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Discuss an example of technology shaping the creation or experience of music.
Technology has shaped the creation and experience of music throughout time, even prior to the discovery and manipulation of electricity. Every musical instrument can techni Continue Reading...
Perhaps there is something deeper to Twilight than anyone is willing to admit. So, then, we must ask ourselves: What are these films about? Is there not something revealing even about the reflections seen in popular culture? Cannot pop culture, ther Continue Reading...
In Taiwanese culture, gifts are not opened in the presence of the giver, unlike western culture (Lifestyle pp). However, both cultures observe the custom of standing when a guest, senior colleague or elder enters a room (Lifestyle pp). Polite dinner Continue Reading...
Introduction
While Nixon may not represent or symbolize the height of the Cold War, he does represent an era in American history plagued by government corruption and large-scale public dissatisfaction with the government in general. Nixon came to pow Continue Reading...
In the same manner, the importance of apology is similarly tied to humility and the capacity of humbling yourself. This is also one of the reasons an apology generally comes together with a deep bow in which the person recognizes his or her mistake Continue Reading...
Gayatri Gopinath, associate professor of women and gender studies at the University of California at Davis, says that many of these young Asian-Americans who join artistic subcultures are individuals who cross over from one country to another in ad Continue Reading...
Membership in an exclusive, elite privileged club of those who own "the best" -- something that not just anyone can have. To wear Nike Air Jordans was to reify a sacred experience. It was a vehicle to feeling as if one were the hero figure, Michael Continue Reading...
In addition, both governments and churches began to grow suspicious of the group, probably because of the "organization's secrecy and liberal religious beliefs" (Watson, 2009). As a result, Portugal and France banned Freemasonry; in fact, it was a c Continue Reading...
M*a*S*H
The TV series M*A*S*H holds a special place in the history of American popular culture. M*A*S*H ran for eleven seasons beginning in the autumn of 1972 with a total of two hundred and fifty-one episodes, and the series finale of M*A*S*H in 19 Continue Reading...
While women in Japan share the same legal rights as men, they're still largely subdued by a patriarchal society, not unlike the United States. In conclusion, no singular analysis will provide the understanding and knowledge gained from a multi-facet Continue Reading...
Cultural Blending That Occurred When the British Colonized India
Throughout the course of history, the British were known as the world's conquerors. This is because they established a series of colonies around the globe that supported the nation and Continue Reading...
Kusanagi Satoshi states that the so called 'anime' phenomenon did not, in fact, rise up all of a sudden within the past few years; in fact, it has been slowly developing over a longer period of time, perhaps from the 1960's onwards. This was the tim Continue Reading...
Starbucks Balanced Scorecard
Increase diversity and international scope of operations
Measure: Number of international stores opened
Target: Increase Starbucks' presence in the developing world in high-profit areas such as China and India
Action: Continue Reading...
Malaysia
Where in the World is Malaysia?
Does anyone really know where Malaysia is, or is it just a semi-fictional location for tropical diseases to originate in Hollywood plots? Actually, many students study Malaysia and understand the importance Continue Reading...
Video Games -- Artistic Medium
Our media-rich environment, in which digital technologies are proliferating faster than our cultural, legal, or educational institutions can keep up with them ... addresses our culture's contradictory imperatives for i Continue Reading...
Strategic Thinking
The author of this report is asked to answer several questions relating to globalization, strategic thinking and brand identity. The first part of the paper will focus on the first two questions which both relate to brand visibili Continue Reading...
Rubik's cube has been around for roughly two generations and it continues to fascinate. This report will focus on the different facets and historical facts surrounding the cube and what has happened with the Cube over the years. The depth and breadth Continue Reading...
Improvements in communication technology have caused major differences in American society but such improvements have also served to expand the number of individuals that are affected by American society. Through new communication technology the brea Continue Reading...
One can actually feel a sentiment of nostalgia as he or she goes through Tarantino's movies, since his films appear to be done in accordance with some of the earliest movies in the history of film-making, the only difference being that the director Continue Reading...
Soon the war effort worked its way into popular culture, just as the green movement it doing today.
The key to a good media campaign is to use respected figures to promote the cause. Green is a rapidly growing phenomenon that has been dubbed "green Continue Reading...
The mechanics of language creation are of course just as important as the language created in terms of defining cultural space and determining where one can or would want to fit into a larger, very diverse yet constantly changing society and cultur Continue Reading...
Portrayal of Women in Music, Tv, Film, Advertising, & Other Media Since 1990
This essay addresses how the portrayal of women has changed in one segment of the media (music, tv, film, advertising) from the early 1990's when the book Where the Gir Continue Reading...
role did graphic designing play in the 1960s in popular culture?
The ability to transfer an idea, concept, theme, or notion from the abstract depths of one's mind onto the rich whiteness of a canvas is indeed, a unique one. It is a gift that one is Continue Reading...
Embedded Communication in Advertising
"There is no evidence that advertising can get people to do things contrary to their self-interest." -- JIB Fowles, in Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals
"Good advertising does not just circulate information. Continue Reading...
A number of modifications have occurred within the area of arts instruction, leading to a redesigning of the whole curriculum. A few transformations involve modern trends like literacy training via art, worldwide popular culture, 21st-century abiliti Continue Reading...
Chippewas of Rama First Nation
Chippewas
Author's note with contact information and more details on collegiate affiliation, etc.
This paper will study the Chippewa people of Rama First Nation. The paper will provide a larger context within North Continue Reading...
Pictures on the news of American flags being burned seem to appear more often than they used to. Perhaps my generation just isn't used to having our nation criticized to the extent that it has been since our response to September 11; we all know ther Continue Reading...
.. [of] her father, a gunsmith, she writes...'All he ever cared about were guns. All I ever cared about was art'" (Martin 2000). Vowell's anti-gun politics and assassination fascination thus may have a personal dimension -- in the act of remembering Continue Reading...
Taoism is one of the great philosophical systems and religions which has come from ancient China, debuting fully in the 4th century B.C. Taoism can be difficult or controversial to define because so much of Taoism has an elusive, adaptable quality to Continue Reading...
These tools have revolutionized not only the economics of the world, but also world politics and social affairs. Thus, the United States certainly became the leading economic power in the United States during the twentieth century. it's trade, multi Continue Reading...
Star Trek, Pop Culture, the 1960s, and Trump PoliticsIntroductionThe art of popular culture often reflects and represents truths, ideals, or realities of specific ages and erasmoments in time that are intensely highlighted and depicted in popular art Continue Reading...
Art History: Post War
The global impact of the Second World War II on the society, politics, culture and technology was reflected how art produced after 1945 was changing in appearance and feeling. The rapid significant changes were a reflection of Continue Reading...
15). Much of his early work was set in Lebanon and other familiar childhood places. His work criticized the monk and their wealth in relation to the impoverished peasant population (McHarek, p. 15). One example of this is in the poem War where anoth Continue Reading...
Of course, Spears is still very young, and may face numerous future changes. However, at this time, she appears to have found some stability.
Cognitive
While Spears spent much of her early life in the public spotlight, it is actually difficult to Continue Reading...
The argument that I have been making is a twofold one. The first branch of this argument is that Pop Art, while it incorporates ordinary images and commercial motifs and tropes just as does commercial design, it does so in different ways and for di Continue Reading...
Society and Culture
The heirloom of the sixties era has been significant and decidedly pivotal for the advancement of culture and society in nations, an aspect that is referred to as civilization. These changes and modifications that the society wen Continue Reading...
Yo! MTV Raps was also a great venue for up and coming rap legends to showcase their work to their world through performances. Audiences around the world were exposed to a new type of raw creativity in rap music, one which took the music industry by Continue Reading...