...bilingual education in the Chicagoland area. The most important is the distension of the young non-Native English speakers in the early learning. When the children are 3-5 years old going to preschool, Chicago public school places them into bilingual classes because they are identified as dual language learning. By using different theories from the sociological perspective, the set of interrelation of social and pedagogical purposes can be understand from the bilingual classes of preschool in Chicago. First, functionalist perspective emphasizes the interconnection between the different parts that are involved in bilingual education, and how they work together to produce a negative or positive influence. Second, the home culture as the standard focuses its viewpoint by criticizing the value of foreign culture by using the home culture inside the bilingual language and its benefits. Finally, conflict perspective focuses how society presents itself by using power and conflict over the resources and rules of the bilingual classes. Therefore, the sociology perspective can explain the increased demand concerning the bilingual movement. The request of the expansion of the bilingual programs in preschool might succeed on its implementation, the functionalist perspective, the home culture as the standard, and conflict perspective indicate a potential for its failure. By proving the story of the biliteracy in pupil population, people can see the purpose in Chicago’s schools these days....
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...subsequently held teaching positions at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, and the University of Chicago Divinity School. The author of several well-known books, he is possibly best remembered for his three-volume Systematic Theology. The present paper is an attempt to give a summary of Tillich’s theological method of correlation and offer an evaluation. 1.1. Summary of Method In his Systematic Theology, Tillich undertakes this mediating task by exhibiting a correlation between religion and culture. Tillich begins by contrasting “kerygmatic” theology with “apologetic” theology. Kerygmatic theology “emphasizes the unchangeable truth of the message (kerygma) over against the changing demands of the situation.” The relation between the two, he suggests, is like the correlation between “questioning” and “answering” in a conversation. Although Tillich maintains that the statements of apologetic theology must be based on the kerygma, his real concern is using what he terms “the ‘method of correlation’ as a way of uniting message and situation.” When properly used, he says, this method “correlates questions and answers, situation and message, human existence and divine manifestation.” Or it is like the correlation between “form” and “content” (or “substance”) in a work of art. Indeed, it is possible to correlate them because in concrete reality “religion” and “culture” are always a single whole of which “the form of religion is...
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...As I reflect on various ways to construct Sweet Home Chicago into more of an ethnographic work, I draw on several different methodologies and recommendations from my fellow class mate as well as my own introspective analysis in conjunction with the class readings. First, one of the key shifts is to unpack for the reader the internal language that I use as a geographer. For example, I reference the significance of “spatial lineage” to engage with the various time-spaces that my family has traveled through that have contributed to my identity as a third-generation Black Chicagoan. Although ethnography is largely an academic practice, the strength that it possesses as a methodology is to invite readers from diverse backgrounds to engage with the culture, spaces, people and...
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...Word (.doc) file. Paper copies of your essay will not be accepted. If you do not wish to submit your essay to Turnitin.com, you must consult with the course instructor; see details on the course syllabus under “Writing Requirements.” • Assignment Your task is to analyze the “religious content” of a particular film. To accomplish this task, your essay must do the following: 1. Identify a key message promoted by the film. One way to find a key message is to complete this sentence: “According to this film, what is most important in life is . . .” 2. Use theories about belief, text, ritual, and/or visual culture to show how this message is promoted by the film. The theories you use must be drawn ONLY from these readings: • Malory Nye, Religion: The Basics, Chapters 5 (“Belief”), 6 (“Ritual”), or 7 (“Text”) • S. Brent Plate, Introduction to Religion, Art, and Visual Culture (in the course reader) Imagine that you are writing this essay for a film website. Your audience consists of people who have seen the film, but who do not know anything about the study of religion. This means that you do NOT need to provide a plot summary of the movie, but you DO need to clearly explain each theory that you use. Films Each TA has made a list of films for the students in their tutorials. You must select ONE film from YOUR TA’s list. If you write on a film from another TA’s list you may be penalized up to ten marks....
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...Garland Beasley Critical Analysis Essay https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/05/22/culture-change-and-ta-nehisi-coatess-the-case-for-reparations/ http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/05/22/314881767/how-to-tell-if-someones-actually-read-ta-nehisi-coates-essay http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117834/ta-nehisi-coates-atlantic-magazine-slavery-reparations-essay Tai-Nehisi Coates’ shows the history of disadvantages accrued by African Americans over the last several generations and argues that it's time for Americans to answer for this history. When I first read the title “A Case For Reparations” thought that the article was going to be talking about slavery, but Coates dose not really talk about slavery specifically but he does talk about a formerly enslaved woman named Bellinda Royal who sued her former owner for recompense for her labors. But much of the focus of the article falls on American housing policy from nearly a century later, to get his point across he uses the story of Clyde Ross, whose journey from Mississippi to Chicago is a living example of the trajectory Coates is describing. Ross who was the son of a Mississippi sharecropper saw the little wealth and land his father could attain forcibly stripped from him by local white authorities. Then, when Ross moved to Chicago after World War II, he was essentially shut out from buying a home by federal law through the legitimate means available to whites. He spent years paying for...
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...“melting pot” of cultures, religions and traditions, the city is also imagined as a “mosaic of social worlds segregated like plants in a garden.” Chicago’s ethnic neighborhoods emerged from an influx of immigrants in the early twentieth century, arriving in the city without a sense of community, they turned to ethnically categorized areas to feel at home. These neighborhoods became places of cultural preservation and sites for thriving tradition and pride. However, despite the benefits of these tight-knit communities, they resulted in self-segregation within first generation communities. For African Americans in the city, the act of segregation was enforced. While enforced segregation is no longer in place, the separation of groups within the city is still prevalent. Currently, Chicago has a population of around 9.7 million people, of which Muslims are currently numbering around 400,000. The Muslim community is one of the most ethnically diverse in the United States, with various branches of Islam present in the city, such as Sunni, Shiite and Sufi. Within the community, viewpoints range from conservative to progressive. According to Dr. Mohammed Kaiseruddin, chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, “There is no other place in the world where Muslims from different parts of the world have assembled together and established one...
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...City Demographics and Crime Profile of Chicago AJS 514 October 19, 2015 James L. Smith City Demographics and Crime Profile of Chicago Chicago is a big and beautiful city in the United States, this paper will discuss the cities demographics and analyze a criminal profile. It will include the characterization of the city in terms of social and intellectual context and identify social factors that contribute to crime. A description of beliefs people living there would accept for explaining criminal behavior by linking of events or attitudes. It will consider the changes in land use, property values, transportation, and retail as one moves away from the city. If there are any changes, it will describe the distances between these two areas, if those changes are noticeable, and whether or not zones of transition apply to this city. Identification of criminal hot spots and how the findings relate to the role of socioeconomic status and values in criminological theory will be discussed. It will identify and rationalize a sociologic theory that best explains the crime in Chicago. The social factors that have contributed to crime in the Chicago area seem to be those of poverty and lack of education. People are allowing children to be raised in these areas that will lead to their participation in the future. Children are receptors of learning by example. Neighborhood culture influences the type of people who live in the area. High crime areas have a higher rate of drop outs...
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...Strategic Analysis Marcel Campbell University of the Incarnate Word Table of Contents Executive Summary………………………………………………………………… 3 Company Overview…………………………………………………………………. 4 Mission, vision, Values……………………………………………………………… 5 History……………………………………………………………………………….. 6 Key Executives………………………………………………………………………. 7 Logo………………………………………………………………………………….. 8 Awards……………………………………………………………………………….. 9 Internal Analysis……………………………………………………………………. 10-22 External Analysis…………………………………………………………………….23-36 Strategies…………………………………………………………………………… 36-53 References………………………………………………………………………….. 54-58 Executive Summary Groupon Humans are living in the digital age and technology has become crucial to the development of the world. Technology helps people in many positive ways, such as faster communication, easy access of vast quantities of information, and efficient, fast transportation. Therefore, businesses also benefit from technology. Technology helps companies to reach consumers fast and help to study the behavior of consumers when buying a product or service to create profit. Groupon uses technology to provide coupons to savvy consumers. Groupon is a company in the daily deals industry. The company provides daily deals online, usually provides coupons with a half price discount from local restaurants, bars, movie theaters, luxury hotels; helping other companies to attract customers by offering savings on things to eat...
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...Change and Culture Case Study HCS/514 Version 2 December 19, 2011 Sara Brown Culture Communication and policy standard will be a huge piece of the integration. Communication will have to flow from top to bottom and horizontal among the mid level managers. Part of the communication piece will be setting the standard. If the purchased organization had different standard the employees will revert to those standard until new standard are presented to them. The culture often takes on that of the organization that purchases another; there are many processes in place that may not allow for complete integration of the employees of the sold company, into that of the purchasing company. The culture will be set from the beginning and it will be important to put into practice the two cultures so the other organization feel as if they are part of the new organization. There are services that the sold organization provides that the purchasing company does not have and may be unfamiliar with. Within such services are professionals and departments that may have their own strong mini cultures within the larger corporate culture. There will be competition between staff of both organizations, as those from each are most comfortable with their own cultures and try to maintain their current status. The mid level managers of the two organizations need to work together and see what services will work best. Being open minded and using some of the...
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...Battle: A History of Culture and Combat by John Lynn Nicole Campagnola 0774953 HIST*2040 (DE) W13 Professor Davison March 31, 2013 Despite proven facts and primary sources, historical investigation always has an element of subjectivity. Each historian has a different perspective, and focuses on different events and principles. Different historians and authors will often reflect upon the work of their peers, so an educated reader has the opportunity to decrease bias by expanding the list of sources that information comes from. Information that is accurately cited from appropriate sources does not always have a concrete and inarguable conclusion. There will always be differentiations based on the perspective that the author is striving to communicate, and the original intent behind their research. Castles, Battles and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen Brauer (an economist) and Hubert van Tuyll (a historian) focuses on historical events with the foundation of economic principles, and uses these principles to explain past military decisions and strategies. Battle: A History of Culture and Combat by John Lynn argues that most historians have mistakenly defined styles of warfare and resulting successes based on technological advancements in weaponry, when in reality the conceptual advantages are what set them ahead, with technological advancements merely being an application of strategic developments. He also emphasizes that culture is the root of...
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...The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas EC0/561 8/2/2014 Dr. Sharghi The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas This paper will provide an analysis of Steve Kafka’s decision to open and operate a Chicago-style pizza business in the Czech Republic (University of Phoenix, 2011). This analysis will include information on the cultural differences between the United States and the Czech Republic and how these differences may affect the business climate. This paper will also review potential risks in doing business overseas and what Kafka may be able to do to mitigate these risks. In addition, trade barriers and price structures will also be discussed. Background Kafka is an American of Czech heritage, speaks fluent Czech, and has traveled to the Czech Republic on many occasions, thus giving him confidence in his understanding of the business environment and economy opportunities (University of Phoenix, 2011). Kafka also has many friends and family members living in the Czech Republic which also give him the ability to better learn about cultural differences and standard customs. The Czech Republic is a member of the European Union, NATO, the World Trade Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction, and the International Monetary Fund, and the International Bank for Reconstruction (Doing Business, 2011). The monetary unit used is the Czech crown rather than the Euro and credit cards are commonly accepted, including the...
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...Analysis of Ethnocentrism in Avatar In the film Avatar, Jake Sully, a human, mentally controls a body that contains cells of the Na’vi natives from the planet, Pandora, and he attempts to learn the culture of the Na’vi. In a long run, the effect of being exposed to enthnocentrism, primitivism, romanticism and exoticism, could have changed Jakes’s decision from helping the humans to helping and living with the Na’vi. The aim of this essay is to explore enthinocentrism and its three areas: the primitive lives of the Na’vi, Na’vi’s romanticism with nature, and the exoticism of Pandora’s features and its inhabitants. Ethnocentrism is the view of one’s own culture to be superior and normal over the other culture (Lundberg, 2013). To the humans, they view the Na’vi as “blue monkey” (Cameron & Laudau, 2009), and are disrespectful towards their culture. The Na’vi also show the same attitude towards humans, where Eytukan, the clan leader, said that Jake has an “alien smell” (Cameron & Laudau, 2009). The humans view the trees as merely just an obstacle, whereas the Na’vi valued the trees deeply, where they believe that the trees are sacred, and were used to communicate and worship their mother goddess, Eywa. In turn, both sides think of each other as inferior and uncultured creatures from their contrast of their own beliefs. Primitivism is the view of another culture that is less developed, evolutionary and technologically (Lundberg, 2013). A scene where the Na’vi gives the impression...
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...[preview] America: Culturally Constipated? - ... Cultural pluralism or cultural diversity replaces the melting pot image with what is frequently described as a “mosaic” or almost a “tossed salad.” As Christine Bennett stated “each part retains some of its uniqueness while contributing to the beauty and strength of the whole composition.” The United States still has failed to become part of the tossed salad idea we don’t diversify with other cultures, why. Prejudice and racism is a root problem for cultural barriers within the borders of the United States.... [tags: American Culture] 763 words (2.2 pages) $19.95 [preview] Cultural Challenges Of Doing Business Overseas - The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas Steve Kafka, an American of Czech origin and a franchiser of Chicago Style Pizza, has decided to expand his business and open a franchise in Prague, Czech Republic. Before venturing into the global business sector, Steve needs to conduct an in-depth analysis in order to become familiar with the Czech culture. This analysis will present opportunities and risks that Steve will need to achieve and overcome so his end-state goal of expanding...
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...The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas Karinna Kruse MMPBL501 November 22, 2010 David Francom Steve Kafka is an American citizen from Chicago, Illinois, who is looking to expand his business overseas. Steve is a franchisor for Chicago Style Pizza and sees the opportunity of introducing the famous food in Czech Republic, a country his family came from. Because he is familiar with the language, customs and culture, Steve is confident that he will make his business successful in Czech Republic. Therefore, before starting his franchise overseas, Steve needs to conduct a cultural and economic study to determining the cost of business, the risks of investment, and the any trade barriers for his pizza business. “Culture is the acquired knowledge that people use to interpret experience and generate social behavior. This knowledge forms values, creates attitudes, and influences behavior” (Hodgetts, Luthans, & Doh, 2005, p. 93-94). United States and Czech Republic are two countries situated on two different continents, and with significant cultural differences between their cultures. Czech Republic was part of Czechoslovakia, a former Easter communist country. Czech Republic gained its independence in 1989, after the Velvet Revolution, when the Eastern communist bloc ceded to exist The economic, political and cultural relationship between United States and Czech Republic are strong, furthermore, the United States encourages the economic transformation in Czech...
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...Turnitin ‘soft’ copy submission Due: Week 13, Friday, 5pm. | Weighting: 40% Note: Both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ formats must be in before the due date otherwise late penalties will apply (see Course Outline for details). | The objectives of this task are to: • Further develop your ability to find, assess, and use a variety of quality sources that are relevant to your topic (Research). • Develop your understanding of a particular historical context (Knowledge and comprehension). • Discern a variety of significant agencies within a historical context, demonstrated through texts and visuals (Analysis). • Produce an academic style design history essay that make a well supported claim backed by your research (Synthesis). • Demonstrate a reasonable level of competency and rigour in referencing (Referencing). Your work will be assessed on how well it demonstrates these five objectives. Task description. Your task is to write an essay style response to one of the following questions: 1/. Tony Fry (1988) argues that there are various approaches to studying and representing design history. What are some of these approaches, and what effect do they have on how we understand and/or research design? ...
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