ACS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Relativism, General Idea

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 100
• Professor: Dana Osborne

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Ideas that shape the world introduction september 6, 2017: narrative, discourse. Canadian mounties vs atomic invaders (1953: cold-war era film that uses the image of the gritty, independent mountie to fight off. Soviet spies who want to set up bases in canada to attack the us: true is tradition of the mounties, he fights with grim determination against the sinister forces of evil! . Narratives are always shifting: national narratives and preoccupations are very rarely stable and are constantly changing (typically on a theme) they will necessarily shift and change depending on the preoccupations of society at a given time. 49: adams argues for a general trend in indicating cultural divergence between. Factors of divergence: religion, up until the 1950s, canadians polled as more conventionally religions than. Americans: the opposite is true now, particularly with the rise of evangelism in the american. Bible belt: relation to traditional systems of authority/patriarchal authority, ie.