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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...

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...

American Popular Foods History

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

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 Teenage Magazine

the Freebie Issue! although there are not exactly freebies, it is a drawing readers must sign up for each day. The overwhelming ...

Popular Culture and Childrearing Advice

small child and does not occur spontaneously with children until they make the cognitive leap, around age three, that an object ca...

Popular vs. Scholarly Resources

This essay offers a comparison between a popular article on account management versus a scholarly article on the same topic. This ...

Popular Culture and Patriarchy

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Fiske: Popular Culture Is "A Site Of Struggle"

Jerry Springer is to corrupt the fragile balance that already exists between and among families and friends, all in the name of en...

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...

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...

Three Popular American Novels

law to help people, deep down they knew they just wanted to make a lot of money. He is a man who sees that his life is going wron...

Popular Culture Q and A

is my favorite cultural icon. She is very spiritual and does not close doors to anything. While she supports certain individuals w...

Weapon Technology Advances and American Popular Culture 1920 through 1960

to make advances toward the enemy, and the advent of the machine gun in WW I replaced warfare which was fought as cavalry. The o...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

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...

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...

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...

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...