Essays Tagged: "West"
Japanse Business Culture
scribing the corporate culture within Japan it is useful to understand the corporate culture in the West as a comparison. In the West, business is simply about profit seeking. Its Managers and workers ... es are evaluated by how much of a contribution they make towards the generating of this profit. The Western corporation is designed like a profit machine and operated like a profit machine.Within the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
A Feminist Approach
.Works CitedOwen, James L., Seibert, David R., Zimmerman, Gordon L. Speech Communication. New York: West Publishing Co., 1977.Works ConsultedOtterbein, Keith F. Comparative Cultural Analysis. New York ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
America's Movement Westward.
During the latter half of the ninetieth-century, America shifted its movement westward and began to populate the frontier. Some settlers sought adventure. Others moved onto the f ... e frontier to escape the drab routine of city life. Whatever the specific reason, most people moved westward to "better their lot." Many inventions and innovations helped improve the lives of settlers ... to "better their lot." Many inventions and innovations helped improve the lives of settlers in the West. America's westward movement also sparked conflict.The American people settled on the land west ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Does the Human Rights Act 1998 promote or hinder democracy?
entral Europe. Democracy and with it Human Rights appear not only to be securely established in the West but are also widely adopted, in principle, by a rapidly growing number of democratic societies. ... ion is closely monitored by the UN to this day. With the advent of the developing trade between the West and China, much attention has been focused upon the countries' poor record of Human Rights. Chi ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights
Comparing Japan and Russia's Response to industrialization before 1914.
orced to make reforms and modernize by industrialization. They both had to do so rapidly because of Western interference and the West's increasing power in trade. During the early 20th century, Russia ... nd make sufficient changes to build powerful nations, although they still couldn't compete with the West's supreme military and technological strength. The industrialization process for both Russia an ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
17th Century China: An Influential and Powerful Empire This essay was to be one that compared two major empires from the 17th-18th century and how significant they were to the west and the world.
onomies and social systems. Rich in goods and wealth, China was an empire that truly influenced the West, and proved to be extremely powerful during the 17th century. In order for an empire to be sta ... es, which restricted foreign trade and Christianity. Through this restriction of relationships with Western countries, China protected itself from being conquered and taken over by the Westerners, whi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
The American West
The American West, a new frontier, a new promise to those who immigrated to the land, and a land where legends an ... olence as portrayed by John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and the producers and directors of the Hollywood Western. Violence in many aspects is what helped shape the New American West because the people of t ... e in many aspects is what helped shape the New American West because the people of the Old American West were the major target of violence.A century ago, the American West, and the process of homestea ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
"When People Believe the Legend, Print the Legend"
(How American film maker's glorified the real truths of what the American West was really like. Based on the realistic "American frontier" essay by Fredrick Jackson Turner "T ... ew even had seen. They left safe homes on the eastern coast, for whatever awaited them on the trail West. But now, their conquest and stories are colored with cultural embarrassment for the manner in ... r the manner in which they survived and existed in the brutal wilderness.The biggest problem of the West for America is that the myths, created by stories and through film, covered up many of the unpl ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Who Gains and who loses from globalisation?
ts is fair, in particular whether the poor benefit less proportionately from globalisation than the west - and in some circumstances may actually be hurt by it. The downside of globalisation is most v ... in the trend of incomes as globalisation has continued. Under globalisation the development in the West has been immense, without banking, the UK wouldn't be the fourth largest economy in the world. ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Analyse of the violent American Far West in the book "The Collected Works of Billy The Kid" (1996) by Michael Ondaatje.
so clearly mythologized through movies such as The Duke and Dirty Harry, being an outlaw in the Far West seemed to be a very risky way of life. Michael Ondaatje showed just how violent this part of Am ... d just how violent this part of American history might have been by writing a book about one of the West's most notorious outlaws, a book appropriately called The Collected Works of Billy The Kid. The ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Calamity Jane
Life in the American West was grueling and tough on everyone who attempted to settle in the great frontier. For the men i ... ed to settle in the great frontier. For the men it was not only tough, but also surviving the "Wild West" lifestyle was strenuous. Shoot-outs were as common as computer viruses today. Children also en ... ous. Shoot-outs were as common as computer viruses today. Children also endured many tough times in westward expansion life. Diseases and unbearable weather could take the life of a youngster in an in ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Explain the differences in ideology between the West and USSR.
The differences between USSR and the West can be divided into two groups; one is from the political point of view, and the other can be t ... ontrol, and it is also a one-party state. The founding of socialism was the biggest threaten to the West back then. The central country of the West was the USA, a country under the ruling of capitalis ... , unlike the USSR, where the production and distribution are privately and corporately owned in the West countries.There was also a difference in the political system between USSR and the West. In the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
Russian Westernization 1690-1790.
y, Russia began undergoing dramatic, yet selective, internal changes. Peter the Great led the first westernization of Russia in history, permanently changing Russia and providing a model from which we ... y changing Russia and providing a model from which westernization attempts elsewhere were based on. Westernization was used by Peter and his successors to promote Russia's expansionist empire without ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
The American Cowboy: Myth vs. Reality
s essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" defines the "frontier" as a place of westward expansion with new opportunities, heroism, triumph and progress mainly by brave white men. ... e white men. While he writes that the "closing of the frontier" occurred with the extinction of the Western frontier and cowboy's character, Americans have found a way to glamorize the image of the co ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Emotions
anthropologists have particular a grouping of emotion called indigenous emotions-those that are non-Western and have no clear equivalent in the West. It is likely that one's reaction to emotions has a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Once Upon A Time In The West
What techniques and methods does Sergio Leone use within 'Once upon a time in the West' to maintain the interest of the viewer? Between 1960 and 1975, 600 westerns were produced. Cri ... gnored these films, and because Italian companies financed most of them, they called them Spaghetti Westerns. Fans loved this term, which is now fondly used to label any Western made and financed by f ... ondly used to label any Western made and financed by foreign filmmakers.Europeans have always loved Westerns and have always made them. As early as 1901, European directors tried to produce their own ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
How the West Was Really Won
Although many Americans revere the conquest of the American west as a series of romantic deeds, it is actually a tale of backbreaking toil and the subjugation o ... ntic deeds, it is actually a tale of backbreaking toil and the subjugation of peoples and land. The west was our first legend, our first final frontier. Opinions are beginning to change though, as a n ... as a new generation of historians brings to light new evidence. The new studies are saying that the west was not some rough-and-tumble free-for-all, but a land dominated by big money and big governmen ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Cross cultural communication between Japanese and Western businessmen
e much. Japan's economic boom along with the US impact and the widening business relations with the West certainly introduced business negotiations in Japan, but there are still vast differences betwe ... Japan, but there are still vast differences between the structure and the mechanism of Japanese and Western businesses.In this paper I am going to introduce the cultural differences that could hinder ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
The Clash of Civilizations: Culture & Conflict
KAWING LAMThe Clash of Civilizations: Culture & ConflictIn the modern world, the West is the most modernalized and powerful society. The main reason is because the West not only kno ... nvent but also learn from other civilizations and make changes to become better. However, the non - Western countries, especially the Islamic and Chinese societies are catching up. As they are growing ... pread and introduce their cultures to other countries. Huntington (1996) also states that the non - Western countries have resented the rise of the West and reacted against it as they gain power. Thus ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Analyzing the structure of an argument
Islam vs. the WestCOMU1010 Essay 1In a secular society, clashes of religious tensions are inevitable. The most ext ... table. The most extreme example of this is when Eastern and Islamic culture directly conflicts with Western culture, the latter of which Australia has largely adopted. On the 9th of April, I attended ... h Australia has largely adopted. On the 9th of April, I attended a public talk on 'Islam versus the West' in relation to marriage and the treatment of women, given by a Muslim speaker called Mutahajid ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies