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    Effects of Popular Music on Memorization Tasks The purpose of this study was to find whether popular music would have a positive or negative effect on memory tasks. There are many different perspectives on how background music and noise affects performance. The current body of research reports mixed results with some studies reporting positive effects and some reporting negative effects of music on performance. Numerous studies have been conducted to test the Mozart effect. The Mozart effect

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    to choose a genre and artist with music that meant something to me and not just go to a random concert that I would only attend for this class and never want to see again. After assuming that we could attend any concert we wanted‚ I chose to attend a G-Eazy concert‚ but after really going through the concertgoing handbook I noticed that it might be a little tough to write about modern music. Nevertheless‚ I think that it would be intresting to write about music that porbably not many people are going

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    of the Popular Culture concepts provide a visual and written description of • commercialisation • commodification • continuity • consumption • change • conflict • ideology • institutional power • values Term Definition ideology The values and beliefs held by a group of people that guide how they act and reflect the desires they have for the culture and structure

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    While it has been some time since I have seen the movie "American Beauty"‚ as I remember it‚ Kevin Spacey portrays Lester as the films main character‚ a middle aged man experiencing a mid-life crisis. After being fired from his job‚ Lester decides to return to his high school career as a burger flipper‚ smoke marijuana‚ lift weights in the garage‚ and try to impress his daughter’s high school friend. During this series of events‚ the other characters in the film go through crises of their own‚ until

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    Hip Hop‚ types of consumption of media popular culture‚ rather than styles of resistance? One problem in analysing a type of youth culture is measuring the extent to witch it is a response to a culture deliberately manufactured for marketing and consumption of cultural products. I would say to some extent all subcultures consume part of popular culture‚ but it does vary from which culture a person is apart of‚ E.G you can look at the Goth type of culture and think it not to be very commercialised

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    Music and its Functions and Roles Music has always been an integral part of human civilization. It is what binds individuals to their culture‚ people to their country. From the majestic stories of India to the concert halls of Vienna to the radio station playing mariachi music here in LA‚ music pervades our lives. Since our beginnings‚ music has accompanied rituals and ceremonies‚ and as time passed‚ began to fill other roles in religion‚ society‚ education‚ and entertainment. Within these different

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    The roles the gods played in the Iliad and Troy The gods were more involved in the Iliad than in the movie Troy. In the Iliad they manipulated people’s emotions‚ the weather‚ the outcomes of battle; they would disguise themselves to trick the characters into the move they wanted them to make‚ physically trip them up to give the opponent a better standing. In the movie the gods had no visible role they were more of a believe system and a thought process

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    American culture includes both conservative and liberal elements‚ scientific and religious competitiveness‚ political structures‚ risk taking and free expression‚ materialist and moral elements. Despite certain consistent ideological principles (e.g. individualism‚ egalitarianism‚ and faith in freedom and democracy)‚ American culture has a variety of expressions due to its geographical scale and demographic diversity. It also includes elements that evolved from Indigenous Americans‚ and other ethnic

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    William Truman March 5th 2014 Timeline Part I Major Event/Epoch in American History Time Period/Date(s) Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History 1) Describe three different American Indian cultures prior to colonization. 1421-1521 1492-1504 1541- 1937 Aztec Indians: They were located in central Mexico and they spoke Nahuati language. In 1520-1521 Small pox hit‚ between 10% and 5o% of population was affected. The government was a system of

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    American Culture American Culture is the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns‚ arts‚ beliefs‚ institutions‚ and all other products of the human worth and thought. In plain English‚ our culture is the great combination of all alien cultures that immigrants bring here that end up being dwindled down and Americanized. It is easy for others to believe that America doesn’t have a culture‚ and they have the idea that we only consist of materialistic things. Our culture isn’t just about

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