Cultural Metaphors

America, written was written by Claude McKay during the years of the Harlem Renaissance. Claude McKay was originally born in Jamaica, but made soon made America his home. While living in America as an African American, he had to deal with many struggles against society due to segregation and Jim Crow Laws. When writing America, McKay uses multiple literary devices to get his central message of bittersweet patriotism across. In this 14 line poem he uses devices such as metaphors, similes, personification, and imagery to get his readers to understand how he is angry with this country but he will never stop loving America.

Most of us would know of Victor Hugo, famous for his novel the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables, which I saw on Thursday night. He wrote a number of other books of course, including a story called "Ninety-Three." In the storyline of Ninety-Threewe hears of a ship caught in a dangerous storm. At the height of the storm the frightened sailors heard a horrible crashing noise below the deck and they knew instantly that the noise came from a cannon, part of the ship's cargo, that had broken loose.

The strongest usage of metaphor in this poem is in the first stanza in the line “write their knees with necessary scratches”. While scratches cannot be written, words can, so this insinuates that children learn with nature, and that despite its fading presence in today’s urban structures, it is a necessary learning tool for children. The poet has used this metaphor to remind the reader of their childhood, and how important it is to not just learn from the confines of a classroom, but in the world outside. This leads to create a sense of guilt in the reader for allowing such significant part of a child’s growing up to disintegrate into its concrete surroundings. Although a positive statement within itself, this metaphor brings upon a negative

Chapter 3 of The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology explains to the reader what culture is and goes into depth of the different concepts within culture. It defines culture as “the entire way of life for a group of people” (Ferris & Stein, 2010, p. 77). Culture is described as a “lens” through which one views the world and is passed from one generation to the next. This “entire way of life”, according to sociologists, consists of two major categories: material and symbolic culture. Material culture involves the entities associated with a cultural group, such as tools, machines, utensils, buildings, and artwork. When examining material culture, it can convey a great deal about a particular group or society. Symbolic culture embraces ways

Throughout the book, Ordinary People, Dr. Berger used many unorthodox methods of therapy to help Conrad. Dr. Berger was able to make Conrad feel comfortable being himself. He used methods that would work for his situation. He also shows the use of psychodynamic psychotherapy, were the problems lays under the surface and usually the client. Berger also used many metaphors about how Conrad was feeling and doing to hide his emotions.

“We could have ran through every backyard in North America until we got to Panama” (Dillard 48). This is just one of Dillard’s many metaphors throughout the novel that portrays a deep awareness of space and time. Through metaphors Dillard captures a true depth in the novel that regular sentences can not obtain. Normal sentences might pull a reader in, however metaphors can truly captivate the reader to imagine all new possibilities. Dillard shows through metaphors of sight, time, and understanding that as you grow older your awareness of time and space deepens in understanding.

In Brave New world, Aldous Huxley portrays a dystopian society that has lost all values and morals of today's civilization. There is also the social change occurring in the form of people beginning to talk more openly about subjects that have previously been kept behind closed doors. All of these political and social issues are shown by using imagery, metaphors, and symbolism to express Huxley’s tone toward how present-day society will become at the rate of the social and political change currently taking place in the world.

Koval's triangulation of data occurs multiple times from end to end proven his theories, materials, and methods all over his book. The author’s enlightenment and commitment also cross verifies the same information. Due to the reality of his data, the strengths of his research prove that his information is credible and legit. Within Our Foundational Metaphors for Evidence, Booth (2008) wrote, “Language like that encourages readers to think of evidence as a reality independent of anyone’s interpretation and judgment” (p. 133).

To do the latter, we must investigate the meanings the custom has for those who practice it and the functions it may fulfill in their society. (Section 1.4, “Cultural Differences: Cultural Relativism,” para. 3).

An employment relationship is a linkage between employer and employees. Through this linkage a reciprocal relationship is built upon and when reciprocity is lacking it is detrimental to both employee and employer. It is this law of reciprocity, when someone does something nice for you; you do something nice in return that keeps American society maintained and running. Therefore, this theory of reciprocity is very important in today’s society when it comes to handling business. In Jeffrey Pfeffer’s journal article ‘Human Resources from an Organizational Behavior Perspective: Some Paradoxes Explained’, he discusses the pervasive distrust employees have with employers. In Daniel Pink’s book, Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us,

Scandinavian-Americanists argued that the continuation of traditional practices and customs allowed for the formation of the modern Scandinavian-American culture. Traditions in this case take the form of religious or secular practices that extended a connection between these migrants and their places of origin. Traditional practices were aided in their perpetuation by institutions established by Scandinavian immigrants and their descendants to maintain their heritage and connection to their homelands. Schools, churches, and social clubs acted as forms of cultural preservation and continuance within the United States. The continued existence of these institutions into the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries exemplifies how Scandinavian-American culture maintained its existence and influence over those who identify with the ethnic identity that originated from these cultural distinctions.

“High school is hell” is a dominant metaphor in Josh Whedon's cult television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Many people only view metaphor as the rich language of rhetorical discourse, plus elaborate classical prose and poetry. However, metaphor is more often found in everyday language when further investigated. It is imperative to understand the spirit of metaphor. When one kind of thing, idea, or concept is known or experienced in another way, this is metaphor. Authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in their book Metaphors We Live By exploring how metaphor is used in everyday language. The authors define and explain the conduit metaphor and how it relates to context. In addition, Lakoff and Johnson describe total metaphorical structuring and argue why they cannot be that way.

An employment relationship describes the dynamic, interlocking economic, legal, social and psychological relations that exist between individuals and their work organizations. Palgrave Macmillan (2013), Glossary [online] Available at: < http://www.palgrave.com/business/brattonandgold/glossary/glossary.htm> [Accessed 17th September 2013]. Factors that impact on this relationship both have a detrimental effect to the running of a business. I will focus on two internal and two external. These being:

Employment relation is one of the vital and critical parts of HRM. For making an effective and healthy relationship between employers and employees, it is important to understand the perception of employment relations along with its importance in an organisation (Wang & Chen, 2005). Thus, if an organisation fails to understand its significance of employment relations and unable to manager employer and employee relationship efficiently, this might lead to impact on the organisation power and will deter its strength and profitability. According to Singh (2011), employee relations is basically a study of regulations, agreements and rules through which employees are accomplished with collective and individual group, importance imposed to individual

This essay will discuss the influence of cultural dimensions on behavior. A cultural dimension is defined as a perspective of a culture based on its values and cultural norms. In particular, Hofstede’s cultural dimension of individualism vs. collectivism will be discussed. Individualism vs collectivism is defined as the preference of a person only being concerned about oneself and looking after oneself, compared to a person who wants to remain in a closely knitted network. These are some terms with definitions which will be used in this essay: the Asch paradigm, which refers to the studies conducted by Solomon Asch, in which he showed his participants different lines and asked them to verbally judge and respond as to what the length of the