The book is a phenomenal read and it could even appeal to the general public. ... The last point in the book that Hall makes in this book is that the Louisiana cultural tradition of racial openness couldn't be entirely destroyed. ... At the end of the book, she also provides us with four different appendices on different topics that she touched on throughout the book. She then provides a ten page note on her sources in which she discusses the origins of these sources and their pros and cons. ... My favorite parts of the book were when she was discussing the cultural side of the Afro-Cre...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Highly controversial book of nude photos, Sex, released a compact disc, Erotica, and played in three films, A League of their Own, Body of Evidence, and Snake Eyes."... Popular Culture, as defined by Martin and Nakayama in their book, Intercultural Communication in Contexts3, is a subgroup of low culture that employs systems of communication, such as television, music, video, and magazines to perpetuate populist ideas of contemporary culture. ... (Page 284) Ann Daly, in her book, Done into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America, states that Duncan was "a masterly strategist who was very attuned to t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is worthwhile to note that the style of the two stories was presented in different ways. In the book, the characters were more spirited, in the Victorian sense, lacking that exuberant, while the characters in the movie were just the opposite, as they were far more energetic and spirited in their portrayals of the character. ... The director of the movie though, maintains the comedic nature of the film as a way of allowing the adaptation to address the same themes as the book: class, culture and gender (Wilson 2006: 323-4). The movie has no choice but to be different from the book because i...

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An argument could be made using the "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" essay, for the interaction between the researcher and the culture he or she is studying. ... Jane Tompkins, author of "Indians," questions the validity of every research, every history book, and every opinion turned fact that has been written. ... In almost every history book she read different interpretations of the same story was found. ... Students hear what teachers want them to hear, and many teachers validate what they are teaching because they read it in some book claiming to be the truth. ...

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In her introduction to her book, Appiah mentions that these international disputes have arisen typically when governments assume the responsibility to act for their citizens, "And the possibilities of good and of ill are multiplied beyond all measure when it comes to policies carried out by governments in our name" (Appiah, xii-xiii). ... In the introduction to his book "A Brief History of Neoliberalism," Harvey examines the process in which markets succeed when their governments create an infrastructure that allows individuals to make their own market decisions while simul...

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Klinenberg notes that media and communications is a large part of society. ... (pg. 69) One example of this that Giroux uses is the movie "The Lion King ", the movie itself was a huge success making Disney $253.5 million and was ranked as one of Disney's, most profitable movies, this lead it to make even more profits from its soundtrack and other products like stuffed toys , book bags, etc.. ...

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The latter appeared firstly through periodicals, but in the 1850s the book form was already a not too uncommon phenomenon. ... Characteristic instances of what I have in mind are articles like "The British Parliament" , "An Illustrious Englishman's Notes on Education" , "The Jurisdiction of England" , "English Politics and Europe" , "The English Bank System" . ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate