Free essays on culture are academic essays that explore the unique characteristics, beliefs, and practices of different cultural groups. These essays may cover a wide range of topics, including the history of a particular culture, cultural diversity and social norms, the impact of culture on society and personal identity, and the intersection of culture with other fields such as art, literature, and religion. These essays are often used as resources for students, researchers, and educators seeking to gain a deeper understanding of different cultures and their significance in the world today.
Core Values and Intercultural Management-Nestle
Core Values and Intercultural Management Sep 29,2007 00:00 by admin Core Values and Intercultural Management Case Study: Nestle In 2001, Nestle was the largest and most diversified food company in the world, with nearly 500 factories in more than 100 countries. In fact, over the period 1867–2000 it surpassed other food manufacturers and purchasers of agricultural raw materials in scale of operations. Over 230,000 people worldwide work in Nestle's factories, research laboratories and offices. In 1999 Nestle generated a total…...
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Religious Syncretism in Singapore
SE4660 INDEPENDENT STUDY Religious Syncretism in Singapore: Phra Phrom worship among Chinese Singaporeans. Abstract: Since the 1980s, there has been a growing popularity amongst Chinese Singaporeans who worship the Thai deity Phra Phrom (commonly known to them as the “Four Faced Buddha”) and making regular pilgrimages to temples in Thailand. (Hoon 2001) My research will seek to understand the historical, cultural and economic dynamics behind these practices. Such an exploration would enable a further understanding of Religious Syncretism as defined…...
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English Analyzing Ekphrastic Poetry
Ekphrasis a vivid description of a scene or more commonly, a work of art Ekphrastic Poetry Form of poetry that comments on a work of art in another genre, such as a painting or a piece of music William Carlos Williams Author of Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, poem describing the painting "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Brueghel W H Auden Author of Musee des Beaux Arts, poem describing the painting "Landscape with the Fall of…...
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Choosing Language
What type of language should be used in a critical analysis essay? formal Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. In this excerpt, certain words are capitalized to highlight the supremacy of certain…...
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The Renaissance and Education
Education and literacy became more widespread during the renaissance in part due to the invention of the printing press True The term Renaissance man is used in case someone who is well educated in many areas True The music of the Renaissance changed very little from the late Middle Ages False The renaissance attitude of humanism require people to get all worldly goods and think solely about their life after death False Early Renaissance musical development was centered in Italy…...
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Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant all Q&A of Q2
{Thanatopsis} in the beginning of the poem, Nature speaks to the person who thinks about nature {Thanatopsis}According to the poem, what should people do when they feel afraid of death Go into nature and listen to what nature teaches {Thanatopsis}in this poem, Nature urges the poet to find comfort in the knowledge that death joins us with all other people {Thanatopsis}what does the poet mean in the following quotation? "The oak / shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy…...
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CSM Western Civilization Exam 1
After the 1340's, the economy of Europe was marked by silver shortages essentially a painting executed on fresh plaster a fresco painting Dante's "Divine Comedy" depicts the poet's mythical journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven What drove the increasing European interest in African gold? increasing demand for expensive luxury foods in Europe the leader who united the Mongol tribes and began the conquest of China Temujin, who took the title Genghis Khan Mongol governance was directed toward securing tribute from…...
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English Vocabulary Review
Allegory This is a story with two or more levels of meaning--a literal level and a symbolic level--in which events, settings, and characters are symbols for ideas or qualities. Alliteration This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. Analogy This is a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar. Analyze This is to separate a whole into its parts. Antonym This is a word or phrase that means the opposite of…...
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english test review where my girl
Which statement best describes the main idea of the third paragraph of "How We Entered World War I"? US citizens were proud of themselves for ignoring the problems going on in Europe. According to "Make it New": Early Modernism, why was Ezra Pound so influential to the twentieth-century poetry revolution? Pound dared poets to create new forms of poetry. Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall," by Robert Frost. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell…...
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English IV Romantic and Victorian Poetry
Which of the following ideals is emphasized by Romanticism? focus on that which is woeful or melancholy According to the Romantic theory, a poet creates a poem _____. after meditating on the subject Romantic poetry does not regard nature as a subject to be enjoyed simply for its physical beauty. true England was fortunate in that it never experienced social and economic problems similar to those that caused the French Revolution. false The Industrial Revolution resulted in advantages for some…...
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Themes in the Poetry of Keats, The Enlightmnt and Romanticism…
The Ode A lyric poem expresses the thoughts or emotions of a single speaker. An ode is a kind of lyric poem tht: - explores a serious topic - is written in a formal style - is often addressed to someone or something Diction means "word choice" By analyzing diction, readers can better understand a poem's: - meaning - tone, or attitude 2wards its subject John Keats (1795 - 1821) - studied medicine but decided to bcome a poet -…...
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Features and Themes of Victorian Poetry
Tennyson Early work is nostalgic and melancholic-- he had a fascination with the past that is linked to a sense of ailenation Tennyson Many poems are elegiac-- lamentations for the transience of life Tennyson Later verse tends to espouse typical Victorian optimism and imperialist pride Tennyson Fond of traditional dictions of poetry using archaisms, periphrasis, epithets, and allusions Tennyson Looks wistfully bask at the past Tennyson Accepts Romantic notion that poetry is inspirational, but shares the Victorian preference that poetry…...
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Literature in Childhood Education Answers to quizzes 1-12
Which of the following is not a major value of sharing literature with children? Curriculum modification Studies show that . Children go through the same stages of language development although the rate of development varies. Using words, stories in rhyme, and acting out sounds and movement are important aspects of Language development. Walter Loban's research suggests that discussion should be a vital part of elementary literature programs because it helps children Organize ideas and illustrate complex generalizations. How can wordless…...
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History of the Green Bay Packers
Green Bay, Wisconsin, home to just over 100,000 people is the smallest market in any major sports league in the United States. Dubbed in the mid-sixties as “Title town, USA”, Green Bay is the proud home of the National Football League’s Green Bay Packers. Such a small town allows for many unique experiences. Only in Green Bay will you see a professional football player riding the bike of a six-year-old to the Clark Hinkle practice field. The team’s helmet is…...
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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
INTRODUCTION CLIL - is a part of European Commission Multilingualism, Foreign Language teaching projects. During the CLIL program, teachers educate pupils’ with curricular subjects through communicative foreign language teaching. In CLIL teachers and learners, of content subjects, use a foreign or second language as the medium of communication and instruction. CLIL is widely seen as an excellent means of learning a language, and introducing international aspects into the teaching of content subjects. CLIL methodologies and theories have been taken up…...
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Krapp’s Last Tape and the Futility of Human Existence
Question: Absurdist drama is often said to be a critique of the human existence, that the situation is often meaningless and absurd. Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape is a typical absurdist drama. How does Beckett, through the use of language, setting and the character Krapp, highlight the futility of the human existence in this particular drama? Absurdist drama originated in the 1950s and follows Albert Camus’s philosophy that the human situation is meaningless and absurd (Culik). As such, absurdist drama…...
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Britain a multicultural society
Muliticulturalism is defined as the existence of different minority groups maintaining their identities. The way of expressing the growing cultural diversity of Western societies is to talk the language of 'multi-culturism' - neatly dividing up societies into homogenous traditions of communities. However this approach has serious limitations, not least because it shares many of the assumptions of new racism about fixed, immutable differences between ethnicities. "Culture is conceived along ethnically absolute lines, not as something intrinsically fluid, changing and unstable, and…...
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The Story of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson
The following sample essay focuses on Samuel Johnson's deceptively subtle satire 'The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia'. Read the introduction, body and conclusion of the essay, scroll down. Samuel Johnson's deceptively subtle satire 'The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia' depicts Rasselas and his companions in their pursuit of the happiness acquired from the correct 'choice of life'. The narrative consists of an extensive vocabulary, which is conveyed through an elegant style, and is written in the third person,…...
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Early American Literature Test – Atkins 2017
What does the speaker claim at the beginning of "To My Dear and Loving Husband"? Her relationship is the best that there ever was. Which description from "Upon the Burning of Our House" shows the speaker's belief that faith in God is more important than earthly possessions? "moldering dust" The speaker of "Upon the Burning of Our House" reveals her belief that God is protective when she says that God will provide everything she needs Bradstreet uses hyperbole in the…...
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English 3 Unit 10 Vocabulary
the words surrounding unfamiliar words that help determine the meaning for the reader context the smallest unit of meaning in a word (prefix, root, suffix) morpheme Which of the following are major lexicographical works mentioned in this section? a. Oxford English Dictionary b. American Dictionary c. Dictionary of Spoken English d. Dictionary of the English Language a b d a word whose meaning is opposite the meaning of another word, e.g., tall/short antonym the history of a word's development and…...
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Medieval Epic Poetry
Who poems were combined to create Gilgamesh? Five Sumerian poems Who wrote The Iliad? Homer Who wrote The Odyssey? Homer The Mahabharata is an epic narrative of what war? Kurukshetra War What is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana? The Mahabharata Who wrote Metamorphoses? Ovid What is the French epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux? The Song of Roland Who wrote The Divine Comedy? Dante Alighieri This epic poem…...
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Literary Devices
Alliteration the repetition of consonant sounds (generally initial consonants) in words close together Assonance the repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants Onomatopoeia the use of words that make a sound like the action represented by the word Figurative language language that cannot be taken literally or seriously because it is written to create a special effect or feeling hyperbole a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement used for emphasis that can also be a part of a person's everyday…...
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EOC ENGLISH I WRITING
Adjective This is a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun. Adverb This is a word that modifies a verb, an adverb or an adjective. Affix This is a syllable or word element that can only occur in front of a root or stem, or at the end of a root or stem. Ambiguity This is the state of having more than one possible meaning which often leads to misunderstanding because the meaning is not clear. Analogy This is…...
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Ancient Humanities
The following sample essay on "Ancient Humanities": I plan to take you through the ancient times with a journey with art. We will start in the Mesopotamia where you can see the Cuneiform writing which was the first form of known writing. They had a belief in Polytheism which I the belief in many Gods. It was their belief that the Gods power flows through the king. The next step would be to go to the Ancient Egyptian. They developed…...
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There are many similarities between ‘looking for a rain god’ and ‘Veronica’
I agree with the statement above, "There are many similarities between 'Looking for a rain god' and 'Veronica'. Both of the stories are written in a way that draws the reader into the stories picture, the other similarity is that of the themes. The themes, which the two stories include, are those of poverty, isolation, death and helplessness. Both stories are set in countries and places, which are far removed from ours in distance and culture adding to the similarities…...
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The relationship between God and human beings
The following sample essay on Mysticism, according to Evelyn Underhill is "The great spiritual current that goes through all religions". Mysticism seeks to understand the nature and relationship of the human soul and God. The mystical aspect of Islam is known as Sufism (tasawwuf) and in practice is the seeking of an intimate relationship with God through meditative practice or the behaviour of self-denial, the ultimate aim, to achieve union with God. Sufis want to know God in the heart,…...
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How far do you agree with this statement?
To a large degree, culture determines behaviour. How far do you agree with this statement? It is the general opinion in our society that culture is the major and primary determinant of behaviour, but by no means is it the only one. This essay aims to look into the evidence regarding the above statement and in doing so come to a conclusion as to whether it really is culture that makes us as we are. In order to fully understand…...
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Chapter 4 & 5- Music Appreciation
Syllabic if each word is set to a seprate note, a musical line is Mellismatic is one syllable spread over several notes in a melody line Vernacular the texts for secular music is the middle ages were written in the style Gregorian Chant was developed in the middle ages, is was always sing in latin and is monophonic Hildegard of Bingen was an abbess, a composer and an author Guillaume de Machaut was a french composer who wrote the first…...
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"Mutability" and "A Defence of Poetry" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (E2020)
In "A Defence of Poetry," Shelley suggests that emotions experienced in life are constantly changing. Which lines from "Mutability" can also be seen as a reflection of this idea? A. Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost for ever B. We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day C. We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away D. Man's yesterday…...
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Comparative Essay
In "Bassackwards: Construction Spanish and Other Signs of the Times," by Jay Nordlinger, delivers a message to Native Americans and immigrants who speak many different languages. This message states that in America, English must be used as the only common and official language. Jake Jamieson redelivers the same message in his writing “The English-Only Movement," Government, companies, or bosses at construction jobs. As Nordlinger describes, America nowadays faces a challenge of keeping English the only official language. Spanish has become…...
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Poetry PreTest 7th grade
What is a stanza? a fixed number of verse lines arranged in a definite metrical pattern, forming a unit of a poem What is rhyme? the repetition of the same or similar sounds in words that appear near each other in a poem What is end rhyme? similar sounding words that come at the ends of lines of poetry What is hyperbole? an extreme exaggeration What is irony? the opposite of what is expected "Sue smells like a rose" is…...
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My interpretations of the Wizard of Oz
The following sample essay on "My interpretations of the Wizard of Oz" a story about family values. "The Wizard of Oz" is a popular Children's Literature in the world. After reading various of interpretation theories in internet. For example, Parable on Populism of Littlefield, Henry , Analogy between the Yellow Brick Road and the Information Superhighway of Gandy, Oscar , The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of Nathanson, Paul and Salman Rushdie's Theories of Oz and so on.…...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley "A Defence of Poetry" 1821
imagination the perception of value of the quantities of life: "reason is to the imagination as the instrument to the agent, as the body to the spirit, as the shadow to the substance" Aeolian harp man is the instrument over which imagination runs its fingers Poets as legislators neoplatonic - poets, because they see the order and complexity of the world, are the ones who fashion society, he sees the future in the present - they are prophets in that…...
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2. romantic and victorian poetry
One type of revolution that is not directly linked to the Romantic movement in England is a religious revolution Lyrical Ballads was first published in 1798 The author of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads is William Wordsworth Romantic poetry is sometimes criticized because it is too subjective Wordsworth's theory is that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings According to the Romantic theory, a poet creates a poem after meditating on the subject A goal of Romantic poetry was…...
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The Problem of Hell
The existence of a place for those who are corrupt and sinful, a place so full of misery and pain, a home to agony for all eternity is frightful for anyone to imagine. It has many names and connections with religions - the most common name in Western Christian culture is Hell. For centuries, this abode of the damned has put fear into the hearts of Christians, keeping them aligned with the ethical and moral view of their faith. While…...
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Whitman’s Free Verse and Epic Poetry
Which element contributes most to Whitman's poetry of free verse? Regular metrical feet What can you conclude about Whitman's epic poetry from these lines from "Song of Myself" I celebrate myself, and sing myself/And what I assume you shall,/ For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. He uses science to support his idea of the epic poem Which elements of free verse are found in this passage from "Song of Myself"? I, now thirty-seven years old…...
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Walt Whitman: Reading Quiz
I Hear America Singing: Which statement best describes the main idea of I Hear America Singing? All different kinds of people come together to make America great I Hear America Singing: How does the speaker of the poem create a sense of unity among the Americans who are off doing their own things? Through the use of parallel structure I Hear America Singing: How do the workers seem to feel about their respective "songs"? They feel a sense of satisfaction…...
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Voices and Viewpoints Poems by Stephen Crane k12 Wiva American Literature
Lesson Introduction: Poems by Stephen Crane Stephen Crane was one of the most prominent literary naturalists of the late 1800s. In this lesson, you will learn about naturalism and examine the language and themes of several poems written by Stephen Crane. Before You Read: Poems by Stephen Crane Before you begin reading the poetry of Stephen Crane, learn about the life and times of the poet. Use the Student Guide to take notes and answer questions as you work through…...
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Elegy: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard[QUIZ]
Which is the best paraphrase of the following lines? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires . . . Every dying person needs someone to mourn his or her passing. What time of the day best describes the opening of the poem? dusk In this poem, Gray chiefly laments the deaths of those people whose potential abilities were never realized. Gray hopes to be remembered as being generous and sincere. Toward the…...
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Quiz-Elegy written in a country churchyard
Similar to other elegies in that arises from The personal experience of the poet Which is the best paraphrase of the following lines? On some fond breast... Every dying person needs someone to mourn his or her passing Poetry in the romantic style reflects a concern for all of the following except Religion The central idea of Elegy is that The great and the lowly find equality in death Toward the of Elegy the poet seems to take most comfort…...
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