Cultural impact

Oἶκος. “I speak English. What is this foreign language you speak to me in?” These are the words you may expect to hear from an individual who does not understand the importance of language, the importance of breaking down a word so that one can fully understand its meaning. The word presented is the Greek spelling for “Oikos.” The word is the ancient Greek equivalent of a household, house, or family. This word also serves as the English prefix eco- for ecology and economics. Understanding language

Chinese propaganda. After realizing the impact and change the Cultural Revolution had brought on, Xu Sanguan states, “I’m only just now starting to understand what the Cultural Revolution is all about. It’s actually just a time for settling old scores. If someone offended you in the past, now’s the time to write a big-character poster about him”(Hua 164). Here Xu Sanguan attempts to validate the events of the Cultural Revolution. Although the process of the Cultural Revolution has been going on, it’s

Introduction Edstrom and Galbraith (1977) define expatriates as “Individuals who irrespective of their national origin are transferred outside their native country to another country specifically for employment purposes”. Cohen (1977) also defines expatriates as a voluntary and temporal migration of a person abroad for specific purposes with an ultimate return to his or her country. Multinational countries looking for uniformity across their subsidiaries send out expatriates in order to act

for 20 years. (BRACKER, A, 2015) I decided to look at Ai Weiwei because he’s a main influence in my current project. In October I went to his exhibition in the Royal Academy in London. His installations were fascinating and captivating with a deep cultural meaning and a story running through every piece. Weiwei’s work is very much tied to the fight for free speech. ‘He has drawn attention throughout his career to injustice and corruption in the Chinese government, and has been imprisoned as a result

more varied and diverse with students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and students with a disability. It appears that teachers must meet the needs of all students successfully and individually to effectively teach a classroom of diverse students. This paper will first identify three challenges involved with ensuring that teaching strategies are

Heritage Assessment NRS-429V | Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion John Thomas 3/24/13 The Heritage Assessment tool is primarily used as a device to evaluate health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration of a person’s cultural beliefs and values (Spector, 2006). This assessment helps aid in providing quality patient care in that it helps to meet and respect the needs of different types of people and their respective backgrounds (Spector, 2002). This particular

and was very interesting in his findings and thoughts, was anthropologist Franz Boas. Boas was a white, Jewish male. He was known as the Father of American Anthropology. Franz Boas has demonstrated major work in physical anthropology, linguistics, Cultural anthropology, and the famous four field approach. Additionally, through learning about Boas’ findings and thoughts, I was able to engage with his work, evaluate it, think about the works limitations, ramifications, and its lasting import. Boas’

Many people have come to realize that diversity has an impact on academic outcomes, and yet many people still believe that the impact of diversity is negative due to the understanding that students of different cultures tend to have generally lower scores on standardized test. What many don’t know is that diversity can have a positive impact on students’ academic achievement, rather than a negative. Exposure to diversity has a positive impact on academic achievement in many ways, through advanced

introduced the concept of cultural capital. Cultural capital is the skills that a person can use to their advantage in a social situation, especially in education. While observing a classroom children were being dismissed because they did not speak the language, their low cultural capital impacted their learning immensely; however, in another classroom I observed the teacher being an agent of change. Striving to include every child in the lesson depict the diverse range of cultural capital present. These

It is estimated that between 1950 and 1952, 47 million hectares of land were distributed amongst 300 million peasants. This period in China was known as the Cultural Revolution. This was a very clever tactic used by Mao for the communist party to gain support from the peasants and it can be said that the Chinese Communist Party cleverly involved peasants in order for the Communist rebellion to be saluted upon