Attitudes are defined as having positive or negative judgments of people, things and concepts. It is believed that attitudes are formed from affective, cognitive and conative components. Societal and cultural norms have a significant influence on many individualsâ attitudes. Societal and cultural norms of physical attributes, socioeconomic status, and health status are portrayed throughout the media. The media has a significant influence on society, as it is a part of our everyday life. However, the influence that the media holds...
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One of the most famous films about 1960s or âLong Sixtiesâ time frame in the United States history is âForrest Gumpâ. In fact, âForrest Gumpâ is a 1994 film, which is directed by Robert Zemeckis and acted by the top-credited stars like Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, Robin Wright as Jenny and so on. The main character Forrest Gump with a below- average IQ of 75, however, he has an inspiring of love and affection and being such a duty...
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Big changes in technology bring big changes in the music world. With every new discovery in the technological world, we find a way to improve the quality of our music and the techniques behind it. One of those inventions which paved the way for more complex audio recordings was the magnetic tape recorder. The use of it brought big changes in the radio and the music recording industry. The biggest advantages of this technology were the possibilities of re-recording, combining...
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When someone is in love, it is natural to behave out of the ordinary. More importantly, many factors lead them to think about things they usually wouldnât do if they werenât in love. A great example of this plays out in Shakespeareâs play, âRomeo and Julietâ. Initially, Romeo was depressed after getting rejected by another girl, but his perspective of love changed for the first time upon meeting Juliet. However, their relationship wasn't supposed to happen because they were from...
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In his article âHow Walt Disney Ruined Our Livesâ, which appeared in the Brandeis Magazine in 2013, Harvard-trained psychologist Robert Epstein talks about the impact of some of Walt Disneyâs most famous films on the nature and dynamic of committed human relationships, specifically marriages. He mentions how these Disney movies, which are themselves based on ancient (and quite sinister) folktales collected by literary giants like Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm brothers from their respective cultures, have contributed to the...
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Parents should write a petition to Disney to make their princesses fit the mold of young girls across the world and protest the amount of sexualization that is being presented to girls through TV and the Internet. Stephanie Hanes (2011), author of âLittle Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effectâ, claims that Disney stated: âThe Disney princesses teach girls valuable life lessons like kindness and the love for animalsâ. Several parents have found themselves mixed up in the controversy...
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What I remember the most from my early childhood is my dadâs Sony DVD player. He bought it in 1997 when he married my mom, right before the China-Japan Relations worsened and Sony got rare in the market. It cost my dad three monthsâ worth of salary, but the money was well spent because the DVD player became the primary form of entertainment in my family for the next ten years. My dad often used it to play me various...
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The film âThe Boy in Striped Pajamasâ written by John Boyne uses an array of language features such as descriptive language, imagery, tone, and atmosphere to comment on issues of concern. This includes the marginalization of the Jewish culture, discrimination of people based on their culture and race, and prejudice. In the opening scenes of the film, we are introduced to the film's main character Bruno, an eight-year-old character, that lived happily in Berlin surrounded by familiar places, friends, and...
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K-pop (short for Korean pop) is a genre of popular music which originated from South Korea. It is influenced by styles and genres from around the world, such as rock, jazz, gospel, hip hop, R&B, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots. However, K-pop as we know it today has evolved into a cocktail including Korean music, fashion style, and dance to capture the imagination of Korean youth. K-pop has begun to...
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For my paper, I have chosen to focus on South Korean popular music. The genre of South Korean music I am very interested in learning more about is the K-pop genre, primarily because I noticed how big it has become in recent years. Interestingly, I discovered that you can actually trail and follow the origin of the K-pop genre all the way back to the late 19th century, more specifically around the year 1885. This is when Henry Appenzeller, known...
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K-pop is a genre of popular music originated from South Korea. It is basically a musical genre that consists of an assortment of other genres such as electronic, hip-hop, rock and R&B music. First and foremost, in this essay I'm going to talk about the birth of K-pop and how K-pop has been steadily building into a global phenomenon. In addition, to talk about what goes behind the scenes in the K-pop industry. And finally, to talk about peopleâs perspective...
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The 2001 film, âA Beautiful Mindâ, tells the story of John Nash, a brilliant mathematical mind and Nobel prize winner in economics who has suffered from schizophrenia throughout his life. The film faithfully portrays the passages of his illness, from the onset to the stage in which he chooses to ignore the hallucinations that will continue to accompany him throughout his life. John Nash was diagnosed at about 30 years of age with paranoid delusional schizophrenia, a mental illness that...
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Schizophrenia, like many other disorders, is an invisible illness that affects about 1/100 people within society. The illness itself is cognitive and emotional dysfunctions, including delusions, and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and inappropriate emotions (Barlow, D. H., Durand, V. M., Lalumiere, M. L., & Hofmann, S. G., 2018).) Many individuals have mistaken schizophrenia as a âsplit personalityâ which is also referred to as âmultiple personality disorderâ in the DSM-5. While some symptoms of both illnesses may seem similar, such...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is widely known as one of the best classical musicians of all time. Not much is known about his life top given his early passing at age 35. Symbolic of the saying stars that shine bright burn out too soon. While we can draw modern parallels of musicians in the modern era who passed as it seemed they were reaching the peak of their careers. Artists such as Michael Jackson has extensive biography from the moment he...
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This essay covers the definition and origins of jazz, how jazz started developing over the years and the changes involved. It will then focus on one of the many subgenres of jazz, orchestral jazz, and one of George Gershwinâs orchestral jazz compositions called âRhapsody in Blueâ. Starting off with what jazz is. Since jazz was described as âa piece of music entirely surrounded by noiseâ in 1919, countless attempts have been made to give it some kind of definition, but...
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Jazz and contemporary classical music are a like in many ways, while also being very different. Music culture in itself is something that is developed slowly over a great deal of time, with constant study and rehearsal in the given genre. Each music culture having its own set of ârulesâ of dos and donâts. The better you know these rules, the better understanding of a genre you will have. First letâs start with a definition of the two genres. Jazz...
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The Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 brought many changes, often prohibitions and restrictions to parts of society that the Nazis deemed inferior to, or at odds with their ideology. One of the most prominent of these changes was the control and prohibition of music in Nazi Germany. Considering how vital and valued music is in society, many would question how anyone could successfully take away or control a societyâs music. Thus, this paper attempts to answer the question of...
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The German Nazi Party has lived on in infamy as one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. Few things compare to the horror of the Jewish Holocaust brought about by the racist ideology and practices of this tyrannical political movement. Any reasonable person in the 21st century looks back and wonders, âHow could this have happened?â. âHow could an entire country in the modern world be complicit in the execution of over 11 million people, many of which...
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Until now, gaming meant looking at a screen for hours. Regardless of how detailed a game's graphics are, people are always aware that they still sit in their living room while killing zombies or shooting enemies on their large flat screen TV. However, playing virtual reality games gives them the opportunity to enter a totally different world. Therefore, the aim of this report is to make a comparison of virtual reality games with screen games and to see which is...
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Stop-motion is a form of animation in which figures are made, positioned, and photographed to build up frames individually to complete a film from the resulting images. I question the relevancy of stop-motion animation regarding its effectiveness in comparison to the digital advancements that has led to digital animation becoming, arguably, the mainstream form of animation. Typically, it is an old style of animating where audiences may reflect on Ray Harryhausenâs films or Jan Svankmajer, where they have the vintage...
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Presently, there are several films that portrays a number men and women with intellectual and development disabilities that conjures up humans notwithstanding of their restrictions. It shows how special these exceptional adolescents are that have been undervalued and disregarded by using our society long time ago. Thus, the movie âForrest Gumpâ, performed via Tom Hanks, tells about a 'slow-witted' character who by no means suppose any less of his incapabilities via his supportive mother. Despite of it, he grew to...
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The media plays a significant role in our daily lives by providing us with cultural, educational, and supplemental information that cultivates our knowledge while also shaping our political aspects and framing our cultural guidelines in society. It has the role of being an effective educator, by informing us of anything newsworthy, which is quite true, but what most people donât know is the canny and manipulative ways on how they are doing it. They hinder with our public opinion through...
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âForrest Gumpâ is an American drama-comedy movie written by Eric Roth and directed by Robert Zemeckis that focuses on the character Tom Hanks, who shares the same name as the movie. The movie rotates on the life history of Tom (Gump), a simple man with a low IQ of 75, short and wears braces on his legs. Despite his disability, his mother sees him through his life and allows him to choose his destiny. She makes him believe that heâs...
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Picture this: being in your pajamas all day, having the biggest yard to play in and only being separated from your best friend by a thin wire fence. Shmuel is Brunoâs dream come true with the âideal lifeâ. A movie of historical tragedy where a young boy makes the most of the unfortunate circumstances. âOut-Withâ, where Bruno and his family get relocated, is Bruno's word for âAuschwitzâ, a concentration camp in German-annexed Poland, where Jews were imprisoned and killed during...
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This essay will provide research (both found and from personal experiences) based upon how disadvantaged and disabled people react to music of different genres ranging from classical to more modern styles of music. Music therapy has been used to help disadvantaged and disabled people for hundreds of years dating back to 1789. Musical therapy is considered to be a healthy form of therapy especially for children and adults with autism. One of the reasons that music has quickly become a...
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Throughout the years, film has become one of the most iconic forms of entertainment. With so many different genres arising, people across the world can view films of their preference. Horror movies have been around for decades and we have seen the genre emerge as one of the most popular categories in film. Since the late 1800âs till now present day, horror movies have developed and transformed in many ways. In my experience, horror films were the most intriguing because...
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âThe Shawshank Redemptionâ is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont. To summarize the film, it tells a story of a banker Andy Dufresne, who was sentenced two life sentences in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife, and her lover despite the claims of his innocence. During the movie, he befriends a fellow prisoner named Ellis Redding, also known as âRedâ a contraband smuggler. The director develops a major theme throughout the film,...
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The most remarkable changes in humansâ collective exposure have been the introduction of mass media. The introduction of media has been an increasingly and rapid form of communication between human beings. The uses of radio, television, film, video games et cetera, has become an ever so present thing in humansâ lives and holds a great value in all aspects of societies across the globe. Although these forms of media were not created to cause harm to others, through the mutilation...
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What Is Cinematography? âCinematography is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truthâ (Morpheus). We love cinema no matter how much the formats...
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Texts motivate the collective to question the realities presented. Orwell's novel â1984â provides a political commentary on the impact of a totalitarian regime. Similarly, Peter Wier's film âThe Truman Showâ is used to depict the rise of mass surveillance and the paranoia that follows in the post-Cold War period of 1998. Orwell's and Wier's works likewise bring forth concepts that question their context, including those of overall control and the how truth is represented by a higher authority. Both the...
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