A Generation of Acceptance
Homosexuality is accepted, and to a certain extent defended by individuals of my generation, while past generations believe that " 'Someone must not be afriad to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America!...If you and I do not speak up now, this homosex....

A Knights Tale: A Freedom Within
A KNIGHTS TALE: A Freedom Within One might go beyond the realm of reality and visualize or imagine that freedom is a state whereby one is free from the control of fate or of necessity. For the less fanciful: freedom might be conceived as an exemption or release from slavery or imprisonment. Howev....

Advertising information
Advertising For my advertising campaign I have looked into different types of advertising and how it works: There are two types of advertising direct response advertising and brand advertising. Understanding the distinction between the two will immediately save you a fortune. Brand advertis....

American fine Arts
American Fine Arts 1945-1970 By: Anonymous PREFACE: Art during the mid-twentieth century contained some of the most important changes art history. These explosive times were counter-balanced with explosive popular culture. More historical events, abrupt changes, and turbulence occurred from th....

An investigation into the representations of ethnicity in the animation film genre, with particular reference to Disneys Mulan and Pocah
..ontas' One of the challenges facing any investigation into ethnicity is that there appears to be no agreed consensus on defining what constitutes an ethnic group. For example, ethnicity could be identified in terms of religion, national and geographical origin, skin colour ....

Breaking Cultural Barriers
Breaking Cultural Barriers Pack your bags, hop on a plane, and fly to your destination of choice-simple as that. Thanks to increasing technological advances and world globalization, we truly live in a small world after all. The rapid spread of globalization, the interlocking of peoples and natio....

breaking cultural barriers
Breaking Cultural Barriers Pack your bags, hop on a plane, and fly to your destination of choice-simple as that. Thanks to increasing technological advances and world globalization, we truly live in a small world after all. The rapid spread of globalization, the interlocking of peoples and natio....

britney spears advertising
Advertising Is an integral part of popular culture the question of just how influential advertising is in constructing representations of men and women is one that must be considered particularly in regards to the way advertisers can influence young women. This can be explored by looking at a new fr....

Camparing the artists Robert Longo and Man Ray
The artists Robert Longo and Man Ray have vastly different ambitions in the presentation and purpose of their work but also have several similarities, such as the use of photography and interest in making art that was less focused on the figure and more on abstract symbols. Robert Longo's works i....

Censorship
Censorship Censorship in the arts has increased in recent years, meaning things are getting censored that do not necessarily need to be. Movies, art, music, television, and literature are getting unjustly censored. This is un-American. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution sta....

Childhood Obesity, Who's fault is it?
Why Child Obesity is a Sociological Problem My hypothesis has gradually changed as I learned exactly what was meant by a sociological problem. There have been plenty of discussions as to the fact that child obesity is a problem, the causes, and possible solutions, but it wasnt until recent....

Comparing 'Out Out' And 'Funeral Blues'
Leonardo Da Vinci once said, Our life is made by the death of others. This has been conveyed on many types of literature but especially in poems. I have been given two poems to compare and contrast which are based on the subject of death. One is Out, Out by Robert Frost and the other poem ha....

Comparison of the Movie Crash and August Wilson's Fences
Throughout many works of literature, and film, one of the most popular themes that directors, writers want to portray is discrimination. This theme is popular because in society, no matter what acts are taken to terminate this hatred, and mistreatment toward each other, that same history....

Cultural globalisation
1) Introduction to Cultural Globalization Cultural globalization refers in essence to the growth in international exchange of cultural goods, services and practices since the 1970s. This is the best definition agreed on by our group, but by no means the exact definition since there are as many defi....

Cultural Industries
The development of cultural industries in the modern world The reason why I have chosen this theme is the fact that, to my mind, when discussing the issue of the media system, cultural industries have a great influence on what mass-media are today. This is because mass-media seem to have become t....

Cyber Bullying
As a year 12 student i wish to debunk the insulting but increasingly common notion that were aren't discerning enough to decide who is dangerous in cyberspace and who isnt. This misconception is evident in the fact that more and more schools are filtering or even blocking our access and encouraging ....

Dancer's old shoes
My sleep is restless, troubled by dreams of movement; not allowing me to keep my mind still. The television program I just watched showed hundreds, all willing and eager to move as I move, obviously some better than others, but still I have my place among them. The life of a dancer is tough; as Agne....

david beckham
What was David Beckham's claim to fame in the U.S. before Bend It Like Beckham became a hit on this side of the pond? Probably that he was married to a Spice Girl. But since the debut of the movie with his name in the title, millions here in the colonies have gained an appreciation for his eno....

Deconstructing the American Dream
DECONSTRUCTING THE AMERICAN DREAM THE AMERICAN DREAM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE The American Dream is one of a self-made man and promising prosperity and happiness to anyone who works hard. Originally relating to the desire for spiritual and material improvement, the American Dream also relates to t....

Demonization of Arabs in the Media
There is no doubt of an existing symbolic relationship between media and the portrayal of Arabs, particularly as seen in news media. U.S. Media has often projected individuals of Arab descent in a negative manner, being murderous terrorists that should be punished to no end. Newspapers use key word....

describe poular culture at the beggining of the 1960s
Describe popular culture at the beginning of the 1960s By the end of the 1950s the economic hardship left by the Second World War was beginning to fade. The post-war years were more of a struggle than most people had anticipated. Many things took very long to go back normal, rationing ....

Developing a global dimension in the school curriculum
Introduction Global issues are part of young peoples live in a way that they never were for previous generations. Television, the internet, international sport and increased opportunities for travel, all bring the wider world into everyones daily life. Society toady is enhanced by peoples....

does rap influence the way that teen girls dress?
Does Rap Music Influence the Way That Teen Girls Dress? Rap music originated in the 1970s in the Bronx of New York City. Rap was a way for talented teenagers with a wide range of imagination, and no money to spend, to express themselves through rhymes, given a beat. Rap soon began to grow in ....

Eiffel Tower: The Eighth Wonder
Throughout history, many engineers have designed and built many different structures with such architectural genius and large-scale innovation that people have looked on them with wonder. For millennia, people have been trying to decide what structures should be on a list of the seven most impress....

Elvis trailer trash or southern blues artist?
Elvis trailer trash or southern blues artist? Music is all about your roots. Its where you came from that makes your music. The Beatles wouldnt of been the Beatles if they where Canadian. So why would you think Elvis to be anything other then a southern rock legend. You can take Elvis out ....

Ethnic Notions by Marlon Riggs: Film Response
The 1987 film documentary Ethnic Notions directed by Marlon Riggs, identifies the evolution of African American cultural depictions through ethnic stereotypes and caricatures in American culture. I feel Ethnic Notions exposes the roots of false generalization from the beginning and presents a ser....

Feelings into Words by Seamus Heaney and The Duende by Federico Lorca critical essay
This essay is about these poems, the poems do not appear here. Essay on: Poems and poets are informed by ideas and ideals about poetry, about the relationship between art and life, about inspiration, the sources and the shaping forces of poetry. Read Seamus Heaneys Feelings into Words and....

Females Image in Popular Culture
As a result of the development of the mass media, such as newspapers, televisions, radios, the female have gradually got involved into the social life on a full scale, the female themselves have increasingly become an important component of popular culture and also the embodiments of the public in....

Film and communication
Motion Pictures and Communication A historical overview of the development of motion pictures as a medium for communication Beau Sorg Jaime Garza Elizabeth Jones -INTRODUCTION TO THE MOTION PICTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE- Nineteenth century inventors provided the impetus to....

Gaia Mother of All
Oh Goddess, Source of Gods and Mortals, All-Fertile, All-Destroying Gaia, Mother of All, Who brings forth the bounteous fruits and flowers, All variety, Maiden who anchors the eternal world in our own, Immortal, Blessed, crowned with every grace, Deep bosomed Earth, sweet plains and fields frag....

Global Climate Fight in Canada
The fight against global climate change has seized the center stage of the political discourse of many a nation. The importance of maintaining a close tab on the environmental ramifications of the activities required to sustain our modes of existence has been weaved in the very fabric of responsible....

Global Dreams - Book Report
GLOBAL DREAMS: IMPERIAL CORPORATIONS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER - Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh The new century is challenged by four realities: the increasing development of cities; the international migration of people, resulting in a more culturally diverse world; the internationalization ....

Global Wine Wars: New World Challenges Old
The art of wine making and viticulture have been present in the world for thousands of years. In the beginning of wine production countries produced a sufficient amount of wine for their local communities because travel and shipment of wine was very difficult. This meant that vineyards were very s....

Gospel Music
Slavery was an important issue facing Churches, as slaves were allowed to meet for Christian services. Some Christian ministers, such as J. D. Long, wrote against slavery. Rural slaves used to stay after the regular worship services, in churches or in plantation praise houses, for singing an....

Greeks and Hebrews
Outline the contributions of the Hebrew and Greek societies to the development of a western worldview. Western civilization has been greatly influenced by many ideas. Two peoples in particular the Hebrews and Greeks contributed greatly to the development of a western worldview. The Hebrews we....

Handmaids Tale Oral
Handmaids Tale Oral _____________________________________________ The Regean era of the 1980s heralded a political swing to right wing conservative values; as they railed to reinforce the maternal role of women, in which they were expected to uphold traditional beliefs. As a coalition of con....

High School History or Stab At Ethnicity?
The United States is a country where all are welcome and very few are turned away. Each year since this beautiful country has been established, more and more people have traveled from all over the world to live in a country that offers unlimited freedom and provides equal rights to all. Due to th....

Homosexuality - an accepting generation
A Generation of Acceptance Homosexuality is accepted, and to a certain extent defended by individuals of my generation, while past generations believe that " 'Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America!...If you and I do no....

illuminati
What is the Illuminati? Is the Illuminati even real? I had never heard of it until my junior year of high school. One of my teachers mentioned the word in class. She associated it with some of my favorite celebrities, so I immediately began questioning. Although what I heard about these music ar....

Is graffiti art a direct result of post war advertising?
ABSTRACT In a cultural landscape of hyper reality, branded lifestyles and 15-minute fame, one's subconscious receives thousands of advertisements a day. It is through this daily diet of propaganda that we shape our minds as we grow up. The desire we feel to make a mark on this world leads us to exc....

John Milton - Paradise Lost
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away John Milton wrote Paradise Lost a long, long time ago. In doing so, he wrote his lifes masterpiece, a reinterpreted version of a story considered to be one of the most important ever related; a story that was, even in the 1660s, very, very old. He fit this story ....

King Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun was the 12th Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1334-1323 BC and lived in 1341 BC - 1323 BC, during the period known as the New Kingdom. His original name, Tutankhaten, meant "Living Image of Aten", while Tutankhamun meant "Living Image of Amun". Tutankhamun began ....

Liebeck vs. McDonalds Corporation
In early February 1992, Mrs. Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old grandmother from Albuquerque, New Mexico, stopped by a McDonalds drive-thru to purchase a warm cup of coffee for herself and a chicken biscuit with hash browns for her grandson, who was the driver of the vehicle. After being handed the bis....

Men and women writers of the Romantic period
Love. It seems to have an infinite number of forms. One loves his or her mother and father; one loves his or her soul mate and spouse (not implying that these are necessarily one in the same); one loves oneself; one loves his or her object of addiction. Love is a psychological gamesometimes exc....

Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus, Aren't they?
If John Gray is to be believed a reader can forget everything they might have ever learnt about creationism or Darwinism and accept the fact that the reason why the earth is populated by men and women. Back in time, Venetians and Martians met, fell in love and decided to find a mutual planet o....

Misunderstanding Electronic Messages
E-mail, including text messaging, has become one of the most popular forms of communication in our time. It has become so popular, in fact, that some would question how we as a society survived before it. The electronic messages that follow are actual messages that we exchanged between July 11, 2007....

MTV the 80s
On August 1 1981 was one of the biggest music stories of the 1980s actually involving a television network was a particular cable channel named, MTV (which stands for Music Television) went on the air in 1981. The cable channel soon made the music video an essential element of selling a hit song. Al....

New Literacy in the Primary Classroom
New Times Changing views of Literacy Culturally we are going through a transformation. Since the introduction of electronic technology, our world of 'text' has changed dramatically. We no longer have to put pen to paper in order to produce a literacy event, we can now e-mail or text, and no ....

No Longer a Game
Sports in America have evolved to the point where they are no longer considered just a game. For all ages playing sports in a competitive environment includes a magnitude of other factors than playing the game. Athletes and teams across the country have become enormous figures in our culture that ha....

Norway: The Vikings and Norse Paganism
The Vikings, though brutal were an intelligent and resourceful group. They made the first boats, created sturdy buildings, and had a strong religion. Many say the Vikings were only barbaric, and their name, meaning 'pirates', supports that. Even so, the Vikings will always be one of the stronger or....

pop art
(Beginning in 1956 in England, early 1960's USA) Pop Art has started in England in late 50's and grown in United States in early 60's. Among the Pop Art forerunners are two unique models - prototypes of the modern artists: the French artist Marcel Duchamp and the German Kurt Schwitters. Duchamp'....

popular culture (magazines)
POPULAR CULTURE TERM PAPER Introduction In my project, I would like to examine two of the most popular magazines in Turkey, namely Alem and Haftasonu. I am going to compare and contrast the two; in terms of their focus groups, that is what kind of personalities dominate the news in the ma....

Popular Versions of masculinities and femininities
Gender is a learned social construct concerned with not what one is but what one does. It is determined by the acceptance of normative conceptions of attitudes and activities appropriate for the performance of ones sex category. The formation and learning of gender begins in the home, and contin....

Postmodernism and Pastic Surgery
Postmodernism began around 1939 and is still present to this day (Beers and Odell 792). It was the next movement after Modernism. They share some similarities, such as that they both accept that there are no guidelines or rules for life, and they were both very open in their writing. Some of the....

quantum physics
The beginning of the twentieth century brought about great advancements in science and technology. One of its leading and most controversial was Werner Heisenberg. Even in his early twenties, he was apart of the gifted, young men who created quantum mechanics and the basic physics of the atom. He....

Reality Television and Popular Culture
REALITY TELEVISION Reality television reflects the current morality of society, whilst having the purpose to be truthful, provide entertainment and even to create debate. I agree that reality television affects popular culture, whether by reinforcing it or challenging it. This essay aims to di....

Relationship between the palaces and religion in Minoan society
The Palaces of Minoan Crete reflects the architectural ability of the Minoans and helps archaeologists acknowledge, discover and learn about the society and culture, economic stability, warfare, religious practices and leisure activities of Minoan Crete. It is through the evidence found that scholar....

Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein Pop art emerged in England around the mid 1950s, and soon after in America. It continued to develop in both countries through the 1960s. The pop artists of this movement shared an interest in popular culture. They borrowed images and objects from everyday life including the ....

Seinfeld Vs. Arrested Developement
Comparison and Contrast Situational comedies are a lost art form in our modern age of television. Recent classics such as Seinfeld, King of Queens, and Arrested Development have been gone for quite some time and the lack of quality comedic programming in their place is noticeable. It seems th....

Sexual Activity
During adolescence, youth are experiencing physical growth and hormone changes that prompt sexual feelings. Physically, the body is developing the capacity to generate life. The sex organs are maturing and typically by the end of puberty, both males and females have the ability to procreate. So who�....

Shakespeare's Tempest in contrast with Albee's Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Broken communications that is the inability to cross boundaries defines these plays precisely. How far do you agree? Compare and contrast your two plays in such a way as to explore in detail your response to this assertion. In both plays alike the idea of broken communications is a ruling is....

Shakespeares sonnets
Introduction Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 poems that deal with such themes as love, beauty, and mortality. The Sonnets were written over a number of years, possibly beginning in the early 1590s. In a Shakesperean sonnet, poets often divide its 14 lines into 3 quatrains, followed....

Should Multiculturalism Permeate the Curriculum
Multicultural education is not a new idea or fad that is going to be forgotten. Multicultural education evolved from the civil rights movement of the 1960s and was rooted in people who challenged discriminatory practices in public institutions during this time. An institution that was specifical....

sing shout and tell it
Gospel Tell it! Sing it! Shout it! The word Gospel is an elision of 'God' and 'spel' (The old English for story). The genre is distinguished primarily by spontaneity and informality, qualities which, while sometimes arousing suspicion or unease, have been present since the very beginnings of....

Susan Sontag, Hilton Kramer, KitschCamp
Susan Sontags' Notes on Camp was written in 1970 to define the term 'Camp' as it relates to art. She was the first writer to set out definitive parameters of what Camp art is and the sensibilities that can be associated with it. Her style of writing is that of jottings, which is states are more appr....

Sut Jhally, Dreamworlds Analysis
In this updated version of 1991s DreamWorlds, Sut Jhally critically examines MTV, the music industry, and music video representations of women and their sexuality. His primary argument is that these representations are predictable and limited and that they negatively affect mens understand....

Tattoos and Mainstream Culture
Tattoos and Mainstream Culture Many people have been getting tattoos lately. People of all ages have been getting them and from all different backgrounds. On a nice day in just about any public place one can spot a tattoo about every five minutes, from the business man who had a portrait of hi....

Techniques used in Reality TV in Australia
Techniques used in Reality TV in Australia Untasteful, feral, depraved viewing; Euphemism for palpable voyeurism; Is spelling the end of decent, moral society - Slagging out reality TV from a high culture standpoint is as easy as taking candy from a blind, paralysed, limbless baby. Reality TV is a ....

The Distortion of African Americans Talked About in Ethnic Notions
According to Ethnic Notions, racial caricatures and stereotypes were created to rationalize the domination, violence, and enslavement that American Popular Culture had over the African American people. Racial Characters such as the Sambo, Zip Coon, Mammy, and Brute formed throughout ....

The Interpretation of Horror Fiction
Fear is one of the oldest emotions known to man, and it is the strongest. The fear of the unknown keeps many up at night to wonder what lurks outside their window. Horror, as defined by Webster, is a painful intense fear of the unknown. The genre of horror has been a part of American popular cul....

The Mafia
The word "mafia" is taken from the old Sicilian adjective mafiusu, which has its roots in the Arabic mahjas, meaning "sanctuary". Roughly translated, it means "swagger", but can also be translated as "boldness, bravado". In reference to a man, mafiusu in 19th-century Sicily was ambiguous, signifying....

the murder of thomas beckett
The Murder of Thomas Becket, 1170 A sword's crushing blow extinguished the life of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, on a cold December evening as he struggled on the steps of his altar. The brutal event sent a tremor through Medieval Europe. Public opinion of the time and subsequent....

The Rise of Rap
Believe it or not, Rap has been around for over twenty-three years. In fact the first ever rap music to be pressed on vinyl was Rappers Delight, by the Sugarhill Gang in the late 1970s. (www.b-boys.com/hiphoptimeline.html, page 5) Since then Rap has evolved from a fad to a street party.....

The Wonder of Love and the Realization of Death
Are self-created values worth rejecting popular cultural mores? According to Morrie Schwartz the answer was obvious. He based his whole being according to his own self-created values. In Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lesson, Mitch Albom explains how his former c....

total quality management
A POSTMODERN DECONSTRUCTION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM) ABSTRACT This paper offers a postmodern, deconstructive analysis of Total Quality Management (TQM) theory and practice. Problematizing TQM, we....

Transformation - Emma to Clueless
Emma/ Clueless Model Essay It has been stated that In the process of transforming older texts into contemporary situations, composers are more concerned with entertaining the masses than making a serious comment on society. However, whoever said this clearly had not encountered Clueless, Amy ....

U.S. Policy Toward a Nuclear North Korea
U.S. Policy Toward a Nuclear North Korea Current U.S. policy toward North Korea is one of political alienation and economic sanctions, coupled with harsh rhetoric and military intimidation. But has this policy worked? Monti Narayan Datta Issue #67, April 2004 ________________________....

vietnam anti-war protester
Along with the Civil Rights campaigns of the 1960s, one of the most divisive forces in twentieth-century U.S. history. The antiwar movement actually consisted of a number of independent interests, often only vaguely allied and contesting each other on many issues, united only in opposition to the Vi....

Voices of Awareness: Hip-Hop Cultures of France and America
Voices of Awareness: Hip-Hop Cultures of France and America Katrina L. Poston University of Phoenix, Arlington Campus SOC105/Introduction to Popular American Culture Jennifer Irving, MA April 4, 2006 Hip-Hop Cultures of France and America Globalization plays an important part in connecting s....

We Need Censorship
It won't kill us to make limits, but it might if we don't. That is why it is JUSTIFIABLE to limit adult's freedom of expression--it is in our, society's, best interests to protect the children. Lional Tate is just one example of a child gone bad because of the media. Tate mimicked his idol the Rock,....

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