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Since the late 1990's, South Korean popular culture entered the global market via its television series better known as K-drama. The export of Korean dramas sparked off a palpable craze for Korean cultural commodities in early 2000. This popular cultural phenomenon known as the Korean Wave or Hallyu has seen a surge in interest in Korean culture especially through the study of the Korean language and understanding of the culture through travel. In this essay I would like to shed light on how…

On August 6, 1928 a little baby boy named Andy Warhol who was soon to be a famous American artist. His birthplace was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When Andy Warhol was in the third grade he had a disease called Sydenham's disease. During the time of his sickness he was stuck in bed but while he was in bed he would usually listened to the radio or usually collected pictures of famous people back then. Andy Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945. After high school he wanted to become…

As one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, Monroe had a glamorous life that every woman envied (Steinem). However, Marilyn Monroe ended up committing suicide, despite the luxurious life she had. Even though she got to live this “amazing” and “luxurious” lifestyle, she was not truly happy. She represents this illusion of happiness that people do not see. She had trouble with her career after returning from a hiatus in 1959. She also suffered pain from gallstones and severe drug…

educating others. My illness isn’t always a negative thing" This statement gave me chills and I was so happy to see that people do not let anything stop them from their dreams. • Would you call this pop psychology or real psychology? I Believe this is a actually because Pop psychology includes a wide and ever-changing set of theoretical practices popularized by general public acceptance. Such practices are typically dispensed through self-help books, seminars, talk…

top of the list but accompanied in the increase of popularity of South Korean culture outside the country of origin, many people are trying to emulate a non—Western version of beauty. In the news recently there was a Brazilian man who was into Korean pop and underwent surgery (Auerbach 1). This may hint to the effects South Korean popular media is having internationally as…

Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died on February 22 of 1987 at the age of 58. In his 58 years on this Earth, Warhol was recognized for his incredible artistic abilities. Although he is known as the godfather of Pop art, Warhol also dabbled in a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing. Warhol’s father noticed Warhol’s’ artistic talent at an early age, and paid for his college education at Carnegie…

Andy Warhol was a pioneer of American pop and modern art. He broke the boundaries between popular art, and pure art and led revolutionary changes in visual arts such as film, advertising, and design as well as art. He seems like he had intuitive insights into contemporary culture, society and intuition to visualize it. I think Andy Warhol was one of the artists that expresses his creative business management skills. He chose subjects and materials from generally well known things, such as coke…

“When do you guys want breakfast?” is the normal group text for the Wallwork study group on Saturday mornings. The group is made up of old friends that went to the same high school and some new ones we met along the way. The first responses come within the hour and as college students the time agree on is well past normal breakfast times at 11:30 am. With the time set, we head to Folgers dining hall. Some of us are wide awake and others look like they rolled out of bed the minute before. Today…

and our economy was in a major boom, along with our population, after the end of the war, Abstract Expressionism was discovered. The counterculture movement was important, it set the stage for social movements. During the 1960’s, Andy Warhol created Pop Art, considered to be artificial, detached, rebellious, ironic and funny. For artists of the 20th Century, locating to a city in America and having the ability to gain freedom to create topics that are justified through everyday life.…

in the jeans she’s wearing. I’m hooked and I can’t stop staring. Oh baby, I wanna get with ya and take your picture. My homeboys tried to warn me, but that butt you got makes me so horny. Since then, he has been an infamous part of an ever-growing pop music trend- using misogyny to sell singles to the teenage market. Recent hit singles follow this same pattern precisely, with some notable examples being ‘Talk Dirty’ by Jason Derulo, ‘Shut Up And Drive’ by Rihanna, and ‘Blurred Lines’ by Robin…