Cultural Artifact Essay – Blue Jeans Introduction Blue jeans in the last thirty years have attained such world wide popularity that they have come to be considered an American icon. However jeans have not always been held in high stead‚ but rather have had a troubled history including its beginnings within the working class movement‚ being considered unsavory by religious leaders and also seen as a rebellious statement about ‘western decadence’. According to the University of Toronto
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self-development as he is influenced by the ideas of morality that surround him; Basil Hallward represents the soul-fulfilling goodness he should seek‚ and Lord Henry Wotton represents the sinful life he desires. Through Lord Henry’s views of radical individualism and the beauty of his own portrait‚ Dorian Gray’s impressionable attitude develops into complete heartlessness as he
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Rosa Parks is widely known as the African-American woman who refused to get off her seat on a bus. She did not want to forfeit her seat in order for a white individual to replace her. She was arrested and taken into custody against her will‚ just because she felt the need to stay on the seat she felt she rightfully deserved. On December 1st‚ 1955‚ according to history‚ Rosa Parks was tired and exhausted from a long day of work. In fact‚ under different circumstances‚ she would have probably given
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19th-century writer who wrote the famous story The Awakening depicted the life of women in the 19th century.Chopin wrote about how women were feeling enslaved by the idea of having to be accepted by society.For example‚ she writes that women were expected to be mothers but who as well as had a longing for freedom from the grasp of a man’s world. Kate Chopin’s most prominent message in her stories is this quest to fulfill the desires that a person has such as freedom‚ individualism‚ and family. In Chopin’s
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Romanticism is an era that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that focused on certain ideals such as individualism‚ nature‚ intuition‚ and religion. These ideas that were formulated from the Romantic era are still alive in today’s society and still appear in modern literature. The ideas are portrayed in a unique way throughout literature and are made to catch the reader’s attention and make them contemplate the meaning
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Gaga: Getting Back On The Horse After dropping out of Collaborative Arts Project 21 (a New York-based musical school)‚ the unconventional singer did some small gigs around town until she gained a loyal following in the downtown Lower East Side club scene. She finally caught the eye of Rob Fusari‚ a music producer who then collaborated with her to cut some tracks in the studio that they shopped to other people in the music industry. Things took a nasty turn when Lady Gaga was suddenly dropped
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family lineage‚ making me part Czech‚ Norwegian.‚ Swedish‚ English and even African‚ I was raised with American culture and values in mind‚ and have always identified with the land I grew up in. Perhaps this is why I buy into the idea of the American dream‚ and believe that with hard work and opportunity‚ the success I seek is possible. It has also influenced
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and cultural values and ethics that they have learned in life to be able to succeed in a global setting. Values have been subdivided into instrumental values (modes of behavior) and terminal ones (values pursued for their own sake). Whereas terminal values are self-sufficient‚ and desired states of existence that a person strives to achieve (i.e.‚ wisdom‚ a comfortable life‚ knowledge)‚ instrumental values are modes of behaviors used day to day that help people to reach terminal values (i.e
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means by "the medium is the message." 2. Media are extensions of human beings and affect our outlook and attitudes‚ our feelings about culture‚ schools‚ politics‚ studies‚ moral values‚ societal norms. They can totally disrupt our social existence and equilibrium. 3. Print culture‚ for instance‚ fostered individualism and a private point of view and developed linear
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documentary. Their task: simply to discover the truth of the tale regarding Elly Kedward‚ “a woman who had been accused of witch craft and child murder and had banished her town‚ left for dead‚ and supposedly still haunted the area” (Cite museum hoax). A famous story known by the name of the “Blair Witch Project”‚ so captivating and believable to an audience‚ that a successful website and movie were made to entertain what was originally all just a hoax. The “Blair Witch Project” developed a popular story
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