Cultural relativism

the success of the cultural revolution. These individuals were Jiang Qing, Yao Wenyuan, Zhang Chunqiao, and Wang Hongwen. With varying degrees of success, the Gang of Four were able to mold Chinese culture to fit Mao’s vision. Unfortunately, the Gang of Four's unquestionable power derived directly from Mao alone, and when Mao passed they were arrested and tried for their crimes committed during the cultural revolution. The Gang of Four would become a scapegoat for why the cultural revolution…

A Critique: Quantitative Research Study In their article, The relationship between nurses' perceptions of empowerment and patient satisfaction, Donahue, Piazza, Griffin, Dykes, and Fitzpatrick (2008) utilize a descriptive correlational design to describe nurses’ perceptions of empowerment and patient satisfaction and to identify and examine relationships among these variables (Grove, Gray, and Burns, 2015). In their introduction to the article, the authors cite the need for nurse executives to…

The Sung Dynasty started in 960 and ended in 1279. It consisted of the Northern Sung, which lasted from 960 to 1127, and Southern Sung which lasted from 1127 to 1279. The economy they had was prosperous and was considered another period of ‘golden age’ after the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Northern Sung was founded by Zhou Kuangyin, who was a military general in the Latter Zhou. In 960, he launched a mutiny Chenqiao county (in current Henan Province). It wasn’t long after that the last king of the…

J. K. Rowling, in Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban, states that “...the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us.” Jack Merridew, an innocent twelve year old at the start of the novel, Lord of the Flies, and Ralph, also an innocent school boy in the beginning , portray the very thing Rowling talks about. All people have both light and dark in them. By the conclusion of Lord of the Flies, both innocent schoolboys have turned into…

of “being alien” (ser extranjero). Specifically, the aim is to explore non conventionals forms of being alien, such as it happen in technologies, cultural, and arts. In a world in which border are closing and “domination has become more perverse and resistance have become less sophisticated” (p. 2), it is necessary look for explanations in the cultural sphere, specifically from Latin America, considering the international division of labor. The text denaturalizes the idea that everybody is…

Harry Spiegel Professor Tani Sanchez AFAS 371 7 April 2017 Feel The Noise and Step Up Cultural assimilation is defined as the “process by which a person or a group’s language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group”. (Webster) A good example of this is when someone from a foreign country immigrates to the United States and learns and eventually becomes a part of the American culture. Appropriation is defined as “taking something for one’s own use” (Webster). An example of…

At the critical age of thirteen, I, like all other thirteen-year-olds, transitioned from childhood into adolescence; unlike most thirteen-year-olds, however, I had the pleasure of experiencing one of those Earth-shattering revelations that rattled the foundations of the world I perceived, and this newfound lens would alter my understanding of… well, everything. My mother has always been adamant that her children, though born and raised in the United States, remain connected to their roots.…

Christal Padilla March 23, 2017 ANTHC 213 In his ethnography “Outlawed, Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian city”, Daniel M. Goldstein paints a vivid and important portrait of security, government, and community within the Bolivian town of Cochabamba. Like most other anthropologists, Goldstein takes an in-depth exploration and examination of the marginalized people of Cochabamba who at often times find themselves sacrificing their basic human rights in exchange for the luxury of…

song from the Cultural Revolution. Due to the fact that the song is written in complex diction, younger students may be incapable of understanding the message hidden within the song. Furthermore, because no author is provided and no organization in listed, the information found may not be completely accurate. Therefore, only the song itself, an artifact of the Cultural Revolution, should be interpreted by the reader. The song provides awareness into the arts allowed during the Cultural…

only does art and music become hindered when cultural appropriation is shunned, but so does personal expression. For instance, it is a human right in the United States to express oneself freely, whether that expression be of religion, language, or even as simple as hairstyles. In March of 2016, a video taken at San Francisco State University went viral when an African American student confronted a white student with dreadlocks, accusing him of cultural appropriation. The black girl, Bonita…