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Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist who is well known for the girl character who is bulbous-headed with large eyes and cynical grins. As a contemporary of Takashi Murakami within Japan's Neo-pop movement, Nara is influenced by elements of popular culture from both East and West. Nara creates drawing, painting, and sculpture that express intense emotions while his practices explores themes of isolation rebellion and music. In this essay, I would like to explore both internal and external factors…

Though the south was denounced for their practice of slavery by the north, the north was also by the south for their cruel treatments of the free laborers. As a sociologist from the slave states, Fitzhugh argued that freed laborers in the north must live like cannibals who “must work or starve” (Doc H). “Free laborers have not a thousandth part of the rights and liberties of the Negro slaves” all they…

The chart took statistics from radio airplay and sales data to compile the list. According to Nielsen Music, the radio continues to be the number one way for people to discover music. A streaming service iHeart Radio that allows people to listen to live radio from all of the United States or create one’s own station by choosing an artist or song created a company called Clear Channel to gather streaming data. Clear Channel started a program On the Verge (Goodman). On the Verge plays a song…

to this kind of trash, then they will grow a custom to it and they will start playing such music to their children, and eventually, the world will be brainwashed by inappropriate, disgusting “music”. If you want to listen to it, then you can buy the CD or buy the…

“Performance” from Grove Music Online states: “Music-making is a virtually universal human activity. At its most fundamental, it is a form of private biological necessity […]. At its most elevated, musical performance is public property.” Within the last 5 decades, the practice of historically informed performance (hereafter HIP) has instituted itself as one of the most important concepts for performance of early music. Problems faced by today’s performers are: what makes a “good performance?…

I chose to go to Westfield for my field ship. I looked at five different stores and finally I chose three stores to talk about. They are Hollister, Urban Outfitters and Apple Store. I will be looking at them through different theories. I used sensory ethnography and visual method to understand and evaluate those store. Sensory ethnography is a re thinking of ethnography methods and process with attention to sensory perception and experience. It is suitable for social research and interventions…

“The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of all human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.” Libba Bary, bestselling fiction author, expresses the importance of libraries in the above quotation, stating that access to the public…

Imagine being able to live a healthier lifestyle, and even make a difference in other individuals lives. If more people choose to light up another cigarette, they are choosing to live unhealthy, and damage others around them as well. As the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states, smoking is the main cause of “one in five deaths” each year in the United States alone (3). Cigarettes are considered as a deadly substance to society, making victims vulnerable to second hand smoke.…

Johnny had all but disappeared from the music scene until, in 1998, German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell found himself in need of a vocalist. Axel eventually found means of contacting Johnny and flew him to Germany to record vocals for his Oceans of Time CD, which has been considered as one of the best Axel Rudi Pell albums so far. He is now the permanent lead vocalist of the band. After he met with further success in the band Axel Rudi Pell, Johnny and his band Hardline returned to release their…

Ecstasy is Never Worth the Penalties What would hurt worse? The gnawing feeling in the back of your mind, pacing back and forth, so consuming by worry that sleep becomes difficult and you start some unhealthy habits yourself. Glancing at your phone anxiously, your heart almost stopping in your chest every time you get a call. Or the gnawing feeling that consumes your mind, the begging. “Just a listen more.” Your lips chapped, skin pale, face gaunt, hands shaking. Children gape at you. Adults…