In conclusion, the cultural contexts, such as the writer’s and the audience’s nationality and backgrounds, have the important meaning to the message of the sentences. Depend on the cultural viewpoints of the writer, the choice of the words and the emphasized points are changed. Also, the audience’s knowledge and thought influence to the way to accept the contents. In other words.
There is a multitude of origin stories in our world with each of them adding their own aspects and views. With so many different cultures and beliefs that affect these origin stories, it is remarkable that so many of them are so alike in regard to content. Specifically remarkable are the similarities between J. R. R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion and Darius Milhaud’s “La Création Du Monde”; two creation stories that, at first glance, have nothing in common. Tolkien’s Silmarillion, specifically the section “Ainulindale”, is a written piece that describes the creation of the world that Tolkien himself created. On the other hand, Milhaud’s “La Création Du Monde” is both a visual and musical description of the creation of our world.
In 1689, John Locke published an essay arguing that the mind was like a blank slate (tabula rasa). As one grows older, the experiences one has makes the person one becomes, and influences one’s decision. This theory can be recognized in a multitude of literary works, such as Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit-451. In the aforementioned novel, staples of society in 1953, such as the television, book burnings, and the Cold War, each had a profound effect on it.
Within almost all the science fiction films that we have watched in the class, I have noticed that there is a huge overtone of religious elements in most of them and just like the other films the Wachowski brother’s Matrix is ripe with Christian symbolism. In this journal, I intend to explore the film from a religious perspective. The Matrix is deeply insightful as it conveys some interesting thoughts and facts on philosophical and spiritual levels.
68) To Smith Religion shapes the moral belief and shows guidance in a person's life. In the final part before the conclusion, The Return of Culture, Smith looks at the other ideas of other writers who are also interested in culture. He discusses their theories, but he points out that they all miss something important, they don't really explain why people do what they do. Their theories are either based on the idea that people always make logical choices, or they don't give a good reason for people's actions. Smith thinks this is a big problem, he believes that any good study of culture needs to consider questions about what makes people who they are like what he discussed earlier in the book, what drives them, and why they do what they do, all from a cultural and moral point of view.
While I personally don't believe that a specific social or political statement isn’t necessary for a piece of fiction to have value, I do recognize that stories which involve such statements definitely have a bigger cultural impact. It's the main reason that Sci-fi books and movies have such a large cult following. They make statements that are relevant for everyone. The book 1984, while it was published in 1949, is still relevant today. The political statements that the book makes are important because they are exaggerated examples of how the government actually behaves.
While the definition of culture has changed dramatically since the 16th century the ideals of social expectations as well as the influence of war have not as today many people still are influenced by these cultural definitions. In conclusion, “Much Ado About Nothing” ultimately defines the structure of human nature through painting a complex understanding of cultural influence that still compares greatly to the 21 century
The world is a changing entity. To keep these texts relevant and away from the extremities, interpretation must flow along with
The movie The Matrix, was a film that is about a man who lives two lives. By day the main character named Neo is an average computer programmer and by night he is a well-known hacker known as Neo. After a while he finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by a legendary hacker named Morpheus. During the movie Morpheus shows Neo the real world which is a ravaged wasteland that most of humanity has been captured by machines that live off of human body heat and electrochemical energy and imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. This movie has a lot of philosophical theories that it can relate to but the 2 main philosophers and ideas that catch my eye with this movie is Plato and his allegory of the
Andy Crouch stated that “certain spheres of culture can profoundly shape the horizons of possibility and impossibility far beyond their own borders” (45). As the first principles journal, of Cardus, Comment stands out to be a cultural sphere going beyond the borders of its inception think tank Cardus. Acting as a newsletter when it was first published, January of 1983, Comment base its existence off public theology. Yet the magazine went on a break, in early 2000s, only to re-invent its content, August 2005, in the form of a book and online. Comment “goes beyond why and looks at how we actually get down to the difficult work of being faithfully present in culture” (Comment).
Judaism, Christianity and Islam There are three major and most practiced religions in the world which include Christianity, Islam and Judaism. They are also considered to be the most influential religions looking at their history and the followers they have around the world. It all depends on the fact that as the world has become complex as well as how people perceive to take things therefore it is easy for them to join monotheistic religions and these three religions are no doubt the most influential religions that all started in the Middle East. Their impact on the people and different nations is profound, these three religions are also known as the “Abrahamic Religions.” The reason for this is that all these three religions can be rooted back to Abraham as seen from their teachings and holy books.
Henry Nash Smith and the ‘Myth and Symbol School’ After Turner’s ‘introduction’ , the West became one of the foundational elements for the earliest scholars of American Studies. Proposing similar questions as Turner, the so-called ‘Myth and Symbol School’ worked on the assumption that American culture could be studied as a “common language” (Chapman) comprised of myths and symbols that represented the American imagination. The myths and symbols were defined by Smith as “larger or small units of the same kind of thing, namely an intellectual confusion that fuses concept an emotion into an image” (Virgin Land xi) and it was through these a culture could express its values, ideas, and identity. Scholars of the MS School thus argued that myths
Nowadays, our lives are full of symbols. We are surrounded by them in our daily lives. Some prompt us to drink Coca-Cola, or buy a Ferrari, and other defines us as Christian, Muslim or Jews. There are symbols used to asses lawful restrictions upon us, such as we move when we see the green traffic, we use either the ladies or the gents wash rooms, and also there are symbols that typify the abstract, for example; love is often symbolized by a heart since we can’t draw love but we can draw heart and then it can be clearly understood, most of signs that we see daily are made by the freemasonry and the illuminati. Illuminati is a group of people who are chimerical and factual.
V. Taxonomy of Social Power As the reasons behind a lot of the characters’ actions are to acquire their own materialistic desires, the aspects of power and influence are important to recognize in the analysis of the behaviors portrayed in the movie Inception. As the movie progresses and more is revealed about Dom, it is very evident that he is recognized infamously for his skills in the art of extraction, the subconscious of others, and his control and ability to structure dreamscapes within another ’s mind. This power that Dom possesses “is the power of knowledge” and the ability to “influence others through their relative expertise” is known as expert power (Leadership: Enhancing the lessons of experience, pg. 57, 2015).
2.1 Representation and identity A Cultural theorist, also a leading figure of the development of media and cultural studies, Stuart Hall’s cultural representation theory is very representative and has a significant impact in the field of cultural studies. His book “Representation: Cultural representations and signifying practices” published in 1997 is a study of the crucial links between language, culture and how shared meanings are constructed and represented within the language. Hall believes culture plays the primary role in how we construct meaning and representation was closely related to culture. Representation is the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture through the use of language, such as
