¶ … Visual in Western Thinking and Culture
It is true that, as a society, we tend to focus on the visual in most of our endeavors. One only needs to look at the many aspects of vision that permeate our lives. Aspects of entertainment like movies, magazines, and the electronic media fill our hours with an endless array of visual material to be used and consumed towards different ends. Even in education, a lecture becomes much more interesting if visual images accompany them. Visual images also tend to enhance a text of reading material. Children learn by means of visual images, and this is an aspect they do not seem to lose as they grow up. In most classrooms, visual materials are considered one of the most important aspects of learning.
Hence, the texts offer some interesting analyses of the way in which culture has evolved to become what is referred to as the "visual" culture of today. Most interesting is the way in which vision plays a role in the representation of the "other." When slavery was an accepted part of culture, for example, this was promoted in many ways via images. Propaganda was spread to justify the use of slavery in plantations and to promote the superiority of the white as opposed to other races. The "other" was considered only from the Western viewpoint and sketched as such. This continued even long after the abolishment of slavery and during the segregation eras throughout the world. The oppression of blacks and other races was perpetuated...
Culture pervasiveness and the difficulty of defining it is one of the reasons why it is attributed for many merger failures. The problem considered in this study was the unstable operating environment that existed following the acquisition of INTEC Engineering by Worley Parsons which was likely caused by differences in organizational cultures. WorleyParsons acquired SEA Engineering in 2007 and INTEC Engineering April 2008 and combined these organizations to form INTECSEA.
Vision Statement A Culture of Learning: New Mexico Junior College In modern day America, the focus on being a hard-worker, making a lot of money, and being socially popular are considered essential to achieve a certain standard of political and economic success. Many Americans still hold the concept of being wealthy only in the financial sense; and thus the spiritual element remains withheld entirely from academic, intellectual, or other "mind" pursuits (Elias
Visions of Death as Part of the Life Cycle While the terms "life" and "death" are considered to be polar opposites by most standards, some authors view them as part of the same infinite cycle. For writers like Emily Dickinson and Jean Rhys, death is merely a transitional stage; it is not the end of existence any more than life is the beginning. Evidence of this view of death as a
Vision, Representation and Cinema Discuss the representation of the province in Nuri Bilge Ceylas' Clouds of May in relation to modernity. The film Clouds of May depicts a clash of two worlds: a more traditional world, and the world of modernity. The film reveals the tensions between the old and the new, and also the real and the unreal. It depicts the attempts of an urban filmmaker named Muzaffer to create a
Culture In this briefing new employee human resources, we will be considering cultural management issues in the tourist industry and how they impact upon our business. Our company, Beach Bum Ltd. is a travel consultancy Agency which was recently hired to provide a critical analysis on whether or not sustainable tours can attract American ecological tourists to travel to countries such as Tanzania and Namibia. We are a culturally eclectic group
creative) proved initially quite difficult. However, with vision and perspicuity in an extreme situation of her own, this chief executive was able to turn the fortunes of the firm around. Ogilvy's success today shows that the embracing of change, the only expected constant in business, is key to a successful visionary strategy. In one 2001 interview Beers said, on the subject of advertising, "The whole idea of building a
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