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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Cultural Attitudes"”.
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Personality and Cultural Attitudes
In a multicultural society, people can embrace or reject cultural diversity to different degrees. These mixed feelings can be more salient in certain contexts that stir intercultural conflicts, but they can also arise from within people’s nature. Recent research suggests that cultural attitudes may …
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Designing change--transforming cultural attitudes towards the natural environment through design
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Smokey the ‘Praying’ Bear: Changing Cultural Attitudes Towards Nature in America During the Postwar Era, 1948 - 1958
… Since his creation in 1944, Smokey Bear taught culturally relevant messages to the American public about the protection of nature. This study examines Smokey’s role promoting nature in the Unit ed States following World War II. Specifically, this academic work evaluates how Smokey Bear …
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Cultural attitudes to corruption : a perspective on the interplay between cultural and legal norms for Western businesses operating in China
… Beyond the commercial context, corruption and attitudes towards it are also more broadly relevant to politics, political economics and governance. Through an introduction to some of the features of Chinese culture which differ most from Western culture, this study provides a cultural …
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An investigation of cultural competence in teachers
<p>Using a set of scales to measure cultural competences which have been used in previous research, this study examined the relationships between Cultural Attitudes and Beliefs, Cultural Intelligence (CQ), and Ethnic Identity, as well as the Big Five personality traits and demographic variables, …
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Post-mordial : esoteric embodiment
… not reflect a wide enough range of contemporary cultural attitudes towards religion, spirituality, and mortality. As human beings increasingly embrace the paradigms of bioinformatics and digital fabrication, this thesis proposes that alternative funerary practices will arise to reflect these …
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Evaluation of the International 4-H Youth Exchange (IFYE) Program
… achieved its objectives regarding positive cross-cultural attitudes, life leadership skills, and host culture knowledge through the six-month International 4-H Youth Exchange (IFYE) Program. The population consisted of the twenty-one 1999 IFYE six-month representatives. A descriptive census survey …
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Cultural coverture: an examination of the impact of early American marriage laws on contemporary American women
… and change the system of coverture and the cultural attitudes and assumptions that were reflected through coverture. Though legal coverture ended in the closing decades of the twentieth century, the cultural attitudes and assumptions on which coverture was based are still impacting women and …
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A woman has no mouth' : a feminist critique of the portrayal of woman in siSwati prescribed books
… The study takes the view that textbooks as cultural artifacts are important in the transmission of cultural attitudes, values and ideology, and therefore influence the gendering of identities. The selected prescribed books for SecondarylHigh School level in Swaziland are investigated for …
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Evaluation of cultural competency medical education curriculum through the assessment of changes in student racial attitudes
… significant change in incoming medical students' attitudes towards cultural competency issues (in this case color-blind racism) following a cultural competency intervention during the first year of medical school. This study also examined whether there were significant differences in cultural …
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The Female Life Course at San Zeno: An Exploration of Women as the Makers and Keepers of Family Memory in Lombard Italy
… alongside texts which reveal underlying cultural attitudes towards women, such as Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum ("History of the Lombards"). My project also explores how legal texts attempted to regulate women's reproductive lives, in light of how women organized funerary …
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A Literature Review: Dual Immersion Programs in Elementary Schools
… academic achievement, and positive cross-cultural attitudes and behaviors. This type of program refers to an integrated model in which speakers of two languages are placed together in a bilingual classroom to receive instruction across the curriculum through the two target languages. It is …
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The Power of Penetration
… degree in the last few decades. However, some cultural attitudes have proven difficult for women to overcome. Researchers have described rape as "natural" to explain the persistence of violent sexual abuse towards women (Thornhill and Palmer 2000). This Thesis contests the argument for rape as …
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Politics, patriotism, pageantry : performing power at the Texas Cotton Palace, 1910-1930.
… event reflecting, endorsing, and reinforcing cultural attitudes and priorities of select groups within the Waco community. The Cotton Palace in those years was an expansive exhibition, incorporating elements of fair, public drama, parade, concert, landscape spectacle, carnival, and educational …
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Decloaking disability : images of disability and technology in science fiction media
… how images of disability are used to frame cultural narratives regarding technology. As advances in biotechnology ensure that more people will be living with technological prosthetics against and beneath their skin, there is an increasing importance in examining how such bodies challenge …
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Blind but Seeing: Post-clinical Medicine in Jose Saramago's Blindness
… of medical history, government policy, and cultural attitudes towards health and illness. The goal of the project is twofold: first, to examine how the traditional elements in narratives of plague interact with and change in the presence of the relatively new phenomenon of clinical medicine, …
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Evolving Ivans and Static Soviet Women: The Gender Dichotomy in Film Portrayals of Russian Men and Women in Western Films (1939-2010)
… Americans create and consume demonstrates how cultural attitudes are often reflected and reinforced in Western films. Based on the viewing and analysis of approximately two dozen films, I have determined that Western filmmakers working between 193 9 and 2010 have chosen to depict Russian men …
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Vignettes for educating the non-Arab non-Muslim reader : subversion and survival of Hakawati figures
… these authors negotiate dominant American cultural attitudes about assimilation, ethnic identity, and gender definitions and relations. Each author in this study writes in dialogue with current and historical events. The mid-twentieth-century assimilationist memoirs in chapter 1 turn to …
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Fifteen and almost famous: the realities and misperceptions of sexual violence in the music industry
… media, to reinforce as well as shape existing cultural attitudes and beliefs, this is an area that warrants further systematic research as the link between the art and the artist has not been thoroughly investigated. Findings as well as implications regarding the cultivation effects of …
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