explore this by referring to four important issues such as culture, liberation theology, feminist theology, and queer theology.
Christian theology should be contextual because religious expr Continue Reading...
Treatment of Women in Mad Men
From the 1900s to about 1960, American literature seems to organize around four major concepts about the country: That America is new, that America is big, that America is rich, and that America is free (McDonald). The Continue Reading...
stresses and challenges facing inmate families, especially children? Children of imprisoned parents suffer the most.
Children whose parents are imprisoned face adverse impacts. Criminal justice system focuses more on the individual guilt than the a Continue Reading...
Ethnocentrism
Even in the most democratic of the Western capitalist nations, equal rights were not extended to all individuals until fairly recent times. Racism and ethnocentrism were built into the world political and economic system, and authorita Continue Reading...
Their research again points to superior cognitive skills in children -- this time in the mathematical realm. However, their research only targeted a small sample of children from the same cultural background. I would like to extend to a cross-cultur Continue Reading...
Madam Eglantyne the Nun, is also an ironic charater. She eats in a very refined manner and attempts other fine characteristics such as speaking French, although she fares poorly at this. Ironically, not all her language is pure, as she swears cosnt Continue Reading...
Interval variables
Frequency distribution
Agecat
Category Percent
18-24-5%
25-34-25%
35-49-30%
50-64-25%
64+ 15%
As one may observe, most respondents in this study are in the 35-49 and in the 50-64 age groups. The least respondents are in Continue Reading...
It is argued that teacher are exposed to role conflict, role ambiguity, lack of autonomy, social isolation and lack of self-fulfillment resulting from the special position in the schools bureaucratic system. Coupled with this is the general tendency Continue Reading...