Heritage Classic

Coast Salish Aboriginal artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun works with contemporary art to represent historical, environmental, political and cultural issues (Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun). Lawrence Paul’s Portrait of a Residential School Child created in 2013 with acrylic on canvas creates a reflection on Canadian history (seen on the right); it was featured at the “Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools” catalogue in an exhibition held at the University of British Columbia First…

Marco Lopez 12/12/2016 Of the many issues facing society today, few come close to the controversy and debate that surround the idea of racism. Often, a significant part of the debate is what exactly constitutes racism. We need a clear definition of racism in order to know how to behave ethically. There is no way we can make ethical decisions if we do not have a clear idea of what is considered ethical in the first place. Two well-known philosophers have conflicting viewpoints on what…

It provides a state of comfort that leads to happiness. Reminiscing through the plethora of memories a family has built together also provides the same well-being. The state of comfort and dependency is what connects a family to happiness. The classic, stereotypical family is happy and merry. In the short story "Winter Dreams" written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dexter Greene settles on a woman who has the ability to raise a family. This woman is Irene Scheerer, an unfaltering and steady…

teenage girl with mood swings and trying to find who she is as a person. She is stuck between her Italian heritage and Aussie life. She thinks that her Italian culture will be affected by Australian life. Josie is trying to find where she belongs in the different cultures. Josie's personal aspirations reach farther than that of her family's ambition for her life. It is now where a classic example of culture clash begins. Josie feels that she needs to rebel against the stereotypical female in…

In her assessment of Gilbert Hernandez’ seminal work, Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, Jennifer Glaser makes a number of claims about the ultimate meaning behind the work and how it relates to the larger work of transnational authors. Glaser asserts that Palomar is an important piece of transnational exploration; Through the lens of the somewhat mystical town of Palomar,Hernandez explores race, gender, class and the still unfolding effects of cultural imperialism. Glaser also argues that…

It is arguably the most hysterical animation to have transpired from the drawing boards of Walt Disney Animation Studios. The artists, who fashioned the childhood classic, took direct artistic and cultural inspiration from China. With the exception of Chi Fu and possibly The Emperor, the characters portrayed in Mulan are not cliché-ridden and for once the portrayal of Asians is rather “normal”, there are no overly…

and animal behavior. It is also widely used in other social science disciplines like sociology and ethnic studies (Cozby & Bates, 2012). Bowler et al, (2009) study on the naturalistic observations of spectator behavior at youth hockey games is a classic example of a naturalistic observational study in social sciences. In their study the authors studied the behaviors of spectators at youth hockey…

casinos, hotels and other tourist attractions. People that live in Arizona will pay a lot of money to have a house built like a classic Native American house. When the Spanish came and saw that houses that the Native Americans had built, they knew exactly what to call them, since they looked so much like the pueblo houses over in Spain. The cultural heritage in Arizona has affected the economic system by making a huge tourist site for many people that want to learn about the Native…

medication whereas tourism was merely just a hedonistic phenomenon. However, there was a consensus that each journey motivated by faith had many characteristics in common with tourism travel, while the most important were the act of consumption. In one classic of tourism theory, which they considered that religious reason as one of the tourist travelling motives. He also differentiated many types of religious tourists based on the strength of their fate. Some people think that travel was a…

Why is sustainability important in the business environment? ‘A process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations’. (UN WCED, 1987) Sustainability is an ambiguous topic, however this is divided in three which are: Environmental sustainability - for environmental sustainability is the…