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Popular Editorials and the Rhetoric That Drives Them

Post highlights what is ostensibly a growing problem in the United States: the rising prevalence of childhood obesity. In the firs...

Popular Transitions in American Culture

as a society allowing these changes to occur. In this day of liberalism, this day of where every problem is believed to be best a...

How the Popular Game of Basketball Evolves as an International Sport

controlled, Naismith decided that teammates would move the ball by either passing it or bouncing it on the floor, but was uncertai...

The Transistor Conversation in Scholarly and Popular Media

the widespread interconnectivity in technology that has slowly developed over the first decade of the 21st century marks the begin...

Popular Culture and Patriarchy

The Opinions of Laura Mulvey Laura Mulvey uses psychoanalytic theory to explore cinema in her article entitled "Visual Pleasure ...

Popular American Culture and Recent Trends

the tip of the iceberg. Aaron Gross (1996) asks: "Should the state be required to support as well as legally grant rights and priv...

Advertising and Popular Culture

goes on to say that "the argument here is that advertising, while sharing many attributes with popular culture, is a categorically...

Popular Culture, Cinematic Violence, and Media Literacy

to the family, children, political leadership, and sexuality" (Wee, 2006, p. 50). Links have been discovered between these violen...

Pop Art: Art and Popular Culture

includes paintings," which contrasts sharply with the fact that considerable critical "attention has been given to popular music a...

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

Popular Culture and Electronic Media

brought the outside world in, thus ultimately changing how people felt about their world and how people saw their world. As radi...

Use of Metaphor in Popular Songs

but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thi...

3 Issues Regarding Popular Culture and the Media

basis for women to be perceived within the myriad literary components, the feminist critical theory serves to create a semblance o...

Popular Music and the Effects of Technology

to downplay the drawbacks and imperfections of the recording medium. Naturally, this fact influenced what music was selected for r...

Interaction Between Humans and Machines in Popular Films

longer inhabitable for the decent. The psychological perspective of Blade Runner addresses virtually every fear that humanity cou...

Advertising and Senior Citizen Treatment by Popular Culture

"Demographers predict that the numbers of elderly people will double in the next 30 years" (pp. 3). As the population of America ...

Popular Culture Violence, Superficiality, and Obscenity

it is directed. In this "information age" of the 21st century, the manipulation of information, regardless of how it is presented...

Moscow's 1980 Olympic Games and Russia's Popular Culture

towards the attack, the United States Olympic team boycotted the event. "In 1980 it was a symbolic stand, backed up with all sort...

Popular Culture and American Pop Art

to define its own unique identity was by emphasizing its strengths as a highly industrialized capitalist society. An artistic mov...

American Popular Foods History

substances regarded as nutriments, its status as a foodstuff is somewhat ambiguous (2002). Water has actually been considered bo...

Popular Culture and Postmodernism

the nineteenth century, or so, the art world seemed to go into a slump. Quite like writers block, this slump saw a lull in the art...

Emily Dickinson, Popular Music, and Death Fascination

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

Popular Music, Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity

way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...

Jenkins' and Massumi's Look at Popular Culture

let the media do what it wants. Another question looms large. How does politics invade the culture? It seems that today, politics ...

Society, Weight, and Popular Culture

and 1990s, "the percentage of Americans suffering from an eating disorder has doubled, according to the U.S. Public Health Service...

Popular Culture and the Influence of TV News

scientists, parents and educators are becoming more and more concerned about the influence television has on the lives of American...

Scholarship (True Historical Analysis) And Contemporary Entertainment (Popular Culture): Erroneousness And Embellishment

the directors chose to employ properties of historical revisionism speaks to the inherent influence the concept of truth versus fi...

Popular Culture: Forging a Distinctive Identity

Each of these distinctive elements of society sprang from the pressing need to forge a distinctive self identity. Each was fed by...

Similarities between Classical and Popular Music

works (Kaptainis, 2002). "A paint-by-numbers Mona Lisa is not to be confused with what is hanging in the Louvre" (Kaptainis, 2002,...

Popular Culture and its Effects

effort to the point where one can hardly find a flag in a store anywhere. George Lipsitz states that "For all of their triviality ...