Eric Oakley

With literally hundreds of choices in Seattle and probably thousands in the greater Metro area, sushi is usually only a few blocks away. However, getting authentic, top quality sushi may be another ma...

With a plethora of seafood restaurants along the boardwalk in Virginia Beach, the options can seem endless. When it comes to a great seafood dining experience, fresh fish, unique recipes and superb se...

Comparing Ste. Foy, Conques, France (1050-1120 CE) to St. Etienne, also known as Bourges Cathedral, Bourges, France (1195-1250), it is obvious that the change in architectural style from Romanesque to...

At the beginning of the 17th century, the Roman Catholic Church was facing the erosion of its congregations stemming from the popularization of science, Protestant forces, civil unrest and economic wa...

All Siva's are not created equal. By comparing two images of Siva, known as "the Creator" in the Hindu religion, from two different periods of Indian history, it is obvious that the stylistic variatio...

Paintings on folding screens present an interesting challenge to the Japanese painter. While most paintings in this and other cultures tend to be on a flat, single plane, the surface of a folding scre...

Human beings have an interesting and elaborate set of social "rules" when it comes to how one treats another of the same age group, of a younger age group and of an older age group. These rules were ...

David Riesman writes of three very different character types in his book "The Lonely Crowd." The first type, tradition directed, is driven by cultural demands to act in an approved way, and is enforce...

Freud is one of the most famous social scientists of the twentieth century and has had a lasting and profound effect on it. Even today, most Americans, if not most citizens of the world are familiar w...

For centuries, ancient cultures lacking modern scientific techniques and procedures have explained the world in which they lived through supernatural and mythological stories. The Scandinavian area of...

The elderly populations in the United States and Canada are the fastest growing age group in both countries. This sudden spike in population growth has led to new difficulties in providing quality hea...

Hannah Hoch, one of the few woman artists of her time, was a vital catalyst for the growth of Dadaism and the recognition of females in art. Throughout her career, Hoch bore oppression against her art...

Modern humans and chimpanzees (our closest relative in the animal kingdom) share ninety-eight point four percent of their DNA. With a difference of only one point six percent, these two species share ...

In a small, rural town in the northeastern corner of Washington, a sign reads, Welcome to Town: Home of 1,552 Friendly People and One Grouch. A local waitress first coined the term Counter Bread, whi...

Getting engaged is an event with many cultural symbols, rituals and traditions. I recently got engaged, but I had never contemplated the cultural forces that guided me through the process. A marriage ...

Rubies have been mined for over five thousand years. A myriad of cultures have coveted these jewels and believed that they had the power to heal and protect. The Ruby has been associated with royalty ...

Social science in the twentieth century began with men like Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner. These were men who approached social science with the same techniques utilized in the hard sciences like physic...

According to Michel Foucault, the primary difference between Bentham's Panopticon and the disciplinary mechanism of panopticism is the Panopticon is a physical architectural utopia in which discipline...