Korean Popular Music‚ the Culture Industry‚ and National Identity John Lie* In the early 2010’s‚ the expansion of South Korean popular culture around the world is led by popular music‚ usually known as Kpop. In this paper I seek to answer two questions. First‚ what are the sources of its success beyond the South Korean national border? Secondly‚ what does it say about contemporary South Korean society and culture? Key Words: K-pop‚ Korean Wave‚ Hallyu‚ South Korean Popular Culture‚ Popular Music
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AT&T‚ T-Mobile Merger On March 20‚ 2011‚ AT&T announced that it would purchase T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for a staggering $39 billion dollars. The now second largest wireless distributor AT&T would become the largest over its competitor Verizon wireless by acquiring the 30.8 million subscribers that T-Mobile currently holds. This would not be the first time a merger took place between Wireless providers‚ in 2004 Sprint and Nextel merged and in 2009 Alltel merged with Verizon. So it came as
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Interpretations with Shakespearean Drama Assignment Jhakira Leonard 9/2/13 Honors English lll As the director of this precise production‚ my idea and vision for the 21st century version of “The Seven Ages of Man” is to a certain extent‚ altered. There is a merely different scene‚ so I want to set it where it rather emulates the poem. Though it cannot befuddle the audience’s attention away from the speaker and poem. However‚ I do want the scene to be conspicuous and speak for itself. Generally
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English drama script Narrator(N) :Felicia Mr. Adolf() : Tammi Daughter(Mary--D) : Mr Adolf’s Mother(M): Flora Kwong Mrs Adolf (Mrs): Old soldier(John) : Hoyaee Scene 1: Narrator: It’s 1914 in Germany. A war is about to break out in Germany. The Adolf family is having a family meeting about Mr. Adolf is going to join the war due to the mobilization of Germany. Mr. Adolf: Hey. (bitter smile) I have something to tell. Stop playing‚ can all of you
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tears./ Yesterday the world had been crushed into pieces. /Yesterday I had made sure that it wouldn’t come again.” Those words were part of my poetry book from fourth grade. One poem was titled‚ “Bad Guy‚” and I remember it was supposed to follow a rhyme scheme: AABBA. My illustration depicts a frightening one-armed man holding a child’s doll over a roaring campfire. The poem reads‚ “Jayvir is a really bad boy/ He broke all the children’s toys/ He made them cry/ While they were fried/ And that was
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DRAMA WHAT IS DRAMA? Drama is a literary composition to be acted by players on a stage before an audience. Its successful portrayal depends on the cooperation that must exist among writers‚ actors‚ producers and audiences in accepting the limitations and the conventions of the stage. Since the turn of the twentieth century‚ modern drama has become the greatest form of mass entertainment in the western world. Experimentation and innovation are basic to this century’s dramatist. Through movies
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Little Sister-Task 2 Speech for an audition to enter Little Sister Hi‚ I’m Twinkle Star. I’m 21 and from America. I would like to join Little Sister 2013 because i think it would be a good experience for me and i would really entertain the audience. I really like getting in fights with people and annoying them. I think these are ideal qualities in a contestant because it would keep the audience glued to their seats. Also‚ i think I’m good for this show because people love a rebel and someone who
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Q1. Many television genres like crime drama‚ the sitcom and reality shows presuppose tensions and fractions(部分) in ‘normal’(规范的，标准的) social relations. So to win support [i.e. become popular] programmes(节目介绍)are drawn to difficult ideological areas that will then have to be negotiated… Ideology works by masking‚ displacing(顶替，置换的)‚ and naturalizing（自然化） social problems and contradictions. Discuss a show or shows we encountered in class or one that you think are relevant and identify the ways they
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New Jersey v. T.L.O.‚ (1985) is the case that impacted me the most. It is a decision by the US Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of a search of a public high school student after she was caught smoking. A search of her purse revealed drug paraphernalia‚ marijuana‚ and documentation of drug sales. She was charged as a juvenile for the drugs and paraphernalia found in the search. She went against the search‚ claiming it violated her 4th Amendment right against unreasonable searches. The
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Lonnie Williams Professor Schiffler English 1302 November 4‚ 2012 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller uses realism as a prevalent factor that truly defines the drama‚ Death of a Salesman‚ and allows the audience to identify with one or more of the characters in the play; primarily Willy. There are several aspects of the drama that contribute to its likeness to the lives and experiences of the audience. The setting refers to existing physical elements of the modern time‚ along with the verbiage
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