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    as long as possible. The Ancient Greeks competed in a similar game entitled ‘Episkyros’‚ but both of these pursuits reflected rules closer to rugby than modern day soccer. The most relevant of these ancient games to our modern day ‘Association Football’ is the Chinese game of ‘Tsu-Chu’ or ‘kick ball’ as it translates. Records of the game begin during the Tsin Dynasty (255-206BC) and represent a game in which soldiers competed in a training activity featuring a leather ball being kicked into a net

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    focus on Indian Americans and their assimilation in to the United States and its culture. Being a second-generation Indian American‚ I believe that I can relate to this subject well. I and other second-generation Indians Americans face a unique set of entirely different social issues. I will focus on the main social institutions of family‚ education‚ religion‚ politics‚ and compare and contrast the experiences of first generation Indian Americans and second generation Indian Americans. It is a generally

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    in the world‚ but they differ from country to country. Trends change within time‚ but there are always popular trends that people tend to follow. This paper will examine a few trends in the American Culture‚ including social‚ political‚ religious‚ and personal trends. Some social trends in American culture include Myspace.com‚ eHarmony.com‚ and cell phones. These are great ways for people to socialize and keep in touch. Myspace.com is a website where people create their own profile. This website

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    Culture is defined as the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people. Most cultures are cultivated by many things such as religion‚ economy‚ government‚ education‚ and conflict that help to shape the culture of a country. The Russian culture has been unswerving and strong through trying times‚ however when most Americans think of the Russian culture‚ they think of a government that is ruled by a tyrant President‚ the Cold War‚ people living in poverty‚ and even a bully to other

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    Metaphors of Organizations

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    Metaphors of Organizations "All theories of organization and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that persuade us to see‚ understand‚ and imagine situations in partial ways. Metaphors create insight. But they also distort. They have strengths. But they also have limitations. In creating ways of seeing‚ they create ways of not seeing. Hence there can be no single theory or metaphor that gives an all-purpose point of view. There can be no ’correct theory ’ for structuring everything

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    The Impact of C.S. Lewis on American culture. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself‚ it’s thinking of yourself less” (C.S. Lewis) Clive Staples Lewis was a great writer who impacted many lives by his books. Lewis lived from 1898 to 1963 in Oxford. (Hamilton 2003) In his time he influenced many people to convert their religion‚ change their lives around and to simply pick up a book and read it for fun. In the time of Clive Staples life‚ he won many different awards‚ including the Carnegie

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    Shaping American Culture

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    Shaping American Cultures Throughout the 1960s‚ there was a cultural phenomenon that started in the United States and spread like wildfire to multiple other cultures in the world. This phenomenon was also known as countercultures. This decade raised the 76.4 million Americans born during the baby boom generation. These adolescents entered their teen years during the 1960s and they definitely embraced a multitude new standards‚ dramatically different from the way their parents were raised. While

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    from one country to another‚ always value their cultures. It may be the same world‚ but the cultures will always differ from each other. Mexico and the United States share the same border‚ but share two completely different customs. “No custom is good or bad‚ right or wrong in itself; each one must be examined in light of the culture as a whole and evaluated in terms of how it works in the context of the entire world.” Mexican culture and American culture vary within marriage‚ celebrations‚ and education

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    Cultural Metaphor Indida

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    infiltrating Indian culture‚ and subsequently the marketplace (Tapper). Culture is complex and contains multiple layers or levels. Gannon references a 1985 paper by Schein stating that culture contains multiple levels: a level comprised of visible things that a culture produces (things that can be seen‚ heard‚ or felt); the next level is only partially observable (values and ideals); and the last level contains a culture’s assumptions (Gannon‚ 2000). India has such a diverse culture‚ that it would be

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    Teacher Metaphor

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    Reflections: Identifying your teaching metaphor I am a heart and my students are the blood that flows through me. As they pass knowledge is pushed through them. I am a fisherfolk and my students are the fish. I try to nourish them by providing bait of different types if they accept it knowledge is obtained. These are just some the metaphors my colleagues’ used to describe themselves in the classroom. Our assignment today was to best describe a metaphor that describes us a teacher. We also identified

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