The Western

depiction of an inescapable transition where the society is transformed from an old and wild social order to a modern and organized one. In this film, Ford brings to perspective the society in the past and how it died as a result of modernization. The western frontier ideals are brought to light with the transition from a lawless social order embodied by the gunslingers into a modern society governed by law and order (Ebert). The inevitable transition represents a death of the Old Wild West,…

the guidelines for caring, by explaining the controversy between natural caring and ethical caring, and by describing wrong actions, Noddings substantially postulates what caring is and what role it has in society. Correspondingly, the contemporary Western philosopher applied her work to the study of learning, allowing educators to better supplement academia. A systematic and rigid framework…

clothing, language, and cuisine, which make up ones culture. Cultural identity is defined as a person’s self-conception and self-perception of themselves, and how it fits into a group of people with similar perception. Many different cultures such as Western culture, which the United States reside in, have played an important role in shaping the world today. With the advent of technology that allows people to actively communicate over long distances, cultures have been able to clash more easily.…

whereby the society is transformed from an old social order to a modern one. In this film, Ford brings to perspective the society that he created in the past and how it died as a result of the new transition in form of modernization. In this film, the western frontier ideals are brought to light with the transition from an old social order characterized by lawlessness embodied by the gunslingers into a modern society that is governed by law and order (Ebert). The inevitable transition represents…

because what might be the norm in emic perspective, can be seen as strange from an etic perspective. Ponijao was cleaned by his mother saliva and Bayarjargal had his face washed by his mother’s breast milk. These might seem as strange acts from a western perspective. On the other hand, they are considered normal in an emic perspective. The film rarely shows any clear interaction of the father in the Mongolian sitting also, but it shows prominent father interactions in the Japanese and American…

news featuring headlines like: “Iran Nuclear Deal: What Happens Next?” and “Radical Islam: why Europe should be on war footing” it is no surprise that Western society has a fear of Muslims. In Azar Nafisi’s essay “The Veiled Threat”, she brings light onto a neglected issue within Islam: the inequality between men and women. Media has distorted the Western perception of Islam as it does with other cultures and people. The news says “good evening” and then tells us all reasons it’s not. The news…

to shop for groceries. Also, a Japanese company bought the stores from Walmart in 2006. For the identical reasons, Carrefour failed to run their business in those two countries. The key points of why these western companies failed to run their business are that they insisted on bringing western culture and management model. In addition, they ignored they way how people do shopping. Eventually, their arrogance and blind insistence led to the…

however this ‘boutique multiculturalism’ was not emblematic of acceptance of Indian culture or even of Indians in general (Buettner, 2008: 869). Therefore, globalization of ethnic food has developed a ‘celebratory multiculturalism’ of Indian culture in western…

This article is a descriptive review because it is focused on the leisure and social participation in children diagnosed with Down syndrome. The purpose of this study was to describe leisure participation for school-aged children with Down syndrome and to investigate how factors, classified by the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, influence their leisure participation (Oates, Bebbington, Bourke, Girdler, & Leonard, 2011, p. 1881).…

a slave. The same analogy is used in an essay from 2001, “Scheherazade Goes West” by Fetma Mernissi regarding the clothing of modern Western culture. These pieces were written centuries apart and in different circumstances, and yet they both compare Western society to the Eastern ideal of a harem and both do so through the vehicle of Western clothing. The Western world is a breeding ground for hidden harems. Jane Eyre, is a vivacious woman who, after years of mistreatment finds happiness in her…