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Western Civilization
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The leading utopian socialists of the 19th century were: Saint-Simon, a French nobleman, who subscribed to the “religion of humanity” philosophy where there is no system of private inheritance and everybody works, believing that every person should be given what is due him.... ... ... Fourier, another Frenchman, believed that economic competition is the source of all evil, work should be voluntary, and everything should be shared by all; Owen drafted the model socialist community where everybody helped in raising children, women had a role in governance, and, sexual freedom for all sexes....
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Examine the arguments for and against international labour standard
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The twentieth century displays a world of diverse art, culture, and music tied together under single umbrella.... The outmost corner of the world is becoming a participant in the global platform.... The.... ... ... Globalization is indeed a race to bottom, where multinational corporations close the plants at home country and open the same in developing countries....
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Brazilian Popular Culture and Religion
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The paper "Brazilian Popular culture and Religion" analyzes traditional aspects of superstitious practices.... Brazilian popular culture was very eminent especially back in the 1960s the emerging middle class and rich youth individuals had a secular culture develop.... The major themes captured by these films as portrayed in the two main settings, rural and urban, are the power in the Brazilian political landscape, religion, and Brazilian popular culture....
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Validity of Hofstede's Work-Related Values within Jordanian Culture
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In the paper "Validity of Hofstede's Work-Related Values within Jordanian culture", an overview of the Qualitative method of research is provided with a description of the sample population and size.... A comprehensive view of the current literature available on national culture and its impact on organizational behavior is included in this chapter.... Various views on dimensions of culture are explored along with Hofstede's model.... A review of his findings on the Arab World with a brief assessment of the literature on Jordan, its culture, and the public and private sectors are included....
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Business Environment
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Same as with personal care products increased awareness of fashion and beauty hasa huge positive effect on sale of personal care products.... In different countries, there is an increasing culture to become more concern about the personal health and skin, and thus the demand of personal care products have increased.... Understanding the culture of the country is critical for any company including Unilever to make its product successful.... he agricultural policy of EU is an elaboration of a set of law, and these laws are regarding imports of agricultural product from foreign countries and domestic culture....
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The Important Aspects of the Australian Culture
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This paper looks at some of the most important aspects of the Australian culture.... the author concludes that Australian geography, history, the culture of the people, and its contribution of its people to important aspects of the world such as cuisines, films, theater, and music are immense .... Whatever makes Australia beautiful, other than its serene flora and a plethora of animal species, is its rich culture.... This paper will be looking at some of the most important aspect of the Australian culture. ...
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Overview of the Identified Chinese Culture
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The paper "Overview of the Identified Chinese culture" describes that the aging population is on the increase in China because of the one-child policy developed by the government.... Chinese culture I.... Overview of the Identified culture A.... Similarly, they have many musical instruments forming art of their culture, and they include xun and guqin (Wang, 2014).... Chinese culture prefers male to female, and this is rooted in their social systems....
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Labeling: Using Class and Race to Understand Dynamics of Crime
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Hispanic and African-american populations.... The Southern side tends to have neighborhoods that are less educated, poorer, and mainly African-american.... the Los Angeles crime family (american Mafia); which latter on declined gradually, giving rise to various Hispanic and Black gangs.... The ‘Bloods and Crips' (both African-american street gangs), trace their origin to South LA; and are a major contributing factor to crime and violence in the city....
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Objectification Of Women In The Music Industry
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In addition, the results showed that the pop culture had more skin exposure by females as compared to the genre of country music.... Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our culture.... In contemporary times, women are objectified in every aspect of a song especially in the genres of hip hop and rap....
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War and Meaninglessness of Life
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This essay describes War and its role in the music culture.... By the course of nature, everyone and everything dies and it would make no more difference whether a person is rich or poor because at whatever state of economy or culture, death occurs and may not be ceased when it is bound to happen.... Both pieces seek to justify that rap culture extends its function to the art of protest in and out of the community within which concerned rap artists are involved in several aspects....
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Graffiti - the Writing on the Wall
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Tristan Manco who has written a number of graffiti books including 'Stencil Graffiti,' says: "Street art is both an expression of our culture and a counterculture in itself.... s early as the 1950s and 1960s, american artists such as Robert Rauschenburg and Andy Warhol had developed new screen-printing techniques and visual ideas, which had a big impact on the art and design world....
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The Value Chain Advantages and Weaknesses Portrayed by GAP
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One of the positive factors that have influenced the company is the ability to manage the competition that it gets from companies such as the american Eagle Outfitters and the Ross Stores.... This is from the fact that unlike many companies that seek to please the customer base by providing the customers with sale discounts and other client based innovations, the company seeks to improve itself in a manner through which the customer is bound to get the effect....
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A Film Producer: Jim Jarmusch
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Jarmusch's meticulously rapid, dry-witted humors were not anymore in trend, having been substituted by a shriller, blazer gesture of contemporary film producers with blatant pop culture awareness (Collins, 1992). ... This made him consider the inclusion of the samurai culture in his recent film (Collins, 1992).... This matched with Jarmusch very well as he was not that interested with the pop culture infatuated society like North America (Suarez, 2007)....
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Bringing Club Nights from Criminal Records Company to the West Midlands in the UK
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lub Nights is a musical product from Criminal Records which is mainly based on the popular culture of ‘Clubbing' but introduces a new aspect of different modern music mainly from unknown underground musicians with extraordinary talent.... The culture of Club Nights has been popular in London for a long time being a large city with countless traditional and contemporary forms of music being performed.... The event is the first strategic move at introduction of this form of entertainment culture in the West Midlands where it is yet to penetrate and open up a market for the company and its artistes....
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Impact of Globalization on Education
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Moreover, the newly acquired western or american culture, as it is popularly referred as, has been interpreted differently, often negatively, by Asian public.... But the sociologist Sklair, though accepts some homogenization of culture across nations but terms it only a temporary effect on account of similar lifestyles, tastes and desires (as cited in Guellin, 2001, p252).... Globalization also has only limited effect on these businesses or the transformation comes slowly according to Whitley (as cited in Yeung, 2000, p 400)....
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Are Canadians Practicing Religion A La Carte
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This is largely because the terrorist attack which occurred on 9/11 was on american soil. ... Canadian culture in general is very guarded. ... he concept of having no attachments resounds with Canadian culture.... uddhist culture strongly believes in self-reliance.... n effect, Canada is more accepting of the Muslim community and all it has to offer....
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Internationalisation and Global Marketing
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came to know that globalisation is having positive as well as negative effect on the local cultures.... Various aspects of the government regulation can have an effect on the business.... This ultimately has an effect on the economy because a high level of the government spending most frequently fuels the economy.... So, it can be understood that political as well as legal factors does not only affect the companies but also have an effect on the nation's economy....
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Iron Bridge Gorge Museum and Black Country Living History Museum
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"Iron Bridge Gorge Museum and Black Country Living History Museum" paper examines these two museums in the context of English history and the effects of the new living history presentations forced by the commoditization of history as these concepts apply to the museums' structure and authenticity....
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Recording Labels and Music Marketing
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Apart from technological advancement, culture remains another important factor in music production.... The stylistically appropriateness and localization of any culture also play a significant role in facilitating music production.... arner Music Group (WMG) is an entertainment conglomerate and at the same time an american global music industry with it's headquarter in New York.... It is an american owned music corporation, which fall among the three largest corporations in the world....
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Vanley Burk and the authentic Birmingham experience
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Apart from that lack of knowledge about the culture and the living of one community can be the other factor of believing in what is... The paper discusses the representation of the African and Caribbean community by various media in the past.... It presents a qualitative analysis of discourse....
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Discourses on Latina femininity
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In the paper “Discourses on Latina femininity” the author analyzes the main precursors of the Latina body in popular film and culture.... Latinas are subjugated by the Western culture and the US dominance in Hollywood and filmmaking industry.... Third, Latinas are subjugated by the Western culture and the US dominance in Hollywood and filmmaking industry.... Once again, due to the economic disparities among Hispanic and non-Hispanic white layers of the american society, there is plenty to talk on the “otherness” of Latina/o people according to the mainstreams cultural and showbiz standards and flows currently accepted in the US....
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Health Conditions in the United States: The Issue of Obesity
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The culture of a nation represents multiple things, which also include their culinary knowledge, eating patterns, type of food, etc.... besity is a major problem confronting two third of the adult american population (Marks, 2004).... american Journal of Epidemiology , 166 (1), 14-16....
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Impact of Media Advertising on Teenagers
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For African-american communities, there seem to be few rules about decency, fair commercial advertising practices, and ethical behavior when it comes to the promotion of certain brands of beverage alcohol.... Although the alcohol industry proclaims it has self-regulation of its advertising practices, such practices are largely ignored when it comes to marketing in African-american communities (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health 1991, 167). ... Alcohol-related diseases such as liver cirrhosis and esophageal cancer are significantly higher among African-american males than among white males, although prevalence data indicate that fewer African-Americans drink than do whites....
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Freedom Writers and the American Education System
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Cinema, Schools, and american culture.... ‘Gangbangs and Drive-bys: Grounded culture and Juvenile Gang Violence'.... The author describes the film Freedom Writers, released in 2007, which illustrates the american school system by being based on a true story, whilst employing a number of stereotypes and Hollywood norms to make the film appeal to the intended audience.... The portrayal of the american school system has been mixed throughout film history, although certain stereotypes are common to all examples....
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Developing a Plan for an Early College High School for African American Males
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This dissertation "Developing a Plan for an Early College High School for African american Males" focuses on gender differences in the ways boys and girls learn, single-sex education and its pros and cons, contributing factors to African american male failure and achievement.... The paper will address the two research questions at the core of planning an early college high school for African american males.... These include first, the determination of authentic learning activities that promote a rigorous high school experience for African american males to yield positive outcomes in high school and college....
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Don't Judge Me by My Tights by Sascha Radetsky
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For example, culture perceived that best women runners could never compete with men because of difference in athletic performance; women have longer lifestyle than men; and men are better in mathematics while women are strong in verbal communication (p.... For a culture that has these perceptions of what is being considered as masculine, it is definitely surprising to see a man doing dancing or ballet which is usually associated with feminine qualities.... Men and women must be treated equal, regardless of culture, to promote an advancing society that is free from prejudices and cultural discrimination. ...
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The Harder They Fall Directed by Mark Robson
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They appreciate american culture that is successful with innovations and is not afraid to change the old.... One of the specific examples of American pop culture is American films, such as The Harder They Fall, directed by Mark Robson and featuring Humphrey Bogart.... As for American pop culture objects, some examples are the Chesterfield cigarettes, the radio, jazz, Dylan Thomas, and William Faulkner.... The close up of Bogart's picture emphasizes the impact of american films on French New Wave....
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Organisational Culture
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This paper is an attempt to explore the concept of organisational culture, more importantly, with the practical example of Semco, a Brazilian success story.... Most of the paper will focus on introducing the company and explaining in culture with different elements of its culture.... Organisational culture is not something which is absolute or definite, but as the interpretivists assert, that things as not as they are but as people want to see them....
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Discuss Malcolm X's historical relevance on the 1960s
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5 Smallwood describes the effects of Malcolm X on american society.... 7 Malcolm gained both believers and critics in his lifetime, especially critics from the government, who became wary of his effect on the black people.... It portrays the life of Malcolm X, his major accomplishments, the probable reasons for his assassination, and his historical relevance in american history.... Malcolm X's Major Accomplishments This section discusses Malcolm's numerous accomplishments as a member of the Nation of Islam and the African american community....
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Analysis of The Hunger Games and White Noise
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This city is known as a centre of Creole culture.... She dedicated her life and work to preserving the Louisiana Creole language and culture (Sybil Kein Collection, 2005).... A lot of Kein's works concern New Orleans, one of the centres of Creole culture (Kennedy, 1998).... his is possible to see that love and devotion to the small mother-city and, therefore, Creole culture, is what unites writers, born in New Orleans.... The saints, the angels, the mermaids, the gun-metal priestess represent various aspects of New Orleans culture' (Hayden, 1984)....
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Postmodernism across Arts, Philosophy, and Architecture
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Postmodernism has led to many changes in the educational priorities with the aim of restoring culture in the society.... For instance, modernists were considering that low culture of inferior to the high culture.... In addition, the ideas of the postmodernist in philosophy as well as the analysis of the societies' culture actually made the critical theory to be of great importance.... In addition, James introduced many people of the american readers to the major figures in the 20th century which were associated with the aspects of structuralism and also post-structuralism. ...
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The Angle Has Fallen: Legacy of a Thug
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To the mainstream media, Gangsta Rap is readily exploited for its commercial value as entertainment or news, but continues to be misused to demonize black males by the patriarchal norms of the culture in which it exists (hooks 1994).... When Michael Eric Dyson, Avalon Professor in the Humanities and African american Studies at the University of Pennsylvania was writing a book on Tupac his colleagues asked, "Why would you waste time and energy writing about this thug"....
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The Effects of Peer to Peer File Sharing on The UK Music
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This essay discusses that the Effects of Peer to Peer File Sharing on The UK Music Industry Quoted among these services include the numerous social networks that allow surfers to share files by passing them from one place to another via the Internet.... ... ... ... This essay analyzes that the music industry and related associations would not be included in these statistics because research work has shown a great dichotomy....
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Work-based report
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This is a work based report for bringing Club Nights from Criminal Records Company to the West Midlands in the UK.... This is a project on which I worked as part of a team during my placement at the company.... .... ... ... Work based project report Project: Introduction of club nights to the West Midlands by Criminal Records Role: Assistant Project Manager 1....
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Tantalizing Tarot and Cute Cartomancy in Japan
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The paper "Tantalizing Tarot and Cute Cartomancy in Japan" is a good example of a literature review on culture.... The paper "Tantalizing Tarot and Cute Cartomancy in Japan" is a good example of a literature review on culture.... In this way, Susan Blakeley Klein's (1991) work offers a window through which many dimensions of the Japanese society and culture may be studied.... Japanese culture has its roots in Shinto-Buddhism and therefore is entwined with the connotations of region-specific aspects of religion as narrated in Buddhist folklores and tales, which depict women as lowly, subject to physical passions of uncontrollable nature, and as almost evil....
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The Value of Art in Education
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These recent developments in american education are currently causing students to lose out on opportunities of obtaining the kind of all-round education that is suitable and necessary for 21st Century life.... The topic of this study is focused on the perceptions of school officials about the value of arts programs in education....
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The Challenge of Intercultural Language Teaching
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earning a second language has it effect on the second country.... Language reflects culture and society (Franz, 2010).... pponents of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis disagree with its theorizer's main hypothesis that one culture is influenced by language (Hickmann 418).... Instead, Speakers of the same languages can have varying culture and hence it becomes complex to verify the impact of language when diversities exist from speaker to speaker within languages....
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Impact of Technology on Language
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(2001) ‘Television and imagination: An investigation of the medium's influence on children's story-making', Media, culture and Society, Vol.... (2003) ‘Computer games as a part of children's culture', Games Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research, Vol.... american Educator, Spring, Retrieved 26 March 2010 from: http: archive.... There has been profound effect of these media on children development.... he other negative effect is laziness....
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Rip Van Winkle and the Other Works in the Folk Tale Tradition
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)Folklore is defined thus: “Folklore (or traditional and popular culture) is the totality of tradition-based creations of a cultural community, expressed by a group or individuals and recognized as reflecting the expectations of a community in so far as they reflect its cultural and social identity; its standards and values are transmitted orally, by imitation or by other means.... There are collections of fairy tales from almost every culture.... Economic progress need not be at the cost of the living culture of the people....
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A Classical Argument on Language
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It is so because the African American speaker publically uses it, and it is also quite familiar within the African american culture the grammar used in AAVE has also been studied and recognized as standard.... When discussing AAVE, much emphasis is placed on how the majority of the African american culture uses this form of speech.... Although both of these forms of speech are expressed accurately within particular groups, AAVE is used within the African american culture, and slang is used within the younger generations nationwide....
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Advertising in Mass Media
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In mass media, this phenomenon ensures that the culture of consumerism is deeply entrenched in the masses.... The most predominant theme echoed in several advertisements throughout the ages is the superiority of capitalism and consumer culture.... onsumer culture has several deficiencies, which create problems that replace the same ones they were meant to create.... In essence, advertisers cleverly juxtapose today's perilous consumer culture against the simpler ways of the past....
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Social Communication through Advertising
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It should be remembered that the proper marketing strategy would give a long term effect on the product itself to modify into a brand.... The properly managed international events have a great effect on the economy of the country.... The festive culture in Britain has evolved gradually with many remarkable cultural festivals.... Most of the advertisements are culture specific.... Perceived value pricing, relationship pricing and behavior modification pricing strategy (Pezzullo & american Bankers Association, 1998)....
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Public Enemy's Can't truss it
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Just like many rap songs in the early ‘90s, this song was composed from sampled tracks.... A good example is Jay-Z on his 2000 track “give it to me” where he gives a rap placement to Motorola, using a line in the lyrics “Motorola, two way page... These tracks were “bicentennial nigger” by....
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International Marketing for Travel and Tourism The 32nd Atlanta Jazz Festival
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azz Festival - Introduction: Renowned as the largest free jazz festival in the country, the Atlanta Jazz Festival is traditionally a Memorial Day Weekend celebration of a true american art form - Jazz.... Atlanta is the most populous city and the capital city of the state of Georgia in the United States of America....
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Cultular Dimensions in Advertising
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One of the assumptions this study made was that individuals in the Hispanic culture would have positive feelings about their own culture and language.... The elderly can also feel a sense of inferiority, as advertisements emphasize youth and youth culture, showing that popularity and fun is associated with youth, not with being a senior citizen.... Advertising changes our culture, and not always for the better.... At the same time, many Hispanics considered themselves both Hispanic and american, and looked favorably upon the lingua franca of the United States, which is English....
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DANCE ANALYSIS
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The current paper will compare ballet and hip hop and will discuss how such combination can create totally new dancing techniques and popular youth culture.... The Hip-Hop Generation: African-american Youth.... It is obvious that both sides have their own reasons and basis for supporting or confronting hip hop and rap....
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Seven Stations of Sufi
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This assignment "Seven Stations of Sufi" seeks to describe the seven stations of the Sufi and explore the tradition of Sufism in the U.... .... by focusing on the teachings, activities and the spread of this tradition.... ... ... ... The tradition of Sufism continues to spread all around the globe even in countries where it is prohibited....
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Structuralist Movement And Lacan`S Role In The Structural Psychoanalysis
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"structures" are built, through which then meaning is produced within a particular person, system, or culture” (Wikipedia) The origin of the Structuralist movement lies in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure concerning the general linguistics, the apellation has come from the works of a French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.... Desire appears through a combination of language, culture and the spaces between people. ... here is thus always a gap between the I of the subject position (into which people are forced by ideology and culture) and the me of the subject who speaks....
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Relationship between Nature and Culture, as well as Civilization
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This essay "Relationship between Nature and culture, as well as Civilization" discusses significant changes in the relationship between nature and culture during the 20th century.... At some point, custom, artifice, and convention have been used to distinguish culture from nature.... Giblett (2011) extrapolates that culture is perceived as an institution belonging to human beings and often the exercise of the will is reflected....
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Correlation between Social Factors and Linguistic Variable
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Language is deeply rooted in culture.... ??Language is culture preserving as well as culture transmitting”.... Every culture has the process of myth creation through language”.... Krishnaswamy et al, 2008 ) The most notable social dialects of american English are ethnic varieties.... In some parts of the country, the speech of African american residents is becoming increasingly distinct from the speech of White residents....
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