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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...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

eBay as a Business

people retiring early who need an extra income. The ability to buy and sell goods in eBay gives a high level of flexibility; they ...

Which Have Been More Influential in the West - Japanese Management As A Philosophy Or Set Of Discrete Practices?

Japanese practices, their values and culture in development and the actual practices need to be examined. After this evidence indi...

Popular Culture and Patriarchy

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

Gender in Media - The Effects of Stereotyping

of the most fundamental and basic components of human culture. This is evidenced by the fact that various cultures across the worl...

Detection Software for Trojans

it can be difficult to make this determination. One example of a commonly available Trojan detection software is Lavasofts "Ad 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 Benefits of Running

This slide presentation provides a look at the benefits of this popular sport. There are two sources contained in the bibliography...

Michael Jackson, The King of Pop

of Pop. He wanted the title. There are musicians who are dubbed one thing or another by fans, and then, as in the Michael Jackson...

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...

The Financial Performance of Popular Inc. 2006 to 2010

1893 and is the leading banking institution in Puerto Rico with a wide network of 193 braches as well as 637 automatic teller mach...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

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...

Perceptions and Laws Governing Juvenile Justice

There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...

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 ...

Film and TV Adaptations of King Lear, Hamlet, and Othello

of Hamlets famous soliloquies, except for the ones which heightened dramatic impact, such as "To Be or Not to Be." He shrewdly ch...

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...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

Broadcaster Dave Garroway

In six pages the professional life of the first host of NBC's Today show is chronicled in a discussion of Garroway's popular appea...

Are Corporate CEOs Earning Too Much Money?

between a CEOs pay and the performance of his or her company" (2000, p. 78). The article offered these examples, including that of...

Thematic Comparison of 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Othello'A Comparison of Themes in Othello and Romeo and Juliet

a marvelos contrast in dark and light, which is aptly used in a good deal of his plays. Both in Romeo and Juliet and in Othello, t...

Humorous Essay 'If Something Can Go Wrong, It Will'

a plan; Kate would go into the store, pretend to be shopping, and simply place the doll on the shelf and leave. As Edna argued: ...

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...

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...

Swirszczynska's A Conversation Through the Door

is presumably a nurse, and the nurse arrives at an individuals house at five in the morning: "At five in the morning/ I knock on h...

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...

Fads and Media Influence

Media and Fads As mentioned, the notion that women need to be incredibly skinny is one trend, or fad, that is deeply imbedded in...

Electoral Process Advantages in U.S. Presidential Elections

the Constitution of the United States met in Philadelphia in 1787 for the constitutional convention they had already lived under a...

Imaginations of Emily Starr and Pippi Longstocking

In five pages this paper discusses how crises are surmounted by the imaginations of these popular children's literature heroines. ...