Essays on Culture

Tracy Kidder Meets Paul Farmer in Haiti Tracy Kidder is seated with Jon Carroll, an American Forces captain, at an army post in Mirebalais, Haiti, 14 days before Christmas in 1994. Carroll is told that he has visitors, one American friend, and four Haitians, as they are sitting. The American identifies...

Making America Great in the Twenty-First Century Making America Great in the Twenty-First Century seeks to improve the country's democratic, financial, and socioeconomic conditions, which seem to be deteriorating. The steps needed to make America strong in the twenty-first century must concentrate on its fiscal, social, and political foundations. Agriculture Agriculture is needed...

The Foreign Policy of India: Shaped by Culture and Ethnicity The article discusses the foreign policy of India and how this country's legitimacy is shaped by culture and ethnicity. Essentially, in deciding what foreign policies represent India best, there are external and internal factors at stake. There are other dynamics in...

Introduction Birth and death are the two main points of life, one signalling the beginning and the other signaling the termination of life. Although birth is celebrated in all cultures around the world, death is greeted with defiance and terror. The fear of death has led to a fascination with death...

Empress Wu s colonial influence on the Chinese Patriarchal Culture In the history of China, the majority of empires were governed and ruled by men. In the situation, however, where women came to power, such as Empress Wu, major impacts were felt, especially if the former leadership stressed the patriarchy system....

Parables and Allusions in Charles Dickens' Hard Times Charles Dickens’ Hard Times can be known as a moral fable. This definition may seem as one-sided, however it contains a considerable share of truth. Dickens sometimes likes to lecture his readers, like he did in his Christmas Books and in many different...

American Urban Dance: A Fusion of Cultures American dance style that evolved from African American and Latino youths in the 19th century was the focus of the lecture. In this type of dancing, the dancers are to engage in some vernacular contemporary movements that are usually improvised with social intent. The...

Traditions are practices or values that are handed on in a culture because of their symbolic meaning. Throughout the world, diverse cultures adopt and follow a number of rituals that have important significance for them. Specifically, many rituals have been followed for thousands of years without sacrificing their significance. The...

The Gregorian calendar, which has twelve months, is the most commonly known scheme in most parts of the world. A new year starts on January 1st, according to this calendar, and new year festivities take place on this date. There are other new year festivities celebrated by other cultures and...

Forbidden Joy of Independence and the Oppressiveness of Marriage Kate Chopin's The Tale of an Hour is a reflection of late-nineteenth-century customs in which most of American society retained the profoundly rooted norm that women are inferior and should therefore remain dependent on their husbands. Women were essentially supposed to cook,...

An ethnic enclave and its effects An ethnic enclave is a foreign group within a country that retains its national identity. The rise of industrialization in the 19th century made them rampant (Hopper, 2012). The benefits and drawbacks of ethnic enclaves The benefits, however, outweigh the following drawbacks. 1. Enclaves encourage immigrants to get...

Christmas is the each year festival that commemorates the birth of Jesus observed on twenty fifth December as the cultural and religious celebration among billions of character around the globe. The fiesta evolved over two thousand years ago into the international secular and religious celebration integrating several pagan and pre-Christian...