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Culture of Turkey

In 8 pages this paper on the culture of Turkey includes a discussion of popular music, juvenile crime, and prisons. There are 5 ...

JonBenet Ramsey Murder and its Media Portrayal

In ten pages this paper examines how JonBenet Ramsey's murder was depicted by the media in a discussion of journalistic ethics. N...

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...

1970s' Art and Urban Change Reflections

been seen were though of as to sophisticated and complex, appeal to the elite and to abstract from every day meaning. Two of the m...

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...

The Portrayal of American Conflicts in the Media

is an open book. Throughout the world today, organizations that oppose the U.S. can find almost anything about what the military ...

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...

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...

Analysis of Alan Lightman's “The Diagnosis”

has a serious neurological breakdown of his own. Bill has a sudden and disturbing memory loss - he is unable to remember the name...

Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

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 ...

The Origins of Baseball Terminology

are the batter being on deck or in the hold. The ocean is not the only place that baseball owes its colorful vocabulary to. Appar...

Tutorial on Early Childhood Development and the Influence of Culture

expectations of the milestones of childhood development and achievement as the child matures. The culture into which one is born h...

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 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...

TV Comparisons of Friends and Three's Company

democrat and one-time peanut farmer Jimmy Carter became president, there were significant differences in attitudes among the older...

Pressfield's Gates of Fire

the often did not take part in battles. It was assumed that the homefront was theirs to protect while the men moved forward. As...

Carmen Martin Gaite's The Back Room and Popular Cuture

the narrators apartment and intrude upon her thought processes. She writes that they are "fingered for such a long time, they beco...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Gender and Portrayal by the Media

to see such subjects as homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestitism, and transgenderism. These are concepts that run counter to ou...

Los Angeles and Its Cinematic Images

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...

'War on Drugs' and its Political Benefits

the creation of organizations. NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is perhaps the best known group that...

George W. Bush's Inability to Find WMDs and Portrayal by the Media

certain degree of sympathy with Iraq and its leaders, regardless of how barbarian those leaders have proven themselves time and ti...

Feminist and Marxist Perspectives on Pop Culture

material conditions and may be equated with historical materialism ("Exploration," 1992). They emphasize the economic value of wo...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Popular Culture Defined

reality there is no generally agreed up, all inclusive, definition of popular culture. Any individual who is asked will known that...

Persian Gulf War and Iraqi Portrayal by the Media

were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...

Substance Use and Abuse

The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...

Children's Language Development

This paper reviews and offers conclusions on empirical literature that pertains to young children's language development. Seven pa...

Itah Sadu's “Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room”

will not clean his room, no matter how much he is told to do so. The room gets so out of hand that the two goldfish he owns begin ...