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Courtesy the Odegaard Writing & Research Center Welcome to the Odegaard Writing and Research Center Argumentative Paper Format *Please note that this is only a sample format. There are multiple ways to organize an argumentative paper  INTRODUCTION o 1-2 paragraphs tops o PURPOSE: To set up and state one’s claim o OPTIONAL ELEMENTS  […]

The Future of the American Negro Booker T. Washington CHAPTER VII. One of the great questions which Christian education must face in the South is the proper adjustment of the new relations of the two races. It is a question which must be faced calmly, quietly, dispassionately; and the time has now come to rise

Chapter 2 – Of the Dawn of Freedom .pdf   Chapter 2 from The book The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is in the public domain in the United States. UMGC has modified this work. II Of the Dawn of Freedom Careless seems the great Avenger; History’s lessons but record

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Culture Is Dialectical Culture often is thought of as a seamless web of interrelated and mutually supportive values and behaviors, yet nothing could be further from the truth. Because they are complex systems that are created by people and influenced by social, economic, and political factors, cultures are also dialectical, conflicted, and full of inherent

Culture Is Learned Closely related to the fact that culture is created and socially con- structed is the fact that it is learned. That is, culture is not handed down through our genes, nor is it inherited. This is very clear to see, for example, when children from a particular ethnic group (for instance, Korean)

Culture Is Created and Socially Constructed As discussed previously, culture often is thought of as a product-in- place, and as something handed down that must be kept the way it is. Not only does this result in a static view of culture, but it also implies that culture is already finished. As we have seen,

Culture Is Influenced by Social, Economic, and Political Factors As is evident from the above, intimately related to the fact that culture is bound to a particular context is that it is greatly influenced by the political, historical, and economic conditions in which it is found. It 134 culture and education exists not in isolation

Culture Is Embedded in Context To say that culture is embedded in context is to say that it invariably is influenced by the environment in which it exists. The culture of Japanese students in Japan is of necessity different from that of Japanese immigrant students in the United States or of Japanese immigrant students in

Culture Is Multifaceted Closely related to the dynamic nature of culture is that cultural identifications are multiple, eclectic, mixed, and heterogeneous. This means, for one thing, that culture cannot be conflated with just ethnicity or race. As an example, Mexican or Mexican-American culture may be familiar to us because it concerns an identity based primarily