for counting the visitors involves hiring human auditors to stand and manually tally the number of visitors who pass by a certain location. But human-based data collection comes at great expense. Here is a low-cost microcontroller based visitor counter that can be used to know the number of persons at a place. All the components required are readily available in the market and the circuit is easy to build .Two IR transmitter-receiver pairs are used at the passage: one pair comprising IR transmitter
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“By 1980s‚ Hip Hop had become an influential culture throughout United States. Hip Hop artists became signs of the popular culture after releasing successful songs‚ appearing in several televisions and radio shows‚ and winning awards. The main artists in this period included Tupac Shakur‚ Ice Cube‚ Tung Twista‚ Quincy Jones‚ Ice-T‚ and Snoop Dogg‚” (Persaud‚ 631). “During this period‚ Hip Hop experienced censorship after realize of a song that was seen by the FBI to causes violence and disrespect
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Shakespeare in Popular Culture Shakespeare was an English playwright who lived in the Elizabethan times and wrote many plays that many people enjoyed. Shakespeare wrote many plays‚ some of which are still very popular today. Screenwriters even based some of their movies and musical storylines on s Shakespeare’s plays. Some songwriters have also based their songs on Shakespeare’s plays or made music specifically for his plays. Shakespeare has written many plays and few are still popular to this day
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great book bonfires of my Christian youth! That’s when books had some power! When they had to be burned like witches.” In all its ambiguity‚ transgressive fiction is a genre of selective taste. This sub genre within the world of contemporary popular fiction was first identified or rather labelled in 1993 by the critic Michael Silverblatt2‚ in an essay in the Los Angeles Times. He defined it thus: “A literary genre that graphically explores such topics as incest and other aberrant sexual practices
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Individual Paper How Network novel affecting Chinese popular culture? Instructor: Dr. Tong Wing-sze Fung Lok Yee (12655171) Associate Degree Year 1 Content 1 Introduction P.2 2 What is network novel? 3.1 Definition of network novel P.2 3.2 The situation of network novel in China P.2 3.3 Popular network novel genera in China
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During an interview with the Los Angeles Free Press in 1965‚ Bob Dylan said‚ “All I can do is be me‚ whoever that is‚” (Dylan) which perfectly describes the sentiment you get from his works. During his music career‚ he has changed many aspects of his image‚ music style and religion‚ going so far as to legally change his name from Robert Zimmerman to Bob Dylan. Living during a very fast changing society‚ his works reflect on the Civil Rights movement and other historically significant events. He is
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Hip Hop Culture began in the South Bronx‚ New York in the late 1970’s. In the beginning‚ Hip Hop music was the artistic expression of the black teenagers living in the South Bronx or inner city. Back then‚ the genre has been considered representative of the voice of the black community. Over a short amount of time‚ Hip Hop music has become an industry‚ and a major influence on mainstream culture in the United States. Commercialism dilutes its messages so that the genre no longer truly represents
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Australia)‚ is focused on news consumption. It aims to detect whether television news remains at the top of the news hierarchy among different countries‚ seeking to identify differences in news consumption among different countries with different media cultures and‚ consequently‚ different media behaviour‚ as well as to reveal differences of news media use between older and younger generations. Introduction The history of audience research suggests‚ as Sonia Livingstone has noted‚ that “relations
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Review Questions 1. What is popular music? Popular music is any music since the mid-1800s that is popular with the preferences of anyone from a teen to a mid-aged adult. 2. What theme does pop music typically use in the lyrics? Describe one pop song that uses this theme. Why is this theme such a popular one? Pop music typically uses the theme of love and relationships in the lyrics. One pop song that uses this theme is the song “Marry Me” by Jason Derulo. Some of the lyrics are “…And if I
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1. Introduction Popular Holdings is a Singapore-based company that is listed on the Singapore Exchange. Popular is best known for its chain of Popular Bookstores under the Retail and Distribution unit. The Group currently carries out its publishing activities through subsidiaries operating in countries such as Singapore‚ Malaysia‚ Hong Kong‚ Macau‚ Taiwan and Canada. Its bookstore operations have a network of over 90 Popular Bookstores and 360 Popular managed bookstores with its core businesses
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