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  • Shackles Of Post Experience
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    Brad turns to his companion Les. He is wearing an oversized t-shirt sporting some trendy pop-culture phrase that has long since lost any reference or significance. He sports jeans that are neither loose nor tight, very functional. Brad is in essence, every man America. Les is a skinny short boy, pale with frizzy blond hair. He too is dressed in a peculiar sort of anti-fashion, a fashion so slyly plain and unrecognizable that it defies the very nature of fashion itself. They are both seventeen. '...
  • Individual's Experience Of Their Culture
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    'Cultural identity', according to Stuart Hall can be viewed through two different ways. The first position views 'cultural identity' in terms of one shared culture, reflecting typical historical experiences and shared cultural codes. Further, these cultural codes and common historical experiences 'provide us, as 'one people', with stable, unchanging and continuous frames of reference and meaning' (Hall, p. 393). The second view relies heavily on the individual's experience of their culture. Thro...
  • Cultural Anthropologists
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    Introduction: Cultural Anthropology is a term that is in everyday lives and topics. When one thinks of anthropology they think of the study of old remnants commonly referred to as archaeology. This, however, is not the only form of anthropology. There are four types of anthropology and they are archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. However, Cultural anthropologists are every where and study people of all walks of life. One can find a topic and ...
  • Historical Experience And Current Ethnic Culture
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    Summary: "Antiracism, Multiculturalism and Interracial community: Three Educational values for a multicultural society". Lawrence Blum is a philosophy professor at University of Massachussetts. He starts off his article stating four values that are important to the education program. They are anti racism, multiculturalism, sense of community and individuality. Racism is when a person or group has attitudes over another. The goal of anti racism is to be "without racist attitudes". Multiculturalis...
  • Of My Culture Shock Experiences
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    What do you think the best way to adopt a new environment that has a different culture for a foreigner? ... Well, I think it's to develop social relationships with members of the new culture, and in order to have a better communication with them, it's not enough just speak their language fluent, but we also have to know the personality of the country and the way that people talking. Today I want to share some of my culture shock experiences with you, and I hope those experiences can help you to ...
  • Cultural Contact Zone
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    Tailgates as a Cultural Contact Zone "Arts of the Contact Zone" by Mary Louise Pratt is an article that talks about how critical and history-making it is when different cultures meet for the first time. She describes this moment with her coined phrase, the "contact zone". She gives the perfect example of when the Andeans, who were native Peruvians, were encountered by the Spanish. Even though my experiences in life can not compare with those of Andeans, this example prompted me to think back to ...
  • Use Of Cultural Codes Literature
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    Literature, like any art form, engages the reader in a complex set of emotional, symbolic, moral, intellectual and social considerations. Literature uses the normal means of communication - language, images, symbols, codes, stories - but uses them with more complexity and subtlety than is normal in everyday communication. As well, it avails itself of a certain sensibility we have to such things as form, sensual experience, rhythm, repetition, contrast, which sensibility we call the 'aesthetic'. ...
  • Culture Shock Sets In The Manager
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    Culture in ancient times was defined as "the sum total of the equipment of the human individual, which enables him to be attuned to his immediate environment on the historical past on the other". It reflects in effect what humans have added to Nature. It comprises the spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of a society and includes, in addition to the arts and letters, the value systems, traditions, modes of life and beliefs of the society. It also absorbs from other cultures a...
  • Idea Of The Theater Of Cruelty Artaud
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    It is difficult to say something specific about Antonin Artaud and to limit his contributions of not just re-inventing or re-forming the concept of the theater but also of art, human intellectuality and psychology. Before coming to the idea of The Theater of Cruelty Artaud was concerned with the worlds insignificance towards culture. Artaud explains the need for culture to feed the human mind. He makes a comparison between the need for culture being equal with hunger for food. Unlike the underst...
  • Artaud's Theater
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    Marc Bro tman Theory of Drama 11/15/00 TWO NIGHTS OF ARTAUD IS JUST NOT HEALTHY Cornell West writes, culture convinces you not to kill yourself. This, I ve come to realize, is a partial articulation of Atr aud's idea of culture -in-action (which also mandates his idea of metaphysics-in-action). Writing from a spiritual perspective, Artaud believes that something makes us live. This something is empirical and existent in all things. For Artaud, the human need for a transcendent state is part of l...
  • Peoples Space
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    Violation of Space On todays episode of Know Your Principles of Sociology, the question is how important are the mundane rules of life Our contestants in Dr. Marins class helped us out with finding the answer. To answer this they simply violated an unwritten social norm that people live by in our culture. They decided to violate the space theory. Weather it be to randomly hug people or sit extremely close to them, these brave young souls went to the farthest ends to observe and document the expr...
  • Their Culture
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    It was difficult to answer this question as I was recalling my experiences in life. There are so many to choose from! I was in the Military when I graduated from high school, and I had some fabulous opportunities to experience the richness of Asian cultures at that time. (Being in the Navy took me to places of call from Malaysia to Taiwan). But I feel that my sister Patty best encapsulates the answer for this question. She has brought diversity to our family in a whole new light! She teaches Eng...
  • Experience Of Values From Different Cultures
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    When I was a child I was exposed to many cultures, much in the same way as a military family would have been. With my father having worked on C ecom Fort Monmouth since the time I was born, I have been exposed to different cultures, races, and religions all of my life. This small fort in the middle of Eatontown is a perpetual melting pot of ideals, colors and beliefs. As far back as I can remember, I have always had many friends. However, until this essay was assigned, I didn't think about the f...
  • Image Of Travel And Tourism
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    Until recently, the gigantic tourism industry has been doing well, very well. In the year 2001, a recorded 688 million people were traveling internationally. As the tourism industry's popularity grows, the image of travel and tourism begins to evolve. With a simple click of the button, your entire nine-day iti nary to India could be planned, booked and paid for. No long distance calls to New Delhi. No two-hour busy lines on the United Airlines reservation lines. Traveling is as easy as ordering ...

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