Culture Book Reviews Samples For Students

Daniel Quinn's philosophical novel “Ishmael” begins with the reading of the newspaper. The narrator reads this newspaper with the interest especially one advertisement that was about the search of student, who wants to save the world. All his life, the narrator looked for such person and now he has found him. He has doubt about this ad, but he goes to the specified place. He sees only one gorilla in one of the offices that can speak with him telepathically. He understands that this gorilla will be his teacher that he sought.

The name of this gorilla ...

All those who work in the field of linguistics or related subjects must be aware of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, language shapes our thoughts, it influences our culture and the way we see the world. This idea became very popular and led to the belief that there are as many worldviews as there are languages. However, John H. McWhorter, in his book “The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the same in any Language” has disproved the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; he posits that language reflects culture and the speaker’s worldview; it offers a cultural viewpoint of the ...

Chinua Achebe’s novel A Man of the People portrays the generation gap between the old guard in the politics of West Africa and the newer generation. The narrator, Odili, stands for the newer generation, and contrasts starkly with Chief Nanga, who had once been Odili’s teacher and represents the older style represented by busy politics. Patron-client relationships and the old school “politics of the belly” are both important motifs in this novel, which focuses on these two men’s quarrels over everything from basic politics to women, building to the story’s end, represented by a military revolt ...

In the English language, ‘being’ entails a sense of identity, while ‘doing’ connotes action. Gender, for years, has been marked as a sensitive issue in society because it taps many sectors. West and Zimmerman (1987) mentioned the difference between sex and gender, sex refers to biological and anatomical features of being male and female while gender is more socio-cultural in nature. Gender roles are a product of various cultural norms in various countries. The classification of members of society into two distinct categories of such as ‘girl’ or ‘boy’ or ‘woman’ or ‘man’ works in a social ...

Introduction

This book, therefore, tries to separate the religious aspects of healing from the medical means of treating people. The modern culture takes into consideration the differences between the two aspects of healing. The miracles are therefore separated from the medical healings and treatment of the people in the society. The histories of medicine and miracles have a close relation as shown by the author of this book. The saints in the Roman Catholic Church are recognized based on proximity or closeness to God. This was shown by the fact that the miracles recorded in history were closely associated to a combination ...

Introduction:

‘State of Wonder’ is a gripping tale of love and intrigue set in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon forest where there are also themes of morality and culture explored. Patchett’s writing is pretty gripping and very intriguing; here is a masterful writer of sorts who has also received substantial praise from the book’s reviewers. Here we observe that the book explores the themes of love and morality in various subtle ways. Science is also an important factor and is accordingly given importance although it appears to be less apparent during certain episodes. Patchett’s quotes about ...

Butler’s work is based on the character Lilith. She is saved by an alien tribe called the Oankali who harbors her in their ship. The events described occur after the destruction of the earth by the humans, in a hypothetical, third world war. The humans annihilate each other with the Oankalis moving in to salvage whatever can be found in the planet, reforming it into a habitable place once again. For their service to the few humans left, the Oankali offer a deal to the humans to trade their genes with them for the restoration of the earth. There are two ...

The four articles summarized and discussed in this annotated bibliography were selected because they deal with some of the civilizations of the first Americans, the Aztecs in particular. There always seems to be a lot of information and research into Western and pre-Western archaeology and anthropology, such as studies about Celtic, Roman, and Egyptian culture and mythology, but less about pre-Columbian America. All four of these articles were selected from peer-reviewed journals. Journals were selected instead of a book because it seemed like the best way to get a general idea about some very diverse topics regarding the Aztecs. Topics for three ...

Cedric J. Robinson's Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film Before World War II is a haunting and in-depth examination of the status of race relations in America in the early twentieth century, through the analysis of the film and theater of the day. Through his analysis of themes, trends and motifs in the films of the era, Robinson concludes that a number of social, economic and political forces present in these films established a firmly entrenched and prejudicial portrayal of the black experience in American cinema and Black cinema in particular.

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Guadalupe in New York, by Alyshia Galvez, is a look inside the lives, culture, and faith of Mexican immigrants in the urban United States. The book is a collection of stories, histories, and information about the lives of Mexican Immigrants trying to make a living for themselves in the land of opportunity. Galvez describes how these immigrants find themselves living a difficult and fearful life, working long hours for low paying jobs, and in constant fear that they will be discovered as illegal immigrants. This book touches on a wide variety of subjects including immigration, Mexican-American culture, religion, and the American dream.

The author ...

1 and 2. Preface

Against depression is the title of the book written by Peter Kramer a renowned psychiatrist, the title of the book suggests more of a political inclination of some sort but the book narrates a different story all together. The book is majorly focused on the idea that most people are in support of depression as an aid to artistic expression. Its incorporation of latest research in the psychiatric field is also very crucial as it facilitates the comprehensive and explicit explanation as well as illustration of physical damages of the brain and its major causes.

It further explains in an easy to ...

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As an organizational leader,I would start briefly by introducing the topic, breaking it down to the lessons learnt and how they would help on the improvement of the organizations leadership and finally concluding on the findings this. PowerPoint style of presentation since it would allow for explaining one’s view and finding. It is also clearer, and presentation is neat and due to use of slide. It also helps the presenter to refer back.
There are lessons on leadership and ethics to be learnt.Presenting this book can help in improving the leadership skills and the relations between ...

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In the chapter four- Friendship, Democracy and Citizen Journalism, Charles Ess discusses about aspects on online behavior which determine the interactions between people from different geographical, cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds. As Ess examines, diversity is a natural phenomenon which should be embraced by everyone. The development of technology has promoted online interactions. However, many people have not complied with the principles of online communication. Instead of appropriately using it to promote cohesion, they perceive it as a platform through which they can advance their imperialist ideologies.
In this chapter, Ess displays his literary prowess by producing a very insightful piece ...

Business Culture Inside and Out

Book Review: Reflective Reaction on the Compare and Contrast of Readings
Introduction
Business is business, the new world tends to define business as something that is rather considered more as an institution that tends to bring better culture and better opportunities to members of the society. However, when it comes to the actual value of business, the industry of commerce defines business as a machine that brings in the different resources altogether to create a system that tends to manipulate operations for the sake of earning more money and gaining more profit from whatever could be gained from what ...

Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if ...

The dialectical relationship between love and material objects is complex. In the United States of America different elements in culture often take opposing sides: some, like most spiritual organizations, favoring the former, and others, like the capitalistic worldview, favoring the latter. O. Henry was one of this country’s most famous turn-of-the-nineteenth-century writers, who constantly incorporated its culture into his texts; “The Gift of the Magi”, one of his most famous and important short stories, deals with this dichotomy. Using many of O. Henry’s staples, it rests on irony to construct a bittersweet tale where love ends up prevailing. ...

Article Review: African Theology - Roman Catholic, and Asian Theology – Roman Catholic in Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church

The two articles being reviewed and compared here are African Theology – Roman Catholic, and Asian Theology - Roman Catholic, both taken from the Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church, edited by William A. Dyrness and Veli-Matti Karkkainen.
Both articles begin with an overview of their interaction with diversity and it is at the very onset that the reader realizes that the two theologies vary greatly in their follower base. Despite its ...

- Welfare recipients and culture of poverty
- In the chapters 2 and 7 of the book Flat Broke with Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of U.S welfare from the inside of the welfare office, and also from the inside of mothers involved in welfare. She aptly describes the challenges that recipients of welfare face in the management of their families, work. Moreover, she tells the regulations and rules that pertain to welfare reform. Her research is hands on because it involves one on one interaction with the welfare recipients. The hands-on approach she takes makes ...

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The book is an interesting and informative excerpt and has an historical analysis of the accounts that took place between the 1400 to the 16 century. The events that took place have been clearly illustrated, starting with the rise to power by Cosim de’ Minici. It gives an analysis of the financial situation at the time by mentioning the influence that the bank and the people around him had on his influence at that time. To make the historical accounts more convincing, there has been numerical examples and explanations to strengthen the facts under discussion. The language used is ...

The book “Bathing in Public in the Roman World” is one of the unique books written by Garrett G. Fagan in the year 1999. Published by the University of the Michigan press, the book is a surprising discovery of the Roman habit of bathing in the public in the context of cultural and social history. Fagan closely examines the architectural features of Roman baths, especially the function of the technical and hydraulic elements . While the ancient writers gave little importance to bathing as a matter of literary interest, Fagan gives the archaeological evidence of the habit of bathing and the effect ...

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The Book is basically detailed in defining the two different perspectives of two different cultures in medical sense of being. The first culture is about US biomedicine and how the medication affects people as well as how it can be used as a form of social control. The other perspective includes the Hmong perspective which is entirely about spiritual causes and other causes that are not related to biomedical performances or the concept of biomedical healing. The book is excellent in terms of how it defines the distant gap between the two cultures and uses Lia, a Hmong child, as a bridge ...

In many great companies, the Level 5 leader has been found to be the most important factor for the company’s factor. It is not because they are able to do a great job themselves. Rather, it is because they are able to bring together disciplined and talented people to do the task. The Level 5 Leader simply sets the way for all the others to do the work. Among the four stages or principles, the Level 5 Leader is the most important to understand and emulate in an education or school environment.
The Level 5 Leader is not ...

Sheila Fitzpatrick was one of the most prominent social historians of the epoch of Stalinism and Soviet Union. The author began to write from the cultural prospect and all her sociological researches relate to the topic of a culture. The issue of the Russian Revolution had a great resonance in the world and influenced many historical processes in the world. The investigation of its main factors was central to Fitzpatrick in her scientific research.
Sheila Fitzpatrick asks the question: “When does the Russian revolution end?” (2). Finding the answer on this question is the main argument of the book. The ...

Chinua Achebe, in the famous novel, Things Fall Apart, goes on to delve deep into the culture of two different communities through the story of the life of the protagonist, Okonkwo, who is a heroic character of his village in Nigeria. The protagonist is an acclaimed man who has three wives and many children. He is someone who has shown his valor and warlike skills for which he is known among all. The character has a tragic flaw, nonetheless, that leads to his ultimate downfall. He is obsessed not to reveal any sign of emotion or weakness to people.
However, ...

Personal accountability in leading a foreign congregation

Personal accountability in leading a foreign congregation
The steady yet slow growth of the New Hope Church in America is an indication of commitment by the Korean-Americans to support the ministry's programs and cooperate in worship and fellowship. However, some negative notions imported from the Korean culture affect the success of the ministry's programs especially urban centers of America. Such notions such as the lack of sensitivity to community service are inherited by the new generation of believers from their elders. In the book “QBQ; the question behind the question” John Miller explains that a leader is responsible for initiating ...

The Book The cheating culture: David Callahan writes why more Americans are doing wrong to get Ahead. David Callahan has interviewed many people around the country. He had studied many different patterns of cheating as in corporate boardrooms, school testing, over billing lawyers, school testing, learning deficiencies, and applications (Hopkins 25). In this book “The cheating culture”, David Callahan has given instances of cheating in America. He has given numerous instances in his book on cheating in America. There is strong evidence that shows the people in America are getting dishonest. This will exaggerate in the future if not treated ...

There are few theories and theoretical frameworks in the realm of sociology that can rival structuralism and semiology in its scope and lasting impact in the academic realm. The “Durkheim School” as it was called in the academe, was primarily concerned with the matter of treating ‘social facts as things’. The sociologist from which this movement shares its name – Emile Durkheim – advocated for a sociology that was not based on a theory which took the individual as the starting-point of analysis (Thompson 35). Subsequent sociologists that followed Durkheim’s philosophy were also concerned with the objectivity of the field, removed from ...

The novel The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman recounts the tale of the Lee family, a group of Hmong who struggle to treat their daughter Lia Lee for epilepsy. The central conflict throughout the novel is the clash of cultures between the superstitious, traditionalist Hmong family and the secular, science-based Western medical culture. What’s more, there is a communication barrier, as the American doctors are unable to effectively communicate with the family since they speak different languages and use different ways of relating to the world. To that end, the book essentially studies the importance ...

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Citation and acknowledgement
Ellen Eslinger (1999). Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. ISBN 978-1-57233-033-7
Eslinger received assistance from the DePaul University, where she works as a Historian. The content of the book was from her doctoral dissertation that she wrote while in the university. From the analysis of the sources that are quoted, with a sampling of 30 pages, from page 100-130, she uses approximately 60% of secondary sources, mainly from articles as well as published books from notable authors, where she challenges previous theories with her well perceived ...

Leading change by John Kotter provides a couple of processes that organizations can use to achieve the set goals. Apart from organizations, these processes can also be used by individuals; whether they are leaders or not. More to it, the author has also outlined where and how the top performers fail during the process of changing. He has also provided practical resources for individuals that are charged with the responsibilities of ensuring the needed change is pursued. To avoid failure and disappointment when effecting changes the author has provided a number of steps that are effective. According to Jung (2013), changes ...

The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

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Book Review on How Should We Then Live:
The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture” deals with the major Christian culture written by Francis A. Schaeffer, and published in 1976. Basing on the book, a series of ten films were produced. In the book, Schaeffer objected to the influences of Renaissance, the Charles Darwin and the Enlightenment. His thoughts inspired many leaders of ...

Book Reviews

Book Review # 1: Zeitoun
This book by Dave Eggers is a spellbinding and enthralling description of Hurricane Katrina. Zeitoun, a true story, tells the story of an unjust arrest of and racial discrimination against a Syrian-American named Abdulrahman Zeitoun. Eggers tells the shocking tale of Zeitoun family and has once again proves that he is one of the most impressive literary writers in the United States of America.
When New Orleans was struck by Hurricane Katrina, the prosperous Abdulrahman Zeitoun opted to stay at his place through the storm for protecting his house and business. After the passage of the ...

Introduction

Lu Hsiu-Lien depicts her dreadful struggle for democratization in Taiwan in her political autobiography “My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power.” The title of the book itself tells that this story is about a political journey of a common woman that she spent in prison and became vice president. She has released a fascinating memoir that tells her political life with humor in her recent book. It is considered as a rare political memoir that is presented with candid and self-aware. “My Fight for a New Taiwan” narrates the Taiwan’s unique coalesce of autochthonic and Chinese culture. ...

Why Nations Faillooks to the past as well as today’s world in order to answer the age old question of why some nations prosper while others fail. Historically some countries’ citizens are considered wealthy, their nations in rich material goods, education and freedoms while and others are perceived a generally poor, or divided by lines of wealth and poverty.
It is obvious by looking at more universal factors of culture, weather, and geography that countries with similar external and internal factors can enjoy, or suffer different circumstances. North and South Korea and East and West Germany are evidence ...

When you sit down in a world religions class in a Western university and learn about Japan, you learn about Buddhism, Shinto and Confucianism. However, the religion that best encapsulates the Japanese soul, according to T.R. Reid’s book Confucius Lives Next Door, is Confucianism. Reid would know, of course. He has put in years of work in journalism, including serving as an Asian correspondent for the Washington Post. Living in Tokyo as well as other Asian cities during his career, he and his family gained a unique insight into the foibles of this nation. His book is an ode to what ...

Things fall Apart is novel written by a Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe paints a picture of pre-colonial Africa to the people who had no direct information on traditional African societies. This novel highlights the clash between the Nigerian traditional culture and colonialism. In the novel, there are a number of themes and background but the major themes in the novel are struggle between change and traditions whereby there is the Igbo culture and civilization and the expansion of the Europeans into Africa as from the 1880s.
Chinua Achebe through his book Things Fall Apart portrays the clash between the ...

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Globalization – Meaning
Campbell et al. define globalization as a social process, which encompasses all the activities that strengthen and facilitate worldwide economic, social, and political, exchanges and interdependencies. They further elucidate that globalization is not an event, but rather an ongoing and continuous process and this process is social in nature involving human interactions and connections.
Another crucial aspect of the globalization process is that it is generative in nature, whereby it creates and expands networks, and these networks, in due course, transcend the traditional geographical, social, and political boundaries. In short, as Roland Robertson puts ...

Every review of different types of books becomes unique, as the impressions from the book vary depending on cultural, ethical and different other types of tastes. The book, which is going to be reviewed in several paragraphs lower, is the non-fictional historic book by Bernard Lewis under the name “The Emergence of Modern Turkey”. It was published in 1960 in London, for the first time, with the copyrights of Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1961; however, the paper is going to review the second edition of the book, which was published in London, on May 1967; therefore, it ...

I am writing this paper on the book “Identity and Violene” by Amartya Sen who is a Nobel laureate in economics. In this book he extensively discusses about his concern with the ‘miniaturization’ of human beings. He goes on to touch on the topic on identity in connection with civilization, religion and culture while also in historical context, individual freedoms and globalization. In this book he presents his argument in such a manner that is persuasive and is able to convince the reader of the book easily. This book should be a must read to anyone with any liking to the state ...

Paul Spickard’s book, almost all aliens is a book that examines three concepts; immigration (which concerns the study of native people), emancipation and slavery. It attempts to integrate all these three concepts into one. It examines ethnicity and race from the year 1600 to the present. He uses three approaches to enable understanding of this subject. The first approach he uses is the approach of assimilationist whereby be converges the notion of immigration groups into some median in the American culture. He finds this concept to be very flawed. This is because many white Americans have never considered African ...

In the beginning of 1924, the United States’ immigration had reached a record high. It is said the percentage of immigrants entering the country from foreign countries was so high that it warranted government intervention. The White Americans who are still the majority population up to the present started fearing that the immigrants would star taking over their businesses and infringe on their culture and traditions. Since they were the ruling class, they had to make due with law provisions that would restrict immigration. The major immigrants were from Europe, Mexico and the larger Latin America and the African Americans. ...

The story narrated by of Buscape proves the statement that anyone can change his or her fate. A boy who was destined to be a gangster since he saw only violence and injustice all his life discovered that he could see another side of life. He was the only one who avoided being dragged down into criminal affairs and corruption unlikely to the majority of other characters of the novel. Thus, his religious, historical, and social background do not influence his dream to become a photographer instead of being a gangster (Meirelles 24).
However, Buscape was the only one who was ...

The story narrated by of Buscape proves the statement that anyone can change his or her fate. A boy who was destined to be a gangster since he saw only violence and injustice all his life discovered that he could see another side of life. He was the only one who avoided being dragged down into criminal affairs and corruption unlikely to the majority of other characters of the novel. Thus, his religious, historical, and social background do not influence his dream to become a photographer instead of being a gangster (Meirelles 24).
However, Buscape was the only one who was ...

The theme of moral independence is well elaborated in this book. The author of the book have emphasized on thinking independently in relation to moral decisions in the story. Antonio reflected moral independence in his decisions throughout the story making him develop and mature through such moral decisions. Antonio is faced with difficulties of his life experience and the religious aspects leaving him in a dilemma. He therefore decided to make his own decisions pertaining to the situation irrespective of religious aspects and his own life experiences. He was frustrated by the fact that the church failed in giving solutions ...

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The Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell is a nonfiction text. It incorporates a straightforward writing that presents clear points that are easy to grasp for the readers. In the course of the book, Gladwell emerges as a rational and a lively writer with a skill of presenting complex things in a simple way. The text provides rational explanations to various apparent mysteries, twists of fate, and day to day challenges. The author presents his work through logical reasoning and incorporating shrewd expressions that explain the occurrence of various social phenomena. This book attempts to dissipate the myth of individualism as a viable explanation ...

Book Review: Culture Making – Recovering Our Creative Calling

Andy Crouch, the author of Culture Making, is a longtime theologist and Christian culture writer, having spend more than 15 years in the field. Crouch studied classics at Cornell University, and received a Master’s in Divinity summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. From 1998 to 2003, Andy edited re:generation quarterly, which was a magazine dedicated to Christian cultural creativity, and spent a decade at Harvard University as a campus minister for the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In 2012, Andy Crouch was named the new executive editor for Christianity Today magazine, having already executive produced their This is Our City Christian culture ...

Introduction

This is a very innovative scholarly monograph that links the book Earthquake Nation by Gregory Clancey’s and an analysis of how technology was transferred in Meiji Japan from mid-nineteenth century to the present. Most studies on technological development in Japan focus on the technical and economic aspects of the issues. David Wittner’s book however is different in that it adds political and ideological factors in Meiji government’s work in selection of industrial technologies between 1870s and 1880s. Winter sets out his objectives in the introduction of his book and in the subsequent chapters contributes to each objective ...

The story written by Hwang is very interesting and moving. It is told in a non-structural and non-linear way, which is something that most people are not used to reading. Besides this structural characteristic of the novel, it tells a story of the history of Korea, before Communism spread in North Korea. I do not agree with the thesis statement which claims that the characters Pak Hun and Ojaknyo reject the old and feel that the new is unjust. However, I do believe that they think that there is much improvement to be done in modern times. The characters in the ...

Introduction

The book education for extinction is an educational book trying to make us comprehend how the last “Indian war” was fought against the Native American children. This is war that happened in the classrooms of the boarding schools that were made by the government in order to take the Indian children away from their families and allow them to fully concentrate on their education without any interference from their families. This was done mainly with the main aim of promoting white “civilization” while gradually doing away with the childhood memories of “savagism” to a point where they can get extinct ( ...

The main theme for the book entitled “The Spirit Level: Why equal societies almost always do better” was about how inequality can affect even those who are not well off. This information is vital for someone in the planning profession because the economy and the labor force affects the job outlook as well as the other important factors in a certain area. The book was well written and was done with extensive years of research, not focusing on only one country, but doing a case study on many. When it comes to someone from the planning profession, it is important that ...

Book review, ‘Almost All Alien’

The book by Paul Spickard ‘Almost All Aliens’ tackles the issue of immigration in an unconventional way by integrating the study of immigrant people in relation to the native people, slavery, freeing of slaves, race and ethnicity in general. The author analyses the various approaches in understanding immigration. The assimilation approach as tackled in the book requires that various cultures converged in the United States and into some modified, median American culture. He does not agree with this theory however, as African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and the Native Americans never fitted the bill for assimilation to the Anglo-American culture. ...

Question One: Is there a settled vision of human rights as the western idealists, academics, human rights crusaders and some politicians would have people believe? This question emanates from the discourse on alternative perspective by Joseph Chan on page 29 of Chapter 3 in the second paragraph towards the last sentence. Chan is at pains to explain how dissatisfied he is, with advocates and lawyers in conferences who deprecate the Asian values of human rights citing them as an excuse for the continued violation of human rights. He then states that these human rights advocates and lawyers constantly call on ...

1. “ Wa”: what is “wa”? Briefly define the term and how it is (has been) used/practiced in Japan?
Wa is group harmony in Japanese culture. This harmony implies both conformity within a social group and a peaceful group unity. This group mindset implies preference for continuing harmony in a community setting over any personal focus. This concept of Wa derives from Japanese sense of family values. Within the family, any member exhibiting behavior breaking the idea of the harmonious nature of Wa in the pursuit of furthering his or her own interests becomes the subject of strict reprimand from ...

Chan states that it is beyond dispute that Asian states have committed egregious violations of human rights. More so, it is also the case that Asian states have not lived up to the universally held notion of human rights. The whole controversy surrounding this debate on the Asian values and human rights was generated following the Bangkok Declaration of 1993. The Declaration sought to legitimize the adoption of policies and values that were distinctly different from the Western democracies concerning human rights. As stated by Singapore government spokesman, the Declaration presented the Asian point of view on human rights ...

In the book “The War is for the Whole Life” by Richard Hanks the life of mission Indians is explored in a historical context. Hanks examines the lives of Native Americans and the impact that missions and cultural rights played in either helping or harming the population. This book picks out some key events regarding the struggle for equality and related them to both a missionary and a Native American’s perspective.

Chapter 1: Strangers in their own Land

The settlement of California changed Native Americans in many different ways that forever changed one culture’s way of life. The detriment of Native American populations was partially caused by ...

Renowned historian and archeologist Bryan Ward Perkins has taken up to the task of looking into the actual reasons behind the fall of Roman Empire through publication of his book “The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization”. Published in 2006 under the publishing ownership of Oxford Publishing press, the book has attracted considerable attention for numerous reasons.
The aim behind the entire effort is a multifaceted one- correction of the facts that have long been deviated from the actual facts, and secondly presenting the factors that led to the downfall and what impacts it had on the ...

The zoot suit culture was flamboyant embedded in fashion, unique patterns of speech, lindy hop dancing, jazz, swing music and jitterbug among other factors captivating the youth in the 1940’s. In this book, Luis Alvarez explains the relationship between race, region and politics of culture during the World War II in the urban America. He argued that most of the American youth from diverse communities such as African American, Mexican and American youths adopted the popular culture in opposing the commonly accepted modes of youthful behaviors. For example, the dominance of white, middle class expectations and behaviors was ...

Thesis Statement:

Variables:
- Early Childhood
- Transformation into Military men

The Pinnacle:

The Battle of Little Bighorn
Credentials and achievements in battle field:
- Weaknesses:
- Fall from Glory

Cultural contrasts between the two:

- Agents of inspirations and benchmarks

The final phase:

- The fall of The Risen
- The Tame Ending

Contrast between the two cultures

- Contrasting factors

Ethnocentric Cultural display

Present day and cultural deviance
- Moral Values
Similarity can be highlighted between the two in form of the fact that each had an eventless earlier life. Each took a turn for good and came to limelight in their respective paradigms in later stages through attainment of ...

Since the start of time, there has been a difference between men and women in the society, especially what each could do. This was not different in the Sioux and Victorian American cultures. The Sioux culture emphasized on the sanctity of marriage. Additionally, they forbade extramarital and premarital intercourse. In this culture, the role of women was to serve their husbands and act as their ornaments. They were not allowed to pursue careers. During this era, women were objectified and those in the lower socio-economic scale were regarded as fair game for men who had money and power to buy ...

In the book”Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors” by Stephen E. Ambrose, the lives of these two great historical rivals are revealed. The author intends to reveal a clash of two cultures during the Civil War of Little Bighorn, on June 25, 1876. His two main characters being Crazy Horse, a Native American warrior, and General Custer, a white American cavalry officer. Through Ambrose’s revelations one can gain a better understanding of their character by comparing and contrasting these two warriors, revealing both their triumphs and failures.
Culture played a big part in the conflict. The ...