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Popular Religion Conceptually Defined

In five pages this paper conceptually defines what is meant by popular religion in an historical overview of ancient Greece and We...

Popular Music and Mariah Carey's Influence

father (Dougherty 8). Carey relates that she has always loved to sing and gives a great deal of credit to her mother...

Beyond Popular Cloning Myths

(Cullis 145). That is to say that the clone is an exact duplicate -- all the way down to the unique DNA molecules -- of the plant...

Void of Popular Culture

In seven pages this paper discusses how popular culture's void is being unsatisfactorily filled by video games and other types of ...

Why Alfred Hitchcock is Not Dead Contrary to Popular Belief

In five pages the influence of this director in terms of imitation and teasing is considered. There are five bibliographic source...

American Popular Culture and Gender Roles

In five pages this paper discusses how gender roles are created by and are reflected in advertising, popular culture, and educatio...

Popular Culture and Sound Synthesizers

In six pages this paper discusses the historical impact of electronic music on popular culture. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Popular Culture and Rap Music

In ten pages this paper discusses the sociocultural impact of rap music in a consideration of the genre's history and development....

Popular Recreational Activity Known as Swimming

In five pages swimming is examined in an overview of its history, techniques, and rules regarding Olympic competition. Six source...

Asia and American Popular Culture

Buddha would slowly give way to American capitalism, as pop culture stretched "from Singapore to Seoul, Bangkok to Bombay" (Smith ...

Popular Fiction and Classical Literature

This paper analyzes what defines popular fiction and a classic literary work in an assessment of Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rosen...

Popular Culture and Mass Media

In eight pages this paper examines how mass media affects social perceptions regarding products, politics, and people. Five sourc...

Popular Press and 'Selling Science'

In four pages this paper discusses public relations, technology and scientific reporting, and the ethics of 'selling science.' Th...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

Popular Culture Defined

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

Simon During's The Global Popular and the Pleasures of Viewers

climactic as an invading force, but may take place in the acculturation of one culture from another. Even today many of the Wester...

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 ...

Popular News Commentary and Statistics

middle class is actually doing pretty good and that the increase in alarming statistics is due to the continuing wave of low-inco...

"Flags Of Our Fathers" - A Photograph's Ability To Shape Popular Perception Of An Event

film" (Johnson, 2006). The events leading up to the celebrated were no more monumental to the overall atmosphere than most any o...

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,...

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...

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...

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...