INTRODUCTION: Goa‚ a former Portuguese territory‚ for more than 450 years is often described as ’The Rome of the East’. It has over the past decades‚ become the dream holiday destination‚ for many a foreign tourist. More than 40 years after the departure of the Portuguese‚ Goa is perhaps the most westernized of all the states in Modern India. One of the things that make Goa unique‚ are the laws‚ a legacy that the Portuguese have left behind. The common civil code‚ confers equal status to all religions
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Canada’s popular culture is a little different than that of the United States. Canada seems to emphasize on nature and the effects of humans in nature. The book defines popular culture as a‚ “reflection of everyday in the lives of ordinary people” (Holman and Thacker‚ p. 125). They also have a theme of death in their stories they tell. When the Canadians tell about nature they always capitalize on the dangers and make it well known that there are many dangers in this world. They also have a survival
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Lion King (1994) produced by Disney who use movies as mass culture tools to sell their products to consumers of western society in a myriad of ways. This essay will analyse The Lion King for its mass culture aspects Mass culture also known as popular culture‚ represent products that are of mass consumption. This is in contrast to High culture in western society as a standardised formulaic approach to selling products to a large market. The difference being high culture represents work created
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culture by adopting several old positive cultures. This kind of alteration could happen in a kind of corporate culture. For example‚ the popular ethics of works of Japanese people became globalize through all over the world and unconsciously‚ it becomes a new culture in many companies in the worlds. Moreover‚ globalization in dietary culture turns out to be popular in term of fulfilling satisfaction of individual‚ and responding curiosity of trying something new. However‚ when it comes to family
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Youth Violence in Society "In 2002‚ more than 877‚700 young people ages 10 to 24 were injured from violent acts. Approximately 1 in 13 required hospitalization" (CDC 2004). Violence is everywhere. We can’t control it. Its on TV‚ it’s on the radio‚ it’s in our schools‚ it’s in the streets‚ and it’s everywhere. Currently in the US‚ the rate of crimes committed by minors has sky rocketed in the last 10 years. Now comes the big question‚ who’s to blame? As out society grows‚ so do its problems.
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Pop Culture Popular culture has a tremendous effect on our everyday lives for years and has had a significant change on everyone in some type of way. It is heavily influenced by technology. In some form of way technology has allowed people to gain more knowledge on general topics. “2b or Not 2b” by David Crystal‚ and “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” by Steven Johnson‚ both discuss how technology has had a huge impact on the way our modern day society works. Crystal argues the benefits that come with
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called thatching. Thatching is a technique that uses dried grass and stems from plants a weaves them together to create a heavy mat. Clothing is folk culture because the styles that the emigrants brought with them influenced styles here in America. Popular culture‚ also known as pop culture‚ is
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Outside of the battlefields‚ prostitution was widespread and ingrained in popular culture to such an extent that six of the fourteen Broadway theatres shared the same city blocks with a brothel during the Civil War. Meanwhile‚ the sexual double standard was quite apparent. Prostitutes were considered vile sinners‚ whereas men’s roles were often absolved. If someone was arrested for prostitution‚ it was generally the women who faced the harshest penalties while the men who paid for sex were usually
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The music was like Dalí‚ with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves." – Carlos Santana [17] Popular music entered an era of "all hits"‚ as numerous artists released recordings‚ beginning in the 1950s‚ as 45-rpm "singles" (with another on the flip side)‚ and radio stations tended to play only the most popular of the wide variety of records being made. Also‚ bands tended to record only the best of their songs as a chance to become a hit record. The taste
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great book bonfires of my Christian youth! That’s when books had some power! When they had to be burned like witches.” In all its ambiguity‚ transgressive fiction is a genre of selective taste. This sub genre within the world of contemporary popular fiction was first identified or rather labelled in 1993 by the critic Michael Silverblatt2‚ in an essay in the Los Angeles Times. He defined it thus: “A literary genre that graphically explores such topics as incest and other aberrant sexual practices
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