The Perceived Homophily Measure is an assessment composed of eight questions. The questions are built to determine how similar you perceive someone to be like you‚ either in attitude or in background. For the assessment I had to choose an acquaintance I recently met and had to answer the eight questions to determine my perceived similarity between her and I. My results were thirteen for attitude homophily and fifteen for background homoplily. Four to fourteen indicates that you perceive the person
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Although many events and people have influenced American music throughout the years‚ Motown has been the most influential. Motown is the most significant era in popular music because it completely broke racial barriers and created a style of catchy music that lives on today. Before Motown‚ music was old‚ tired‚ and segregated. Jazz had been popular for so many years‚ it was time for something new and that’s exactly why Berry Gordy began the pop culture sensation that we know as Motown. Before Motown
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Death of a Salesman To state that the playwright by Arthur Miller‚ Death of a Salesman cannot translate or cross cultural and racial boundaries is complete ignorance and goes against what makes this piece of literature a classic. The timelessness and universality of a work of literature is what makes it great and stand the test of time. If Death of a Salesman did not have this “universality‚” this ability to translate to any audience within any time period then it would not be thought of as classic
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Have you ever wondered about the origin of your favorite genre? Believe it or not‚ many categories of music are tied together through past musical influences. These influences helped create the present and future classifications of music. The early electronic age helped new genres of music branch out into new territory. Electronic synthesizer based music has been around since the 1960’s and implemented by signature artists such as the beach boys. Though It wasn’t until the late 1960’s that the
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Music is something we hear everyday. Whether it be from our own phones‚ in our cars‚ or background music we hear everyday. There are songs that defines almost every emotion we have. Music has been around forever‚ each sound and every type intertwine together to influence more and more music. Music has the power to recreate memories and define a generation of kids. Throughout out the years there has been many different types of music. Such as Rap and Hip-Hop‚ Country and one of the most popular Rock
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Hip-hop has been the voice of the African Americans for many generations. Therefore‚ It was African Americans voice back then. it helps African Americans express their struggles and problems . Today hip-hop is all about sex‚money and drugs. In addition This has made the generation today brutal. Furthermore Hip-hop is no longer the voice to help the struggles‚ but the key to problems. Because of hip-hop music today teens education is at state because of how artists make the streets seem like a fine
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Punk Hairstyles Punk hairstyles are in a class of their own. Punk Hairstyles express freedom‚ independence and expression. Basically punk culture is more than hairstyles. Punk culture has to deal with clothing‚ jewelry‚cosmetics and hairstyles as the whole part of punk culture. Punk hairstyles emerged in the 1970’s however it became more popular in the 80’s with the help of MTV and popular band influence. The 80’s punk hairstyle included colored hair‚ spikes‚ infamous mohawk and other unconventional
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Nowadays‚ music is very popular for teen and all ages. Some people like to listen Classic music and other like R&B or hip hop. It depend on their interesting. Even many people like music‚ but it still has advantages and disadvantages also. First of all‚ I would like to talk about the advantages of music. There are many advantages‚ but I’ll tell you more details about that. First point‚ the music can make us feel relieve. Sometimes‚ when you get in the moody. You can take out your mp3 and listen
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In the Robert Glidden article Response to Bennett Reimer’s “Why do Humans Value Music?” Glidden provided a reflective and insightful additions to the value music. The six additional topics aimed to reinforce and add to the reasons humans’ value music. Three particular reflections stood out the most‚ “music expresses out most intense emotions”‚ “outlet for creativity” and the “communal value.” For example‚ playing my tuba allows me to express many different emotions. In fact‚ music often fills
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Highlife is a kind of music that originated in Ghana in the early twentieth century. It is actually melodies and soulful singing. The incorporation of traditional Ghanaian rhythms highlights the basics of highlife music i.e. the balance between traditional and modern styles. The term highlife is actually a general term which refers to a couple of different styles which include Burgher highlife‚ disco highlife‚ and gospel highlife. Among the most popular highlife musicians are Alex Konadu‚ K. Gyasi
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