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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 Electronic Media

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

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 Patriarchy

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

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...

The Body In Consumer Culture: Performing Masculinity

buff model. Indeed, it can easily be argued that while there is some form of embellishment in most advertising, employing bodybui...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

Legacy of Conquest/The American West

the conquest era continue to shape current realities. Limericks text shows that the history of the American West is rooted primari...

Presidential Responses To Domestic Economic Conflicts: Impact Upon Popularity

components to being an effective leader; while Hoover possessed the courage and decency that so expressly demonstrated the lengths...

In Defense of Gaming

the most important issue is "the way youre thinking that matters" (Johnson 40). In other words, Johnson focuses on the fact that ...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...

Steven Johnson/Everything Bad is Good For You

that the judgment of future generations as to what is valuable and what is in error in the past is frequently surprising. In other...

3 Education Research Proposals

policies, implementation and use may occur, impacting different stakeholders. 2. Methodology To assess the way popular media a...

Television Depictions of Gender and Ethnicity in the Workplace

researcher that suggests that these differences relate as much to socioeconomics as they do to biology. She emphasizes that the i...

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

"Fairness" in Pay Inequities

are paid substantially less for comparable work and responsibilities compared to the private sector in the job families analyzed" ...

The Smart Car in the US

market, it many ways it was ahead of its time, however the last few years have been much better, by August 2008 the sales levels w...

Aspects of Hinduism

conclusions based on more recent findings in archaeology, cultural analysis, astronomical references, and literary analysis" (Robi...

Analysis of low and very low calorie diets

For most people who are obese, their condition is long-term and requires a lifetime of attention even after formal weight-loss tre...

Ragtime Music as a Societal Phenomenon

"Youve Been a Good Old Wagon but Youve Done Broke Down" (Ketch, 1993, p. 182). Sensing a popular music form, the New York song pu...

Roberto Benigni's 1998 Film Life is Beautiful

reviewer Thierry Jousse considered the Cannes award "totally disproportioned", arguing that the film in fact was too slight to mer...

Socialization and the Individual

in Western culture. Consider, for example, the games played by rural Indian children and compare them to the games played by rura...

General Psychology Questions

Aristotles views are valuable to modern psychology because they have overcome any attempts at disproval and still stand as viable ...

Music as a Reflection of Society

2008). The fact that controversial songs or literature emerge is something that in fact is not only a reflection of the problems s...

Technology is Not Neutral

think we "fit" the services they offer. While this may be merely annoying when it comes to dealing with the junk mail, both snail ...

Forensic Science in the Twenty-First Century

security surrounding physical evidence is just as important as the security surrounding the criminals themselves from a forensic p...

Considering the Maya

plights of war ... as the common people devoted themselves to the cult of their rain gods and peacefully tilled their fields {milp...

The South Beach Diet

of customary carbohydrates, the body is slowly reintroduced to complex carbohydrates in order to determine how much a particular p...

An Ethical Dilemma

in the firms code of ethics. The student has split loyalties, there is the loyalty that is owed to the manager. The manager is one...

The Non-Neutrality of Technology

comes to dealing with the junk mail, both snail mail and email, that comes pouring into our homes, it is something else when the i...