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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"cultural conflicts"”.
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Sunlight Upon a Dark Sky - Haiti's Urban Poor Responds to Socio-Political and Socio-Cultural Conflicts: A Case Study of the Grande Ravine Community Human Rights Council
… Human Rights Council to resolve socio-cultural and socio-political conflicts?One of the problems encountered was the suspicion by armed groups believing that thepresident of the organization was informing the police and the United Nationspeacekeepers about their activities. The complex …
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Activity Theory as a lens for considering culture: A descriptive case study of a multinational company developing and supporting training around the world
… much promise for being able to shed light on cultural issues encountered by companies operating across national boundaries. This research presents a descriptive case study of a company using Activity Theory to shed light on the potential cultural conflicts the company faced as it designed and …
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Rethinking Thai architecture and cultural identity
… it was believed that a new modern image of Thai cultural identity would help the country to be regarded as equal to Europe. At the same time, traditional Thai beliefs – especially the values of ‘pure’ Buddhism – were left behind as they were seen to be entirely different from the new western …
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Cultures in Residence: Intercultural Communication Competence for Residence Life Staff
… that international and U.S. students may have cultural conflicts, particularly when living together. Since many younger students may not be interculturally competent, it is left to the staff of Residence Life offices, such as resident assistants, to counsel students through their issues; yet …
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Cultures in Residence: Intercultural Communication Competence for Residence Life Staff
… that international and U.S. students may have cultural conflicts, particularly when living together. Since many younger students may not be interculturally competent, it is left to the staff of Residence Life offices, such as resident assistants, to counsel students through their issues; yet …
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No More Shade: Deforestation and Rural-Urban Migration in Nigeria
… include education, employment opportunities, and cultural conflicts. However, as the deforestation crisis has not improved and Nigeria has maintained its spot as the country with the most deforestation on Earth, access to critical forest resources may be in danger. In light of this crisis, this …
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"The Best Soil of Their Hearts": Protestant Explorations of Catholic Spirituality in Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne
… virtue and republicanism. Despite many ongoing cultural conflicts, Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne served through their creative works as mediators of the conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism in nineteenth-century America, and their writings allow a better understanding of how …
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Domestic faiths, global missions: post-secular science fiction at the millennium
… religious character of late twentieth century cultural conflicts by constructing “post-secular” narratives that imagine communities of genuinely diverse people on equal political and cultural footing. The novels’ near future setting allows them to examine contemporary problems in systemic …
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Social and Cultural Integration Process Among Syrian Refugees in the United States
<p>The purpose of this study is to examine the cultural and social integration process among Syrian refugees in the United States, and to what extent the direct and indirect challenges have played a role in the process of their social and cultural integration. The challenges include, but are not …
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Cross cultural communication in selected adult ESL classrooms in Vancouver : a study of the cross-cultural situations ESL students and teachers rate as most difficult
This study is an examination of what cross-cultural situations students and teachers find most difficult in adult English as a second language (ESL) classrooms in Vancouver, British Columbia. Cross-cultural situations include any encounter (verbal or non-verbal) with a person from a different …
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Imagine Pershing Square : experiments in cinematic urban design
… the shifting narratives of his or her own cultural, economic and environmental perceptions. Yet within dominant urban design paradigms, many of these perceptions never make it into the public meeting, nor onto the abstract maps and renderings that planners and designers frequently employ. …
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Conflict and crisis in American Methodism: slavery and homosexuality, 1784-2022
… thesis analyses the socio-political context and cultural trends of antebellum America, thereby drawing conclusions about the ways in which antebellum American culture affected American Methodism’s theology and polity regarding slavery. Also, this thesis describes and exegetes the events leading …
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Cultural Consensus Model of Depression Beliefs Among Afghan Refugees
… distress levels were also collected. The Cultural Consensus Model was used to estimate the culturally correct answer for each question, and to assess the proportion of shared beliefs within and between groups. Results from consensus analysis indicated a homogenous response pattern present …
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Rethinking Edwards v. Aguillard?: The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the Challenge of Intelligent Design
… the culmination of a series of court battles and cultural conflicts that can be traced back to the famous Scopes Trial. Although many thought, and continue to think, that creationism was dealt a fatal blow in Edwards, a new movement, made up of largely well-educated and well-credentialed scholars, …
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Distorted Traditions: the Use of the Grotesque in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson Mccullers, Flannery O'connor, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
… part of the South's peculiarity derives from the cultural conflicts inherent between these two groups. Chapters 2 through 5 analyze selected short fiction from each of these respective authors and offer readings that explain how the grotesque relates to the drastic social changes taking place over …
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Patterns and Challenges of Parenting School-Age Children Among Selected Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Parents in Southwest Michigan: a Multiple-Case Study
… presents unique challenges to parents whose cultural orientation is different from the host culture. Because of the meager research literature on immigrant families in the USA, little is known about the phenomenon of parenting among sub-Saharan African immigrant parents. This study …
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Architecture After Forced Migration
… affected by climate impacts, political or cultural conflicts and rapid demographic shifts are the most vulnerable to the effects of poverty, disease and communal violence. Addressing their needs through appropriate architectural responses can help them to recover social, economic and …
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Understanding the Relationship Between Teacher and Organizational Intercultural Competency in International Schools: A Mixed Methods Study
… increasing around the world. These schools are culturally diverse educational spaces, providing opportunities for cultural understanding but also cultural conflicts. Teachers working in international schools need to be able to provide culturally relevant and responsive curriculum as well as be …
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Safe Space: A novel and accompanying critical study into the participatory culture in fandom and a historiographic approach to the fragmentation of popular culture in select novels by Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
… approach to test the hypothesis that periods of cultural anxiety are related to a loss of confidence in great hegemons. The research interrogates the concept of the Culture Wars, defined by Goren and Chapp (2017) as conflicts arising from differing value structures within a heterogeneous society. …
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Why do midwives stay?: a mixed-methods study of the factors influencing newly qualified midwives in London to remain in post
… identified three themes: head above water, cultural conflicts and professional identity. The factors most likely to enable NQMs to stay were those that improved their professional identity, such as job satisfaction and continuity of care. Factors that were least likely to enable them to stay …
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