The notion of a family church could be taken to unhealthy levels in a faith community where the membership is comprised of people who share the same racial/ethnic and socio-cultural identities. Moreover, this sameness may not reflect the reality of the surrounding community. The…
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The purpose of this research was to explore the motives, values and expectations of Israeli Russian immigrant students and their parents who emigrated from Russia in the 1990s. Instruments administered to the students included the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)—a projective me…
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the influence of culture on Nigerian women's attitudes towards menopause. This study was exploratory and descriptive. The sample consisted of ten purposeful selected menopausal Nigerian women. The data for the study were gath…
The dissertation was an inquiry into political expression in African American and Nigerian art. The approach employed was comparative and interpretative in that in the examination of Nigerian and African American cultures, and the works of African American and Nigerian artists, …
The dissertation examines the impacts that limited resources and the disruption of international (i.e., trans-Himalayan) trade networks have had on the populations of Sama and Lho, highland Tibetan communities in Nepal's Nubri Valley. Using primary Tibetan sources and oral narra…
This study examines the relationship between culture and child health in Java, Indonesia by assessing whether cultural factors can explain why Sundanese children suffer from higher rates of morbidity and mortality than Javanese children. This question is explored through the com…
The idea of culture came into circulation in the European vernacular languages simultaneously around 1780. A dynamic concept implying development and change, culture described the origin and progress of civil society from the primitive state of nature to modern Enlightenment. In…
For years, critics have used Black writers' interweaving of African-derived oral textual features and European written forms to reject the concept of the Great Divide between orality and writing in literacy studies. These critics primarily see the hybridized texts of writers of …
Foreign language learners come to the literature classroom possessing a native language and a culture that could be very different from the English language and its cultures. This could have profound effects on how these learners interact with and respond to the literature of th…
John Buchan (1875-1940) has a literary reputation as a minor novelist, based mainly on his success as a popular fiction writer, the inventor of the spy thriller in his best-known novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). Although there has been considerably increased scholarly intere…
The main purpose of this research was to examine and describe the factors and attitudes that influenced sports participation among adolescent girls in Kenya. The research questionnaire was surveyed among adolescent girls 12-16 years (N=3942) in ten tribes residing in ten Distric…
This study investigated the effect of art history lessons on the cultural awareness of a group of middle school students in rural Minnesota. The data from eleven seventh grade students was collected based on their enrollment in the art class, their assent, and their parents' con…
The purpose of this study was to explore the psychosocial and cultural variables affecting adolescents living with parent(s) infected with the AIDS virus in selected states (Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Delta, & Rivers) of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. This study compares the ex…
This research study explored the difference between subordinates' perceptions of their leaders' leadership style within the banking industry in Lebanon and the United States. This was done through exploring their differences toward the consideration and initiation structure dime…
This thesis intends to focus on the text of the Decalogue in the Hebrew Bible, and to interpret it in the literary, cultural, and reader's contexts, and feminist perspective. In a broader horizon, the methods of literary criticism, historical criticism, reader-response criticism…
This research investigated the use of social capital by Nigerian Yoruba immigrant parents and its relevance to the educational performance of their children. The research question was: What is the role of social capital in the educational performance of Nigerian immigrant childr…
This thesis contributes to knowledge in the field of medical anthropology, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East, in two specific ways. First, the thesis demonstrates how a limited focus on kinship and micro social relations precludes a full understanding of the life experie…