TTP9 Pop Culture as History: The War Comes Home After World War II‚ the United States faced a malevolent philosophical dispute that had spread from within itself. Chapter nine in Thinking Through the Past is titled “Pop Culture as History: The War Comes Home” because it identifies America’s disposition over the subject of communism during the Cold War era. Historian Stephen J. Whitfield writes his secondary source entitled‚ “The Culture of the Cold War” which presents a detailed analysis pertaining
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García-Canclin interrogates how could be possible that popular cultures have been excluded from research on hegemony and state‚ social change‚ and development in a continent in which masses have been decisive in revolutions. Two crisis have lead to study popular cultures: first‚ the crisis of hegemony and the epistemological crisis. “The exhaustion of economistic paradigms that fail to account for the cultural bases of power‚ and the non-economic necessities that mobilize peoples” (p. 467). García-Canclini
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different cultures‚ as am going to compare and contrast the American business culture and the Japanese business culture‚ I will looking in to some of the following factors that makes both these cultures different from each other‚ these includes cultural differences‚ language challenges‚ greetings‚ non-verbal communication‚ attitudes and behaviors‚ customers and etiquette‚ gender roles‚ the nature of authority‚ and humor. Here are the difference between the American business culture and the Japanese business
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Gayathiri Ramasamy 13 July 2013 Analysis of Facebook as a Popular Culture Do you ever imagine one day we encounter the worldwide blackout just like in Revolution‚ an American post apocalyptic science fiction drama? There is no electricity‚ internet or computer. Can you survive without all this equipment? I believe more than fifty percent of people would say no. Especially in this so-called “E-World‚” we‚ humans‚ are too dependent on computers‚ internet and so on. As a regular social
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the same extent‚ women are often considered as being worthless — and inferior to their male counterparts. However‚ this often results in women being degraded in present day society. Today’s popular culture and hip-hop is extremely disrespectful to women‚ not everything — but a vast majority of popular culture and hip-hop is just utterly despicable towards women. Imagine the internal mindset of a woman‚ and how such blatantly hurtful words and gestures can alter a woman’s mindset. The music and
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The term “popular culture” according to scholars‚ like Raymond Williams and John Storey must agree with the qualifier popular. And any culture that is generally accepted among various classes in the society is fit to be called popular. However‚ for a culture to be popular in the twenty first century‚ it should be affordable and should appeal to all classes. In the sense that it influence on them must drive their pleasure towards this particular product or activity. The soap opera Super Story has
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CASE STUDY 2 Hello Kitty and the spread of Nippon Culture. Answers to Questions: 1. Explain the appeal of characters like Hello Kitty to younger consumers in both Asia and the western economies‚ taking note of cultural and group influences. Hello Kitty and her colleagues are ‘soft‚ round‚ toothless‚ clawless and mute’. As such‚ they are helpless‚ inspiring a certain level of protectiveness and affection in youngsters who are replicating the protection and affection given by their parents
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Meritocracy & Popular Culture Alger’s book‚ Ragged Dick‚ tells the story of an ambitious‚ industrious‚ and honest boy who through hard work and some luck climbs the ladder to a better life and a higher social status. According to Alger‚ he does this not by taking advantage of other people‚ but by keeping an eye out for opportunities‚ working hard‚ and improving himself. The picture I chose was drawn by Clay Butler in 1994. It depicts a Frankenstein-like creature standing on top of a pile of dismembered
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(vodavil in Spanish; bodabil is the Filipinized word) soon came to serve as intermission numbers between one-act sarswelas (often billed in threes) or between the three or four acts of a full-length sarswela. They were called stage shows during the Japanese Occupation and‚ much later‚ variety shows. In some provinces the bodabil intermissions were called "jamboree‚" a word that had originally been applied to the opening musical numbers of a stage show. Bodabil eventually
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Canada’s popular culture is a little different than that of the United States. Canada seems to emphasize on nature and the effects of humans in nature. The book defines popular culture as a‚ “reflection of everyday in the lives of ordinary people” (Holman and Thacker‚ p. 125). They also have a theme of death in their stories they tell. When the Canadians tell about nature they always capitalize on the dangers and make it well known that there are many dangers in this world. They also have a survival
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