...Making money off of cultural appropriation- * adopting twerking as her “thing” * “#twerkteam” something like that on a picture * talking about it in interviews, explaining it like it’s her own * viral videos * took a dance from another culture, performed it and claimed ownership of it, gained popularity through it…. Using people from that culture * minstrelsy * black women being used as props in the video/performance Trey suggests, "twerking is one ofthose things you know when you see it, rather than necessarily being able to write a definition ofit." History of twerking- heavily quote from Baskerville thesis * “Most interviewees resisted this notion that twerking is inherently sexual and instead argued that it is hypersexualized in its current representations.” Pg 24 * The name is relatively new but the concept has been around for much longer * Page 24- tanisha scott talking about history of twerking- comes from traditional African dances. * Popularized in black America- 1990s and 2000s * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HT7-yFYXyk Cultural appropriation in pop music * selena gomez wearing a bindi on her head during a music video * lady gaga wearing a burqa * katy perry - geisha * while these are examples of cultural appropriation, like miley’s, the question of if they are problematic depends on how the “culture” is used. * Katy perry dressed as a geisha- less offensive than miley...
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...High School Graduation Speech Now that we are graduating I believe this time that we, class of 2014 fine tell all the people cheering on tonight but most importantly our parents three words we swore we will never say you were right. Now today, class of 2014 I challenge you to reflect on your past four years, remember who you are, where you are from, and what you represent. There’s this rumor that high school changes who you are and truth is I agree. Four years can really change a person just as Miley Cyrus because when we are freshmen she was a Disney star who was Hannah Montana riding horses and singing hoe down throw down, but now she rides wrecking balls. Although were change has been a drastic we are the naïve freshmen we once were when we first walked in as 15 year olds very awkward looking forward for the best years of our life. However, we seem realize that high school was not like High School Musical and all these singing and dancing and laughter usually ended as with crying on the way that IBCA everyday and trying to hide behind the bleachers to avoid the dreaded mile on PE. And not even next to classified school survival guide can prepare us for the horror of math excel. Since freshmen year we even change our styles and let’s take a moment to apologize to our parents for having to walk to that headache trap we called abracrombi freshmen over year. And now it’s instagram, twitter, and snapchat and if you don’t update each of them daily people will question your...
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...1. A description of my learning style includes, Tactile/Kinesthetic, which for this to be of service, helps for these students to move around, activities such as chemistry experiments, sporting activities, art and acting is a great way to put this style to good use, listening to music while learning or studying may help put this learning style to great use. This was the highest style I scored in, while the others had maybe three of four checks in their area. 2. When I was in Biology, we had to learn the bones and muscles in the human body for the semester final. Well when I went home after school, I had started to watch Hannah Montana, a teen show on Disney Channel. The episode happened to be the one where Hannah had to learn the same thing, so while she was singing “The Bone Song” she made; I had done some research on the lyrics. Well when the test came up in the next couple weeks, I quietly started to sing my version of the song. 3. Highlight textbooks and notes, create movies in your mind, create visual study tools, visualize pictures, charts, and diagrams, Edit your lecture notes, color code your notes and study sheets. I think these benefit me because, I really noticed that I learn with color, like my colored pens for different classes, say that when I’m in English 228, ill use my black pen to take notes, but when im in my Biology 111, ill use my blue pen. I tend to retain the info given, because ill remember the color. 4. Write word and question cards,...
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...SATIRE: HOMOSEXUALITY 05/08/2014 0 Comments Kenny was in the 7th grade, he loved to draw and he was really good . The guys in the 8th grade didn’t think that was cool though. They called him names. Kenny felt very upset . Was drawing for girls? Was he a homosexual? I mean he did like Hannah Montana, and Selena Gomez was a great singer. Why didn’t the others notice. He liked the color pink, he liked pink clothes. Why did the kids in the eighth grade call him a strawberry? Was it the shirt? I mean his dad wore pink shirts to church. His dad was not a homosexual! He had to be like the other boys, he had to start acting and dressing like them. Where would he shop now? Will he have to stop using clear nail polish? The Lady Gaga concert was coming up, what if someone saw him there? All of the seventh grade girls were going, what if they told? He shouldn’t go, he should stay home. But he has been waiting for this concert for TWO years! He had already bought his zebra printed pants, and those were so expensive. Last Monday he was standing in the lunch line, when he heard Charles the football player say “ Kenny, Kenny why are you such a lady” He knew it. His name was the problem, he had a girls name. HE WOULD CHANGE HIS NAME. that was the solution, after changing his name the eighth grade boys would like him....
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...“Miley has everything a girl could want, she has millions of dollars.” After Hannah Montana was over, she started to do drugs. Now, she doesn’t make the greatest decisions. She also grosses everyone out by sticking her tongue out all the time. Miley wears weird clothes, does drugs, goes to parties, and she’s pretty much out of control now. Miley Cyrus is even like this when she’s on stage. Miley is totally out of control. Miley does drugs, wears really weird expensive clothes, goes to big parties, and she can be a little weird and crazy at times. One reason Miley is out of control is she always has chose the wrong path. Her fans, family, and some friends are mad at her because of it. Miley’s dad is not the only one upset with her. “Many of...
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...Good afternoon. I am Anh and welcome to the Media watch seminar. On today's seminar, we will be investigating into the life of a singer and actress, who has recently been engaged to Liam Hemsworth and has made her comeback with a positive image, Miley Cyrus. Does “Hannah Montana” ring a bell to you? It sure does to any teenage girl as Miley Cyrus once used to be American sweetheart playing Hannah Montana in the eponymous Disney series with her squeaky-clean image in the media. After leaving her Disney cocoon for a while, she still makes her appearance in the public as a singer, however, whatever the identities that the media have constructed her as, Miley Cyrus is nowhere near the same squeaky-clean girl she used to be. The 23-year-old pop...
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...Expository STAAR Essay It is important for a person to be himself/herself because it allows them to accept who they are. Finding yourself played a huge role in Miley Cyrus’ life while she played Hannah Montana on Disney Channel. In Miley’s early years, she was seen as a shy, sweet farm girl that was not expected to become a huge pop artist. Miley was forced into a life that did not reflect her personality, which pushed her to make a drastic change. Miley Cyrus is now a top selling pop artist who demands the public’s attention. Cyrus also does not care about other people’s opinions because she is in love with who she is. Miley was the complete opposite of her true self while she was filming the show for Disney, and since then, she has...
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...siblings and three half-siblings. She is a famed actress/singer. She was born as Destiny hope cyrus but at 2008 she changed her name to Miley Cyrus. Miley Cyrus is the daughter of country star Billy Ray Cyrus. She began acting at a young age, appearing on her father's television series, Doc, and in Tim Burton's Big Fish. In 2004, Cyrus landed the starring role on Disney's hit show Hannah Montana, and Cyrus beat out 1,000 hopefuls to land the starring role of Miley Stewart on the hit Disney show Hannah Montana. The tween series features a young pop superstar (Montana) who hides her celebrity identity to be an everyday teen in real life (Stewart). To accommodate filming, the entire family moved to Los Angeles, California. In 2007, Cyrus's double album, Hannah Montana 2 and Meet Miley Cyrus, launched a tour: "Best of Both Worlds." The concert series sold out in record time, and the show was extended by 14 dates to help placate disappointed fans. Her successful 3D concert film collected $31.3 million during its opening weekend in February 2008. She was so tired of having the role as Hannah Montana, so she showed who she really was. She cut her hair short and took to wearing edgy fashions as part of her effort to craft a new image of herself. But no one was quite prepared for how far she would go. At the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony held in August 2013, Cyrus stunned the audience with her lewd and raunchy performance of her latest single, "We Can't Stop." there she also...
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...facebook posts, millions of loops on vine! Anything that could be made or shared, those moments at the VMAs was all that anyone could talk about. But for Miley, these sort of things happening are not a surprise. Over the years, Miley has turned from a sweet child star to the star of controversy. As she keeps gaining her fame, people wonder- is she doing this just for attention or is she giving a bold breakup with her childhood reputation? Miley Cyrus gained her fame at a very young age. At only 13, she became the star of the popular kid’s show Hannah Montana, a story about a young, normal high school student by day and a world famous teen pop star by night. Of course, Miley would not have even gotten the part if it were not for her infamous father, Billy Ray Cyrus, a well known country singer. By the time the show started through the time it ended, the era of Hannah Montana was surviving and thriving. Disney created Hannah Montana lunch boxes, microphones, and endless popular songs that never get out of your head....
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...monkey do” they want to be exactly like them. Young girls begin to starve themselves because of body image insecurities, casual teenage sex is immensely increasing, and clothing is beginning to get smaller and smaller. The worse case scenario is they typically blame their unacceptable behavior on television. All these bad habits are being adopted from children, which we must shut down. Increasingly Celebrity images are being publicized immensely across television, movies, magazines, and Internet in our generation of technology. I strongly believe this is largely a negative development. Miley Cyrus for instance, was known as “Hanna Montana” on the Disney Channel. The Hanna Montana franchise made Disney close to a $1 billion dollar. (DailyPix). That’s all thanks to her inspiring fans that look up to Miley Cyrus as a role model. Also her Hanna Montana Movie raised the revenue in the box office. The opening weekend, February 1–3, 2008, the movie had gross revenue of $31.1 million. It was the number one movie of the weekend. (Wikipedia). Opening in only 638 theaters, it set a record of over $42,000 per theater. It set a record for the highest revenue for a 3-D movie for one weekend. (Wikipedia). Her childhood identity is a long...
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...The Ultimate Excuse Note I would like to excuse my behaviour and performance at the Video Music Awards this year. Lately I have not been myself. Since I was a little girl I have always been known as either my fathers daughter or “Hannah Montana” - and I am tired of it. I do not want to be “Hannah Montana” anymore. I want to be a grown up musician and actress, but it is hard to be when I know how many children are watching what I do. I know it was wrong of me to smoke marijuana public. It send a wrong picture out to the children, and I do not want them to think it is okay or cool, or anything similar to that. It was stupid and wrong of me. When you are famous, like I am, you cannot have any privacy. Everything you do will come out public, and that is why I know now that I have to be more careful with my doings. Many people have commented on the video of me “twerking” up against Robin Thicke at the Video Music Awards this year, and I have read some of those comments. One person commented: “Only because she grew up it did not mean she needed to turn into a whore. Think about all the children that liked her”, and another person this: “Miley is trying to be a slut – not an adult!”. I would like to answer on those comments in this excuse note. As I said earlier, I want to be known as a grown up musician and actress, and I am sorry that it went so wrong. It was never in my intention to act like a prostitute, I just wanted to seem adult. But instead of “twerking” Robin Thicke...
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...CEO Bob Iger, came up with hit movie cars that generated $462 million worldwide. Then he created Hanna Montana, High school musicals and the Disney princesses. Bob Iger introductions have broadened Disney’s opportunities in the following ways; the creation of Cars franchise helps in cracking tween boy market which in turn will open another new franchise of science fiction adventures. Hanna Montana is another market opportunity that targets children that were created by Bob; he did this to push for new market for adult since the franchise was known to produce children film. Pirates of the Caribbean Sea were also the market changes since a new target market of adults came on board. Bob Iger priority was to broaden the Disney market which he did successfully by the creation of the franchises. He also increased viewership by the move of Disney channels from the premium to basic cable and also launching the local version to international or global market. Bob Iger created a new brand to broaden the market the first one was Pirates of the Caribbean, first Disney film which was rated Pg-13. It played an important role in the refocusing their brand, it also expanded the market appeal to older kids and adults. The car's franchise provided the first step for Disney’s latest attempts to penetrate the boy market. Hanna Montana and High school musicals have created the girl market and this is known as the biggest since girls...
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...The New York Fashion week, the major league of style Last week the New York fashion week took place in the Lincoln center to joint all the people around what is going to be use next year. This is the most important fashion event around the world and the most powerful fashion designers have the opportunity to show their work fresh to the public avid of trends. There were lots of celebrities and important people around the fashion world to watch and judge the designers proposals for the spring of 2015. The colors are, believe it or not, one of the most important key points of the week and here is the top list of the color trends for 2015. First of all the lemon yellow popped up in the middle of the classic tones to shine. Bright like the sun this happy tone will color the day on next spring. Then the ice blue made its entry with soft and fresh clothes. Almost all the designers include this color on their collections. As always white couldn’t fail to be there. It will be the neutral color. You could tell white is almost in every collection. Ivory was the perfect tone this year. Cherry red was one of the biggest surprises this season, the brilliant color appears in many collections, bringing life to them. Last but not least important pink had to be present on the runway, this time with soft tones of light rose. But not everything was perfect and as always some designers made their shows to be questioned, like Jeremy Scott and his pretty much psychedelic collection,...
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...television series Doc and the film Big Fish in her childhood. Cyrus became a teen idol for her portrayal of the starring character Miley Stewart in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana in 2006; her father Billy Ray Cyrus additionally starred in the show. Cyrus subsequently signed a recording contract with Hollywood Records; her debut studio album Meet Miley Cyrus was certified quadruple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for exceeding four million shipments. Cyrus released her second album Breakout and launched her film career as a voice actress in the animated film Bolt in 2008. Cyrus starred in the feature film Hannah Montana: The Movie and began cultivating a maturing image with her EP The Time of Our Lives in 2009. In 2010, she released her third album Can't Be Tamed, which stands as the lowest-selling record of her career, and starred in the coming-of-age film The Last Song. During production of the movie, she was involved in an on-again, off-again relationship with her co-star Liam Hemsworth; they ultimately separated after ending their year-long engagement in 2013. Cyrus focused on her acting career with several...
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...Betty Fortner December 5, 2014 SOC-100 Frank Smith Miley Cyrus and her Deviant Behavior Miley Cyrus was once a very sweet and wholesome girl who played Disney’s “Hannah Montana”. She was loved by many young girls. When the show ended Miley Cyrus quickly changed into a different person and that’s when her singing career began. She has done so many deviant things lately in her videos and her live performances that she has shocked everyone. She has made videos in the nude and has had some provocative performances on live music award shows that have really upset many people. The statistics show that a lot of people do not like Miley Cyrus because of her deviant actions their ages range from the older adult to teenagers. This is very sad since she was looked up to for so long by so many people. The statistics show that women over the age of 55 1 percent like her a lot. Teenagers 13-17 only 35 percent dislike her a lot. Ages 18 – 24 years old 43 percent dislike her a lot. Miley is no longer a positive role model for the younger generation she is now looked down on because of her deviant actions. Parents are outraged that she would get on stage and act that way, they did not want their children to be exposed to such a thing. Parents with children 5 and 7 are glad they were too young to like Hannah Montana so that they would not have Miley as their role model. The parents who were watching Miley Cyrus act in this deviant way were so shocked and outraged that the VMA award show...
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