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Each family has a recipe that is very significant and special for it. For our family this recipe is Peking Duck Tacos. This is a recipe of Chinese cuisine that is very significant for our family. We got used to preparing it for the biggest celebrations and all our friends know about it. This is a ‘statement’ dish of our family. It was prepared by the members of our family long before I was born. This dish is very unusual for the American cuisine because it is far more complicated than the most dishes of it, and also it ...

Food is a fundamental necessity of life and therefore becomes a rich conveyor of cultural traditions and norms and attracts patterns of symbolic significance much like a magnet, for example, who is entitled to eat with whom, and when, and how food is to be shared. The cultural understandings surrounding the sharing of food illuminates social dynamics by distinguishing cohesive social units and social distance. Indeed, it can be said that a culture is encoded in the expectations of behavior associated with the communal act of dining. The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical continuity of ...

This Pampers advertisement, in which a baby wearing a Pampers diaper plays outside, facts and figures surrounding the baby’s diaper, uses many different strategies in order to appeal to its target audience. In this particular case, the target audience is likely adult women of child-rearing age, who have young boys or girls who are toddlers. The socio-economic status is probably middle-to-upper class, and the parents of these young toddlers are likely well-educated, as they are likely in the market for a product to use on their children and are willing to look for diapers with sophisticated features and ...

I visited Nizi Sushi Japanese Bar and Restaurant in Newark. The intention of this visit was to identify the Japanese culture food culture abroad. While a number of reviews about Japanese Restaurants in Japan show that they tend to specialize of a particular variety of food, I realized that the restaurant had a lot of foodstuffs to offer. Some critics assert that Japanese Restaurants abroad tend to serve a wide range of food, but maintains the Japanese culture (Ashkenazi, Jacob & Ashkenazi, 2013). Additionally, I needed to know the source of Japanese food here in Newark and the major population visiting these joints. Clearly, ...

Wonton

One of the most popular Chinese dishes all over the world is surely wonton. The food is considered a very important thing for a good living by innumerable people all across the globe owing to its taste and preparation. It surely titillates the taste buds and leaves one wanting for more. The word “wonton” is pronounced in Chinese pinyin as “hún tun” or “hún tún”, and in Cantonese the word is pronounced as “wěn tēn.” This delicious dish is, in fact, regional pasta that has its origins in the country of China. Thus, the dish has ...

Arguably Postman’s most interesting and controversial book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, is quite an enlightening book. While it is laden with a multiplicity of themes, the core factor is public discourse – a factor whose essence makes media the most prominent topic. The book is best summarized by its subtitle: Public Discourse in the age of Show Business. The book prominently focuses on the role and influence of media on different cultures along the timeline of American history. Clearly, Postman tends to argue that the essence of media deteriorates by the day, implying a continuous negative progress in the social development of ...

HIV/AIDs influence a large number of individuals worldwide, but in US, Baltimore is rated the second for HIV/AIDs rates, with over 16,000 known cases in the city. This is consistent with the CDC report of HIV data for the U.S. The Baltimore City Commission on HIV/AIDs Prevention and Treatment accepts that in any event an alternate 6,000 occupants are presently infected with this malady yet have not been tested, either on the grounds that they decline to be, or lack of the necessary knowledge. Baltimore has a special history concerning HIV/AIDs. The city's occupants make up a thin 15% of ...

African-American Crops in America: An Overview

The wide range of food crops was directly brought from Africa throughout the transatlantic slave trade. These staple foods were eaten by enslaved African-American. The foods were blended with meat and fish, or with the palm oil. The meals used by the African-Americans comprised of black-eyed peas, okra, callaloo, seasoned with pepper and salt. Other food crops from the African continent included peanuts, sorghum, melon, watermelon, yams, and sesame. These harvests were incorporated into the mainstream American foodways and were a well-known major ingredient found in the original cookbooks written by local Southern Americans. All through the period, though, ...

Discuss the validity of cultural censorship in children’s media studied in class from two different perspectives

Abstract The media has been proven the main source of violence and aggressive behavior shown by children in the modern culture. Censorship programs have been used to determine the effect of children exposure to violent films and messages. The following is an argument on the role of the media and television in the social life of an individual irrespective of age, gender, sex, or religion. In order to discuss the validity of cultural censorship in children, two programs were selected. These are the Sesame Street and the Best of Families. The most significant theory used on this discussion ...

Adventure Island and Busch Gardens are both SeaWorld recreational parks located at Tampa, Florida. This essay aims to compare and contrast the two parks.

Theme and Land area

Adventure Island is Busch Gardens’ water park. It is located right across Busch Gardens and has an area of 30 acres. It mimics a beach atmosphere which offers lots of fun on the sand and water. Busch Gardens on the other hand, is more of a nature and wildlife park. It has an area of 335 acres, much bigger than Adventure Island.

Park Hours

Park hours for Adventure Island begins at either 9:30 am or 10:00 am and may ...

This paper reflects on three papers which report the results of researches and experiments conducted, to study the effect of media on language acquisition and language development of children under the age of three years. The papers report observational studies and experiments done in the U.S. and Thailand, and assessment was done based on the Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) scores, various Peabody Individual Achievement Tests for reading and comprehension, Memory for Digit Span assessment, and Denver – II developmental assessment. All the three papers conclude with similar findings that there is a negative association between intense TV viewing by children of ...

Abstract

Have you ever read about the great literature by Malcolm entitled “The Tipping Point”? It’s a great book about making a big difference. Actually it’s not just plainly about making difference at all but rather, it’s a book about how little things could make a big difference. In economics, it’s like investing a small capital that would surely turn into a multi-million dollar business which is quite awesome. In the book, different rules and laws have been tackled including the three rules of epidemics. It is also widely known as the tipping points of epidemics. The book also discussed about ...

Question One

Jenkins’ discussion of global convergence and pop cosmopolitanism, focuses on the idea of the world’s youth seeking to be a part of a wider, global community. He first discusses the concept of internet phenomena by introducing the ‘Bert Is Evil’ franchise, created by a Filipino high school student: “[he] created a Photoshop collage of Sesame Street’s Bert interacting with terrorist leader, Osama Bin Laden.” (Jenkins 114) As a result of posting this image and various other similar ones to his homepage, the student found his work being utilised by terrorist, anti-American forces. Undoubtedly, the student did not intend to assist the terrorist ...