Cultural retention Cultural retention is the act of retaining the culture of a specific ethnic group of people‚ especially when there is reason to believe that the culture‚ through inaction‚ may be lost. Many African-American‚ European and Asian organizations have cultural retention programs in place. African retention in Trinidad and Tobago is an e.g. of cultural retention. THE SUNDAY MARKET The tradition of Sunday markets in Trinidad is a result of the agricultural knowledge
Premium Caribbean Africa Atlantic slave trade
5/25/2014 Bachelor of Science Degree contact give directory mylmu search > Loyola Marymount University > LMU.EDU Resources > Transfer Credit & Articulation > Transfer Agreements > Santa Monica College > Santa Monica College 2013-14 University Core Requirements > Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering > Bachelor of Science Degree LMU Quicklinks Bachelor of Science Degree Tool Box print RSS f eed email share Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering
Premium Social sciences Loyola Marymount University Sociology
The fire that changed America Our nation has grown to what it is today because we have continued to learn from past mistakes in an effort to grow and be better than ever. Disasters are no exception. In 1911‚ a disastrous fire in New York City took the lives of 146 people. This could have been prevented had we known how important building safety codes really are. Their fruitless efforts deepened the despair on the faces of the gathering crowds. Nothing could save the hopeless workers. People
Premium New York City Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Brandon Czubak 2/1/14 History 106 Assignment question 2 Question 2: By examining Robber Barons such as Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller and Carnegie‚ how could you argue for Laissez Faire Economics and against Laissez Faire Economics? Laissez-Faire is a type of leadership style in which leaders are hands-off and allow group members to make the decisions. This results in pros and cons of Laissez-Faire leadership. It is effective where group members are highly skilled and motivated
Premium Capitalism Free market Adam Smith
Franklyn Gaona 3/17/14 A.P US HISTORY How would you define and describe the progressive reform movement? The Progressive Movement was an attempt to right the wrongs that had been inflicted on the citizens and the land of the United States by unrestricted growth of big business and industry. The progressive era was a period of social activism and political reform & the movement
Premium Progressive Era
How accurate is it that King Fredrick William IV of Prussia was responsible for the failure of the Frankfurt parliament? The Frankfurt Assembly came as a result of the political unrest in Prussia and the German states during 1848. Both liberals and radicals were dissatisfied with the lack of freedom that the government offered them. The assembly in Frankfurt was a gathering of elected representatives from Prussia‚ Austria‚ and all the Germanic states to discuss the creation of a unified Germany
Premium Prussia Holy Roman Empire
the feasibilty of raw mango (Mangifera indica Linn) AS AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY STUDENT NAME: Alexandra Jo Atienza Joan Marea Colina Denise Marie Rondina SUPERVISOR: Karina Patricia Cenit DATE OF SUBMISSION: 09/03/2015 CONTENTS ABSTRACT 5 introduction 6 Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is one of the most important fruits marketed in the world with a global production exceeding 26 million tons in 2004 (FAOSTAT‚ 2004). One of the agro-wastes currently causing
Premium Waste Mango Waste management
yReview Test Submission: Unit I Assessment Page 1 of7 HY 1110-101-6‚ American History 1 Unit 1 Review Test Submission: Unit 1Assessment 9User Status Score Review Test Submission: Unit I Assessment Submitted 10/11/11 12:02 PM Completed 94 out of 100 points 1. You may open this assessment multiple times but you may only submit it once. 2. You may print the assessment and prepare your answers offline. Alternatively‚ you may enter and save your answers for a portion of
Premium Agriculture Culture Question
families made their clothes themselves. Clothes had a special meaning to these people as told in Passage 2‚ "part of this practice took on a religious significance and was conducted in sacred spaces. Fabric itself could be very meaningful." The fabric was difficult to make‚ and as a result‚ was very expensive. Since the fabric was expensive‚ most cultures had a robe that was common among people‚ since robes wasted less fabric. There was no such thing as a zipper or even a button‚ so clothes were harder to
Premium United States Industrial Revolution World War II
Ebbinghaus became the first psychologist to investigate learning and memory experimentally. In doing so‚ he not only showed that Wundt was wrong on that point but also changed the way in which association‚ or learning‚ could be studied. His goal was nothing less than to apply the experimental method to the higher mental processes. Most likely influenced by the popularity of the work of the British associationists‚ Ebbinghaus chose to under- take his breakthrough research in the area of human
Free Psychology Consciousness Mind