Stella Maris College, Manly â my catholic, all-girls, private school â contributed to many studentsâ identities, including my own. Student identity can be understood as the importance of oneâs self-identity (Bowman & Felix, 2017). High school for many people including myself, was a pivotal point in our lives, during this time you are transforming from a teenager to an adult....
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The term culture, according to Raymond Williams (1983) is one of the most complicated words in the English language (87), despite that he proposes three definitions. In the first one, he implies that culture can be used to refer to a âgeneral process of intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic developmentâ (90). A second usage of the term suggests a particular way...
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Introduction This paper catalogs Michael Jackson's music because he was the greatest pop musician known to humankind. His prowess was attributed to his unique voice, extraordinary dancing, and acting skill, and the way he used his talent to revolutionize the music industry from classic music to little-known pop music. Apart from indicating how great Michael Jackson was, this paper will...
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In recent years, multiculturalism has been a highly controversial topic around the world. According to Chu et al., (2016), multiculturalism is the presence of various cultures, including races and religions, expressed through the thinking process, values, and communication. Most people would agree that Australia is a multicultural country. For me, multicultural Australia is a thriving Australian culture and identity; nonetheless,...
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The color purple and pop culture The Colour Purple is a film that manages to encompass the reciprocity of language, race, gender, and power divisions. The film through its use of black American language produces new narratives, which serve to offer new perspectives and tell the stories of 3 black women, which would otherwise remain unheard. African American women in...
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Essay Question: How do feminist artists/creators challenge, subvert, or resist oppression? Description: For this essay, you will choose an example of a feminist cultural text or set of related texts that you will read through the concepts, arguments, and perspectives of the course to say something about how feminist artists/creators challenge, subvert or resist oppression. Some examples of cultural texts...
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The expression 'popular culture' was issued in the mid-19th century and is interjected into the cultural traditions of the people, in opposition to the 'official culture' of the state or governing powers. In general use today, it is represented in qualitative expressionsâpop culture is frequently analyzed as a further superficial or minor type of creative expression. In today's society, We...
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This question is important because it was raised during the Cold War, a period in history that has been marked for over forty years by intense warfare between the US and the USSR. Pop culture was a major force that arose during this period that influenced all cultures in the middle of this period with superpowers competing for nuclear supremacy....
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The 1980s was the most influential decade in the history of the United States because it changed the course of the U.S. through drugs, culture, and terrorism. To set the scene for the 1980s, the Vietnam War had ended 5 years before 1980, resulting in an American loss. Anti-Communist sentiments were at a high, and the Cold War was at...
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Shiri, the 1999 South Korean action blockbuster changed Asian cinema forever. 20 years ago, when Shiri was released, it outperformed Titanic in South Korean cinemas. This was a big deal as Titanic grossed USD 4,599,796 in Korea. Shiri was an integral part of the success of the Korean cinema wave. Kang Je-Gyu, the director of Shiri, kept the content strictly...
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Audiencesâ multi-role in cultural co-production and its impact on masculinity and feminism in Asian popular culture. What is the role of audience reception in the co-production with blurred boundaries between producers and consumers, does it affect the social condition of femininity and masculinity and what are the consequences? The audience reception can be both producers and consumers. As a producer,...
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In todayâs society, pop culture has heavily influenced the younger generation through mass media. The innumerable amount of ideas that roam throughout the media can easily dominate the lives of younger people who explore it daily. Therefore, the media essentially has complete control over the public. The extent to which pop culture reflects and shapes societyâs values is influenced by...
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Introduction The Beatles, an iconic British band formed in Liverpool in 1960, have left an indelible mark on popular culture that transcends music. Comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, The Beatles revolutionized the music industry and became a symbol of the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. Their influence extends beyond their musical compositions, affecting various aspects...
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Definitions Culture - The qualities, thoughts, expressions, diversions, convictions, customs, and social conduct shared by huge fragments of the general public. Popular culture- (additionally called mass culture and pop culture) is commonly seen by people from an overall population as a great deal of the practices, feelings, and articles that are overarching or inescapable in an overall population at a...
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It is quite obvious in todayâs society that the topic of Zombies is nowhere near a new phenomenon in American pop culture. They have been everywhere in pop culture from romantic comedies and drama films to comic books. They have taken over the video game world with games such as Residential Evil and have even made their way into history...
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Popular culture is the collection of behaviors, values, and artifacts that represent a social system's most commonly associated meanings. It contains, among other items, media objects, entertainment and leisure, fashion and trends, and linguistic conventions. Popular culture is a phenomenon that was initiated through various types of media, such as television shows, technology, magazines, mythology, sports, films, contemporary books paintings,...
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This essay is centered on the idea that pop culture can be a vehicle for social change. He will be discussing this specifically the ongoing struggles surrounding the systemic racism of African Americans. There are two sources I'll be referencing: the first is a video from the 2018 Teen Poetry Slam competition called âLetter to your Flagâ. The second is...
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Pop culture should be studied because it will rejuvenate old culture, keep society up to date, and, overall help individuals find solutions to their daily conflicts. Pop culture has many benefits and should be studied as it can help society and individuals stay educated. Popular culture has been a long-existing concept as old pop culture is now recently brought into...
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Amid transient movements that attempt to define the 21st century, significant pop culture moments can create a lasting impact. âWe Are One (Ole Ola)â, the anthem of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, is eminent to pop culture. This was popular at its time because the message of the song was not representative of the organization that it promoted. Modern-day pop...
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Mary Shelleyâs novel âFrankensteinâ has held much influence in culture throughout its time since its release to culture today. The novel focuses on a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who gives life to his creation out of old body parts. Once Frankenstein discovers this creation is not what he imagined, he, along with mankind, rejects the hideous creature leaving him sad...
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In the popular film, Chungking Express, Faye the antagonist of the film draws a picture of a boarding pass to signify that her crush, a police officer, should visit her in a year. For days, I could not understand why she would have him wait so long, especially if she was so obsessed with being ensconced within his house and...
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The term âArchitectural ethnographyâ consists of two words âarchitecturalâ and âethnographyâ. In the dictionary, the noun âarchitectureâ is defined as âa physical enclosure that protects and supports human life and activitiesâ, while âethnographyâ is about the ârepresentation of a society and culture of a specific ethnic group based on fieldworkâ. Powell further explained âethnographyâ in his article Viewing Places: Students...
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The topic I chose is the athletic clothing brand Adidas. Adidas, the second largest activewear brand in the world, is a multinational corporation brand that designs and manufactures shoes, accessories, and apparel. This brand has been striving to build on a passion for a âsporting look lifestyle and sports.â This brandâs apparel and shoes have always caught my attention with...
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Music has more influence over large groups of people than any other cultural product. With the power to unify, bridge, build, or protest, music can connect large groups of people to transform values, patterns, and habits. With the ability to provide an incredibly comprehensive framework to package and present a viewpoint or an idea, music serves to open up conversations...
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Based on our most recent census, Canada like many other developed nations encompasses an ethnically diverse populace that contains more immigrants than non-immigrants. Canada has offered protection to individuals fleeing persecution, individuals desiring an increased standard of living, and much more. As the Minister of Immigration, my commitment to all Canadians is to provide a smooth integration of immigrants into...
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Interestingly, the narrator highlights the âfragments of otherness in [her] bodyâ and yet chooses to dismiss them through his hunger to find beauty. When he first meets her eyes, he notes that they hold a strange look of greed, amounting to cravingâ within them. According to Carolyn Burdett eyes are âone of the most prominent mystery tropes in Gothic fictionâŚ...
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Introduction Experiencing culture shock is a multifaceted process that is often both intellectually stimulating and emotionally challenging. As defined by Oberg (1960), culture shock is "the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse." This essay delves into my personal experience with culture shock, which unfolded during a semester abroad in Tokyo, Japan. My...
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Abstract Culture shock is âthe impact of traveling from a familiar culture and trying to adjust to an unfamiliar one.â Something I experienced for the first time in my life. Leaving a carefree and independent life in America where everything is done the proper way, to thousands of miles away in India where everything was the complete opposite. The endless...
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America today is omnipresent, but take us back 100 years and you find much more defined straight and narrow socio-cultural boundaries. Those who came to America during the earlier immigration waves were forced to experience a much different reality than they anticipated with the American way of life including different cultural values than the rest of the world like individual...
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The term popular culture refers to practices, beliefs, and objects in a society that represent anything that is considered fashionable, popular, or dominant at any given time (Ashby, 2010). Fiske defines popular culture as âa culture of processes rather than of productsâ. It is the accumulation of cultural products such as music, art, film, literature, dance, cyberculture, television, and radio...
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