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    The employers, some Republican Party leaders and Congress through its passage of some Acts contributed to these unions’ decline because they did not appreciate collective bargaining. Powerful unions threatened employers because they will demand high salaries, conducive working conditions and racial discriminations at work.…

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    Shooting An Elephant

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    thought throughout the two continuous passages. Furthermore, the word “must , which means aggressiveness and sexual activities for male elephant according to Wikipedia, is repeated several times to emphasize the condition the animal is undergoing at the moment and also to justify for the man’s action. Local words are found in the text as well such as “mahout” (a person who works with, rides, cares for an elephant), or “sahib” (to address European man in India in the past), or “bazaar” (market)…

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    Especially Christmas and Easter. This is a type of enculturation because this culture has been passed on by generations before and continues to be carried out today. My second specific example is that as a roman catholic my family and I have rights of passage within our family and in the church. It is understood that as a member of our family each person will be baptized after birth, earn their first communion in first grade, receive their confirmation in sixth grade, and be married in a church…

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    of the pedophiles downloading and viewing these photos and precious moments in these family’s life. What about the disgruntled employee who decides to post proprietary company files, or the computer whiz who hacks into the Pentagon as a “rite of passage”? Then there are the terrorists utilizing the internet…

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    Early American Culture

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    and the grantees of the charter. The settlers would receive pay when they fulfilled their part of the contract which was staying for a certain amount of time. Hardly any gold or silver was ever found. The secondary goal of the charter was to find a passage between Asia and the "New World" so that colonies and outposts could be settled to demonstrate English dominance. By late 1606, the Virginia Company sent settlers to America. In 1607, they landed near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Jamestown was…

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    In the short passage “Clothes” by Chitra Divakaruni, readers can clearly see how the melting pot realistically takes place. Sumita, the main character, was an Indian living in her homeland. Through an arranged marriage, she moved to America to meet her future husband…

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    immigrates to the United States for college, experiencing culture shock and the inevitable changes she makes to her identity in order to fit into this new place. Indra Sinha explores the concept through a very different character: a disabled man in India who, because of his handicap walks around on all fours, and is given the name Animal. Eventually, this becomes his whole identity . Through these contrasting characters, both authors deal with how identity can be shaped by society's…

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    Another study conducted in India considered in what ways men and women behave similarly in the workplace and how they are perceived by the rest of the employees. For example, the message a simple family photograph on a work desk can mean different things for man and a woman (Kaushik N., Sharma, and Kaushik V. 92). A man with a family picture on his desk will more likely be perceived as a gentleman who cares for his family, whereas a woman with the same picture will be thought of as a less…

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    SAMSUNG WOULD WIN THE BATLLE, WHY? Samsung and Apple are the two greatest cell phone organizations with a consolidated piece of the overall industry of more than a large portion of the worldwide cell phone market. Consistently both the organizations get new advancements in their cell phones, which extraordinarily expand their cell phone deals. In any case, in today's business where there is ferocious rivalry it is given that every organization will attempt to exceed the other in every…

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    of science . That many Indians do believe but not the way we believe in like many peopple believe that there were aliens and spacecrafts were used in mahabharata. His view of science and technology in Mahabharata times was influenced by prehistoric india as described in vedas, puranas and upanishads. He has a question for us to ponder on that is What if The Mahabharata actually employed advanced science and technology far beyond what we can even think today and which for some reason had never…

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