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    Issues in Popular Music

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    Bibliography: Longhurst‚ B. (2007). Popular Music & Society. Polity Press. Pareles‚ J. (1989). Public Enemy Rap Group Reorganizes After Anti-Semitic Comments. The new York Times . Public Enemy. (2007). Retrieved from vh1: http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/public_enemy/bio.jhtml Reeves‚ M. (2008)

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    Modern Popular Culture

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    Define modern popular culture : Popular culture reflects about how people live their life. Culture is understanding the human’s behavior‚ that includes thought ‚ communication‚ customs‚ beliefs‚ values‚ actions and institutions of racial‚ ethnic ‚religious‚ or social group(Adams‚ bell and Griffin 1997‚254). Music‚ television and movies play a major role in spreading modern culture to all human being. Modern culture helps us to compare how people live now and before. It makes us to balance

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    the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare was written to be a comedy. The truth is‚ Much Ado About Nothing does not contain many of the characteristics of a comedy‚ and the truth will be evident to this generation. This play is not a comedy because it does not have enough humor‚ it is not funny in today’s society‚ and it’s theme focuses on serious events. Much Ado About Nothing should not be considered a comedy because it does not maintain or possess a sizable quantity of humor. Dogberry

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    Outside of the battlefields‚ prostitution was widespread and ingrained in popular culture to such an extent that six of the fourteen Broadway theatres shared the same city blocks with a brothel during the Civil War. Meanwhile‚ the sexual double standard was quite apparent. Prostitutes were considered vile sinners‚ whereas men’s roles were often absolved. If someone was arrested for prostitution‚ it was generally the women who faced the harshest penalties while the men who paid for sex were usually

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    Wikipedia‚ the global encyclopedia‚ defines media as “a means of carrying or communicating information”. Earlier‚ the most prominent and popular media had been the newspaper and other print materials. Cinema‚ the moving picture‚ was then invented. Later‚ with the advancement of technology‚ radio and television emerged. As years rolled by‚ all parts of the globe got connected through the Internet. Several other media were developed using this global network for interaction and communication of messages

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    Plautus‚ Terence and the Origin of Roman Comedy In the early centuries of its existence‚ Rome had no real literature since the Romans were busy in consolidating and expanding their empire. It was in about the year 3rd century B.C that they came into contact with the Greeks of Southern Italy and Sicily and began to learn about Greek art and literature and blend it into their own cultural identity. The exact dates are those of the Punic Wars with Carthage (264-241 B.C).This contact with

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    like all other amusements‚ has its fashions and its prejudices‚ and when satiated with its excellence‚ mankind begin to mistake change for improvement. For some years tragedy was the reigning entertainment‚ but of late it has entirely given way to comedy‚ and our best efforts are now exerted in these lighter kinds of composition. The pompous train‚ the swelling phrase‚ and the unnatural rant‚ are displaced for that natural portrait of human folly and frailty‚ of which all are judges‚ because all have

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    and Meier and Frank. Clothing has evolved through the ages‚ and has made most of its artistic leaps in the last century. Women’s fashion has gone from the corset and button up boots to Jennifer Lopez’s infamous and revealing‚ low-cut Gucci dress. But why has this happened? What brought fashion from where it was in the nineteenth century to where it is now in the twenty-first? Did social changes produce these changes in fashion‚ or did fashion designers and couturiers change our society’s way of thinking

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    Analysis 16 4. Global evaluation 17 5. Bibliography 20 1. The play 1.1 Summary The Comedy of Errors is a play that takes place at one day in one place: Ephesus. The play begins with a long speech by Egeon‚ a Syracusian merchant who is facing execution if he does not pay a fine of a thousand marks‚ since there is a law that forbids the presence of Syracusian merchants in Ephesus. In order to explain why he is in Ephesus‚ Egeon tells the duke how his family was separated due to a shipwreck‚ leaving

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    Popular Culture of the 60s

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    The music was like Dalí‚ with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves." – Carlos Santana [17] Popular music entered an era of "all hits"‚ as numerous artists released recordings‚ beginning in the 1950s‚ as 45-rpm "singles" (with another on the flip side)‚ and radio stations tended to play only the most popular of the wide variety of records being made. Also‚ bands tended to record only the best of their songs as a chance to become a hit record. The taste

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