Essays on Western Culture

Question 1: Arabic Perfume Unique Selling Propositions and Position Strategy in the Global Market

Pursuit defines unique selling propositions as an act that sets a business to stand out uniquely because of what it produces in the market. In most cases, companies make mistakes of wanting to be known for everything as soon as they enter the market. One of the Arabic Perfume propositions is that their fragrance produces are descent and anchored in the local’s culture, and traditions and consumers use it a lot, and the businesses have a tradition of gifting the fragrance. For this reason, a Middle Eastern customer can buy several units of same scent perfumes (Elizabeth Arden ...

LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF THE PERCEPTION OF AFRICAN WOMEN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UK AS THE RESULT TO THE CURRENT TREND OF INADEQUATE CLINICAL INTERVENTION FOR POSTNATAL DEPRESSION PATIENTS Limited understanding of the perception of African Women Immigrants in the UK the Cause of the Current trend of inadequate Clinical Intervention

Introduction

Over the recent decades, the number of immigrants settling in the UK has grown exponentially to give the country a new outlook on cultural diversity. With these social changes, new demands have been imposed on the healthcare sector to provide health services in ways that promote social justice. According to ...

For many years, men have always been dominant over women in various societies. They are always praised for their accomplishments or any achievements they make. In most cases, we ignore or fail to acknowledge the fact that women also play a huge role in the society and they ought to be appreciated. For the longest period, women in many cultures stay at home and take care of their children and husbands. Therefore, women are the backbone of the home, and they keep the society from falling apart and ultimately keep it functional. It is clear that without women, men ...

Introduction

The jewelry manufacturing and sales industry has been posting exponential growth rates in the past years. A lot of companies that operate in this industry have likewise exhibited significant upward growth rates. One of those companies is Pandora. Pandora is a Danish multinational corporation whose core business involves the manufacture and retail of jewelries. The company was founded in 1982 by Per Enevoldsen. The company was, at that time, engaged in small scale jewelry importation. It imported pre-manufactured jewelries from Thailand and sold it to its customers for a profit. Enevoldsen, upon seeing that there is a great potential ...

Introduction

Desirable Daughters is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee that seeks to illustrate the intricate relations that exist between the Indian caste system and the Western experiences of the immigrants in an effort towards reconciling the world views regarding the feminist gap between the two cultures. In a bid to reveal the intricacies of the caste system in India, Mukherjee delves deeper into the nature of three sisters in the novel and the circumstances they find themselves as they try to fit in different societies. From the outset, it is worth noting that the three sisters from Calcutta belong to ...

Introduction: For this formative essay, I have chosen the developmental stage: 12-18 years of age. The paper looks into the influence of physical changes, psychological changes and emotional changes on the conscious and subconscious mind of children aged 12-18 years of age. The period is also called adolescence stage. During this stage, the child experiences dramatic emotionally and mentally transformation. Many parents complain about the difficulty of handling the behavior of the child. There are also differences in the way child experience things at this stage. During the beginning of this period, most children achieve puberty. As the child ...

The history of African people has been plagued by constant oppression and unethical appropriation. Although it is a land that has substantial talent, its people have perpetually been denigrated and abused. Even though there are a lot of people that believe that Africans are less than others, most of Western culture is profoundly indebted to Africa, especially due to the intellectual theft that the Greeks committed upon them. Greek culture and philosophy is one of the main influences of Western civilization. Many people believe that they were the founders of many of the rational achievements that modern society has ...

Political Order

In the history of man and his pursuit of power, there are various lines which enemies drew upon each other as they seek to make their points stand out. The twentieth century remains one of the most historic times for the end of major wars between men, paving the way for the future movements, rules, and guidelines. Political power among major nations led to the beginning of World War I and II, which led to the death of millions of people, leaving some of the nation’s poorer than before. One might argue out that these wars were unnecessary ...

Western culture and Chinese cultures today have various similarities and differences. They developed almost independently of each other due to geographical circumstances and other geopolitical factors. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and review the similarities and differences between Western culture and Chinese culture.

Background of Comparisons

Western culture is fundamentally Eurocentric culture. It refers to the kind of culture that is prevalent in Europe, Latin America, North America and some Eurocentric societies around the world. However, up till about 500 years ago, European culture was developed and flourished in Western Europe. Chinese culture on the other hand seem to ...

Social Norms

It is believed by professionals and sociologist that everyone in society has as social role to play in the community. In society people are Social norms are a social constructed created and shared by individuals in a community. These norms are defined by actions and behaviors performed by people in society which they are expected by other people in society to act this way. For example, in today’s society, In Western culture, it is a social norm to give an individual personal space if they are a stranger, and if you are forced to encroach upon their personal ...

CHAPTER THREE: MAN AND ARAB MASCULINITY

As Carabí and Armengol (2014) show in their study, Arab masculinity is a hybrid concept entailing adherence to traditional patriarchal values held for centuries in the Arabic world and supported by the religious component of Islam; however, it also “allows liberal values” which might contradict this traditional patterns. Cultural and societal representation of Arab masculinity is thereby rather complex and might emerge in a variety of contexts including family and society on the larger scale. In these representations, stereotypical images of man in traditional Arab context might enclose controversies and correlations between liberal-secular masculinity and conservative masculinity image entrenched ...

The opium war which took place in the 19th century was one of the first major defeats of the Chinese government. China had a tremendous amount of wealth which was mostly attributed to the tea trade in the country. Britain had a great demand for this tea, while the country had nothing to offer the Chinese government in return. China was also ignorant to the western revolution and considered the western culture barbaric. China was a traditional country which held strongly to its traditions and culture. While China hoped to keep its culture free of the western culture effect, ...

Africa has traditionally been a continent of mixed fortunes, where real-life stories of hope and despair abound. African traditions, values and customs have been slowly influenced by colonization and eventual globalization that has turned the world into a global village. The novel, Things fall apart, is a reflection of the extent to which Africans were tied to their beliefs and customs, as a violation of those customs was regarded as being disrespectful to the gods. Resistance to the new values and beliefs as brought by the missionaries are resisted since the communities regard them as inclined on disrupting the ...

This research is used to investigate the efficiency levels in the banking sectors in various Arabian countries, while considering the role of economic development and different financial reforms taking place, and how these reforms impact the banking industry performance and efficiency (Al-Jarrah, 2007). The comparison of these financial institutions to American or western culture nations shows how these reforms can help or cripple banking industries around the world. Efficiency estimation techniques can be categorized into two groups including parametric and nonparametric methods. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is an example of a nonparametric method of analysis, which is believed to ...

Introduction

Definition of Culture: What is culture? Why is culture important? How does literature define culture? Symbols and Language What are symbols and language? What is the importance of symbols and language in culture? Norms and Values What are customs and values? How do people define norms and values? Which values are important in the modern world? Which values are important in the West? Which values are important in Doha, Qatar? Conclusion What is culture? What are the most important aspects of culture? Summary Culture Introduction Culture involves the shared set of values, beliefs, customs, traditions, morals, knowledge, art, language, ...

BUSINESS STUDY REPORT:

This report is devoted to the YEO’s Beverage Company. The report has four main parts. The first part is an introduction where the general information about the company, the environment where it operates and its main competitors are presented. The second part is microeconomic analysis. The factors of production and its cost structure are examined there. The third part macroeconomic analysis where macroeconomic environment in which the business operates are discussed. The forth part is the analysis of sustainability and the impact of business operations on the environment. At the end of the report, there is a conclusion ...

The western intervention into the Middle East is one that has been seen to cause an unending debate of whether the move is of great help to the region or a source of problems. Many will agree with the statement that western intervention, or westernization for that manner, though showing countless evidences of force and spite, has in its process brought many positive changes and been hugely beneficial in a manner that without it, the Middle East would never have been where it is today. However, there are many who still have the belief that the countries would have ...

In his work “Gay Science”, Nietzsche examines the nihilism which was characterizing the contemporary Europe. Nietzsche believes that with the scientific inventions, people have lost their human and the virtues that describe Christians. This is why he says that “God is dead”; that we have killed God with our actions. His work was an explanation of fear due to the abandonment of religion. He believes that human beings have ceased to acknowledge the divinity of God, and as a result, God has abandoned us. For thousands of years, the western world has been guided by the rule of God. ...

Although I had had several holidays in Western cities like London, Paris, New York and Berlin, I had never got any opportunity to visit a city in the Eastern Hemisphere. I had always been enthusiastic to have fabulous time in major cities of the world in the Eastern Hemisphere like Tokyo. I felt most enthusiastic about Tokyo because it is considered the capital of the Eastern Hemisphere. Tokyo is one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, and it functions as both the largest city and the capital of Japan. During the last summer, I decided to have an 11 day ...

In his article, Brian Yazzie Burkhart talks about differences in the comprehensions and perceptions of the world between representatives of western nations and American Indians. He contrasts the underlying principles of comprehension of these two nations by stating that representatives of Western nations seek for a reason and evidence, while American Indians’ way is more intuitive-based and rely on feelings. The characters of Coyote and Thales only prove that American Indian epistemology is very different from the epistemology of Western nations and this difference is obvious in every aspect. He easily finds evidence to his idea by referring to ...

Culture: the most important source of “Soft Power”

In the 21st century, everyone is facing a significant change of daily life. This fact gets seen in the Rapid growth of technology and the economy. These developments facilitate our ability to connect with people from different cultural backgrounds. Through interacting with people from different cultures, we get a deeper understanding of each other. Culture refers to the customs, beliefs and arts and many other aspects of a particular group or society. Culture brings progressive force to the society in terms of human equality, women rights, etc. Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho once commented on the power of culture: “Culture ...

Abstract

The Biblical teachings on love has in the Old Testament, Song of Songs are misinterpreted and applied wrongly in the Western culture. The Song of Songs asks that we should love our families and not do anything that threatens their happiness. However, the Western Culture does not follow that, people do things that hurt their families. That is the reason divorces and happiness are common in that culture. This paper discusses familial and spouse love as applied in the Culture of the West and in the Old testament. Furthermore, from the old testament we find that familes that obey ...

The distrust between East and West may be as old as the confluence of the two parts of the world themselves. After all, it was during his attempt to conquer India that Alexander the Great fell ill with the fever that was the only thing that kept him from world conquest (Biography.com Editors). The ongoing war between the feverishly fervent establishment of Islam and the coolly complacent secular-Christian West is only becoming more and more entrenched by the news cycle, as the West seems to have forgotten that it’s only been a few centuries since its leaders were ...

In modern globalized world, an intertwining of numerous cultures takes place. Western values and lifestyle are known to be specifically actively spreading all over the world. Urbanization is one of the trends brought in Asia from the West. For instance, according to the research of the World Bank, from 2000 to 2010 around 200 million people from East Asia moved to urban area; it can be assumed that this tendency is to a great extent associated with the imitation a Western urban lifestyle by Asian people (“East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape”). It is in particular captivating to observe ...

The current publication on the literature of post-colonialism presents a lot of history as well as defining the evolution of certain societies. Author’s concerned with postmodernism have tried to explain the origin of societal characteristics that never existed until after the colonial era. Much of this literature dwell on the assumption that the colonizers were entirely superior compared to the characteristics of the colonies. India, in this case, presents a perfect study scenario where the interaction between the colonizer – Britain – and the immediate society surfaces behavioral changes. Such literature is well presented in the Novel entitled, “God of ...

Abstract

The Hmong is one of the many human race groups who at the moment are occupying Minnesota and California cities found in the United States of America. The group is from different countries found in Asia for instance China, others from Vietnam whereas others have their roots in the country of Thailand. The research seeks provide in-depth understanding of traditional cultural practices of Hmong people, comparing them with present time in order to motivate critical and creative thinking about differences in western culture and also prompt more research questions in the intercultural communication frontier. This paper will seek to ...

Chinua Achebe manages, in a highly entertaining and educative way, to present the theme of collectivism in the Nigeria before the merciless yet highly effective occupation of the British in Nigeria. The Ibo society that forms the setting of the book is a microcosm of not just Nigeria but also the rest of the Eastern countries. Chinua Achebe tells the story of the people of Igbo land of Eastern Nigeria before and immediately after their contact with the Western culture. The story revolves around the life of Okwonkwo, a tragic hero, depicting his birth, how he rises from a ...

Religion has been the foundation of arrangement and strife of social orders, where both viewpoints make a noteworthy commitment to our comprehension of society. However, a new form of religion known as capitalism religion has developed which is now the source of hope and fulfilment for people in the modern world. This exposition will look into a structuralist and interpretative position on the effect of the capitalism religion on society and how religion can be used to help people understand it as a false hope. The scholars that will be utilized are Karl Marx, Max Weber, and David Loy. ...

Is the idea of human rights a universal concept, or does it represent Western cultural imperialism?

What do we know about human rights? According to the United Nations definition, “human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status.” All humans are equal in their rights without any discrimination. In this article, I will analyze the difference of understanding of human rights between the Western and the Eastern worlds and will try to answer the question: Is the idea of human rights a universal concept, or does it represent Western cultural imperialism? James Paul and Joe Stork state “ ...

1. Introduction Child sexual abuse is both a global problem and a crime to which there are seldom any witnesses and which more often than not remains undetected. Disclosure by sexually abused children is the most effective method by which assistance and intervention can be provided in a timely fashion. However, there are several barriers to such disclosure. The purpose of this paper is to review and describe the major barriers to disclosure of child sexual abuse and explore the methods to overcome these barriers. The paper reviews literature about child sexual abuse and disclosure with a key focus ...

Dress is regarded as marker of identity. Dress in which veil is given importance is common is Middle Eastern clothing style. However, majority of women when talk about dress, they consider fashion, modesty, and convenience with reference to their religion and values as their reasons and logic for veiling. But, it is also a fact that every style related to clothing has its own aesthetic, and is an indication of control, social discipline, and pleasure (Ingham & Lindisfarne-Tapper, 2014). Dress is used for creation and confirmation or contesting collective and personal identities. This is because of the fact that every ...

Introduction

Different societies have common cognitive styles that influence the business practices, thinking patterns, and the perception that characterizes their nationwide cultures. China is essentially a diverse nation. The Chinese culture differs significantly from the Western culture. As a matter of fact, the Chinese culture is a collectivist culture while the Western culture is an individualistic culture. The Chinese people value unity. Confucianism, which is the basis of the traditional Chinese culture, is a vital source of their unity. Ideally, Confucianism centers on the notion of harmonious relationships. It is important to note that Confucianism affects the Chinese business practices ...

Islam: Empire of Faith

The purpose of this essay is to review the documentary video; Islam: Empire of faith from different perspectives. We are going to discuss the credibility of its content, the level of audience engagement and the sequence of information narration, coming at the end to an overall rating for the document. The documentary is divided into major three parts; the first demonstrates the history of Islam and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), while the second and the last ones narrate in details, the expansion of the Islamic Empire and the ups and downs that it has faced through different centuries.

The documentary ...

The Growth in Internet Use Has Affected Cultures Around the World, Leading to a Westernized, Homogenous World Culture

The concept of globalization is sometimes discussed as an undesirable feature of the current geopolitical realities of the world. However, in reality, globalization is an immutable feature of the current human race. Human beings have been striving to travel and to stretch their legs since their earliest days. Some might ascribe some early form of imperialism to this behavior, while others might suggest that human beings, as a species, have a distinct curiosity that compels them forward. One of the impacts of going out to explore the world is that cultural interactions take place. These cultural interactions have been ...

Psychology

Introduction The concept of cross-cultural psychology can be regarded as a comparative and critical study regarding the effects of culture on human psychology. It is often linked to cultural psychology, but the two concepts encompasses separate characteristic. Cultural psychology deals with the interaction between culture and psychology while cross-cultural psychology is more a comparative field. The discussion will highlight the context of cultural and cross-cultural psychology by examining a case study in order to draw out relevant definitions. In addition, the two concepts will be analyzed to determine relationship and identify the methodology associated with cross-cultural psychology research. Lastly, ...

Introduction

Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation is a story of a young woman explaining her endeavors after migrating to Canada with her family at the age of 13. She then moves to the United States and later immigrates to London. Lost in Translation by Nicola Mones is a story of a young American woman who tries to fit in China as a translator. In Lost In Translation by Eva Hoffman and Lost In Translation by Nicole Mones, both Hoffman and Mones successfully cultivate our appreciation for cultural differences by exposing the reader to foreign languages and terms, by challenging ...

Van Helsing as a Protector: The Role of the Vampire Hunter the Present-Day Vampire Culture

Abstract The vampire culture grew out of the Gothic genre and became extremely popular throughout the world. The first and most famous representative of the vampire cast is Dracula, who first appeared as a protagonist in Bram Stocker’s book with the same name. Dracula was created as a predator that hid within his threatening castle, and attacked helpless women. The author also introduced Van Helsing, the hero who acted as a protector of women and fought to destroy the monster. However, Van Helsing remained a less popular and well-known character as compared to the monster he hunted. In ...

Women in African culture

Nowadays we live in times of women emancipation. Men and women are equal in their rights and any display of gender discrimination is punishable by law. However, such situation was not common less then hundred years ago. The role of women in any society is hard to reevaluate. Women give birth to new people, they take care of their relatives, are homemakers and muses. Moreover, in era of women emancipation they run business and even rule countries. Such statements especially true for women in developed countries. Let us find out women’s position in Africa. At the beginning of ...

Growth of the internet affecting various cultures, leading to a western, homogenized world culture

Today, the world’s most prominent piece of technology is the internet. Present in every home, school, college and workplace of the developed world, the internet is also present in the developing parts of the world, and its influence and use are only multiplying with the passing days. The internet has brought convenience and expediency into the lives of its users, and it has changed the way people communicate and retrieve information. The internet has altered the way people maneuver their lives, and it has become so deeply ingrained in everyday tasks in the present day, that life is ...

The process of change on political, economic, and cultural levels through interaction and increased interconnectedness sums up the concept of globalization. Globalization arose as a result of numerous factors including technological advancement. The onset of the globalization phenomenon marked the start of various challenges as well as opportunities. The exchange of ideas and increased interaction among cultures, nations and economic blocs has been instrumental in defining various aspects of society. The focus of this paper is on the role of the globalization in shaping the both the contemporary and historic media and the culture of the world. The basis ...

Japanese Western-Style Painting

Introduction The history of art in Japan begins with ceramics production in the tenth-millennium B.C.E by the early inhabitants of the region. Development of religious and secular traditions contributed to the growth of art in Japan featuring Confucian and Buddhist themes such as the Zen philosophy. Over years, Japanese art gained considerable influence from foreign cultures particularly China and Korea (Akiyama, 2000, p.64). The western culture had vast influence on various parts of the world and gained identification as part of modernization. On the verge of economic development, Japan made a crucial decision to embrace modernity since it promised ...

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Reaction Paper # Article Title: "Temperament, Socioemotional Functioning, and Peer Relationships in Chinese and North American Children" The impact of temperament on the mechanisms of psychological adjustment and the process of socialization is obvious, and its importance cannot be underestimated; however, there exist other factors – external ones – that are also essential components in the system of the adaptive functions development. It is worth noting that development occurs in a particular situational context, namely cultural environment, that to a great extent determines the peculiarities of individuals’ social behavior. In their article, the authors draw attention to this fact stating that “During ...

Art & Architecture

Cultural diversity has been one of the social and anthropological traits of human civilization. Many anthropologists define culture as the collection of traits. While defining the term culture Keesing (1974) says that culture is the heritage of learned symbolic behavior that makes humans human. Geographical factors and natural surroundings are majorly responsible in shaping the cultures and civilizations of the world. The conception behind the variety in civilization is to survive by tuning ourselves with the surrounding. Hence one cannot conclude that a particular culture is superior and a particular culture is inferior. Imitating any culture blindly is also ...

Essay 3.1

Coldplay’s “Hymn for the Weekend” The geographical differences have been neutralized by the advent of technology and scientific discoveries, thus letting people from one culture explore the cultural environment of a totally different corner of the world. Thus, one might come to understand that the intertwined relationships between the nations and the predominance of globalization have opened avenues for cultural exchange among communities and ethnicities of the world. Now, one can take into account the recent music video released by the famous band, Coldplay, titled “Hymn for the Weekend.” The West has this tendency to have an orientalist ...

When students seek to study internationally, or more specifically when international students seek to study at English-speaking universities, they are often instructed to take a test that measures their level of mastery as it relates to the use of English. Among the most common of tests used for this purpose is the IELTS. However, there is some doubt regarding the effectiveness of using these tests. As such, the primary research question of interest will be: In what ways are the IELTS tests inaccurate in assessing the verbal and written performance levels of ESL learners?

How does the IELTS Test ...

It is difficult to give a definition to happiness. It is possible to provide the attributes that define happiness. Some will say it is fame, reputation, financial stability, while the others claim happiness is to love and be loved, have a lot of friends, gain new knowledge, or to be inspired. The main issue is that definition of happiness is individual for every human being. People may believe that extrinsic goals and material things will make them happy and the others insist that intrinsic objectives are far more superior. There is a body of research suggesting that the happiness ...

Introduction

It is a common saying that “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”. However, the major question that a significant number of people are asking is whether this is just a saying or it is an actual reflection of what happens in the society (Women in American Media: A Culture of Misperception, para.2). A significant number of sociologists have focused on debates that are geared towards the determination of whether the conventional media industry has an influence on the definition of beauty. It is apparent that there is a particular standard that the media has associated with beauty ...

The youths of the current generation often view contemporary trends as progressive and more superior to the old ways. Therefore, many of them tend to rebel against the culture of their parent’s generation. In developed and industrialized societies, people tend to embrace individualism and are more bent on pursuing material gains and comfort. On the contrary, in the traditional African society, collective participation of all members of the society in various aspects of life is highly embraced. In the novel, Amai Zenzele views the western culture as a threat to her daughter as she lives in the very ...

The statement highlights an internal struggle. It indicates Junior’s background, which he mentions as his area of residence, specifically for the indigenous Indian. His journey towards Reardan sparks a change. He becomes aware of a calling he has to answer. Upon arriving in Reardan, it is more evident to him, that he was becoming less Indian. From his statement, it is evident that change was necessary to change his life. The theme of this paper highlights native Indian culture and the conflicts it faced when relating to the American culture and how assimilating the American way of life ...

Abstract

In the globalized world, it is difficult to preserve national culture uninfluenced by tendencies and trends that are brought up by technological development or changes in lifestyles. Even such conservative societies as Saudi Arabia or other East Asian nations are subject to dramatic changes in the minds of people. For centuries, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s culture was under a great influence of religion, traditions, the way of living of the ancestors, and rich heritage that allows it to be influential and independent. Islam influenced the culture of the country a lot. However, some historical incidents affected women ...

Introduction

In most of the international negotiations in business, many parties that have a different background in culture and countries do come together under one platform to discuss some issues that have mutual benefits or those that may be conflicting. Such kinds of negotiations are usually more beneficial to the parties, and they lead to some development activities among the involved parties However, where there are some etiquette differences, the negotiations may not go on well since there could be cultural conflicts among the parties that are involved. To explore how etiquette may affect the negotiations, this academic work aims ...

The series of photos are used to describe the relationship between diverse cultures and photography. The events recorded in the picture series are all set in bicultural settings, and their moods and activities are at this moment discussed below. For instance, the first picture from the movie ‘the American dream’ describes a couple in a kitchen. The kitchen furnishing is modern. The kitchen sink depicts the modernity of the kitchen. However, the utensils are antiques, showing that they were not sourced from the modern era. The lady standing is probably western, judging from her jawlines and height. The hair ...

The geographical differences have been neutralized by the advent of technology and scientific discoveries, thus letting people from one culture explore the cultural milieu of a totally different corner of the world. Thus, one might come to understand that the intertwined relationships between the nations and the predominance of globalization have opened avenues for cultural exchange among communities and ethnicities of the world. Now, one can take into account the recent music video released by the famous band, Coldplay, titled “Hymn for the Weekend.” The West has this tendency to have an ethnocentric approach while gauging the Indian culture ...

World literature

Abstract Different literary works have displayed women in different contexts and status. Woman’s obligation and responsibility in social life has been shown in poetical expressiveness. Different poets have often moved from their present observation to the past reflection. The essay compares and discusses the two poems “Mang” and Tu Fu’s “Recruiting Officer of Shi-Hao.” Women and girls in families have often faced discrimination and denied basic human rights. The Chinese community has always considered women to be different and inferior to men. The two poems display the suffering of a woman, whether she becomes a wife or ...

Introduction:

Through analysis of the influence of African art on modern western artists it is evident that during the early to mid twentieth century there was a large influx in art that utilized African styles. This occurred due to the influences that certain artists had from their travels to remote locations and the encounters that they had with the cultures there. The unique and often appealing aesthetics that they encountered caused them to reconsider the underlying particularities of African art. In doing so, they would inevitably co-opt these artistic styles into their own western traditions in order to develop wholly ...

For many years, Canada has been embroiled in disputes over alleged cases of misconstrued education system that had adverse implications for the Aboriginal communities’ cultural values. In what has been termed as cultural genocide, the legitimization of the residential education system was considered to be the helm of Canada’s historical lowdown (Meredith, 2011). Several concerns have been netted for as long as the history of Canada. There have been numerous ethical and cultural concerns about the existence of the Residential Education System within the academic circles of the Aboriginal jurisdiction. The problem of cultural erosion has had a ...

Domino’s Pizza in a New Market

History Domino’s Pizza, being the largest pizza franchised chain in the United States, shares the same history with Pizza hut, which is its rival. It was started by two brothers, Tom and James Monaghan in the nineteen sixties through borrowed equity. They bought a Michigan Pizzeria and named it Dominick’s and ran it jointly. Later on James sold his shares to raise money for a second hand car. As a result, Tom revitalized the company’s image including changing its name to Domino’s Pizza. The company had grown to more than 200 franchise businesses in the ...

Persepolis is a fascinating autobiography of Marjane Satrapi detailing her childhood life as she lived in Iran in the course an aftermath of the Islamic war. She chose the title for her book in honor of one of the ancient cities in Iran where the fierce battle took place. The book presents a story of Marjane forced to wear a veil as she goes to school by her family in honor of Islamic culture though her family was secular. It provides an edifying glimpse of hardships and violence that Satrapi, the main protagonist, had to endure as a young ...

Question 1. What I think of when I hear the word 'culture' ?

Answer. The word 'culture' connotes a set of norms, practices, beliefs, and opinions of a particular person or community. I feel that 'culture' represents activities pertaining to a particular nation, community, or religion. For example, the term 'Western culture' may represent a certain way of eating habits, clothing, and behaving. I have heard parents complaining about the ill-effects of Western culture on kids. Fast-food, tight-fitted clothing, and independent thinking are usually taken as bad in Eastern nations. It is here the cultural difference lies. Further, I think that parents and society automatically transfer cultural practices to offspring. Hardly I ...

Introduction

There can be no denial of the fact that globalization has come to become the most influential phenomenon in the modern day world. Globalization has come to influence many aspects of human life and existence. In a world that is greatly diversified, globalization has emerged as the omnipotent and omniscient force that has come to exercise its influence on societies, cultures, identities and communication. A close introspection of the intertwined relationship of culture, communication and globalization would enable one to have a better comprehension of the occurrence and the dynamics of the various spheres. There can be an extensive ...