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chart topper in 1998 (“Too Close”). Brandy and Monica made the top 100 tracks of 1998 with the song “The Boy is Mine.” This song was announced the #1 hit on the radio on June 9. “The Boy is Mine” was nominated for three Grammys, and “in 2008, Billboard ranked 'The Boy Is Mine’ 54th on its All-Time Hot 100 Top Songs chart” (“The Boy Is Mine (song)”). Lastly, Shania Twain wrote and recorded another top charter “You’re Still the One” which was the third greatest hit of 1998. “You’re Still the…

How would your life change if you went from being an average individual to a member of a rock band? For the various members of Aerosmith, their lives have altered and continue to alter each and every day- mostly for the good, of course. Each of the eight members of the band have issues they face together and issues they face alone, from members coming and leaving to dealing with personal matters. This is shown in their albums, Get a Grip and Done with Mirrors, just to name a couple. Due to the…

“My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view”- Carole King, born in New York on February 9 1942, started her career as a Brill Building songwriter. During her career at the Brill Building, King wrote most of her songs with her husband Gerry Goffin. The duo successfully wrote more than two dozen chart hits (Wikipedia), until 1968 when the couple separated. As a result of the split King chose to move across the country to Laurel Canyon, Los…

Society has been altered tremendously from the time period that Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem were published to present day. Ayn Rand and Ray Bradbury provide predictions of the future of how they thought society would develop. Evidence from both novels suggests that corruption and immorality have affected society immensely causing it to fall into the trap of the authors’ warnings. It is astonishing to think that these prophetic authors were correct in many ways. Fahrenheit 451 shows similarities…

Most Americans are becoming overweight, even obese in this generation, all because of poor habits that have formed as a child. Being less involved as a kid leads to stagnant movement, constantly sitting at home watching television, and eating junk food. If American’s cared about the way they looked, they would try to break these lousy eating habits. The average American’s diet is causing a shorter life expectancy because of poor food quality, incurable diseases, and a lack of cultural motivation…

The purpose of this is to increase sales and increase the recognition and awareness of the brand. The different promotion modes they use are magazines, television advertisements, cooking shows, stalls in exhibitions, billboards and newspapers. Upon research on consumer perception about pasta products, it was found that since Pakistani people are slightly resistant to change and set in their traditional ways, it would be hard to incorporate a new product into their lives…

1. Overview of the company (how where when why, how establish now, product detail) Sephora was founded back in the 1969 by a Paris based conglomerate Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) in 1997. Sephora is a French chain of more than 750 stores in 21 countries and carries over 250 brands of item specializing in cosmetics, personal care items, fragrances and beauty accessories including their own private labels. The name Sephora is a combination of two words - The Biblical name of ‘Zippo rah’…

social matters (Emerson, 2002, p. 115). Minaj is an influential figure in popular culture - her album The Pinkprint, which is supported by the single Anaconda, debuted at number one on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as well as a number two on the US Billboard 200 chart (Caulfield, 2014; Mendizabal, 2014). Additionally, the music video for Anaconda has over 500 million views on official Nicki Minaj’s YouTube page. According to Emerson (2002), young African American women are exposed to contrasting…

Feminism is wanting women to be equal to men (Haslanger). Feminism is being able to express yourself as a woman and not being tied down by society norms or even people (Haslanger). This expression can be seen as crazy to some, but it sure can lead to being an icon and being at the top of the charts (McDermott). Gwen Stefani proves that girls can express themselves and reach success by juggling numerous things throughout her life, expressing herself through fashion and crazy hair colors, and by…

Japan consists of one of the most culturally rich societies in the world, one of which through history has been greatly affected by the other cultures around it. America has specifically played a huge influence in Japan since the Meiji Period and continues to do so today (Bognar 47f). In fact, “Much of today's Japanese culture is derivative of or responds to American culture” (47). But is America’s influence necessarily a good thing? The westernization, or more specifically the…