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Posted by jana on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 10:15am.

Is there anywhere I can look for 1: how eastern thought/philosophy affets the eastern nations/culture 2: what our western world is like in relation to eastern culture and how eastern thought is starting to leak into our wesstern culture 3: how the eastern thought in the west is shwoing (e.g, media, books, broadway, famous people becoming 'new age', etc...) thanks a lot

• world news - Writeacher, Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 10:41am

  You may have to search and research, but once you learn some good sources and methods, you should have success. In addition to searching on the Internet, you also need to make best friends with the reference librarian(s) in your local or college library. Libraries these days subscribe to enormous research databases, and they are often more useful than Internet searches. Ask your librarian if you have access to EBSCOHost -- it has all kinds of excellent resources in it. For Internet searching: http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/ At this webpage, you can go immediately to the search sites (first three columns across the top) -- or even better you can scroll down until you see the section called HOW TO SEARCH THE INTERNET. Those are the links to start with. You'll not only learn how to come up with good search terms, but also how to evaluate the webpages you get as results. Some will be good and others will be garbage. You need to know how to tell the difference. My favorite way to search is to go to Google's advanced search page http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en and put my search words or phrases into the first or second search box (either "all the words" or "exact phrase"). Another is to start out at http://scholar.google.com. However, there many other strategies for searching you can use, and the HOW TO SEARCH THE INTERNET section will help you best. Learning to use Google or other search engines can save you time and help you learn to find information efficiently. Here are some websites that can teach you how: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/searchtips.html http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/index.html http://websearch.about.com/mbody.htm?once=true&COB=home&PM=112_100_T ... and one to help you judge whether a particular website's information is worth your time: http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/evaluate.html Happy searching.

  
  

• world news - PsyDAG, Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 12:48pm

  Possibly this article might be helpful: http://www.members.cox.net/dagershaw/lol/PersonPerceptionEW.html I hope this helps a little more. Thanks for asking.

  
  

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