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A Look at Japanese CultureAbstract This analytical research paper will discuss the modern culture of Japan using the description of the Japanese lifestyle, the people, and ethnocentrism. Culture of Japan has vastly changed over the years, however, many aspects of their culture still remain today in their modern culture. Why is family important? Who is in charge of the typical households? What is the diet of the Japanese? The "Lifestyle" section will answer all of these questions and many more. How do the Japanese people dress? What religion(s) do the Japanese believe in and practice? How do the Japanese use gestures? Under the "People of Japan", will be population information, language, religion, general attitudes, and personal appearance. What is the most popular sport in Japan? What is anime and manga, and why do the Japanese like it? The "Entertainment" section goes in depth about the different types of recreational activities and a discussion of anime and manga. Why is the Tea Ceremony important to Japane |
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Neolithic Revolution and Commercial RevolutionChanges in the techniques of people living in early societies during both the Middle Ages, and the Neolithic Period caused economic resolutions. The people from the Neolithic Period transitioned from Paleolithic Nomads in to settled farmers. The increasing demand for trade began the Commercial Revolution. It also raised thriving businesses. Overtime, both of these revolutions have changed the way those people lived. Before the Neolithic Period, a massive climatic change occurred. This caused a scarce amount of game for these nomads to track and follow. They entirely depended on their environment for survival. But when they discovered how to farm, everything changed in the lives they knew. The paleolithic nomads evolved into neolithic farmers with the help of newly formed metal tools. Domesticating plants, and some animals made it possible to settle down and start a life in the river vall |
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The Benefits of Music Education"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, and life to everything Without music, life would be an error" (Plato). There are certain undeniable values in life that can only be experienced through music. Music education was once highly regarded in the school system, but policy makers are now turning away from it, believing that arts programs need to be cut in order to get back to the basics of reading and arithmetic. This will only hurt students by denying them the incredible benefits of a well-rounded education. While many think the music program is dispensable, it should be given more importance in the school system because of its potential to increase intellect, establish self-discipline, improve social bonds and develop self-confidence in students. Learning music as a child has been shown to aid and speed up brain development (Yoon 5). The brain is divided into two different hemispheres, the left brain and the right brain. The left brain is re |
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The Great Depression and the New DealThe New Deal and the policies that it integrated was never meant to end the Great Depression, but it was used to help the nation to recover and to make sure that it would not ever happen again. Many problems raised larger awareness by the New Deal that was often searched by administration but it was never altered. Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the countries by talking to the people to help keep them informed about how he was going to rebuild the economy. His confidence was passed to other people when he encouraged his ideas and kept the people updated on a daily basis. The government and politics played an important role in the people's lives. It incorporated new programs to help rebuild the economy and strengthened the nation's morality. There were a lot of laws that were passed that Roosevelt brought into the nation during the first hundred days. The New Deal created the programs that consist of different individuals from all backgrounds, all races, a |
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The Expansion of U.S. Foreign PolicyThe United States had a hidden agenda while helping other nations to gain power and for the U.S. own self-interest. The United States saw that we had better education opportunities and better views and that is why the U.S. wanted everyone to think we were a superior nation. The only reason we helped Cuba was because the U.S. had an investment in their agriculture land, especially in large amounts of sugar. The Spanish dominated over the Cubans and destroyed the lands that the U.S. was using when they were trading with the Cubans. The U.S. felt the need to reserve and gain protection to avoid an attack from the other countries because of our nation's surrounding of large bodies of water. Alfred Theyer Mahan, who advanced the ideas of Mechanism that was led by strategic concerns, stressed the U.S. economic, territori |
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The Creativity CrisisCreativity empowers the mind to think beyond restrictions. This natural human ingenuity can inspire us to get started on our creative original endeavors. Whether simply writing a screenplay, putting together a presentation for a client, or even going as far as simply being more creative in everyday life. Without this trait we as a humans would cease to exist. Every device and necessity we utilize today originated from a creative thought, on how to improve society. According to authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman of "The Creativity Crisis" , a dilemma that has risen in recent studies is that the public's "creativity quotient" has steadily crept downward since 1990. In order to incline our generations creative aspects, creativity should be implemented organically into a student's everyday life rather than the creation of a class. The aspects of creativity must be applied in studies not taught. With the addition of creativity across all core classes the students |
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The Evolution of Global PoliticsNation-states, city-states, empires and Kingdoms have interacted with each other in a similar way since the end of the thirty years war. An example could be China, Africa, India, and Ancient Greece; they got involved in economic relations, established embassies and helped each other or fought in war. After 1648, we could how the development of the international system became a "globalized system". World wars impacted in a global scale, although world war 1 and world war 2 took place in a 20 year difference, they also have their similarities besides geographic place. The changes in technology affected the way they fought; machine guns, airplanes, and submarines all took part during this fighting. World War 1 began on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war to Serbia. War finally ended in the late fall of 1918, after |
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The Virginia and Plymouth SettlementsThe early settlements of Plymouth, Massachusetts and Virginia were both colonies were originally established and founded by an extremely similar group of people; however both the Plymouth's and Virginia's colony beginnings differed, as well as views on religion, and means of economic stability created two different systems within politics and economics. Both the colonies Virginia and Plymouth were apparently established around the same time but the groups that established them were so different it made the way that they were established tremendously different from each other. A major difference was that Virginia had to go through trial and error when it came to establishing their colony. Virginia had many failures and close calls in the process. While Plymouth made smart decisions regarding food and planning making their first attempt successful. Another thing that made Plymouth more successful in establishing their colony was the leadership they had. Virginia didn't have good leadership until John Smith leading to failure, while Plymouth had John Winthrop who successfully d |
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Contextual Values in HamletIn transitioning eras, a shift in contextual values and attitudes influences the composer's purpose and shaping of textual content within their texts. Shakespeare was heavily influenced by Queen Elizabeth's patronage and approval as she was fearful of the stability of her heirless monarchy and coupled with her conversion to Protestantism, much of the political and religious conflict emerging from the Catholic Elizabethan ideology, shifting into the Renaissance, manifests in the tragic play, Hamlet (1603). The Queen's sentiments and anti-Machiavellian ideals feature in the text, respectful of the Divine Order of the monarch, as deemed from an Elizabethan mindset that God would eventually punish any disruption to the Greater Chain of Being. These notions place Hamlet in a moral dilemma to avenge his father's death, as he must contend with: appearances versus reality, the abuse of women, and his own corruption after learning of his uncle's usurpation. The universal themes and concerns o |
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When Doctors Make Mistakes by Atul GawandeIn the article "When Doctors Make Mistakes" , written by Atul Gawande initially in the New Yorker, he writes about the mistakes made by himself and his partner. The article was partitioned into five sections, each named to include the story and feelings of the short parts. Mistakes are a basic piece of human conduct and execution, and in this admiration, the surgical practice is no special case. Without a doubt therapeutic slips represent significant patient bleakness and mortality. The subject is muddled because of complex and befuddling scientific classification and the absence of concurred definitions and grouping of restorative/surgical mistakes. It is unrealistic to dispose of lapses from clinical practice yet we can enhance the nature of therapeutic consideration by receiving blunder tolerant working medicinal frameworks (E-TOMS) in view of advancement in subjective brain research, human components, and human unwavering quality appraisal made amid the previous 30 years. |
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Ethical Decisions and Communication -Making ModelEthics and Communication Ethics and morality are concepts that have been debated since the beginning of cognitive reasoning. The idea that as a human culture we have developed a sense of right and wrong. The growth of civilization, modernization and the development in technology has resulted also in the deteriorating of morality and ethics in communication within the business community as a whole (Groarke, 2015). This can be seen when editors manipulate videos and pictures, use of unreliable sources, or practice sensationalism over journalism. As we look at some of these ethics models it is important to keep in mind that there may be more than one way to approach and fully understand ethics. It is the idea that as a culture and as a people we should be growing more fully aware of ethics (Christans, Fackler, et all 2012). Roles Ethics Play in Communication The communication industry over the years has suffered from a growing indifference to a culturally motivated moral relativism. Eve |
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Approaches to TeachingThe multi-cultural student population in an international school provides a colourful background of various cultures and ethnicities. It is the responsibility of educators to provide a classroom that caters to the individual needs of its many students. To successfully do this, educators need to consider the different learning styles, strengths and needs of each student. During the observation of a prep class, the homeroom teacher used various strategies to accommodate the students. Differentiation is achieved through the use of assessments, and through these assessments the teacher is able to construct a profile of each student's ability. These learner profiles are then used to inform the teacher of how a lesson is to be taught and what appropriate strategies are needed. To facilitate differentiation in the class, the homeroom teacher's most noticeable effective strategies were her use assessments to inform of her lesson planning, teacher led groups and scaffolding. Assessments are int |
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Book Report - NightJohnSarny, like most African American twelve year olds at the time was owned by a plantation owner. Clel Waller was the master at this particular plantation. Childhood for Sarny was never all that great. At the age of four her "birthing Mammy", birth mother, was sold. This event should not have affected Sarny that much because none of the birthing mothers were allowed to keep their own children. As soon as Sarny was born Old Delie, the mother who would raise her, took over the care of Sarny. Delie raises all of the little children and keeps a stick for each child that she marks with a notch each summer to record the children's age. Many of the other slaves think that Sarny is dumb because she is quiet and keeps to herself but she really just likes to listen to things and learn things. She learned about money this way. Since she is a child she has a duty to tend to the quarters, take care of the yard, and gather eggs. Sarny often thinks of all the things she has learned and tries |
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Opera Review - Rigoletto, Act ThreeRigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi and it is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career. Its tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. This Opera is known to be one of Verdi's most musically demanding and dramatic scores which significantly evident in the third act- with the curse coming to life when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassin, Sparafucile hired by her father. In this assignment, I'll be discussing the way in Verdi's music contributed to the extremely dramatic impact of the final act of Rigoletto. The final act is superb from its f |
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The Sacred Pond in A Room with a ViewIn E. M. Forster's A Room with a View, it is quite common for the setting of an event to have almost as much significance as the event itself, for the scenery serves to reflect the attitude of the characters as well as influence their immediate actions. Such is the case on the bridge when George throws Lucy's photographs into the Arno, or when the rivulets of violets surrounding Lucy inspire George to act before he thinks when he kisses her in Fiesole. The scene at the Sacred Pond is no different. Here Forster paints a picture of a paradise that mimics the Garden of Eden, a place of beauty and innocence. The importance of the scenery here is the transformation that the pond works on all three of the characters present, but most importantly in George. Forster uses the setting to both reflect George's choice to live and to prompt a change in his attitude. As is consistent with Forster's style, the scene itself is powerful even before the characters come into play. Just the title of the |
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Modern Medical Imaging: The Silent Divorce from ALARAAbstract Utilization of medical imaging continues to rise. This is true of the pediatric population as well as adults. With increased exposure there is a correlating risk of radiation induced cancers, particularly leukemia. The purpose of this project is to examine current imaging technology and practice to determine if doses can effectively be reduced and still maintain diagnostic image quality. The hypothesis is that current digital media will be able to account for variances that might degrade image quality and still yield a diagnostic study. Alternatively, radiation protection techniques may demonstrate an impact on image quality that could be corrected for through training and procedural optimization. The results were that one hundred percent of the randomly audited imaging studies were categorized as of diagnostic quality in spite of poor adherence to radiation protection standards. Introduction From the beginning, the practice of medicine, in all its disciplines has been abou |
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An Overview of Chinese SocietySocial After the fall of the Han Dynasty, the population of China dramatically decreased, about 45 million in 600 C.E.. Yet by 800 it rebounded to 50 million, and following after in two centuries to 60 million. (pg 384). Tang, was most definitely Song China experienced a tightening of patriarchal social structures, most likely representing an effort to preserve family fortunes amongst family solitary. In the Song Dynasty, remembering their ancestors was a ritual they did at home, arranging graveside rituals in their honor. Extended families traveled far and wide attending annual rituals, which strengthened the sense of family identity and cohesiveness. Strengthened patriarchal society as well gave an explanation to foot binding.Foot binding was a tight wrapping of a young girls feet with strips of cloth that prevented the growth of bones, which resulted in tiny feet, however, it cause curved feet causing women not being able to walk naturally. This tradition was not common in the lower |
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Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks"In what ways does the story "Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks" (60) exemplify this definition of a trickster tale? How is Iktomi a trickster? What established customs or values are being tested by his behavior? What do the ducks represent? What do the episodes of the trees and the coyote represent?" In the tale of "Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks", Iktomi plays the ever cunning and deceptive trickster role. Through this tale, Iktomi's plan to deceive and kill the ducks succeeds, but another trickster thwarts his overall plan. According to Andrew Widget, trickster tales test "the limits of cultural formation and practice" (23). Iktomi pushes against societal norms by using his intelligence to manipulate others and benefit himself. Iktomi personifies these negative characteristics of societal behavior and uses them to satisfy his desires. While Ikt |
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Psychological Effects of the HolocaustExtreme trauma was imposed on Jews who were victims of the most massive executions in history, known as the Holocaust. Yet half a century after the war, the Holocausts still manages to make its' existence felt on survivors and their families. World War II ended on May 8th of 1945 in Europe, but those who survived found it difficult to go back to a normal life, as they did not even remember what that life had even been like, and some did not even find a reason to move on or a point to living itself. By then, 6 million of the Jewish population had been wiped out, and only 200,000 survived. Holocaust survivors dealt with many psychological problems because of the horrific sights they witnessed behind the gates of the concentration camps. In Elie Wiesel's 1978 collection of writings, A Jew Today, he states "time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open" (Wiesel 222). Even though Holocaust survivors and families did everything in trying to go on with th |
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Themes of Marriage in Jude the ObscureThere can be found several themes in Jude the Obscure, which show and somehow explain the Victorian era and the way people were influenced by social conventions. Unfortunately, the impact was rather negative, even devastating in case of Jude the Obscure. Stephen Coote characterized the novel as "the tragedy of unfulfilled aims" (564). Not only desires such as becoming a well educated scholar and experiencing the state of equality of social classes are included, but especially the theme of marriage creates the major theme in the novel. The main characters, Jude and Sue do not achieve the happiness in their relationship since they are limited by the social conventions and by incomprehension of people around. Society is not able to view on coexistence of male and female without being married. "As to our going on together as we were going, in sort of friendly way, the people round us would have made in unable to continue" (Jude 143). Jude and Sue break the rule and li |
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The Impacts of AEC on ThailandRecently, you may hear people talking a lot about the AEC and ASEAN .What is it? .Are this two words are similar? ASEAN stands for The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) including Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, and Thailand while AEC as known as ASEAN Economic Community which is one of the three filed of the ASEAN Community. It aims to increase the economic growth and cultural development in the region in order to strengthen the foundation and peaceful community of Southeast Asian. Moreover, AEC is important because it will transform ASEAN into a region with free movement of goods, services investment, and skill labor. By the end of this year, ASEAN will have been embracing so what about Thais? Are you ready for AEC? .You will have to prepare for this change since the AEC can impacts on Thailand in terms of economic conditions, cultural aspects and job opportunities. Firstly, one impact of The AEC on Thailand is economic conditions seeing that AEC has purposes of open market and allow for free movement of goods, services, and investment. Due to, an FTA policy |
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The Truman Show - Movie ReviewEasily named one of the most fascinating movies of the 20th century, The Truman Show highlights a truly superb and at the same time tragic plot that fills the audience up with sympathetic and doubted feelings of the life of Truman Burbank, the main protagonist in this unique movie. It tells the story of Truman Burbank, (portrayed by Jim Carrey) a middle aged man who is completely unaware that his supposed hometown "Seahaven" is a dome and that his surroundings, even people, were all artificially placed there since his birth. There are other outstanding roles played by skilful actors and actresses including Ed Harris as Christof, the director of the show and the creator of Seahaven, Laura Linney as Meryl, Truman's wife, Natascha McElhone as Sylvia, Truman's real lover and the leader of the "Free Truman" movement and Noah Emmerich as Marlon, Truman's best friend. The movie was released in 1998 and was directed by Peter Weir, the same director that has directed a number of award wi |
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Thematic Essay - Love and AlienationHave you ever loved someone so much that you felt like your heart was going to come out of your chest just by staring at him/her? Do you still feel the same way? Love is a powerful and complicated emotion that demands time, loyalty, and understanding. But why do we love? Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle developed different concepts of love to help us justify the love we feel. Eros, is the sexual, intimate and passionate love between two individuals, Agape, is the love of God for a man, or the love of a man for God, Philia is the love between friends, and Storge, the love and affection between a parent and his/her children. Erich Fromm in his book The Art of Loving provides a wonderful explanation of love as an art that requires more than just a pleasant sensation. Also, Jean Rhys in her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, and Spike Jonze in his film Her, provide us different perspectives of love and the way our culture, race, or differences alienate us from each other. Love is such |
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Canadian Oil Sand - Money Over MatterIn today's society, the possibility for accomplishment within lots of our industries and business' rely on the well-being and doing of the Canadian Oil Sands. It's rural locations throughout Alberta give it lots of spacious areas so they can mine all the oil they need to. The Oil Sands brings in thousands of people from all over the world as their business is booming and puts a good dollar figure in the employees pockets. Being involved in this business however, displays several pros and cons as we will explore. First and foremost, the Oil Sands provides a plentiful number of jobs for people. This is the magnet to gathering individuals from all over the world, as in many other locations a good line of work is hard to find. Smaller occupations are available but not all will support them, along with their families. People are struggling to make day to day ends meet, and here in this Alberta Oil Sands industry, the opportunities here are much greater than elsewhere in Canada for example, or in the w |
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Enron – The Smartest Guys In The RoomProblem "Enron" as a word has been used to denote an era of such a company. The company is being a striking example for a collapse, which was purely due to corporate and individual greed and that today it has lead to strong business problems all around the world. Fraudulent activities inside a company can be managed and kept away from the stakeholders eye only for a certain amount of time, however it comes to the lime light one fine day. Enron has been continuously trying to hide their actual numbers and always tries to maintain the outer look of the company so as to gain profits overall. Finally when Enron had to file a bankruptcy the entire company was put into investigation and as a result the findings has made a huge knock over the business today. Background In 1985 after the merger with Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, Kenneth Lay founded the company "Enron". At the time of merger the company was seen to be in debt and hence a financial consultant name Je |
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