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In “Status Symbol Blue” the author brings up the issue on why Americans spend countless amounts of money on designer brands. He also questions why we buy nock off brands in order to seem like we purchased the real items. Status Symbols still function today because people us it to define their social hierarchy, but this is not the only reason for some people. The author brings up valid points through out the essay on how status symbols function and reasons why consumers should escape for the…

basis for the dominant empires and nations in the millennia and the centuries to follow. The culture and thought of the western trace its roots in the philosophy of the Greek where this viewpoint majors on research and reasoning pertaining some fields including law, literature, technology, politics, science, psychology, art, and ethics. How the Greece became the center of the western culture and thought The geographical position of the Greece favored its geopolitical locus because the…

The general consensus among Americans (and likely people worldwide) is that by the dawn of the Twentieth Century what had become known as “the wild west” of the United States had been thoroughly tamed. The sensationalized accounts of the region popularized in the pulpy rags known as “dime novels” had by and large been deemed a thing of the past as the “civilized” world of industrialization spread westward. Yet, can a region and culture bow to the whims of popular conceit? Can the soul of a land…

The United States is a country flourishing with culture and diversity from all over the globe. Many recognize the “Home of The Brave” as a “melting pot” meaning that all of the different cultures are thrown into a fictitious pot and are “melted” together to create a new and unique experience. That experience, which is referred to as American Culture. The diversity of American culture is evident in a multitude of ways. From our apparel and what we eat, to how we pray and the language we use to…

For my paper I have chosen to talk about and critique Edvard Munch's The Scream. This particular piece of art was created by using a piece of cardboard and applying tempera as well as casein ("Munch, Edvard."). This painting is believed to be painted in the year 1893 ("Munch, Edvard."). Edvard Munch was born in the year of 1863 and died in the year of 1944 (Edvard Munch Biography.). He was born in Norway but for about 10 years he traveled far and wide in Europe especially between Germany and…

The Different Sides of Globalization Kelsey Timmerman went on several trips to a variety of different countries. During these trips, he encountered both positive and negative effects of globalization. Kelsey Timmerman made globalization seem both appealing and unappealing for people all around the world, through the citizens of countries getting new job opportunities, and bad working conditions. In Where Am I Wearing, globalization was displayed as a positive effect by the amount of…

Culture differences Iraq’s culture and United state’s culture are different in several ways. The difference between those two cultures is very clear especially when people take a look at these two cultures trying to blend in. People will notice the difference between those two culture starting from the way they dress, the social life, and the educational level. This article will discuss several differences between the American’s culture and the Iraqi’s culture such as the society,…

I worked with George Pejovic from Transit Wireless. The company is based in New York and was formed specifically to meet the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) requirement to provide a shared wireless infrastructure to enable commercial wireless services for the New York City Transit Authority (NYCT) riders within the underground subway stations and related opportunities. Transit Wireless I am an intern there, but I do not work directly with Mr. Pejovic. He takes on more tasks and operations…

believe really determines her position as an artist and everything else that she chooses to represent herself with as a human being. It is packed with parallels being drawn form herself, different artists such as Maya Deren, and Henry Moore, as well as Western culture, Post-modernism, and more. It resonates the conflicting the self…

Reading Eighner and Quindlen essays, I discovered that American consumer most of the time buy stuff without need it, make the impression of many people make the choices of what they wish to have frivolously. In American society, one of the most important things is the material, what you have? how update you are with technology? Living in the United States, I had the experience to find on a side of the street good stuff like, microwaves, chairs, table, nightstand and more. A friend of mine, who…