Stories help us make sense of the world around us and expand it. They allow us to explore cultures, learn moral lessons, connect to the natural world or to just have fun and relax. For children and adults alike the act of reading is associated with a positive impact on emotional developme...
and I was able to be there briefly during her final hours. It was difficult to meet her before then as I lived in another city and couldn’t get away from my work and other responsibilities without months of planning and saving. I thought she would live longer than she did as she seem...
Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art. Cultures have their own stories - about themselves, about other cultures - and to hear them ...
except in the finest granularity of detail. On one hand, I can see how including overlapping tales would give readers some indication of how these tales spread and became adapted by other cultures. However, on the other hand, I would have preferred that the editor selected the better of the...
top management roles and senior positions of power throughout society remain largely the preserve of men. This critical review explores how women’s power is narratively constructed in two dominant European cultures, Germany and Britain, and how stories told about women’s representation in top leve...
is a key part of Debiopharm’s business model, finding ways to leverage the world as a laboratory of innovation. The Challenge was launched on InnoCentive, Wazoku’s previous home for open innovation, to participants all over the world from many different backgrounds, industries,...
This paper discusses the cultural conflicts portrayed in Divakaruni's select stories, especially with reference to Silver Pavements and Golden Roof. Disillusion felt by the migrants are detailed. Confronting people from other cultures is a special feature in these stories. Spiritual and psychological ...
Dawes resolved the issue with the Indian Removal program: easier to remove the Other from my sight than to converse with him. Edward Carpenter[5], the anthropologist, once commented that: people of different cultures sometimes differ to the point where, although we could probably understand them...
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“The stories inThese Americansexplore with lightness and eloquence the complexity of living between cultures. Sreenivasan writes beautifully about childhood and about the very particular complications that women face as wives and mothers. A wonderful novella, “Hawk”, completes the collection with a ...