Popular Culture Popular culture is the culture that is adopted and appeals to large masses of people, normally the middle class citizens. ... Popular culture means that artefacts and styles of human expression develop from the creativity of ordinary people, and circulate among people according to their interests, preferences, and tastes. Popular culture thus comes from people; it is not just given to them. ... The point of views below will be given to show about popular culture, and what any other people think. ... To conclude this section, the " popular" in popular culture really means...

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He defines what most people think of when they hear the word "Landscape", which is usually a well-maintained lawn with a few trees. ... Lewis tells us that there are very few books written on the ordinary landscape, and if you do find a few on the subject they all contradict each other. ...

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Even "people" for Americans means many different "I's," not all the same "we," as it is understood by Russian people like me. ... Only bad, dishonest people can get everything at once. ... This act is ordinary and nobody will judge you. ... This example underlines the rationality of American people. ... Otherwise, people can not survive here. ...

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In an individualistic society it is empowered by people who are constantly looking for an upper-hand. ... Ordinary citizens are not expected to participate in politics or even to vote. ... View was brought to the United States by people who settled the southern colonies. ... Although, the groups could change, it is highly unlikely because they cover a wide-span of people and regions. ... These cultures demonstrate the types of people involved and effected by certain issues. ...

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Material and non-material culture in the film were very out of the ordinary, which is why their world is so harsh E. ... Boys in the Hood basically had nothing but black people in their society. There were a few white people. ... Non-material culture consisted of people with basically no values, and a mind set that you must kill to stay alive. ... Also if unlike people from different societys are forced to be together they will collaborate into one, especially if they are both striving to reach the same goal. ...

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This meant that if you were promiscuous, an alcoholic, or just about anything that was considered out of the ordinary you kept it to yourself. ... The very mention of sex in Pleasantville brought about a look of puzzlement, because the people of Pleasantville had never been exposed to sins of sexual promiscuity. Making love is magical passionate thing between to people who want to express their love by taking it one step further. ... Well that is a question that you should be asking yourself because the people of Pleasantville sure thought so. ... In fact some people (speaking from personal...

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First of all I should start by defining what globalisation means, thus after a basic investigation on the subject we will be able to identify the positive and the negative points about this polemic but ordinary movement originated in a period where a new race has emerged, the homo consumens. " Twentieth century industrialism has created this new psychological type, homo consumens, primarily for economic reasons, i.e. the need for mass consumption which is stimulated and manipulated by advertising" (Boyd-Barret & Newbold, 1995:195). ... Music, films, commodities, people, everything is consta...

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Culture being such a big part of the Western way of life, the people believed in themselves and their rights to freedom. ... The Greek " whether he was an influential politician, an ordinary seaman, a rich merchant, or a subsistence farmer " fought not only for his city, but also to preserve both his own home and his own way of life; the Persian, on the other hand " whatever his individual station; slave or free " fought for his King. ... Whereas, in the West the soldiers and people were solely basing their warfare on their cultural believes and efforts. ... It is obvi...

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Mairs says: "I lead, on the whole, an ordinary life, probably rather like the one I would have led had I not had MS. " (Mairs 247). ... Changing people's mind is hard, specially for a women who want to be taken seriously among such a hostile environment. ... "I wake up in the morning feeling the way most people do at the end of a bad day, and I take ir from there " (Mairs 247). ... She grew up with different customs and traditions from the other people who lived around her. " Puerto Rican mothers also encouraged their daughters to look and act like women and to dress in clothes our Anglo ...

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So, we see that the people bow to superior forces when faced with decisions that could cause people to lose their lives. ... The people of the village have a profound fear of the spirits, and trust them to be fair and just in their judgements. The spirits have a power that no ordinary man can have and as such some men will listen to no other judgement. ... However, in No Longer At Ease, education has become elitist and it is only certain people who can continue their studies. ... (TFA, p.9) This shows how strong people's belief are, and no one is considered a coward for being afr...

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To the Vietnamese, Little Saigon expresses a distinctive and indispensable Vietnamese character, Tran- a 65-year-old Vietnamese woman says, "I don't come to buy things, I come to see people, strangers mostly, who come...to do ordinary, everyday things, but in an environment where, because of the familiarity of faces and language, we never feel out of place" (Dizon). Moreover, the presence of Vietnamese people is what makes Little Saigon more noticeable and exclusive. ... With no doubt, Little Saigon offers Vietnamese people a certain comfort of being with people who share the sa...

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E.K.B. now has to choose between his uncle's fabulous pieces, which have involved effort and a lot of skill or some ordinary machine-made items. ... Sujata Bhatt's objective of this poem is to present to people how difficult it is to move to a foreign country but wanting to still speak her native language, her mother tongue. ...

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The 21st century is marked by an increase in interaction between people from all parts of the globe, irrespective of race, religion, gender and nationality. ... In such a scenario, young and old alike, the politician and layperson, as well as the ordinary traveler and seasoned diplomat seek the services of people who may translate information and knowledge effectively and appropriately so as to ease human interaction. ... Seen from a cultural perspective, translation takes on the role of being a facilitator of understanding between races and people. ... The importance of learning about people...

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It seems that the overall point Newman tries to make is that people feel a need to know what appropriate behavior is in order to function as a society. ... To them, it is nothing out of the ordinary to fully explore the bodies of those that are a part of their tribe. ... As Shneebaum relates in the section about the British man who did a study of the Murat people (Schneebaum 107). ... Cannibalism definitely does not fit our mold of a "civilized" society, and it goes to show that it is simply a widely held social construction that people are not to murder and eat other people. ... The Akara...

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Since consumer culture has influenced people to value possessions more then people, its harder to find people who will love her. She goes to support groups because "when people think your dying they really listen to you instead of waiting for their turn to speak." ... According to Shane McNally, "Popular culture silently functions to keep ordinary people ignorant of their true situation in order to make money." ... He doesn't care about how people died while driving the cars he sells. ... Usually people don't buy things they never heard of. ...

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"Pop Art" takes its subject matter from popular culture such as comic strips, motion pictures, and advertising, as well as ordinary everyday objects, which are portrayed by using various artistic technologies. ... He was extremely interested in the media and the influence that it had on people's lives; he was intrigued with how vulnerable society was to the media's influence. ... He was so taken by the fact that the media was able to manipulate people's emotions that he soon began his series of Jackie Paintings, which displayed Kennedy's grieving widow. ... When faced with ...

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For example, Raymond Williams defined culture in his 1965 book, The Long Revolution, as "a particular way of life which expresses certain meanings and values not only in art and learning, but also in institutions and ordinary behavior. ... According to this conception, culture refers to people's everyday sense-making or meaning-making experience. ... First, communication, like what people from the transmission perspective would agree, involves at least two persons. ... This point highlights an essential aspect of communication's nature: As people maintain their relationship through c...

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There are many types of cultures that define different types of people. ... Govinda knew that he would not become an ordinary Brahmin. ... My friends are the people who have the biggest impact on what my pleasures are. ... For example, people like Martin Luther King Jr. rejected society in order change society. ... These people are people I look up to that went through cultural rejection. ...

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He later loses favor with the gods and or his people. 17. ... In the ancient world, mythology was not fiction, but was the religion of the people (?... This split was driven by the needs of the people (Sabin 12). ... In the autocratic world of the early civilizations, it is interesting to note that heroes were often male leaders, while in the modern, democratic world, heroes are more similar to ordinary citizens who often have much less power. ... People need more personal comfort, which comes largely from personal heroes. ...

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To every one he talks to about the Dowayo, their response is that they are useless and illiterate people so at this point Barley is perplexed and uncertain what his remaining trip holds for him. ... This routine included a ritual of greeting people. ...

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(The Hanliu phenomenon refers to the enthusiasm of Asian people for Korean mass cultures such as Korean dramas, pop songs and fashions.) ... Hanliu phenomenon is a big chance for approaching the Chinese fashion market of the largest buying power in the world: 1,300 million people. ... The research questions: Branding is value-adding communication; culture is a way of communication by a group of people; and value imbeds deeply in culture. ... The target groups were people aged between 25 and 55, living in cities with relatively high personal and family income. ...

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National Advertisers, big business, governments, working class people and sports enthusiasts in Canada all revel in the brilliance of this modest trophy, and the way it encompasses Canadian dreams and societies struggles by just being there. ... Teams who at best are just a key cog in a privately owned business whose products are accessible to a very large number of people. ... Canadian people and their passion for the game of hockey from coast to coast are joined together when in the presence of the cup. ... These clubs epitomized the social and gender discrimination of the times since ma...

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My purpose is to inform those interested in the subject as well as give recommendations to management and other people who may want to implement a strategy for improving their employees' or their own communication skills. ... Background Intercultural Communication The majority of all business dealings whether domestic or international, involve communicating with people of many different cultural backgrounds. ... "When people have misunderstandings or commit errors' when working with persons from different cultures, they are often unaware that any problem exists. ... People ...

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