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Anasazi Culture Of American Southwest, 1999.
Examines this ancient people's architecture, roads, trade, culture and demise.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 31.95
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The Eleventh Century was the end of one millennium and the beginning of a new one. In many ways, it was a period in which humanity emerged from the Dark Ages that had prevailed throughout Europe through much of the first millennium A.D. even as the Roman Empire changed to the Byzantine empire and others.
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"The Eleventh Century was the end of one millennium and the beginning of a new one. In many ways, it was a period in which humanity emerged from the Dark Ages that had prevailed throughout Europe through much of the first millennium A.D. even as the Roman Empire changed to the Byzantine empire and others. We call this the Dark Ages today because its history is somewhat obscure and because much of classical learning was temporarily lost. In the Eleventh Century, certain changes came about showing a new relationship between government and governed after the Battle of Hastings and the creation of the Magna Carta in England. In other parts of the world, other civilizations were either winding down are beginning to flower, depending on history and circumstances. It is these other parts of the world where much of my own interest lies, given that we are only beginning to under ..."
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Anasazi Culture, 1996.
American Southwest Uzo-Aztecan people, 200 B.C.-1300 A.D. Work, trade, farming, engineering, historical impact.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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Anasazi is one of the most important early cultures in North America and left a legacy for many of the tribes of the Southwest, including the Pueblo Indians of today. The Anasazi developed a widespread culture with roads, commerce, trade, and a number of industries.
The Anasazi culture was the social order of the people who occupied the Four Corners area of the American southwest during the area between approximately 200 B.C. and 1300 A.D. These people were designated the Anasazi by archaeologist Alfred V. Kidder in 1936, a word taken from the Navajo language. it is taken to mean "the old ones" or "the ancient ones" and is clearly not the term these people used for themselves. A more recent interpretation of the word is that it means "enemy ancestors," a reasonable point of view given the cultural aversion of the..."
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Assessing Corporate Culture - Southwest Airlines, 2004.
An examination of Southwest Airlines' corporate culture.
963 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 34.95
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This paper evaluates the culture of Southwest Airlines (SWA) by examining the two major categories of organizational cultures - individualistic and collectivist. It explains that organizational culture is the basic pattern of shared assumptions, values, and beliefs considered the correct way of thinking about and acting on problems and opportunities facing the organization. The paper also discusses the differences between individualistic cultures, where the primary emphasis is on personal freedom of choice, and the collectivist culture where personal goals are less important than organizational goals and interest. The paper concludes that SWA has a collectivist culture and has created a culture that allows the employee to contribute and have fun at the same time.
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"More than 32 years ago, Rollin King and Herb Kelleher got together and decided to start a different kind of airline. "We Weren't Just Airborne Yesterday" began with one simple notion: if you get your passengers to their destinations when they want to get there, on time, at the lowest possible fares, and make darn sure they have a good time doing it, ("time flies when you're having fun!") people will fly your airline. They were right, businesses began to catch on. The Tom Joyner Morning Show (The TJM show) is currently a big advocate and does plenty of advertising for Southwest Airlines. Whenever the TJM show is performing a live Skye show, they present two of their audience attendees with two tickets from SWA to fly anywhere in the USA. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida has an account with Southwest Airlines for all of their employees and business traveling needs. What began as a small Texas airline has grown to become one of the largest airlines in America."
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Southwest Airline Culture, 2002.
A look at the importance of culture to a company or organization, by examining Southwest Airlines.
1,809 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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By using Southwest Airlines as a model, this paper establishes how essential it is for a company to have some form of culture or ethical guidline. It uses Geert Hofstede's "Four Dimension of Culture" theory to analyze the company and provides an overview of how the company?s policies enable it to secure a top position in the industry.
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"Globalization has changed the way people do business today. Factors like strategies, resources or capacity to produce has become secondary to business agendas. Instead today businesses and businesspeople are more concerned with how they can achieve the maximum productivity and prosperity through alliances. These alliances often span far and wide, pilfering to foreign cultures. Often the alliances prove beneficial to the companies because of observation and approach companies take to deal with partner company?s culture. On the other hand there are also cases where the alliances have resulted in losses because partner companies fail to understand each other?s culture. For instance an American firm merging with a Japanese company will experience a shocking difference in social, economical and cultural environment. Before studying other?s culture, one therefore has to observe one?s own culture in order to detect what needs to be compromised or complimented when dealing with the business partners. The following is a study of Southwest Airlines, outlining their cultures and how they have incorporated it to achieve their business agendas using Geert Hofstede?s Four Dimension of Culture."
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American Culture and Islamic Culture, 2002.
An overview of the similarities and differences between American and Islamic culture.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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Thispaper examines and analyzes American and Islamic culture. Social structures, symbols, norms, values, and rituals are compared and contrasted, and respective strengths and weaknesses are discussed.
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High Culture and Popular Culture, 2003.
Applies concepts to the professional field of education.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 55.95
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Discusses tenured professors as representative of high culture and associate and/or adjunct professors as representative of popular culture. Describes the greater freedom of tenured professors.
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"In his book, Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste, Herbert J. Gans distinguishes between producers and consumers of high and popular culture based on the disparities of educational attributes and class. Applied to the ..."
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Cultural Management - Culture Cannot Be Managed, 2008.
The paper discusses the question of if and how culture can be managed in a business environment.
1,928 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 61.95
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In this paper, the validity of the belief that in a business setting culture cannot be managed is critically analyzed and arguments are made both for and against the statement. The paper also presents examples that suggest that organizational culture does play a very important role in the success of the organization. However, these same examples also serve to reinforce a contention about the inability of corporate culture or management to undergo change.
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"It must be acknowledged that the assertion - "Culture cannot be managed" - would likely meet with some degree of skepticism from organizational management students as well as corporate professionals. However, it may be argued that there is some validity to the perspective on the relationship between management and organizational culture that is manifest in this assertion. Consider, for example, the case of software giant J.D. Edwards. The corporation's CEO and chairman, C. Edward McVaney, contends that the success of a business often has very little to do with its management and senior executives who - as is commonplace in corporate culture - often come and go with minimal impact upon the organization itself. It is McVaney's view that the success of an organization is based upon its culture, which is usually invulnerable to change by management or business leaders. In McVaney's words: "95% of the time, the leaders and management of a business do not lead and manage that business" (Jesitus 16)."
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Caribbean Culture and Cultural Imperialism, 2007.
A discussion on whether the Caribbean society is too receptive and diverse for its own good.
1,633 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper examines the Caribbean culture and at how its dynamic polyglot, diverse nature - and its ability, and even willingness, to accommodate different cultures and ethno-social traditions - has actually made it vulnerable on a number of profound levels. It explains that the Caribbean nations have shown a marked inability to throw off the cultural, linguistic and educational encrustations of the European nations which took over the region generations ago and which re-shaped their new fiefdoms in ways that effectively did away with pre-European values, codes, religions and dialects. The paper also looks at how many Caribbean young people attend English or French schools and prepare themselves for entry into a "global village" that is controlled by the very ethno-racial groups which turned their own lands "upside-down" in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. In essence, the paper shows that by looking at the fragmented nature of the Caribbean world and by looking at the impress of foreign language upon its peoples and formal structures, a region is revealed that has lost much of its ability to marshal its forces against external imperialistic forces. The writer believes that the Caribbean must start doing a better job of privileging its indigenous traditions and dialects or it will finally, ineradicably, lose them forever.
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"Many observers are of the view that the Caribbean is a melting pot; that it is a place wherein European and non-European types "creolize" and thereby shed their different historical-national identities in favor of one that is "West Indian" in nature. This argument, however, has been vigorously challenged by others who assert that the Caribbean is really a collection of different regions which have their own unique, distinctive features. Simply put, while there may be regional similarities vis-a-vis food, music, dance, dress and a host of other elements, there are many more (or at least as many more) differences as there are similarities (Allahar, p.1-2). Simply put, Allahar appears to be to arguing two things: firstly, West Indian/Caribbean is diverse; secondly, despite this diversity, the region has certain societal features that distinguish it from other regions and which bind together its disparate elements."
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Advertising, Popular Culture and Capitalist Use of the Sub-Cultural, 2002.
An analysis of two articles dealing with the above topics.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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A paper comparing two provided articles - Maynard's concerning homoerotica as employed to sell men's underwear among other products, and Hebdige's more general comments on the power of subcultures when representing reality via media.
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A Cultural Profile of Russian Culture, 2004.
Presents related information regarding the culture of Russia.
1,889 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper provides a cultural report and analysis of the prominent characteristics of Russian culture. The paper is intended to help travelers or visitors to Russia better understand its culture. Included in the discussion is a description of interesting or important cultural characteristics, ideas that would help the reader adapt to the cultural differences one might experience in Russia, ideas to serve as guidelines for people wanting to succeed as communicators in the Russian environment, and the author's own reactions and impressions to various Russian cultural characteristics and practices.
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"Culture is defined as the combination of various patterns, which are practiced by individuals of a country. Culture is the identification of the people of a particular country. Culture includes actions, behavior and practices along with food, clothes and traditions, which are followed by the people of a particular country. Cultural characteristics are not formed in one day, but these characteristics and practices are defined gradually and thus it is the duty of a citizen to adopt these cultural practices and characteristics so that other people who belong to other countries can identify the people as to which culture they belong to. Behavior patterns, norms, language and skills are the essential characteristics, which combinely form CULTURE."
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African Influence on Haitian Culture, 2004.
Examines the extent of African culture and history on the culture of Haiti.
2,113 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 66.95
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Although Haitian culture is a unique mix that blends many other cultures to form its own, many of the roots of this cultural representation can be traced to African culture, especially West African. This paper shows that, because most of the inhabitants of Haiti are of African descent, African culture plays a key role in the culture of the island and manifests itself in many ways in a reflection of present and emerged patterns in Haitian cultural history. In family structures, gender, religion, and other areas of culture, it is clear that African culture has had a great deal of influence over Haitian culture before and since the existence of Haiti as an independent country.
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"According to tradition, the spirits of Vodou followed the slaves from Africa to the Caribbean, where Vodou was set up as an inseparable part of Haitian history and culture, and therefore African culture in its
relation to Haitian culture as a continuance and point of influence. Since Vodou was frowned upon by the French during their time ruling the island before the revolution, it had to take on some trappings of Catholicism as a way to disguise the religion. Thus, Vodou continues to have elements that would be familiar to students of Catholicism."
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What is Culture, 2006.
A review of the articles "Theories of Culture" by Roger M. Keesing and "Marking Boundaries - Culture as Category Work" - Qualitative Inquiry by Anne Ryen and David Silverman.
1,848 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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This paper discusses articles by Roger M. Keesing and Anne Ryen and David Silverman on what culture is, and how we study it, and see what is different in one culture, as opposed to a different culture, or in a small aspect of culture. The paper explains that Keesing seems to be more inclined to see culture in dynamic ways, as always changing or developing, or that has to do with thinking processes, where Ryen and Silverman discuss culture in more material terms that can affect how people of different cultures understand each other. The paper also discusses how Keesing looks at cultures as structural systems so that the scholar will look at how a culture or a structure began and how it continues to influence human life. The writer believes that Ryen and Silverman seem more tied up in how an outsider looks at a culture, the dynamics of importance of what go on between human beings, as individuals, as opposed to the cultural system that Keesing tried to understand. The writer concludes that both articles manage to get across the care that must be taken when researching cultures that are not one's own, but the writer feels that Keesing's work is still not out-dated.
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Introduction
Theories of Culture
The Human Factor
Last Remarks
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"A culture may adapt because new technology or kinds of organization have come along, or it may change so that a people survive, as in cultures that begin to conserve something so that they can survive in their environment. A desert people, for instance, may show a culture that is protective of water, does not waste water, or whose art shows themes of happiness as the coming of the rain, or safely getting to a place where water is available. Keesing then begins to look at ideational theories of culture that have to do with cognitive systems and how people decide what is special, appealing or what must be done, as all can influence culture. (1974:77f)."
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?Adaptation, Culture Scale and the Environmental Crisis?, 2002.
A summary of the article ?Adaptation, Culture Scale, and the Environmental Crisis? by M.Sahlins and E.R Service which gives an insight into how the scale of a culture dictates how that culture will adapt to its environment.
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The paper discusses the article ?Adaptation, Culture Scale, and the Environmental Crisis? by M.Sahlins & E.R Service. It looks at the interaction of culture and the environment and the role that this interaction plays in damaging the environment and depleting resources. It also examines the character and scope of the world?s current environmental crisis.
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"This quote raises some of the most salient points that are brought out further in the article. First, it notes that the scale of the culture and the concentration of social power have very little to do with the longevity of a civilization on an evolutionary timescale. Second, the quote brings to mind the scale of resource depletion and environmental degradation that accompany large and powerful cultures. Simply put, large, powerful cultures have often depleted their natural resources, and polluted their environment to the extent that their civilization has collapsed."
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Popular Culture, 2006.
This paper looks at popular culture which is the culture pertaining to the masses.
1,446 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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In this paper, the writer discusses the popular culture that is prevalent globally. Some light is also shed upon the role that media, both electronic and print, has played in spreading this culture and thus converting the popular culture into a global culture that has more or less established its roots in countries all over the world, ranging from those in America to those in Africa and Asia. The effect that this popular culture is having on the youth of today that blindly embraces it is also taken into consideration.
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"The popular culture is being embraced by the youth the world over as it creates a sense of belonging and community amongst them. The McDonald's and Coca-cola culture is what the youth of today takes pride in. It is quite a commodity-oriented tradition where the latest hairstyle, shoes, clothes, food and music make the youth of one place in-sync with the youths worldwide. It is apparently "hip" to engage in illicit activities such as sniffing drugs or possessing un-licensed weapons. The pop-culture is basically feeding off the insecurities of the youth; their desire to develop an identity either individually or collectively, they place their souls in their possessions such as cars, hi-fi gadgets, clothes or in the kind of shoes they wear. It is this parameter by which the young judge or are judged. In their attempt to keep up with the modern world as they see it each tries to out shine, the other which usually results in hostility and animosity."
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