Culture CULTURE What is culture? Culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, and works of art, rituals, and ceremonies, among other elements. The existence and use of culture depends upon ability possessed by humans alone. This ability has been...
This is perhaps best summarized by the words of Arthur, a Buddhist character in her book, A Word Child, who theorises "I don't think we all exist that much I mean one's mind is just an accidental jumble of stuff. ... John Shotter (in Eakin, in Schacter and Scary, 2000: 290), psychologist, explains this notion of selfhood, "Central is the apparently self-evident experience that one's own self (one's "I," or ego, or whatever else it may be called) exists somewhere "inside" one, as something unique and distinct from all else that there is - and it is that, its substantial ex...
The removal of the mechanicals resulted in a plot line that involved Puck turning herself (the role was cast against the gender norm) into an ass who is sleeping with Titania, the wife of her boss (Oberon). ... Ironically, I was able to manufacture the presumable reaction from Shakespeare's audience to the original text, which was risque in its time, through radically altering it to meet with the expectations of contemporary young adults, for whom the plot as written comes across as extremely tame. ...
