most scandalous dance fads to date is twerking. According to the Oxford Dictionary‚ twerking is “to dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance”. Evidently‚ this is not something you would want to do in front of your relatives at your next family reunion. Though its history is quite short‚ twerking has only recently gained the attention of the public. There are speculations that twerking originated in American strip clubs‚ but
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Fall 2013 A Persuasive Speech on Stopping the Twerk Epidemic. General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to take action against the twerk epidemic by explaining what twerking is‚ why twerking needs to be stopped‚ and ways to stop it. Organizational Pattern: Topical Design INTRODUCTION I. Attention Getter: Imagine this‚ you walk into your daughters room and find her body convulsing
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August 25‚ 2013‚ Hannah Montana’s war has ended. She has lost a long and courageous battle with Miley Cyrus. The coroner’s office has stated that the death was from “complications of being normal‚” but rumor has it‚ the adorable teen idol to millions of young girls passed due to shame‚ or‚ possibly‚ neglect. Miley Cyrus has been trying to cut her ties to Disney since her show “Hannah Montana‚” a popular Disney show aimed toward young girls‚ ended in January of 2011. Maybe even a bit before that.
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However‚ her twerking was not the only thing she used to make her performance feel black. The song titled “We Can’t Stop” was given to and performed by Cyrus after she said she wanted something that “felt black”. Seeing as the song was originally written for Rihanna‚
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on the image that she is presenting to everyone‚ including young fans. Parents are concerned that this may affect their children in a negative way. There had also been accusations that Mileys show had been racist‚ as there were Africa-Americans ‘twerking’ in the background as backup dancers. Some had said that it made it seem that the African-American were presented as ‘less’ than Miley. People were also saying that this was a bad image of what women should be and that she misused her feminism and
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The media manipulates us to act a certain way and to believe what is presented in front of us. I will discuss the representation for these three music videos and how this affects teenage girls; Demi Lovato “Stone cold” representation is vulnerable‚ Miley Cyrus “We can’t stop” representation is sexualised and Demi Lovato “confident” representation is rebellious. Demi Lovato-“stone cold” In the Demi Lovato’s music video for her song “Stone Cold” the representation that is portrayed is vulnerable.
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dance through music. For example‚ the songs Bring it‚ Donk‚ Ass by listening to this type of songs they start twerking dancing. In particular‚ a dance that teases and inappropriately moves. It consists of how you shake your behind. personality my perspectives about those move dances are inhuman. In addition‚ this type of songs has made an impact on the dances and it has everybody twerking. A dance that consist of shaking hips and bottom and bouncing up and down motion‚ causing to shake‚ wobble and
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Miley Cyrus’s performance at the MTV Video Music Award’s has been debated‚ criticized‚ and dissected to the point of absurdity. Among the responses of many people on the web about her crass declaration of sexuality (Cyrus‚ who is twenty years old‚ danced in a pale-latex bra and panties and rubbed herself with a huge foam finger) that asked whether the performance degraded or empowered. Performing on live television is always a “go big or go home” kind of thing. But when Miley Cyrus stepped onto
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Cultural appropriation is when someone adopts aspects of a culture that’s not their own. Cultural appropriation shouldn’t be confused with cultural exchange or cultural appreciation. Cultural exchange is when someone is willing to find out about the culture and their history. The same principle applies to cultural appreciation‚ that is when one doesn’t wear the culture as a costume but out of respect for the people. A prime example of this is when Angelina Jolie visited Pakistan she learnt about
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arts. Therefore‚ they developed the mix of dancing and fighting that is known today as ‘Capoeira’. Male dancers lift an average of 1 tons of female dancers in a ballet performance. In NYC‚ 358 people – including a 73-year old woman‚ broke the twerking world record. In Bharata Natyam‚ Kathak and Odissi (different regional forms of classical Indian dance) dancers wear heavy anklets of multiple bells called ‘‘Ghungroo’’. ‘Ghungroo’’ highlight and emphasize the rhythms of the dancer’s feet. Dancers
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