Around the world, various cultures perform rituals at monumental stages of one's life. Numerous occasions such as marriages and birthdays are ritualized and have distinct celebratory traditions that are unique to specific cultures and groups. In particular, the transformation of a person from an ordinary citizen to a warrior, has many unique and diverse celebrations and responses. Cultures around the world acknowledge this transformation through celebratory traditions often including dancing,…
Gerard and Teurf’s transformation skills would have enabled them to restore trust by using an open dialogue with employees. According to Gerard and Teurf 's transformation model,” transformation ensures when a collaborative culture emerges based on shared meaning and mutual understanding of thoughts and feelings” (Palmer, Dunford, & Akin, 2009). Transformation skills The turnaround team may have used Gerard and Teurfs’ transformation skills of attitudinal transformation to…
Defining what American culture is today can be somewhat difficult in today’s society. American culture is always fluctuating. The United States has traditionally been referred to as a "melting pot," welcoming people from many different countries, and hoping to find a better means of life. However, others refer it to as a “Salad”; the ingredients are there, but not everything mixes well. America is full of rich culture, but not every person living in America understands cultures besides their…
In the realm of the liminoid, the self is liberated, “de-identification is effected…ego-attachments are dropped, and a new future is enabled” (Heelas 20). Individuals “attempt to separate aspects of them that belong to the artifices of society and culture from that which belongs to the depths of human nature,” (Heelas 28) and the “socialized…
Warner’s Publics and Counterpublics focuses on one key question: What is a public? According to Warner the concept of “public” is usually misunderstood. Warner states that everything has a public. Warner splits his discussion of public and counter publics into seven sections. Warner states that this kind of public that comes into being only in relation to texts and their circulation (like the public of this reflection). The seven sections include: 1. A public is self-organized. It exists just by…
Xoco and Mocambo, but it is intended to be broadly applicable everywhere such changed takes place. French uses it as an analytical tool for understanding the process by which national legal and political institutions interact with local identity transformation, the concept of legalizing…
of color. I began to interact with others from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds as well as professors who were of color. After graduating, I then attended a Division III school where there were a greater mixture of students from various cultures around the world. Hence, Affirming Diversity brought to light the missed opportunity that students in the United States are being neglected a multicultural education. With that knowledge and involvement that has been missed, it may reduce if…
building the social cohesion. This paper focused meaning and basic concept of culture, intercultural and multicultural education. With this trying to make clear differentiation between all this concepts which are basically under one roof . Keywords: Culture, Cross culture, Inter-cultural, Multicultural Education, culture, Social Cohesion, UNESEF Introduction: Culture is a very expansive concept because culture encompasses religion for language, marriage music, believes, wrong and…
The process of discovering the ideological foundations of power systems in the world is profoundly linked to how gaining such knowledge is a product of transformation in both individuals and groups. This is evident in Guevara’s The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and Becker’s tragicomic film Goodbye Lenin! (2003) where both protagonists and their environments undergo a process of political-self reflection. As Guevara encounters Latin American poverty he embraces communism and similarly, the…
The 4th Armored Brigade Combat Team (4ABCT) proud tradition of excellence throughout its history took a turn for the worse with its recent deployment and redeployment issues from Afghanistan. An organizational change within 4ABCT is paramount in order to return to its storied heritage of excellence by being a contributing member of the division. In order to complete the change from its current state to a well-respected unit, I would execute a blended version of the seven-step vision process…