Furthermore a people's culture is expressed through its works, whether it be in politics, literature, athletics, or art. Art is a unique form of expression because humans can directly play on three of the human senses, sight, taste, and hearing. ... Music is the art of sound that pleasures hearing and it has been in existence since humans have aurally communicated with each other. ... African American music is a style that has always been a popular and respected form of entertainment inside, as well as outside of the culture; so does that just mean that the people have only used their mus...

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These methods of tattoo application are the reason for the name of this form of body modification. ... Some ````cultures simply used them to as a permanent decoration, or are simply an art medium. ... I love everything about the art form and I am so blessed to drive to work every morning and be genuinely excited about my day. ... It is about the challenge of the art form. ... The visual aspect to the art is apparently beautiful. ...

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All of these art forms would become the building blocks and core elements of the Hip-Hop culture. ... Squads were formed in order to capitalize off of the money making opportunities that shows, tours, and movies offered. ... The art of breakin' had become a phenomena that was blowing up, and the corporate big wigs were ready to get their claws in, and milk it like a plump cow. I remember buying an album called, Electric Breakin', that came with a pullout that taught you the art of breakin'. ... Even though the dance forms popularity faded in the United States, it continued t...

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The Webster dictionary defines culture as: ..the total pattern of human behavior and artifacts and depending on man's capacity of learning and transmitting knowledge through the use of tools, language, and system of abstract thought, b: the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits constituting a distinct complex or tradition of a racial, religious or social group. ... If we build off these definitions for this paper we could build a working definition and say that culture is the projection of the production of all abstract things, such as art, religion, sports, and l...

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However, perceptions are formed by a complex set of cultural rules which sway people to distinguish what is striking to them and what is not, more precisely, what actually makes an ideal woman" (Sultana 55). ... American culture has not only helped create the anorexic young woman whose eating disorders are tied to a low sense of self-esteem--approximately 90 percent of sufferers are female; various polls have revealed that young women see themselves as "too fat" while in fact they are often below standard norms for body size[40]--but fashion has served up the newest ideal of "heroin chic": a f...

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However, as we shall see, speech in almost any society can take many very different forms, and just what forms we should choose to discuss when we attempt to describe the language of a society may prove to be a contentious matter. ... All these culture-loaded or conditioned features are often mirrored and recognized in their behavior, social relationships, social and moral values, and in art and literature. ...

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This was because since women were prevented form gaining a good education they could not obtain a high-income job since this usually required academic success. ... In 1865 the Kensington Society was formed. ... Many feminists agreed with this, since any education that girls could receive concentrated mainly on music and art. ...

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Since the 1920's, the film industry has been constantly progressing through uses of different shots, lighting, and cameras. Through America's past time, we are able to understand how certain events through decades have influenced the way film is made. From the roaring twenties, through the great d...

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Historians use this material to form coherent narratives and uncover linked sequences and patterns in past events. ... The two forms were not infrequently mixed. ... It was continued by such men as Ernest Lavisse, Charles Seignobos, and Achille Luchaire, who were among those who turned history into a wide study. 11 In the 19th cent. the history of the nation state became the dominant form of history writing. ...

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Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder - wage earners and their families were at a particular disadvantage in the capitalist jungle.Workers were slaves to the whims of their masters, the capitalist who own and ran private industry. Many of the workers were immigrants ignorant of the language and ways of their new country were the most vulnerable members of this class...

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