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    Years later‚ other factors would contribute to the death of movie palace culture‚ but none would strike the decisive blow that the Great Depression did. By 1932‚ the Great Depression dropped movie attendance from 110 million attendees annually to 60 million attendees‚ and of the 18‚715 theaters in America‚ 3‚200 had already closed and 4‚568 were about to close (Melnick 96). Large scale theaters and palaces that had been picked up in the aforementioned merger and vertical integration suffered as

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    The Development of Sub-cultures‚ with particular reference to youth cultures A Sub-Culture is a smaller culture held by a group of people within the main culture of a society‚ in some ways different from the dominant culture of a society‚ but with many aspects in common. Subcultures come in a diversity of forms‚ associated with street gangs‚ prison inmates‚ drug addicts‚ football hooligans‚ religious cults‚ hippie communes‚ and punk rockers. On a larger societal scale‚ subcultures include working-class

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    Immigrant Youth in Canadian Culture Introduction Canada is a place where people all over the world immigrate to. People immigrate to Canada due to reasons such as war‚ famine‚ employment‚ better health plans‚ colonialism‚ educational opportunities and many more. Some come here by choice while others are forced to leave their homeland to survive. For whatever reason one immigrates to Canada‚ the point is‚ they leave things that are familiar to them and come to an unknown and uncertain environment

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    Essay on Youth Culture The 60’s and 70’s saw the rise of youth culture. Youth culture can be seen as a particular pattern of beliefs‚ values‚ symbols and activities that a group of young people are seen to share. Along with the rise of youth culture came the theories developed on it. The theories developed in the 60’s were mainly functionalism. Functionalists believe that society or a social structure is like a biological structure and that all social institutions function for the survival

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    OF MATERIALISM IN THE YOUTH CULTURE According to the dictionary of Cambridge “materialism” is the belief that having money and possessions is the most important thing in life. In today’s world this notion has a strong place among people-especially in the culture of youth- regardless their social classes.The economic system of our age relies on the customers and consumption therefore the culture of consumption pumped through by advertisements specifically take aim at the youth-which is the largest

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    The culture of India has been shaped not only by its long history‚ unique geography and diverse demography‚ but also by its ancient heritages. Regarded by some historians as the "oldest living civilization of Earth"‚ the Indian tradition dates back to 8‚000 BC and has a continuous recorded history for over 2‚500 years. But due to the increasing development... Due to globalization… the rich culture of India is disappearing. The most impact is of western culture on India culture. Western culture

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    Youth‚ and Popular Culture in the 1960s 1960s is one of the most transformative decades on the timeline of America‚ though those old days were gone now‚ its impacts were still so eventful and momentous that they cannot be neglected even in nowadays (which is already half a century away from then on). The impacts were mostly on popular culture‚ it had changed people’s view on societies and it had also increased people’s capabilities and tolerance on different cultures‚ or more specifically‚ countercultures

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    Skateboarding and Its Effects on Youth Culture Kevin V. Zuniga John F. Kennedy Middle College Skateboarding and Its Effect on Youth Culture Throughout the world there seems to be an uprising of many subcultures‚ groups‚ and social classes that give diversity to the world to many communities of The United States of America and also many other countries as well. Diversity within countries is a positive factor‚ because of the different viewpoints and contributions they bring into society

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    on the market. 2. Global youth culture Youth is a psycho-social phenomenon‚ a part of the population organised into many subcultures‚ which because of a high consumption affinity‚ appears attractive for enterprises. According to Kellner and Kahn “Global youth culture is the trans-disciplinary category by which theorists and policy analysts attempt to understand the emergence of the complex forms of hybrid culture and identity that increasingly occur amongst youth throughout the world due to the

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    Women Conform to Flapper Culture In today’s society‚ women wear makeup and more revealing clothing‚ smoke‚ drink‚ divorce their husbands‚ and show complete independence. Obviously culture was not always like this; rather‚ it has developed over time due to series of events leading up to evolution. After World War I‚ with men gone for the war‚ the country and women themselves had truly seen what they were able to accomplish‚ and men no longer controlled every decision. No longer did women want to

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