That opportunity involved confronting culture shock, an owner's whims and an intensely competitive locker room.
Indeed, this is perhaps the most important question ever to confront culture in the broadest sense – for let us make no mistake: the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.
From a recent starred review in Publishers Weekly: In his first work of long-form nonfiction in over 20 years, celebrated novelist Ghosh Floodd of Fire) addresses "perhaps the most important question ever to confront culture": how can writers, scholars, and policy makers combat the collective inability to grasp the dangers of today's climate crisis?
Star Trek was a humane, liberal show, dealing with social and ethical issues as the USS Enterprise voyaged through space confronting different cultures and the moral conundrums they presented.
Against this backdrop, Grisham continues the rich literary tradition of Southern authors confronting a culture of white supremacy and its offspring: corruption, violence and a general cultural miasma.
There are fighters out there confronting the culture of lies and alternative facts; telling the truth and reporting violations of vital principles and values, just like Martin Luther King and other leaders of the civil rights movement did in the 1960's.
A band of brave souls is launching a magazine (Outcast) this week, directly confronting the culture of the 'gay ghetto' and calling on the community to start looking out, rather than in.
"Many, including clean athletes and whistleblowers, have demonstrated courage and strength in confronting a culture of state-supported doping and corruption within Russia," USADA chief Travis Tygart said.
When girls are young, they are developing not only their interests, but their confidence and competence in areas where they may not have role models, and at the same time they're confronting a culture sending them conflicting messages about what girls can do," she said.
Due to unprecedented migration, physicians are often confronted with cultures other than their own that adhere to different pdigms.
