Pop Culture in Academic Classrooms In discussions of the academic classroom‚ one controversial issue has been the incorporation of popular culture in a scholarly style. On the one hand‚ Gerald Graff‚ an English professor who has been teaching for several years at the University of Illinois in Chicago‚ argues that “street smarts‚” which can relate to popular culture‚ have educational value and can help young students show and develop their intellectualism. On the other hand‚ Mark Bauerlein‚ an English
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Contemporary Art Form Paper “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” Edward de Bono In this paper I am going to discuss the relationship I see in the current issue or dilemma and propose solutions. There are many things that I would not agree with or I do not think are right or simply cannot find that some aspects of our creative culture are being supported as they should. The fact that art and cultural institutions or even
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Lindsay Chandler Lkc5074@psu.edu; INART 005 Section 3 If you can’t beat them‚ join them: The Impact of Technology on the Arts Ask a college student if they can remember the last time they attended a live play or musical. Even better‚ ask the student if they have ever watched a live dance performance. It is likely that most of these students have not recently attended a live performance‚ with the exception of the concerts of modern artists. On the other hand‚ ask these students when they last watched
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Contiuum: Reality in the views of Physic and Arts Many things happen spontaneously. Many things exist simultaneously. The law of nature would be a description of what has been maintaining this order. While the truth of reality might never be found via experimental means‚ physicists approach the problem from philosophical standpoints and artists approach through creativity. Einstein in his General and Special Theory of Relativity proposed visualisations to a Minkowskian four-dimensional reality
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communication arts research paper topic: year-round school stance: for Even though some people think that year round school shouldn’t be supported‚ I think that it should be supported because first you would get lots breaks‚ second you would get to do sports for school year-round‚ and third I think its more of an efficient way to do school to get better grades! First‚ if you get lots of breaks during the year‚ Why not do year-round school? It also helps you because with summer
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Pop Culture Plants Insecurities in Young Minds Does popular culture psychologically affect society’s self-perception? Society spends an alarming amount of time on social media outlets such as television and the internet to follow their favorite celebrities. This unhealthy amount of exposure to these people‚ who are being constantly trained and edited into these “perfect” human beings‚ causes the average person to feel insecure and go through extreme measures to resemble them. Alarmingly‚ those
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I have created a fitting shoe for myself. Simple and small movements made by the body in actions like walking and running can affect multiple parts. Through my own analysis of my walking and running I understand what I am doing and the methods to correct this. The walk is a movement on the sagittal plane or mediolateral axis. The proximal end of the foot strikes the ground and the distal ends rolls off the floor. This movement is known as the stance phase. From the toe-off and until the next
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Bailey Pennington Art October 30‚ 2012 Damien Hirst Damien Hirst was born in Bristol‚ England‚ on June 7‚ 1965. Hirst is a controversial and successful artist; He emerged as a leading figure in the Young British Artists movement in the late 1980s and 1990s. His works‚ which include dead animal displays and spin-art paintings‚ have sold for exceptionally high prices. Hirst is one of the wealthiest artists living today. Hirst and his American girlfriend live in Devon‚ England‚ with their
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Kevin Howlett ITT Tech Institute Mr. Kepner ENG 1320: Grammar and Comp Research Paper Mega Retailers vs. Moms and Pops Do mega retailers have a major impact on small town businesses? When global giants such as Wal-Mart or Lowes move into a town‚ are the smaller and family owned businesses forced out of business? These are a few questions many people have asked. Research has been conducted to evaluate these large retailers impact on communities across America. Wal-Mart‚ one
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Contemporary art breaks the rules of the past. With the invention of the camera and rapid exchange of ideas via the media‚ artist not longer need art to record and represent reality. This new sense of freedom opened the floodgates for art to be ‘anything an artist can imagine’ (Rubin‚ 2010.). Since 1945 and the end of World War II‚ contemporary art have especially broken away from traditions and rules of the past (Rubins‚ 2010)
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