Pop Culture Popular culture is your friend. Popular culture is good for you. Today consumers are the dictators. The people have spoken and we wish to be satisfied with something more substantial than "Perfect Strangers" and The Monkees. And we have that now‚ for the most part. In his article "Watching TV Makes You Smarter‚" Steven Johnson argues that culture today is far different from that of the glory days of the 1970s. Culture today is more demanding cognitively. He introduces what he calls
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South Korea in Building Its Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy Through Its Culture and Technology: Case Study of K-Pop Music Industry I. Abstract In these recent years‚ South Korea has becoming one of the influential soft power by attracting others by its culture‚ especially on it entertainment aspects. South Korea nowadays in this globalized world also in its attempt to build and strengthen its diplomacy through the cultures they have. The cultures of South Korea are now becoming trends not only
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English ¾ H 16 May 2013 Cyrano de Bergerac: Changing Characters over Time In Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand‚ many themes are implicated and appear throughout several locations in the story. One of these themes is how characters change over time. In the story‚ Roxane‚ Christian‚ and Comte de Guiche all change dramatically in terms of personality and play a major role in progressing the story. All three of these characters experience life-changing events in which the results of the change
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types of music influence focus in different ways‚ which can have an impact on grades. Studies have shown that music has an impact on our ability to focus. A phenomenon known as the Mozart Effect says that listening to Mozart and other classical artists can improve memory. Other studies have found that music with lyrics can be distracting and negatively affect the learning process. As Advanced Placement and honors students‚ we decided to test these theories in order to see how the music we listen
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Does Music Help or Hinder Studying? Abstract: In the following paper‚ my goal was to research the positive and negative effects of college students listening to music while studying. In order to do this I interviewed four different Quincy University students to receive evidence to support my hypothesis that college students that listen to music while studying‚ will not be as stressed and they will be able to work more effectively. Even though I found three out of the four interviewee’s did not like
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Effective use of ICT in Music Teaching – Case study Esther Squibb‚ Ringwood Junior School‚ 2nd March 2007 1. Setting the scene The focus for the lesson with year 6 pupils was using Dance eJay for Schools to select and order sounds‚ creating a clear ABA structure. The lesson started with a brief discussion referring to examples previously demonstrated in the classroom and summarising the work done in previous lessons when pupils had been asked to create an introduction for their music and then
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culture that has mainly origins of English speaking countries with U.S.A. as the main exporter of popular culture through music‚ movies‚ television etc. In this essay I explore the positive aspects that using popular music in the classroom might potentially have. In my main issues I discuss the motivational aspects of popular culture‚ why teachers might feel insecure or unwilling to use the student ’s personal interests of popular culture in the classroom. Also how popular culture can be used to understand
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November 30‚ 2012 Soda Pop More and more young people are experiencing hypertension and childhood obesity‚ and because of which are seemingly becoming more prone to various diseases (Should Government Tax Sugary Drinks?). Many take a stand on the issue‚ as New York for example no longer allows the use of trans fats in their restaurants. Still the cost of unhealthy food has remained nearly the same‚ while the cost of a high yield diet has soared beyond that of the rate of inflation (Should Government
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Music is defined differently for each individual. It is the universal language that speaks to us all‚ but in different ways. It is one of the few genres that can instantly transport a person back to the past. Music is also an art of sound which expresses ideas‚ thoughts‚ and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm‚ melody‚ and harmony. It is the design of giving structural form and rhythmic pattern to combinations of sounds produce instrumentally and vocally. To me‚ music brings
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Review Questions 1. What is popular music? Popular music is any music since the mid-1800s that is popular with the preferences of anyone from a teen to a mid-aged adult. 2. What theme does pop music typically use in the lyrics? Describe one pop song that uses this theme. Why is this theme such a popular one? Pop music typically uses the theme of love and relationships in the lyrics. One pop song that uses this theme is the song “Marry Me” by Jason Derulo. Some of the lyrics are “…And if I lost
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