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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.…

Produced by the ever popular Oakley Company the Frogskins were the beginning of the company's future in sunglass history. The company using a material for the manufacture of their perfected lenses that is called "plutonite". That substance is an acrylic form that comes impact…

The meaning and application of popular sovereignty has drastically changed due to many changed made to the constitution and many new laws put in place. In the beginning of the United State’s government, there were very few people that had a say in the government and could vote on changes to the government. Before many of the current amendments and laws were put into place, only old, white men that were property owners had an influence on the government. Popular sovereignty was very limited to a…

you convince a sceptical friend that popular culture was a valid object for academic study? Apprehension around studying popular culture can be attributed to an understanding of popular culture as meaning ‘low culture’, and therefore having little worthiness of study. However, the conceptual division between high and low culture, is now understood to be of no relevance to aesthetic worth, but more to political and social distinctions. Remove the word popular from the question, and the…

Following research conducted and findings of previous topics and articles, this contribution is to open the mind and thoughts surrounding the questions many have asked. This paper will review the findings of research based on the mindset of serial killers and, will also explore the ideas and trends involving serial killers in today’s society. This article is designed to help us understand a little more about why things thought to be taboo involving serial killers, in some areas become somewhat…

“You see, the discussion surrounding appropriation takes on so many more layers...layers that desperately need to be brought to the discussion”(Jaikaran). Cultural appropriation is the use of other cultures’ customs for one’s own purposes not belonging to that culture; often perceived as offensive. As the world changes and progresses, more acceptance of cultures unfolds. Acceptance of cultures will never fully occur if said cultures are considered separate from the rest of society. Cultural…

Living in the 21st century, one can’t deny the impact of modern technology. With the rapid advancements in modern technology, people now have the access to the media and popular culture is readily available in larger quantities than before. The wide access to media and popular culture has opened the new generations up to for more communication. According to the scholar Grossberg, “we live in a world of media communication where we can travel great distances and across centuries, all in the…

It is often the case that people will group together based on similar interests, styles, and personalities to form smaller cultures within the vastness of mainstream society. In a culture as diverse as America, there are many definitive groups which may be deemed subcultures, but perhaps the most interesting groups are those who find themselves at the fringes of what may be defined as a subculture. So, what exactly outlines the requirements that makes a group of people to be called a subculture?…

Today, the animated 20th century American political culture revolves around the widely accepted idea of an ongoing culture war among states and voters alike. The term of a “culture war” is most commonly and enthusiastically used by the journalistic community and is defined as the displacement of ordinary economic conflicts by moral and religious ones in the advanced democracy. Moreover, news, media and other political studies seek to represent pictorially and statistically a deeply divided…

Modern scholars have explored and portrayed different approaches to not only define postmodernism, but to follow the ripples, of the era’s disturbance on our novelistic endurance & literary production. From metaphysics to liberalism, Freudian predictions of our present culture to actual post-modern novelistic examples, from reality to technological attributions, politics and intertextuality, the explanations for the deterioration in literary creativity and quality vary widely. The fate of the…