Essays about American Culture

Every year when the fall season comes around, Halloween does too. People prepare for the festivities by decorating their homes with spooky, haunting decorations. Everyone that participates wears costumes of all sorts. Some costumes are fun, scary, or just ridiculously unique. I question Halloween as a holiday. It serves no extraordinary purpose. It also contradicts…

What are the THREE components to the definition of ‘culture’, according to Cohen (2009) and our extensive discussion in lecture? Do these help you to more fully grasp/identify cultural groups? Cohen considers three kinds of cultures religion, socioeconomic status, and region within a country. Cohen believes that to be considered as a culture it must…

Native American culture utilizes several approaches to mental health disorders. There are hundreds of different tribes living in the United States and their views may differ from tribe to tribe. Native Americans were generally positively disposed toward medication as a treatment modality but were, by far, the least convinced of the benefits of psychotherapy (Hunt,…

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” Martin Luther King Jr. We are all different. One thing that makes us who we are as people is culture. Culture can simply be defined as a way of life of a group of people which they pass down to…

The word “culture” doesn’t have a certain definition to its name because of how many people interpret the words meaning. Our world is a fusion of different cultures, each one unique in its own way. “Culture is central to the way we view, experience, and engage with all aspects of our lives and the world…

Nurses’ come in contact with many different patients with many different backgrounds. Nurses must build trusting relationships with their patients to give them adequate care. To do this, nurses must become cultural competency, “the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary for providing quality care to diverse populations” (Jarvis pg. 19). To achieve cultural competency, one must…

There have been many movies and television shows about the relationships and conflicts between whites and natives and the idea that the natives caused all the problems and the whites were innocent victims in history. Is this how it really or was it the other way around? Unfortunately, it was the white man that settled…

In recent years, teenage pregnancy has been labeled a major issue amongst teens that it can be known as an Epidemic. Is teenage pregnancy directly responsible for a host of societys ills? Increasing teenage pregnancy rate translates directly into increasing rates of school failure, early behavioral problems, drug abuse, child abuse, depression, and crimes. Many…

Does Television Shows Reflect American Culture?There are many movies and television shows that reflect American culture. A show or movie must address some current societal problem or trend in order to truly reflect American life; murder, rape, racism, and, on a less serious note, parties, shopping, and sports are topics that deserve serious consideration by…

This section is the heart of both the farce and the tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson. The action is fast-paced, often absurd, and accompanied by convoluted plot twists. Yet it is always intimately tied to the central problem of the story: Roxy’s failure to “save” her son, whose racial heritage seems to damn him inescapably. Roxy…