Cultural Background
Essays

This paper examines the arguments for and against same-sex marriage without providing a position statement about the author's feelings about the issue. It focuses on traditional arguments against legalization of same sex marriage including: religion, family, and tradition. It also focuses on traditional arguments for legalization including: civil rights, family stability, and religious freedom. However, it also touches on a far-left opposition to the institution based in opposition to marriage, in general.

Advances in technology have brought about many changes in the society in which we live. One of these changes centers on our ability to meet persons from different cultures and to interact with them in a manner that…

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Rednecks and Television: A Qualitative Investigation of Popular Media's Habit of Promote Stereotypes of "Rednecks"

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The Accidental Asian by Eric Liu is a collection of autobiographical essays describing the author's experience as an Asian-American, and his views regarding cultural identity. The book is full of insight and questions…

Video games have for a long time been associated with the passage of certain ideologies. The concept of video games has therefore been instrumental in the process of passing certain social and political ideologies.

Julie Taymor's "Frida" is (in addition to a biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo) a motion picture offering insight in Mexican culture and of the Central American society in general.

Evolution of Religious Tolerance in Colonial America

This paper investigates female genital mutilation (FGM) in Ethiopia. It asks whether FGM is an issue of cultural relativism or a human rights issue. It concludes that FGM is a human rights issue.