Amber Howard WRA 150 October 3‚ 2012 Cultural Artifact: Procrastination As a college student‚ I can’t help but to notice how easily distracted students can get due to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. For a fact I know I have been distracted due to social networking like Twitter. I tweet an average of over 200 tweets per day. Twitter is so distracting that hours can go by and I will not notice that it has been that long. I get so distracted by all the gossip in the media‚ and wondering
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Eddie Cavelli Professor Cooper English 304 30 April 2013 The artifact I chose is the 2009 film‚ “Sin Nombre‚” directed by Cary Fukunaga. In Spanish‚ the title translates to nameless‚ or without a name. The film revolves around the struggle of Honduran immigrants attempting to escape the hardships of everyday life to start fresh in ‘El Norte‚’ the United States. The film revolves around two main characters‚ MS 13 gang member‚ Willy (aka El Casper)‚ and Sayra‚ a Honduran girl who is traveling
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Portfolio Artifact: Classroom What I’ve learned: This is not my ideal classroom‚ but it is definitely a good fit. Any storage space is being used in the desks allowing room for futuristic holograms. My ideal classroom is even more futuristic than this‚ but it would be difficult to put on paper. I would say the greatest difficulty faced was getting a draft of a classroom that would satisfy myself. I set up my own requirements. 1. Futuristic to a point where it can be drawn 2. Teachers desk in center
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Stephen Annoni COM 101 Tues 6:20-9:20 Artifact Speech Outline I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Dribble the basketball around B. Reason to Listen: For the most part all of us have played a sport. There are many different sports but I would like to talk to you about the sport of basketball. I am going to explain how the sport of basketball has a toll on my life so that you can have a better understanding of whom I am. C. Thesis Statement:
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Introduction Many myths and misconceptions float around the term ‘Feminism’. It is a movement that is frequently projected as being violent‚ aggressive‚ and full of ‘bra burning’ extremists. The word alone often evokes reactions among people that are negative‚ uncomplimentary and stereotypical. The disturbing of the patriarchal paradigm was a phenomenon that became prominent only in the Twentieth Century. Historically speaking women have always numerically outnumbered men‚ but through the system
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thought about the word “culture”‚ what it meant to me‚ and how it related of coming of age. I discussed on how culture to me meant the customs and beliefs of your past generation passed on to you and creating that to your image. This week I’ve now realized there are many other factors of culture that influence our way of life. Pop culture plays a big role if not more on who we are and how we behave. I discovered that many aspects like television and social media affect culture and change it frequently
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Pop culture has existed in our society since the early days of man. From the wearing of white wigs by the upperclassmen of the 18th century to the backward jersey wearing of today ’s youth‚ there are few aspects that are totally devoid of pop culture influence. With the introduction of the moving picture machine‚ the entertainment industry has even more greatly spread popular culture. With popular culture so widely spread‚ it has undoubtedly had a great effect on our society. Unfortunately‚ there
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a diverse country filled with many different cultures and subcultures. Every culture is unique but every culture is represented by its artifacts shared by people in their society. Culture‚ according to John Bodley in‚ “An Anthropological Perspective From Cultural Anthropology: Tribes‚ States‚ and the Global System‚” is composed of at least “three components: what people think‚ what they do‚ and the material products they produce(paragraph 5).”Artifacts are material products produced by people can
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Jocelyn Cruz Professor Bucher ENC 1102 16 October 2012 Topic Proposal: Serial Killers and the Influences in Hollywood’s Pop Culture Research Question(s): Why have infamous serial killer cases become so popular in the media and are portrayed in Hollywood films/TV shows? Why do the audiences find horror movies based on killers entertaining? Are the viewers psychologically predisposed by these depictions to react with violence and committing murder? Importance: This is an important issue
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Due to Dylan’s music‚ and change of music‚ more people started doing what he was; putting more culture into rock n’ roll‚ which has proved to be successful with Bob Dylan. Because more people were making music like Dylan‚ more people started listening to that type of music since it was played more. Then Dylan’s switch to electric was huge‚ making what
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