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America's Cultural Capital — A Center report that calls upon the President and the Congress to create new focal points for cultural issues.
Forum on Freedom and Diversity of Expression — Moderated by James Fitzpatrick with participants Ben Wattenberg, host of PBS's "Think Tank"; John Romano, writer and producer of NBC's "Third Watch" and others.
Copyright as Cultural Policy — Written as an executive summary of the book by Dr. Michael Shapiro. Part of the Art, Culture and the National Agenda series.
From the Information Economy to the Creative Economy: Moving Culture to the Center of International Public Policy — An essay by Shalini Venturelli. Offers a fresh, comprehensive perspective on contemporary cultural issues.
Which of the following writers has written on contemporary cultural issues？
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Father's Stroke Leaves Loving Son Feeling Guilty
Dear Harlan,
My father recently had a stroke. When I heard the news, I went to see him and my family right away. I live in California, and they live in Canada. lie is recovering slowly. My mom is with him at the hospital every day making sure that he is getting the therapy and help when he needs. But she is having a hard time emotionally and financially. It's like a nightmare that won't end.
I have a good job here in a band that relies on me. I don't have the money to keep flying there, and my job won't permit me to take more than two days off a week. I feel like quitting everything and being with him and my Mom. I am newly married, which makes the situation hard.
Should I move back home？
Struggling
Dear Struggling,
Listen, you're not being fair to yourself. If you move, you're going to feel guilty because you've abandoned your band, your job and uprooted your new spouse (and both of your lives). If you don't move back home, you're going to feel guilty because you're not there to help. Either way, you're bound to feel guilty. At least live where you can be happy and guilty.
When you cut through all the emotions, your life is not in Canada. Your mom is at home for your dad. Be there to support her (and him) by calling and visiting as much as possible. Make sure your mom knows that you're trying to balance it all and help. Guide her toward emotional support. If necessary, take a part-time job on days off to help pay for more visits home. Just avoid abandoning your life, hopes and dreams. No parent would want that.
Harlan
What is the advice that Harlan has given to the man called Struggling？
In explaining which following reason, does the author seem to assert that your high school
A Cross-cultural Phenomenon
There appears to be a great variation as to the treatment that older adults receive, ranging from extreme reverence and respect to abandonment and deprivation with a broad range of studies dealing with perceptions of old age. Most investigators report findings which support the view that attitudes toward the elderly were most favorable in primitive societies and decrease with increasing modernization to the point of generally negative view in industrialized Western nations. In other words, the more "civilized" the society is, the more likely they are to be ageist and maintain negative attitudes about the aged. Some examples may be helpful.
Men in the Middle East view old age as life's summit. Older men are viewed as having attained high status and prestige. In fact, the word "sheik" originally meant "old man". No mention is, however, made of women's status in old age in the Middle East. Women's status and power does increase in many cultures following menopause. It is stated that the old widow has great power in the Japanese family. Women in many small-scale traditional societies also enjoy an increase in status. Post-menopausal women in these societies usually experience greater sexual freedom, the right to participate in ritual, the right to participate in the political realm of the society, and a decrease in the amount of work required in the home. With regard to work, the older woman is expected to be leisured.
The cross-cultural differences in attitudes towards the aged may in part be due to different societal perspectives. Three of the factors hypothesized to contribute to the development of ageism are of relevance here. First, death is not viewed in Western society as a natural part of the life cycle. Those societies, which view life and death as a continuous process, exhibit fewer ageist attitudes. For example, fewer ageist attitudes are exhibited in Japan and the Middle East. Second, older individuals are viewed as productive in many small-scale traditional societies. In fact, they are often the power brokers within those societies. This can be compared with Western society where older adults are thought of as unproductive and therefore, negatively. Last, not all societies are youth oriented. Therefore, a higher value is placed on the later stages of adulthood.
What does the author mean by cross-cultural phenomenon concerning people's attitudes toward ageism？
From childhood to old age, we all use language as a means of broadening our knowledge of ourselves and the world about us. When humans first【C1】______ they were like newborn children, unable to use this 【C2】______ tool. Yet once language developed, the possibilities for human kinds' future 【C3】______ and culture growth increased.
Many linguists believe that evolution is 【C4】______ for our ability to produce and use language. They 【C5】______ that our highly evolved brain provides us 【C6】______ innate language ability not found in lower 【C7】______ . Proponents of this innateness theory say that our 【C8】______ for language is inborn, but that language itself develops gradually, 【C9】______ a function of the growth of the brain during childhood. Therefore there are critical 【C10】______ times for language development.
Current 【C11】______ of innateness theory are mixed, however, evidence supporting the existence of some innate abilities is undeniable. 【C12】______ more and more schools arc discovering that foreign languages are best taught in 【C13】______ grades. Young children often can learn several languages by being 【C14】______ to them, while adults have a much harder time learning another language once the 【C15】______ of their first language have been firmly fixed.
【C16】______ some aspects of language are undeniably innate, language does not develop automatically in a vacuum. Children who have been 【C17】______ from other human beings do not possess language. This demonstrates that 【C18】______ with other human beings unnecessary for proper language developments. Some linguists believe that this is even more basic to human language 【C19】______ than any innate capacities. These theories view language as imitative, learned behavior. 【C20】______ , children learn language from their parents by imitating them. Parents gradually shape their child's language skills by positively reinforcing precise imitations and negatively reinforcing imprecise ones.
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