For example, when we think of the word "door", we think of the actual meaning. We see the door from our house growing up, or the door that we slammed during our teenage years, but as we look at the word door with the steps used to identify a symbol, we find that word can symbolize a barricade or maybe even a new pathway to a new beginning. ... With the feelings that Peal portrays, we are involved in an "inner experience" within ourselves; this concept was explained by Fromm as how we feel about that symbol (Fromm 125). ... Peal is much more a symbol than a character and her...

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The more "traditional perspectives on culture" has been espoused by many thinkers throughout the centuries. ... But the above perspective is currently thought of by many scholars as a "class-based" or elitist view of culture. ... Second, communication is a process, that is, it is ever-changing and it never stops. ... Since we use symbols to communicate, then the outcome of any given communication can also be ambiguous, tentative, or simply unpredictable. ... This means that a communication can result in a mutual understanding of something among the communicants; or the communication may end...

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Thought out our lives we often think of the past and what life was like, and without a time machine we would never know for sure what it was like for our own. But through the power of photography we can for a moment feel what it would be like, using our imagination we can trip out of reality and into the past by trying to put ourselves in the shoes of so many before us that have lived through the ups and downs of this country. ... What Adams did was give the viewer change to imagine the experience of life in a location and period of time even if the photos involve very bland and boring places ...

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Taken yet another step further, Medusa can be seen or thought of as the ultimate truth of reality, a holistic existence that transcends duality. ... Examples could be those that concerning the relationship of humanity with nature, the divine, and even in terms of other human beings. ... As a result, the symbols through which they appear change. ... It is important because it is what has shaped the world of the 21st century in which we live. ... Such a recognition of change base on the norms of the society and the time period in which the story of Medusa is considered serves as the foundation...

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