Focus your discussion on the following:

• How confident are you that companies today take culture into proper account and balance along with other aspects of productivity? Why?

o What specific instances can you cite from experience and from academic literature? Be sure to include APA-formatted references in your response.

• What can an individual do in any of these areas (music, literature, art, theater, education, or religion) to sustain and grow a healthy and useful culture?

o What reasons do you have for doing anything?

o What is the role of the individual versus the role of government in sustaining and building a healthy and robust culture through the humanities?

o What should be the individual's role in his or her own community and country, and what should the role be in regions outside of the home country?

• What is the role of educational institutions in shaping and encouraging specific cultural and humanities concepts alongside the

emphasis on knowledge and facts?

o Which areas of the humanities should be emphasized? Why?