] was plainly striking a raw nerve. It was not the case, of course, that liberally educated readers of 1849 were unprepared for objections, in the abstract, to the ascendancy of Christian faith; what they found hard to take, though, was this brazen assault on Christian supremacy by way of a series of irrelevant comparisons with various preposterous Hindu, Buddhist or Chinese religious forms" (Hodder, 1993; 404) For Emerson, on the other hand, the unity between the soul and the nature is announced even since the publication of his work "Nature
Moreover, Transcendentalism as a social movement is also associated with the protest against the Unitarian Church. Historians have commonly treated the relationship between the Transcendentalists and their Unitary opponents as a dispute between youthful champions of essential religious values and the tradition bound elders (Hutchinson, 1956)
By respecting the value of future investments made by the French partners and putting more effort into better structural and architectural planning for new additions to the park, Disney can demonstrate greater conservatism for the capital resources, thereby gaining more goodwill with French investors. "Cultural relativism stresses that different social contexts give rise to different norms and values" (Schaefer, 2008, p
Promoting more French managers up to the executive level and incorporating their input will contribute to creating a more acceptable working environment. Not only will French managers better understand the needs of the employees and customers, they will also be able to improve relations between the brand and the community (Walker, 1995)
S. executives were seen freely spending money to build lavishly and then simply tearing down structures that did not meet their satisfaction only to be rebuilt, French investors grew concerned (Wenhe, 2009)
Culturally, this puts the Maya at somewhat a disadvantage, though, since they are a culture, not a nation. They must try to integrate with Western science and technology, while remaining true to their own, passionate, traditions (Barclay, 2009)
For example, 36 would be written as one dot above three dots, atop two lines. Thus, addition and subtraction are actually quite easy -- certainly easier than using X, L, C, M, and I (Coe, 2005, 212-15)
They also had the only fully developed written language in the pre-Colombian Americas. At its peak, in fact, it was one of the most densely populated and culturally dynamic societies in the world (Danien, 2009)
) with more folk traditions kept alive orally from generation to generation as folk legend (using herbs, the meaning of the stars, etc.) (Grube, 2006)
This means that much of their theory must be inferred. For instance we know that they used a vigesimal system -- one for counting and what we would term aritmetic purposes, and one for the passage of time or less tangible measurements of time and space (Lounsbury, 1978)
In a typical example of the misinterpretation of a non-Western culture's science, some have postulated that the Mayan caldendar actually predicts the end of the earth in 2012. Instead, what is more likely is that 2012 is the end of a 5,126-year cycle from the Mayan long-count calendar; there may well be atmospheric or celestial convergence, but for the Maya, it was equivalent to a spritual rebirth -- not literally the death of the earth, but the demise of the old and the birth of the new (MacDonald, 2007)
Even such pillars of Western science, like Isaac Newton, did not see a stringen line between "science," what we would call the "occult" or "alchemy." Indeed, it was all part of the discovery of the natural world, things that may be explainable now were explained in a different manner in the past (Newman, 2010)
The history of science is, in fact, written from a Europeanized perspective, and "does not recognize different types of civilizations or cultural science. It has represented Western science as the apex of science, and maintained its monopoly" (Sardar, 2000, 53)