My navigation through mythology has begun to soften the walls and awaken dormant pieces of my subconscious – areas that had been too painful to confront directly. Reading each myth has been a shamanic journey that holds my hand‚ walking me through the Earth and into the lower levels of my awareness. Mythology gives me access to my unconscious‚ and descending into the unconscious has not been overwhelming to trigger my defense mechanisms. I have connected to the theme of death and rebirth‚ particularly
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Mythologizing is a concept known to mankind from the beginning of existence to now. Myths are known stories from different cultures that address difficult questions that human beings ask: who and what am I‚ where did I come from‚ why am I here‚ how should I live‚ what is the right thing to do‚ what is the universe‚ how did it all begin? Myths are stories that are peopled by great men and women; by forces of good and evil; by animals‚ large and small; by trees‚ the sea and the wind; and by giants
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Cultural Studies and the Academy 1. Cultural studies in the academies of the advanced capitalist countries has transformed the object of studies in the humanities. In particular‚ in English departments‚ cultural studies has challenged the predominance of the governing categories of literary studies (the "canon‚" the homogeneous "period‚" the formal properties of genre‚ the literary object as autonomous and self-contained) in the interest of producing "readings" of all texts of culture and
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How have you changed your views on methods for resolving conflict issues between nations with different cultural traditions? (20 points) There are many different cultural traditions around the world and many have their own styles‚ values‚ conventions‚ and social practices. The videos that the class has watched has been very informative and has explained quite a lot about other cultures and their traditions. The views that I have had over the years about resolving conflictual issues as it relates
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My son the fantatic The story My son the fanatic is wrote in 1997 by Hanif Kureishi. The story is told in a religious way‚ where we are going to hear about how hard is it for an eastern person‚ example a Punajbis‚ people from Pakistan‚ to fit into the western culture and to be accepted in the western culture. It is a story about the fear for his son is going to be a man and about the mistrust between father and son. The father thinks the son is on drugs while the son is particularly religious and
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Mythology is perhaps one of the oldest customs of the human race. Myths are stories. They are stories that‚ through oral presentation and written documentation‚ have been passed down through centuries and are even still being created today. These stories carry themes and characters that are used to relate those themes. One prominent type of character in most myths is that of the "trickster". Two of the perhaps more well known tricksters throughout mythology are the Snake in the Garden of Eden
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Lakunle Lakunle is the schoolteacher of the village. He deeply admires Western culture and seeks to emulate‚ often to comically inadequate effect. He is portrayed by Soyinka as clumsy in both actions and words‚ throwing together phrases from the Bible and other Western works in hope of sounding intelligent. He is "in love" with Sidi‚ but has not married her because she demands that he pay the traditional bride price‚ something he refuses to do. Initially we chalk up this refusal to his Western
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Barbara Demings University of Phoenix HUM/105 World Mythology Sarah Farenick March 11‚ 2009 Modern myths in some shape or form have affected society’s way of thinking and living. Modern myths also influence the teachings of man. In today’s modern myths the teaching of religion is the greatest myth to mankind. Mankind belief formed from emotions and a belief system of worshiping some type of god or gods. In Judaism they believe in the life
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1. The lose of morality as far as the sexual attitude is concerned.The present day cinema revealing the nakedness of women. This way of exhibitionism‚ we call it cultured and at the same time we dont want to show alsocompletely naked‚to say that we are of Orient in nature. You see the advertisement in the Yahoo‚ how to increse the size of penis. Do this ad project us as cultured? I doubt. One may say that Western culture makes us bold enough to face the challenges of the present world. When west
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Home > Discussion Boards > General Discussion | | ------------------------------------------------- Indian Culture Vs Western Culture.** Abhi16march Started The Discussion: Indian culture vs Western culture. Hello everyone....lets start our discussion on ths topic... I think both culture are good....and I think WESTERN culture is good in many wayssssss............its very liberal and alwayz ready for a change nd also has INDIVIDUALITY.....and thing which is wrong with our culture
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