26 Cultural R Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
Art Criticism using the frames - Chinese and Japanese Art
4 x Art Criticisms - Frames
Chinese and Japanese Traditional and Contemporary Art
Art Criticism and History – Subjective + World
The “Realisation” exhibit now showing at the AGNSW is designed to open Australian people’s eyes up to the variety, magnitude and powerful meaning that contempor....
Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhism was founded in Northern India by the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. He was born in 563 in Lumbini which is in modern-day Nepal. At the age of 29, he left his wife, children and political involvements in order to seek truth; this was an accepted practice at the time for some men ....
China
Mike Clark
China Reaction Paper
Comparative Politics
In The Revolutionist’s Handbook George Bernard Shaw wrote, “Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.” Between the years of 1945-1949 Mao Zedong led a revolution in China. Foll....
Country risk and strategic planning
Risk Analysis
Social/Cultural Risks
Italian is the official language of Italy and when conducting business transactions, knowledge of the language is necessary or use of an agent or distributor within the region would be wise. More attention is paid to businesses when correspondence is do....
Crime in Canada and in the United States: A Comparative Analysis
In the past three decades, a number of researchers have undertaken the comparison of American and Canadian crime rates. Among them, Lipset (1990) and Hagan (1991) have shown that violence was more frequent south of the border than in Canada. Using infra-national disaggregated crime rates, this artic....
Cultural Genocide in Tibet
On March 10, 2008 Tibetan monks commemorated the unsuccessful revolution in March of 1959 and marched peacefully through streets of Lhasa. A wave of protest spread from the capital to surrounding provinces with dense Tibetan population. Police and armed forces were put in place by the Chinese cent....
Cultural Regions of Canada
The cultural regions of Canada are diverse. These regions have similarities of language, occupation, religion, ethnic origin, and recreation. Because it encompasses many factors of Canadian life, our group has chosen to focus on the Aboriginal cultures of Canada. Canadian aboriginal people are made....
Cultural Revolutions
Since the beginning of life, the earth and its environment have experienced many different cultural changes beginning with the earliest form of humans, the Homo sapiens. Dating back to nearly 160,000 years ago, Homo sapiens survived by the techniques of hunting and gathering. Since then three major ....
Deng Xiaoping or Teng Hsiao-pÂ’ing of third plenary session
Deng Xiaoping or Teng Hsiao-pÂ’ing was born in 1904 and died in 1997. He is known as both a Chinese revolutionary and great government leader. Deng Xiaoping became a member of the Chinese Communist party while he was studying in France from 1920-1925. As a veteran of the long march, he joined t....
heavenly man
The Heavenly Man, an inspirational and a heroic story of how God took Liu Zhenying, or Brother Yun, a starving boy out of a poor village in Henan Province, China, to spread the gospel in spite of the horrible opposition of the government.
The story starts when Yun vi....
Herskovits
Herskovits follows the principle that "judgments are based on experience, and experience is interpreted by each individual in terms of his enculturation" .The principle states that how a person judges basically depends on his thinking which is developed by the culture and environment he is brought ....
Hip Hop: An American Culture
Hip-Hop
Over the course of history music has been a center piece in every culture. Every genre of music can be linked to a specific culture or demographic group. Within that link one can look at music beyond the sound of it. Music can be seen as an emotion, an inspiration, and a tool for....
Ideologies of the Democracy Movement in China
After Deng Xiaoping gained power in 1978, a new political atmosphere was promised for the Chinese people. A promise of a free land with a modern economic state was made by Deng in order to gain public support. During Deng’s reign, a series of economic reforms were made. These reforms had ma....
Industry Study Tour (China)
Graduate School of Management
Industry Study Tour (China)
Shanghai 2006
Course Coordinator: Joolay Sim
Student: Alberto Tassone
Assignment: Learning Journal
Word Count: 9046
Date due: 10 June 2006
Table of contents
Introduction 3
Pre-Semina....
International Conventions on ‘Marriage’ and the Nepalese Judicial Trend
Concept of Marriage:
Marriage is a union between two persons to live together and share the family. It is a mutual contract between two to share their lifestyles with each other and to form their own family. There is a very famous saying by John Lyly in his book ‘Euphues and His EnglandÂ’ that Â....
Looting
The purpose of an archaeologist is to study human cultural activities through the analysis of material remains. The importance of a site remaining uncontaminated and unaltered is vital in the process of reconstructing sites and accurately assessing the material remains. When a site is tampered wit....
Mao Tse-Tung¡¯s Individual Dictatorship is the Root of China¡¯s Backward Economy after 1949
Mao Tse-Tung, a former chairman of Chinese Communist Party, had ruled China for 27 years. Mao had always struggled for his individual power and autocratic rule in his life. All his theories and policies, to some extent, were strictly concerned with dictatorship. The Chinese Communist Party was a mai....
Mao Zedong-Political Leader Figure
He was a great, influential and manipulative leader. In December 23, 1893 he was born into a prosperous, peasant family. He was a Chinese Marxist military and political leader, as well as a philosopher, poet and calligrapher, who led the Communist Party of China to victory against Kuomintang in the....
Oppression of Women in the Dominican Republic
Today many countries are experiencing drastic human rights violations. Coincidently, many of these violations are towards women. Women are the number one oppressed group in the world. HIV/AIDS is growing rapidly in the Dominican Republic. Men and women are at high-risk due to low condom use, mult....
Problems with Cultural Relativism in Anthropology
Cultural anthropology is the study of cultural variation among people. An essential concept that professional anthropologists apply in their fieldworks is - cultural relativism - an approach to study of the nature and role of values in a culture without judgment and comparison to their own. Accordin....
reasons of trust crisis in China
Realistically, Chinese people have immersed in an overwhelming stranglehold of trust crisis. There are medias charging darkminded producers who put poison into products, parents teaching their children to be alert to strangers, and teachers suspecting the stunning score of an averaged student. The s....
Red Scarf Girl
The Red Scarf Girl, by Ji-Li Jiang, tells a true story about the Cultural Revolution, launched in 1966, seen from the eyes of a twelve year old. The story begins in Shanghai, China, where Ji-Li Jiang is introduced as a girl who had everything a twelve year old could want--amazing parents, tons of fr....
The Chinese Theatre
Acting the Right Part sets about to redress what Xiaomei Chen calls a “threefold marginalization” of modern Chinese theater in the field of literary and cultural studies (p. 20). First, scholars have privileged Chinese fiction and film over drama. Second, according to Chen many students of moder....
The Cultural Revolution
In China between the years of 1966 and 1976, China underwent a cultural revolution. This was a time of great confusion, which is why it is also known as the Decade of Confusion. The Chinese short story “The Destination” was set in this time period. It tells of a young man who has just finished....