Popular Literature Paper Angela XXXX SOC/105 Introduction to Pop Culture January 10‚ 2010 Instructor: Narketta Sparkman Popular Literature Paper The purpose of this paper is to analyze a piece of popular literature including a critique of the story and a commentary about the influence of the work in popular culture. The paper will identify the literary production of The Green Mile written in 1996 by Stephen King. The paper will provide a brief description of what the novel is
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1962)‚ was an American actress and model. Famous for playing "dumb blonde" characters‚ she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s‚ emblematic of the era’s attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade‚ her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962.[1] She continues to be considered a major popular culture icon.[2] Born and raised in Los Angeles‚ Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage and
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In the article‚ “Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music”‚ Simon Frith tries to show the aesthetic value of poplar music in the sociological field‚ while most of the academic musicologists think popular music‚ submitted to social forces‚ is aesthetically worthless. There are two different sociological approaches to judge the value of music. First is technique and technology‚ as Frith states‚ “people produce and consume the music they are capable of producing and consuming.” (Firth 498) But he
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Introduction Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people‚ distinguished by everything from language‚ religion‚ cuisine (food)‚ social habits‚ music and arts. In other words‚ it is defined as the “ the collective programming of the mind of one category of people which is different from other category of people where mind refers to the way of thinking‚ feeling and behaving”. This gives people a sense of who they are‚ their belongings and social behavior. Different anthropologists
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| | Mounting western culture degrading India on the whole. Have you ever seen the pictures of Jatindranath Mukerjee or Chandrasekhar Azad or Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose? Apart from being leading revolutionaries of the Indian freedom struggle‚ these three great personalities had something more in common. Almost in each picture you will find each of them clad in perfect Indian attire or dhoti-kurta. Do you find the same dress among Indians still? Unfortunately‚ it is becoming almost extinct more
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Cultural Shock * Cultural Context * High-Context Culture * Low-Context Culture * Individualism * Collectivism * Masculine * Feminine Why Study Culture? * Globalization * Rise in intercultural Shock * Avoid Culture ShockCultural Contexts * What is cultural Context? * The relative emphasis different cultures place on nonverbal communication * High-Context culture * Low-Context cultureCulture Values * What are culture values? * Four categories of cultural values:
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According to Holden (2002)‚ participative competency is an ability to be involved in and be a part of interaction – even in a nonnative language. Along the same line‚ Fantini (2000) includes the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately without changing the significance of the message as a cross-cultural competency. Koehn and Rosenau‘s (2002) transnational listening requires that native speakers understand non-native speakers‚ even when they do not use the language
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By Frederik Balfour Guanxi. It’s the first word any businessperson learns upon arriving in China. Loosely translated‚ guanxi means "connections" and‚ as any China veteran will tell you‚ it is the key to everything: securing a business license‚ landing a distribution deal‚ even finding that coveted colonial villa in Shanghai. Fortunes have been made and lost based on whether the seeker has good or bad guanxi‚ and in most cases a positive outcome has meant knowing the right government official‚ a relationship
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of people always use five fundamental taste elements when they’re cooking. For Vietnamese people‚ salt is used as the connection between the worlds of the living and the dead. Cooking and eating play an extremely important role in Vietnamese culture. The word ăn (eat) is included in a great number of proverbs and has a large range of semantic extensions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_cuisine#Cultural_importance Vietnamese cuisine is reflective of the Vietnamese lifestyle from the
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teaching‚ we are not only taught the Mother Tongue but also we are taught the culture of that nation. Cultural and language are closely related‚ inseparable. Language is a mean of culture transportation and culture contained in language. It has been said and written that language is the crystallization of national culture‚ through language and texts‚ culture values are handed down. In the future‚ thanks to language‚ culture will have chances to have development. The transformation and development of
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