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    The Parallels of Greek and Trojan Culture Homer’s The Iliad paints an epic and gruesome picture of the Achaeans and Trojans civilizations warring over a ten-year span. If one were to compare these once great cultures‚ the striking similarities would suggest friendship rather than enemies. Not only did both nations perform similar rituals and sacrifices‚ but also these rites were directed to the same group of gods. Specifically the Trojans and Achaeans had a tremendous respect for the dead and

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    The Culture Differences of Dating Between China and Western Countries What is the significance of American dating? Often dating means no more than getting to know one another and having some fun.It is often the beginning of a friendship with someone whom you may like but not necessarily marry. Dating is not as serious in America as it is in some countries‚ but it is important because every person has the freedom to choose his own marriage partner‚ one with whom he hopes to spend the rest of his

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    Morality can differ in every culture and society because of how different people are and how disconnected everyone are in the world. Due to this‚ people have made up idea called cultural relativism. Cultural relativism means each individual understands everyone’s beliefs and activities. But there are many issues that challenges this idea. Furthermore‚ because there are many different cultures in the world there are many different moral codes. For an example the Greeks and the Callatians practice totally

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    Drag culture is something that is old to me in the fact that I’ve heard of or about it‚ but I’ve never know the background or full aspects to what it really is or to what extent individuals take it. According to Bornstein‚ drag has always been seen as a binary (Bornstein 199). These binaries include drag queens‚ which are males dress as females‚ and drag kings‚ which are females dressed as males. Although drag has become a really progressive topic or act over the past decades‚ it’s very rare‚ in

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    learnt? Contemporary popular culture is ripe with content that depicts and often encourages sexual behaviour (Garcia‚ Reiber‚ Massey‚ and Merriwether‚ 2012). This includes scripts for premarital and uncommitted sex – i.e. hook-up culture (Garcia et al.‚ 2012). It is important to note that these scripts are gendered. As Oliver & Hyde (1993) suggest‚ gender differences in sexual behaviour scripts and attitudes toward casual sex are pronounced. That is‚ hookup culture affects men and women differently

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    Roman and Greek Gods It has been known that the Romans and the Greeks have had many interactions with each other‚ whether it would be due to trading or just plain traveling‚ the stories of their myths have crossed each other in one way or another. This is may be the reason why there are many similarities between Greek and Roman Mythology. Even though a Greek god or goddess may have a different name in Roman Mythology they still performed similar tasks and were worshiped for similar reasons. I will

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    question of otherness of the people-as-one. The national subject splits in the ethnographic perspective of culture’s contemporaneity and provides ... a narrative authority for marginal voices or minority discourse.  150 “From the liminal movement of the culture of the nation - at once up and held together - minority discourse emerges.” (Bhabha‚ ——:

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    how we have used leisure throughout history to current modern society in Greek and Roman leisure‚ the industrial revolution and how it has changed society‚ and general leisure patters over the last 1000 years. Leisure has been developed in every culture to distract us from the work and stress in our lives. Greek built their city around making leisure an easy access place for everybody to come and enjoy. The ancient Greeks developed the art of town planning to a high level and customarily made expensive

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    Greek and Roman Theater

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    Greek and Roman Theatre Theatre and its roots can be traced back before the Common Era to the Greeks and Romans. The two types of theatre‚ while quite similar‚ do have a number of differences. Classical Greek and Roman theatre‚ often combined in a sort of Ancient “Grome” fashion‚ are similar in the most basic but superficial of aspects. The most basic of the aspects is the fact that the height of their movements and societal impact were before the start of the Church and its influence of the

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    Ancient Greeks thought themselves as “one people.” Greek people had the same religion‚ language and culture. Young men and women from the Greek city states were sent compete in the Olympic Games. Ancient Greek was divided into several independent city states (Polis). Even though Greeks thought themselves as one people‚ politically they defended their independence from each other. Relation between Greeks and Phoenicians increased during ninth century B.C.E. Geeks adopted the Phoenicians alphabets

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