African American distrust of medicine has consequences for treatment seeking and healthcare behaviour. Much work has been done to examine acute events (eg, Tuskegee Syphilis Study) that have contributed to this phenomenon and a sophisticated bioethics discipline keeps watch on current practices by medicine. But physicians and clinicians are not the only actors in the medical arena, particularly...

I analyze Israel president Rivlin's 2020 speech delivered against the background of ongoing COVID-19 health threats and a severe political crisis, its follow-ups in online news articles ordinary readers' comments on sites Facebook. examine recontextualization practices used this three-part discourse event, shedding light their diversity focusing degree directness they manifest. Recontextualizat...

Abstract Demonization is a widespread aspect of political discourse. We are familiar with the demonization Brussels bureaucrats as tool for pursuing British exit from European Union, and we take stories about compulsory straightening bananas pinch salt, however frustrating it might be that some disaffected voters choose to accept these canards true. But somehow, demonic in Africa have been acco...

Recent work by the evolutionary psychologist Merlin Donald (1991) argues that human cognition has developed across evolutionary time through a series of four distinct stages, each growing out of its predecessor and yielding its own cultural form. They began with episodic (ape-like) memory and passed through mimetic (physical-action-based), mythic (spoken), and theoretical (written) transformati...

Indian mythology and the Vedic image of world built on its basis are exceptional importance for understanding entire Eastern culture. The mythological complex representations is most ancient (researchers attribute formation to III millennium BC) surprisingly persistent. combines features proper religion philosophy; it becomes initial model later religious philosophical doctrines. Recall that wa...

In The Robber Bride and its sequel, “I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth,” Margaret Atwood underscores complex feminine identity through femme fatale, who is depicted using mythic Gothic figures, such as vampire. contradicts socially-sanctioned roles for women. She shapes newer more complete social personal female identities, questioning how inadequately patriarchal system represents the...

This article examines the issues of media representation and cultural distinctiveness within Scotland, one of many national entities currently denied political and cultural expression at the sub–nation state level. Current output of Scotland’s television and film industries is compared with traditional and modern Scottish literature to see which themes and subjects have been preserved, how repr...

Myth can vaguely be said to have come into existence due the urge of seeking answers curious mind about universe, nature, man or result emerged from need for religious stability societal control using certain customs and rituals. when looked with a proper outlook termed as meaningful, it beholds metaphysics, branch philosophy that deals first source things, including intangible concepts such be...