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Who Framed Culture? © 2020  To put  the posited question Who Framed Culture? © 2020  succinctly let’s not conflate the issue but rather put things into perspective by establishing context, Cultures constantly change as people move and communicate with new groups of people suggest that Anthropologist have their work cut because their  role is studying human beings and how they relate to each other....

Wendell Johnson has asserted that “When we “abstract,” we select small portions of reality to attend to and leave out the rest. William Anderson  Gittens Author, Cinematographer,Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’  Editor-in-Chief  Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing®2015 License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, Student of Film, CEO Devgro Media Arts Services®2015 Alfred Sohn-Rethel,...

“Sometimes one man gives the tone to a whole century,” it was not merely of his mathematics that he was thinking. It was the system and philosophy that Descartes derived from the application of mathematical reasoning to the mysteries of the world.a view espoused by  Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, a French author who wrote of Descartes, William Anderson Gittens Author, Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Medi...

Myths And Culture © 2020 VOL.1 PODCAST ISBN 978-976-96512-3-4 Since our perceptions at times may focus on Myths and Mythology which are just the same. But in the strictest sense, they really aren’t. I am not conflating the two issues but rather trying to make sense of the role of Myths without taking literally their references to gods, monsters, or the supernatural especially its place in Culture...

When The Sun Meets Culture © 2020 PodcastISBN978-976-96512-2-7  During my academic tenure at New Jersey State University I was exposed to theory and practical of analysis of film a wide, shot, very wide shot, extreme wide shot, established shot, master shot and  closeup a student of film and a cinematographer as Media Arts Major.  The aforesaid description can be characterized as a testimony which...

ABSTRACT Language Is  Culture© 2020VOL.1ISBN 978-976-96512-1-0 PodcastJust as music is a bridge that spans the gap between cultures and languages; a means of finding compatibility within a society, a link with other societies; the common human denominator and all cultures have it and share it. Likewise language is culture and culture is language is not only a theoretical expression but is often me...

WhetherCulture & Science  Are Inextricably Linked© 2020 is not the issue to be deconstructed but analysing the intellectual abstract many of the cultural traditions have scientific underpinningsthrough my lens as an Author, Media Arts Specialist and Cultural Practitioner William Anderson   Gittens Author, Cinematographer,Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’  Editor-in-Chief License C...

ISBN  978-976-96294-9-3 PODCAST THE HUMANITY OF CULTURE © 2020 VOL.1 Although “Who holds your history?”  is a theoretical question yet it requires global citizens activating their conscience, emotions, heart, mind, soul, and spirit through The Humanity of Culture lens. Humanity of Culture epitomizes people because they are inextricably linked operating within every geographical space. The Humanity...

Plausibly context and culture are interconnected to a certain degree. For example context and culture may influence each other. This line of reasoning imputes that context matters. However expressing the context at the beginning minimizes confusion. William Anderson   Gittens Author, Cinematographer,Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’  Editor-in-Chief License Cultural Practitioner, Publ...

This rhetorical question Why do we even have silent letters? was  intended as a challenge but at the same time intended to start a discourse as  a Cultural Practitioner metaphorically using my cultural lens of putting across my opinion on The Silent Letter In Culture© 2020 like Elizabeth Nelson Support the show Cultural Factors Influence Academic Achievements© 2024 ISBN978-976-97385-7-7  A_MEMOIR_...

Ostensibly,Silence is the absence of ambient audible sound, the emission of sounds of such low intensity that they do not draw attention to themselves, or the state of having ceased to produce sounds; this latter sense can be extended to apply to the cessation or absence of any form of communication, whether through speech or other medium. Professor Margaret Montoya purports that silence has many...

There is no qualifying format or  timetable to prepare for 24 hours condensed into 15 minutes however as a Media Arts Specialist and Podcaster practitioner since I use colours on a daily basis to communicate executing this initiative as a Author,Student of Film,  and License Cultural Practitioner  allows me to  ensue the theoretical abstract  Mise en scène as the underpinning. iMovie and Devgro Me...

Exponentially, there is a school of thought  that imputes  that within any Cultural environment as a culture evolves, new places, situations, and objects inevitably enter its language, whether or not the culture encounters different people.  Further to the same after a word enters a language, its meaning can change as through a shift in the valence of its connotations.   This hybridization thesis...

At the outset as a Media Arts and Podcaster practitioner I use colours on a daily basis to communicate. What captivated my attention about colours is its starkness and beauty that constitute any environment and beyond.  For example, when I look through the window in my study I am in awe at the fact the array and how the varying hues, tones, and shades of colours that affect, comport and compliment...

There is this belief that people are made up of conscience, emotions, heart, mind, soul, and spirit, according to Craig von Buseck As a Media Arts Specialist License Cultural Practitioner Buseck’s expression activated my intellect to the extent I became very enthralled with the quintessential question “Is There Anything New Under The Sun?”  This admission I suppose like anything else creates space...

My penchant for being an Author, License Cultural Practitioner and Publisher have to do with the fact that I am at my natural best because I have embraced and understand the construct human behaviour and that culture is no longer fixed, if it ever was. It is essentially fluid and constantly in motion." This makes it so that it is difficult to define any culture in only one way.. Therefore My...

It is reported that today about 7 billion people live on Earth, and no two of them alike.. Global citizens can be small and large and in many colours. We wear different clothes and have different ideas of beauty is also part of culture. WORKS CITED Bolander, Thomas (2013). "Self-Reference". The Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 21 June 2016. Chang, Bok-Myung (2010)...

The natural world is a subtle balance of complex inter-relationships in which the existence of organisms are dependent on the existence of others within ecosystems.  E.O. WILSON said “I believe Nature & Culture will be remembered in history as one of the few organizations who did the right thing, on the right scale, in the right place, and in time.“, WILSON’s ideology can be predicated on the...

Author, and Instructional Technology Practitioner Robert Heinich, has argued that ““Learning is the development of new knowledge skills, or attitudes as an individual interact with information and the environment hence this statement imputes emphasizing the physical methods such as media, and technology”  especially for the children and the teacher in this postmodern cultural globalized space. The...

 What Is The Colour of Culture is not only a cultural cliche but a conversation used as a pretext to discourse how global citizens affect the temperature of culture and are also transported metaphorically to a specific cultural space. Colour, language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts are used by global citizens, as a prism through which to see the worldand hence affect the tempera...

As an Author, Media Arts Specialist, a Publisher and a Stu- dent of film; I enjoy analyzing modern technologies especially when they interphase with cultural tools- to the re-enactment of cultural history- which is perceived as a way of life- in the area of Footprints since they are the impressions or images left behind by a person walking or running.  Hoofprints and pawprints are those left by an...

This theoretical conversation is an E-publication and not encyclopaedic but framed in ISBN978-976-96294-0-0 titled Social Psychology of Culture in 20 chapters and 385 pages. Historically, and metaphorically, although the links of culture and psychology from antiquity to the present time the roots of interest in culture are traced to the social practices of travel—exploration, trade, conquest, and...

When I first heard the  theoretical construct a sanctuary it conjured peace, heaven, tranquil, ther·a·peu·tic  at one..however, after I had researched the word I discovered  a sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine. By the use of such places as a haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. This secondary use can be categorized into hum...

Hypothesizing Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general.  Andrea Borghini has espoused the view that Nature and culture are often seen as opposite ideas—what belongs to nature cannot be the result of human intervention and, on the other hand, cultural devel...

PODCAST MY COMMENTARY ON CULTURE © 2020  ISBN978-1-64945-806-3   In  every global citizen there's an innate sense of humanity that each of us possesses that ability to express our  opinions purely by the virtue of being human. Therefore it is logical and reasonable to expect humans to participate in dialogue by interacting in groups, concerning issues surrounding the cultural, political, reli...