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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"U.S. culture"”.
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International students: Culture shock and adaptation to the U.S. culture
… to a new environment, often accompanied by a culture shock experience.</p> <p>This study analyzes to what degree cultural background, gender differences, language proficiency, self-confidence/self-efficacy, and social support networks impact the adjustment process of international students to …
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The Relationship Between Orientation to the U.S. Culture and Affect Among Chinese International Students
… important for cross-cultural research, as culture may influence the subjective experience of how individuals value certain emotions and to what extent they actually experience them. The current research conducts two studies to examine cultural differences in ideal and actual affect, and to …
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Individualism in education reform
… A critical analysis of individualism in U.S. culture, standardized testing, its history, and the ways in which it is used will show that individualism is a powerful cultural tradition in dominant U.S. culture. As well, the analysis will show that reformers utilizing business-model reforms and …
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<em>¡¿Y Que?!</em>: Punks, Goths, and Musical Outsiders in Latinx Literature and Popular Culture
… Latinx characters in literature and popular culture who participate in rock music subcultures as a resistive tool for navigating the intercultural experiences of Latinxs living in the U.S. and beyond. Subcultures like punk, goth, and Morrissey fandom are zones of contact and crossover, spaces …
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Identity Style, Acculturation Strategies and Employment Status Of Formally Educated Foreign-Born African Women In The United States
The culture in which people work and dwell is instrumental in shaping their sense of self. The decision to migrate from the country of one's heritage culture may result in the modification of self-identity in order to accommodate new experiences within the host culture. For working professionals, …
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Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940
… devices to explicate early 20th century U.S. culture, revealing two ideological impulses that encapsulate collective responses to the anxieties of the age: authoritarian-populism and catastrophic-utopianism. Four case studies, encompassing four different genres of media, define and illustrate …
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Determined To Make A Difference: A Critical Autobiography Of An African American Male Principal In The Deep South
… and preacher. Racism is systemic in today’s U.S. culture. Racism is embedded into social institutions, including schools, and racism continues to oppress marginalized people. However, through my stories of perseverance, I hope to overshadow racism, erase the deficit mindset toward African American …
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Where language is made: language planning at the intersections of national and international literacy and language work
… skills needed to participate fully in U.S. culture and economy. Accordingly, language planning projects (e.g. anti-bilingual education legislation and the English-Only Movement) aim to eradicate language differences and, with them, the need to develop resources and nurture attitudes that …
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Diabetes in Latinas : Depression, Metabolic Control, and the Roles of Acculturation and Social Support
… (r(N = 80) = 0.20, p = .03). Exposure to U.S. culture measured in years correlated significantly with diagnosis of depression by a medical professional (rs = 0.22, p = 0.04). There was an additional finding that years of living with diabetes was significantly correlated with being considered …
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Narratives of Black Female Elementary School Teachers: Navigating the Normative Discourse of Whiteness
… of Whiteness that remains dominant in the U.S. culture and public school system. This study included semi-structured interviews with six participating teachers from several school districts in a large Midwestern metropolitan city. critical race theory, Black feminist theory, intersectionality, …
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Acculturation, Peer Influence, Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies, and Alcohol Use and Related Problems among Asian and Pacific Islander College Students
… that: (1) greater orientation towards U.S. culture had a positive relationship with increased use of harm reduction strategies, e.g. using a designated driver, and an inverse relationship with drinking moderation strategies; e.g. avoiding shots of liquor (2) greater peer drinking predicted …
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LOST IN INTERPRETATION: THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF NURSE INTERPRETERS IN THE CLINICAL SETTING
… contemporary nursing practice in a diverse U.S. culture. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to examine the lived experience of RNs serving as interpreters in health care institutions in Southern California. Specifically, this study sought to describe RNs perceptions of their …
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How Native American women perceive their unique lived experiences : three women tell their stories
… that can be viewed as part of the fabric of U.S. culture, yet exist as subcultures. Native Americans (indigenous peoples, ‘Indians’) should share a special place within U.S. society as First Americans; however, qualitative studies of Native American women, offered through a feminist lens as …
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From enclosure to embrace : punitive isolation and network culture
… technologies in reconfiguring contemporary culture. While the penetration of the "information society" is now widespread in U.S. culture⁶, not everyone is an equal participant⁷7. As an extreme case in point, the American prison population, currently at 2.3 million⁸, is institutionally …
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A cross-cultural study of calling between the U.S. and Korea
… undergraduates that may be unique to the Korean culture. Results are discussed in light of prior research on the definition and assessment of calling in the Korean and U.S. culture. Implications for career theory, research, and practice also are presented.
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Immigrant Stories: Generation 1.5 Mexican American Students and English Language Learning in an Illinois Community College
… questions: 1) What are the adjustments to U.S. culture in general? 2) What are the adjustments to the culture of the community college classroom and corridor? 3) Does the student encounter any feelings of anxiety in the language-learning process? And 4) Does the student encounter any feelings of …
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Cognitive Fictions: The Evolution of Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century Fiction and Science
… Histories of turn-of-the-twentieth century U.S. culture commonly depict a shift from interiorizing to social models of identity: writers first rushed to re-articulate old racial and gender essentialisms in new Darwinian vocabularies of biological competition (as Nancy Leys Stepan and Marlon B. …
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Finding Their Ground: Nigerian Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism
… of thoughts, words, and ideas. Social norms and culture influence each person’s perception of plagiarism. U.S. culture, which embraces individuality and values individual ownership, views plagiarism as unethical. Conversely, collectivist cultures such as that of Nigeria, value group ownership and …
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The African-American Islamic Renaissance and the Rise of the Nation of Islam
… dissertation examines African-American Islamic culture from 1920 through 1959, a period I label the "African-American Islamic Renaissance" (AAIR). The AAIR is characterized by a significant increase in interest in Islam, extreme diversity in views about Islam, and the absence of a single …
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The Problem with Purity: Market Failures, Foodborne Contamination, and the Search for Accountability in the U.S. Food Safety Regulatory Regime
One of the great myths of contemporary U.S. culture is that America's food supply is the safest in the world. Another is that government agencies have the ability and authority to guarantee food safety and to enforce accountability standards upon food producers, processors, and distributors. But …
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