The bands mentioned used to wear a lot of black. ... Goths see the world as a darker place and like it that way. ... The reason they like vampires so much is because they are cool. ... Movies by Tim Burton are popular such as "Beetlejuice", or movies like "The Craft", "The Crow", "A Clockwork Orange", "Dracula" etc. ... They also like things associated with fairies, H.R. ...

• Word Count: 3502
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I suppose I could call myself Irish or Norwegian American, but I doubt it would help me identify with a family culture that I know nothing about. ... I asked a friend of mine why he called himself black instead of African American. ... My friend told me that there is a split in the black culture on using the term. ... So in the above situation both men were black skinned but one chose to identify with a particular ethnic term and the other did not. ... I feel that many people use ethnic titles to feel like they belong to a smaller society. ...

• Word Count: 3593
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Big earrings that look much heavier that they really were, seemed like they were pulling down too hard and adding that extra weight on her head. Hair tied up and half of it hidden under a piece of red and blue fabric, made it looked like she was trying to hide herself in it. ... (Korhonen 339) So who shapes the images of how attractiveness looks like and why are they so important to the people and their societies? ... With all beauty industries raising up and changes in the cultural and social aspects, for black people in nineteenth and early twentieth century in the urban upper south skin ...

• Word Count: 3143
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Surely the mere enjoyment of such things as railways and telegraphs and the like do not necessarily prove their possessors to be in the front rank of civilised nations." ... "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. ... Like Nwoye, he begins to feel uneasy. ... Now he has won our brothers, and our clan no longer act like one. ...

• Word Count: 2919
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

All you can see inside is black, so you point your flashlight through the stark doorway . ... Some of the biggest works of science fiction today are movies like Star Wars, Star Trek, Transformers, Dune, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Books could either be bought from a bookstore, borrowed from a library or friend, or like a lot of people, having their own private collections of books that are waiting to be tapped into. ...

• Word Count: 3873
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography

Keywords used in my database search within Infotrac College Edition, ABI, and Expanded Academic were: "Intercultural Communication-Japan- "Doing Business in Japan- "Doing Business with the Japanese- "First Impressions- "First Meetings- "Cross-cultural Communication- Most of the keywords were successful in providing me useful data. ...

• Word Count: 8160
• Approx Pages: 33
• Grade Level: High School