Why Do Fashion Trends Change But Repeat Themselves? In today’s society‚ we have a general tendency to follow fashion that have been imparted on us especially by the media‚ but it is like we are repeating a cycle even though fashion trends change quite often they tend to recycle couple years later so why do we keep up? Fashion generally refers to popular style or practice especially in dress or behavior. Fashion trends are known as a “fad” or a craze just for a certain amount of time until something
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Curtis Markosky English 15A‚ Section 001 12/9/10 Counterculture Essay: Woodstock‚ 1969 When one thinks of hippie movement of the 1960s‚ a few things come to mind: namely free love‚ drugs‚ and rock-n-roll. These things represented the counterculture of the time‚ in which the youth of the nation we rebelling against the stricter conservative values of their parents’ generation. All this came to a peak for three days in the summer of 1969‚ near the little town of Bethel‚ New York‚ in what was
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THE TYPE OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS: MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock During this semester in Prose class‚ I have learned many kind of short stories by writers of various background. I also learn how to analyze the text critically‚ especially about structuralism and culture studies. There are 8 short stories that I have discussed with the class and written in one-page journal response. First
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organize as a society and allows us to consider one’s self. Another reason that mediums or technology change our culture and world quicker than ever is that content is comparatively slow‚ ideas are slower‚ and technology faster in communicating. To explain‚ ideas and content are like erosion‚ they are powerful and unstoppable but slow. And mediums are earth quakes they are dramatic and reshape the land scape overnight. McLuhan points out‚ “it is only too typical that the “content” of any medium blinds
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In 1971‚ buses full of self professed hippies from San Francisco arrived just outside of an impoverished town in Tennessee. They were led by Stephen Gaskin‚ a former professor at San Francisco State College. In 1968‚ he began a class on psychedelic experiences and world religions called Monday Night Class. Soon‚ this class was attracting over a thousand people a week. In 1970‚ ministers and theologians from the American Academy of Religion attended a Monday Night Class‚ and asked Stephen Gaskin
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into brand names and music that’s on the radio‚" says Susanna Obmann‚ 18. "They’re kind of the ’norm’‚ teenage schoolgoers who are materialistic and major consumers." The Hipster Technology is having a huge effect‚ including spawning a meta-subculture: the Hipster. "People used to form tribes based on proximity but tribes can now be formed on the basis of interests alone‚" says Ashley Chang‚ a 22-year-old editor at pedestrian.tv‚ adding that the young are more chameleon-like than ever. "If
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Subcultures Culture plays a very important role in continuing values and norms of society. We know that people are different each other and our society also offers lots of opportunities for people to be creative. These creative people become a cultural subgroup outside the core of the dominant culture and they are called a subculture. A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates themselves from the larger culture to which they belong. According to the Oxford English Dictionary
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Culture’ it quickly became apparent that she was expressing the view that although there is a rather prominent disdain towards the media from grass-roots cultures and subcultures‚ it is in fact the media that helps develop these subcultures and is very effective in their growth. This is contrary to youth discourses‚ which believe that subcultures “begin as a seed and grow by the force of their own energy” as Thornton puts it. Instead‚ the media is integral to the processes by which‚ in Bordieu’s terms‚ “we
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In St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture‚ Tina Gianoulis wrote “hipsters have espoused tolerance and openness‚ sometimes engaging in bisexual relationships and wearing gender-bending styles” (675). For decades hipsters lived on the edge of society. They see themselves as the superior group in the category of being “cool”. They don’t live out their lives to societies standards‚ nor do they follow the ideals and trends‚ but make their own. There is no concrete version of the hipster‚ just mostly
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the norms and values of mainstream society and instead turn to the norms and values of a delinquent subculture. In this subculture the boys can achieve success because the social group has different norms and values from the rest of society. So in this culture a high value is placed upon criminal acts such as stealing and vandalism which are condemned by mainstream society. In these subcultures the individual who lacked respect in mainstream society can gain it by committing crimes such as vandalism
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