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“I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.” -Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol, icon of his time, and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century, Andy Warhol was truly transcendent. His early works of commercial art and magazine spreads changed the way the world viewed magazines and newspapers.…

Many individuals would ask, what is pop culture? “Popular culture is a term that once characterized mass-produced or low-brow culture: pop music, potboilers and page-turners, movies, comics, advertising, and radio and television.” Today, pop culture remains particularly aimed at younger people; however, popular culture may be targeted at anyone of any age group. Popular culture may influence our thoughts, likes, dislikes, behavior, and many other characteristics of an individual. First, in…

Popular culture has become increasingly large with the creation of the internet and an increasing number of personal computers, so it only seems natural that pop culture would eventually be discussed in academia. Pop culture, specifically fantasy novels and movies, teach people a great deal about history, creation stories, and many other college and university focused topics. It also helps student facilitate their learning as they can discuss topics and concepts that are focused through their…

they are classified. For this experiment, a student goes to the mall two separate times, once dressed in a professional appearance and then dressed down in a bummy fashion. At the mall, the student has to visit a minimum of eight stores; 3 high end, 3 low end, and 2 neutral. Although they are not obligated to purchase anything, it is necessary that they interact with the sales employees. The student then has to take notes privately on what they observed and how they were looked at/treated. I…

A low-context culture is a society “in which the media that are produced and consumed are generally straightforward,” while a high-context culture is a society in which “both the producers and the consumers (the audience) of a media content the actual words…

I. Summary In recent years, we have seen an increase in the people who adopt the hipster culture. The hipster culture is defined as rejecting anything and everything mainstream (Omar 2016). Many hipsters are known for listening to alternative indie music, shopping at thrift stores, being an active liberal protestor, etc. (Weeks 2011). Novelist Hal Niedzviecki realized that similar non-conformist activities and ideals that he himself believed in or partook in after some time became accepted and…

Laureta Stevenson Dr. Kyong Yoon CULT 101-001 Oct. 17th, 2016 Reinvention through Urbanization Nothing exists in a vacuum. You can’t invent something out of nothing, as can be applied to historical events. In two different articles, Inventing Opera as art in nineteenth-century Manchester and The Invention of the English Christmas, both written by John Storey, he explains a re-invention of a societal event (rather than the titles word of an invention). Both of the two subjects Storey is…

This analysis revealed that the main effect of self-esteem was not significant, F (1, 86) = 0.21, p = 0.65. This suggests that participants with low (M = 4.29) and high (M = 4.41) self-esteem did not significantly differ in their self-reported mood after completing the anagram task. However, there was a significant relationship between the task difficulty and mood of the participants, F (1, 86)…

When I describe something as popular, I am describing something that appeals to and is liked by a large audience. A greatly example of this is a popular song; the song is constantly being played on the radio, many people request to have that song played, and the sales of the song are high. To be popular, the entity must be known and it must be liked by a large audience. In terms of live theatre, the measurements we can apply to gauge “popularity” encompass different mediums. As stated in the…

Trends: An Epidemic Every generation has its own memorable trend, such as leather jackets in the 50’s, leg warmers in the 80’s, and more recently, Silly Bands in the 2000’s. How did these trends come to be? In Malcolm Gladwell’s, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, the author explains that a trend is spread by essentially word-of-mouth until it reaches the pinnacle of its popularity, then eventually fading in prevalence. Not only this, but Gladwell likens trends to…