After reading the article “The Right to Vote is Never Safe” by Jon Grinspan‚ published on November 4th‚ 2017 there are several things that can be said. To begin with‚ this article is based on everything that took place not so long ago‚ that people have failed to realize how important it is today. Grinspan practically spoke on all that happened and that took place in order for black men and poor white men to finally vote. Grinspan also mentions the old Protestant elites and how they sought to hold
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Minor Leagues held their first night game in 1930‚ and attendance was up 2000%. When the Major Leagues finally followed suit‚ in 1935‚ attendance was up 117% (History.com Staff). Night games became more and more popular from there. One of the suggested reasons night games were so popular was that because people couldn’t afford to skip a day of work (Vorel). They could‚ however‚ afford to go to one after work‚ “men are not going to quit their tasks during the week to go to ball games‚ for their
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1. Popular music is typically music that is in touch with the middle class originating in the mid-1800’s. 2. Pop music lyrics based on love and relationship. 3. Disco was developed in the 1970s. Disco began outside of mainstream America. Mixing vocals with a beat that encouraged dancing‚ disco became the dance music of the decade. The music often had 100 to 130 beats per minute. 4. In the 1960s Briish bands began to copy American bands particularly in the areas of producing recordings and touring
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Experts have stated that urban legends are an essential part of popular culture because they provide intuitiveness into our fears and aversions. Urban legends exist to give us examples of life lessons‚ conspiracy theories but mostly because they are fun to tell. An urban legend is often a story told by mouth with different variations to entertain a particular crowd. It is almost always impossible to find the original source of the legend since it is passed around from one to another. There is almost
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NSA: National Security or National Stalkers? In 2010‚ it became legal for the National Security Agency (NSA) to access private email logs‚ social media accounts and other internet databases (Risen & Poitras‚ "N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens). Risen and Poitras (2013) explain that the intention of this change was to help protect the United States (U.S.) from future terrorist attacks and was for the general purpose of national safety. It is unclear how many terrorist attacks
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I would personally vote for Hillary Clinton because she is a politician who the Americans can trust with our government. She is the best choice out of the four candidates‚ with the most experience working for American politics. Furthermore‚ the other nominees’ ideas for America and beliefs do not stand up for what I believe in personally. Hillary Clinton is someone who I look up to and would want to vote for‚ as she shares my views on issues such as immigration‚ LGBT rights‚ and debt-free college
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Is the label “national cinema” still a useful one? Critically evaluate the usefulness of the term in relation to at least two films from this course. 1. floating life 2. chunking express 3. my blueberry night Like different countries have different culture‚ customs and give people different feeling‚ as an important part of one’s culture industry‚ movies from different places gives people different sense of feeling. That’s the magic of National cinema. But under the big trend of globalisation
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River Steinberg Fandom in Popular Culture Everyone is a fan of something. Whether it’s a sports team‚ celebrity‚ or television show there is at least one thing that a person enjoys to partake in‚ talk about‚ etc. Yet when does becoming too much of a fan – or a fanatic – become a problem? This question raises concern because recently many different fan bases or fandoms of certain movies‚ books‚ etc. have been criticized over the last decades due to their extreme dedication and obsession. Some people
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What were the most important developments in popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century? and Why? The first half of the 1900s was all about pop culture in the United States and how they advertised it. New cars were sold over the radio in between your favorite Jazz songs. Doing advertisment over new technology about new technology was all of the rage in the late 1900s to the early 1930s. In the 1920s America began to export their media to the rest of the world. Jazz was
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Task 1: Short Written Response “The portrayals of Australia’s national identity presented in the Australia media bear little resemblance to contemporary reality” Is it the beach‚ bush‚ sun‚ thongs‚ or flies and kangaroos that help shape our national identity. It is these images for many years that portray Australia‚ however do they actually summarise Australia’s national identity. Our national identity as Australian’s is not how the media claims it to be and each individual has his or her
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