...Jensine Tomi Ms. Nataraj Sr. Honors Language Arts January18, 2011 Snooki: Change We Can Believe In Nicole Polizzi is a strong, beautiful, and independent woman. Most of the citizens in the United States of America recognize her as a character called “Snooki” in the world’s most popular reality television show called Jersey Shore. She is a role model for young teenagers as well as the other members of the show. Also, she has made a hairstyle called “The Poof” very popular. This new hairstyle has created a whole new trend in society. Everyone is trying to make their hair long and full of volume just like Nicole’s hair. Her elegance, class, and hair have made her a well-known public figure to society. Not only is she changing television, but now she plans on heading to the white house. She believes President Barack Obama’s stylist is harming the president’s physical appearance. The President of the United States of America is our country’s representative. The way he appears to the rest of the world is how the United States will be perceived. When a president is on top of the trends, it shows he is well informed and austere about what pleases the citizens of his country. If he does not dress fashionably, his former supporters who voted for him in the previous election may not vote for him again. Also, other political leaders will not be able to take him seriously if he is not up-to-date on what is modern and current. According to the magazine Hot Politics, Nursultan...
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...Engl 503 S.M. Rabillard Term Paper Dec 6 2001 Exchanging the Currency of Authenticity: Live Performance and Mediatization in Hiphop Culture Baba Brinkman 0135748 Welcome to the wonderful World of entertainment Where art imitates life And people get famous Welcome to the world Of show-biz arrangements Where "lights, camera, action" Is the language. -Jurrasic 5 Performance studies in the last few years has begun to reject essentialist notions of live performance as ontologically distinct from the influence of recorded media, or mediatization. Philip Auslander deconstructs the traditional binary of live versus mediatized forms in his recent study, Liveness: Live Performance in a Mediatized Culture. Since hiphop culture and rap music originated in a post-industrial urban setting, they have always been inherently mediatized to some degree. However, if there is no unmediatized performance in hiphop culture, a huge premium is still placed on immediacy. Since the appearance of rap records in the late seventies and MTV rap music videos in the mid-eighties it has become increasingly easier for rap artists to achieve success without having to first build a local following. In response to this phenomenon, music critic Nelson George has made a political analogy: recorded media "has made rap more democratic--but is democracy good for art? Hiphop was, at one point, a true meritocracy"(George 113).i Hiphop culture struggles between its status as meritocracy ...
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...This article is about the cultural movement. For the music genre, see Hip hop music. For other uses, see Hip hop (disambiguation). Graffiti of "hip hop" in Eugene, Oregon Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic subculture that originated in African-American and Hispanic-American communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx.[1][2][3] DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, B-boying and graffiti writing.[4][5][6][7] [8] Since its emergence in the South Bronx, hip hop culture has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the world.[9] Hip hop music first emerged with disc jockeys creating rhythmic beats by looping breaks (small portions of songs emphasizing a percussive pattern) on two turntables, more commonly referred to as sampling. This was later accompanied by "rap", a rhythmic style of chanting or poetry presented in 16 bar measures or time frames, and beatboxing, a vocal technique mainly used to imitate percussive elements of the music and various technical effects of hip hop DJ's. An original form of dancing and particular styles of dress arose among fans of this new music. These elements experienced considerable refinement and development over the course of the history of the culture. The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises from the appearance of new and increasingly elaborate and pervasive forms of the practice in areas where other elements of hip hop...
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...tupac Hip-hop music is generally considered to have been pioneered in New York's South Bronx in 1973 by Jamaican-born Kool DJ Herc. At a Halloween dance party thrown by his younger sister, Herc used an innovative turntable technique to stretch a song's drum break by playing the break portion of two identical records consecutively. The popularity of the extended break lent its name to "breakdancing"--a style specific to hip-hop culture, which was facilitated by extended drumbreaks played by DJs at New York dance parties. By the mid-1970s, New York's hip-hop scene was dominated by seminal turntablists DJ Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, and Herc. The rappers of Sugarhill Gang produced hip-hop's first commercially successful hit, "Rapper's Delight," in 1979'. The local popularity of the rhythmic music served by DJs at dance parties and clubs, combined with an increase in "b-boys"--breakdancers--and graffiti artists and the growing importance of MCs, created a distinctive culture known as hip-hop. For the most part, hip-hop culture was defined and embraced by young, urban, working-class African-Americans. Hip-hop music originated from a combination of traditionally African-American forms of music--including jazz, soul, gospel, and reggae. It was created by working-class African-Americans, who, like Herc, took advantage of available tools--vinyl records and turntables--to invent a new form of music that both expressed and shaped the culture of black New York City youth in the...
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...* Question 1 * Utilitarianism According to the theory of Utilitarianism, the decision which will produce the best consequences would be broadcasting the prank call as the greatest amount of pleasure will be produced through this decision. The extent of the happiness will be the listeners of the radio station being entertained at the time the prank is broadcasted, which is a huge number of people (Low, 2013). Owners of the radio station will also be happy when the amount of listeners that tune into the radio channel at this particular time increased to listen to the prank calls made by the radio DJs. This extent of happiness will far exceed the extent of unhappiness caused by this prank call, which are only the nurses being pranked and/or the characters being imitated in the prank call. We can also take another feature for the calculation of the amount of happiness being generated, for example, the duration of happiness (Low, 2013). The duration of the unhappiness is longer than happiness because people who are unhappy tend to take a longer time to recover from that unhappiness. The happiness that the listeners have only will last during the few minutes of the broadcast or maybe a few minutes after as well. The total amount of happiness will still outweigh the total amount of unhappiness because the extent of happiness far exceeds and dominates the net amount of happiness. Therefore, it will be ethical to broadcast the prank call based on utilitarianism. * Kantian...
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...To truly understand the evils of human trafficking I needed a first hand perspective. Laura Abasi, a fake name made to protect the real victim, at age 15 was tricked into the business that is trafficking. Laura was brought up in a middle-class home and her father was a doctor. She was fortunate to have riches and royalties all her life. Quinn, at age 20, played the role of a boyfriend and manipulated Laura into falling head over heels in love with him. Quinn was Laura's first pimp, she soon developed another alias named Amber. A trick is when the pimps trade women, Laura was tricked to a man named DJ. "Bitch, you mines now." Since Laura had been in the industry for a while she knew the drill. DJ made Laura fall in love with him, then he took...
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...CDs, television shows, advertisements, and the internet. This shows how big of an impact it has on America and American music. A brief history shows Hip-Hop’s achievements and milestones. Hip-Hop is divided into two: the DJ and the MC. The DJ: Hip Hop began in South Bronx during the late 1970s. It arose when block parties were common in New York City. Deejays would use a technique to isolate the percussion breaks in songs. They did this because they knew that these percussion breaks would be easier to dance to (Hip-Hop music, par 5). This technique was very much seen in Jamaica and was brought to New York by DJ Kool Herc. DJ Kool Herc from Jamaica was known as the father of Hip-Hop. There were other Deejays that contributed to the expansion of Hip-Hop. These Deejays were DJ Hollywood, who invented the term Hip-Hop, and Grand Wizard Theodore, who invented scratching. Scratching is a technique used by deejays to produce distinctive sounds by moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable while manipulating the cross fader on a DJ mixer. New York was not the only city where Hip-Hop was becoming popular; Philadelphia was also contributing to its success. Philadelphia was perhaps the only city whose contributions were as great as those of New York City’s. A DJ by the name of Jazzy Jeff from west Philadelphia emerges and becomes very popular...
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...Hip Hop plays a big role in the young generation today as it did back in the day. Hip Hop started in The Bronx, New York a war torn country at the time. It kept children from hanging out in the streets and getting into trouble. The first documented hip-hop party was on August 11, 1973 and was hosted by Dj Kool Herc. There are four elements in hip-hop, they are dancing, rap, Dj and graffiti. Dance is a series of movements that match the speed and the rhythm of a certain piece of music. Rap is a form of music which a person swiftly rhymes poetry over a beat. A DJ is a disc jockey or the person who plays recorded music for the audience and sometimes talks over the track as it plays; they speak to the audience to keep the party hyped. The last element of hip hop is graffiti, and that is the writings or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed on a wall or any surface in a public place. This was the element of hip-hop that was misinterpreted by the mainstream media and most hated by the whites. In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, some thought that would bring everyone closer, like unite the people, but it didn’t. The 90’s were the birth of gangster rap, which the main focus was on the West Coast. After viewing this video I now know that hip hop is all colors and races, and was the voice of the young generation in the early 70’s just as it is today 40 years later, the rap game has evolved a lot since then, but its still the same...
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...The changing role of women in Australia has come about largely through waves of feminism. The first wave brought women the vote in federal and State elections. The colonies began to grant manhood suffrage halfway through the nineteenth century, however, women were not included in the begining. When Australia reached Federation in 1901, it was agreed that all women should be given the vote at a federal level since women from South Australia and Western Australia already had a State vote. In 1902 all women were given the vote in federal elections except for those who were Indigenous Australians, or of Asian, African or Pacific Islander descent. Despite the enfranchisement, no woman was elected to an Australian parliament until 1921. The first federal female parliamentarians were not elected until 1943. This is just one example of how enfranchisement fell short of truly improving the lives of Australian women or changing attitudes about them. Women were still seen as nurturers who had no other destiny than to marry and raise children. The few women who did work (excluding the wealthy who were involved in voluntary work) not only had to find paid work, but also had to carry the burden of all housework and child-rearing. The notion of what jobs a woman could do expanded during World War I, but women's role in public life was still very limited. Factors which brought about the women's movement Contrary to popular belief, women's groups and activists remained active throughout the...
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...Family Health Risk Assessment Beverly James submitted to Laura Lisicki MS, FNP-BC in partial fulfillment of NR 478 Community Health Nursing Practicum Regis University October 17, 2012 Family Health Risk Assessment Health risk assessment is an important component in health promotion and disease prevention in the individual, the family and the community. Choices can be healthy or unhealthy and each individual’s exposure may not have the same implementation. “The factors that determine or influence whether disease or other unhealthy results occur are called health risk” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2010, p. 334). This paper discusses the family and the assessment process. The use of the genogram and ecomap will be used to present family data. By reviewing the genogram, biological and age-related risks facing the family will be determined. The ecomap will present the social and environmental risks facing the family. As a final point, an analysis of the genogram and ecomap will be utilized to summarize the family strengths and problems or potential problems. Introduction of the Family and the Assessment Process The J family has the following family members: * Mr. D. J., a 58 year old financial analysis who just recently lost his job, has obesity, hypercholesterol, sleep apnea and borderline hypertension * Mrs. B. S., a 58 year old mother, a full-time Registered Nurse, and going to college part-time, has hypercholesterol and suffers with gastroparesis * R. S...
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...DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND Conditional Correlations and Volatility Spillovers Between Crude Oil and Stock Index Returns Roengchai Tansuchat, Chia-Lin Chang, Michael McAleer WORKING PAPER No. 4/2010 Department of Economics and Finance College of Business and Economics University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800, Christchurch New Zealand WORKING PAPER No. 4/2010 Conditional Correlations and Volatility Spillovers Between Crude Oil and Stock Index Returns Roengchai Tansuchat1, Chia-Lin Chang2, Michael McAleer3 January, 2010 Abstract: This paper investigates the conditional correlations and volatility spillovers between crude oil returns and stock index returns. Daily returns from 2 January 1998 to 4 November 2009 of the crude oil spot, forward and futures prices from the WTI and Brent markets, and the FTSE100, NYSE, Dow Jones and S&P500 index returns, are analysed using the CCC model of Bollerslev (1990), VARMA-GARCH model of Ling and McAleer (2003), VARMA-AGARCH model of McAleer, Hoti and Chan (2008), and DCC model of Engle (2002). Based on the CCC model, the estimates of conditional correlations for returns across markets are very low, and some are not statistically significant, which means the conditional shocks are correlated only in the same market and not across markets. However, the DCC estimates of the conditional correlations are always significant. This result makes it clear...
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...PBS Videos 6-10 In video 6: “Blues in Technicolor”, we learned a lot about how LSD played a major role in rock music. One of the popular figures who promoted LSD was writer Ken Kesey. One of the most prominent groups during this era of rock music was “The Grateful Dead”, who originated in San Francisco, and were heavily into improvising. There was a neighborhood at this time where the early psychedelic bands lived, and this place was called Haight Ashbury. This era also saw what was to be the end of the Beatle’s touring days, because they decided that they would rather experiment with new directions in the music industry. One of the first bands out of San Francisco to have success with pop was “The Jefferson Airplane”. Another major accomplishment from this era was in 1968 when LPs outsold 45s for the first time ever. This era of strong hippy movement which lasted a long while, came to an end by late 1969. In video 7, we learned about “The Velvet Underground” band and how they were associated with famous pop artist Andy Warhol. This same band which was popular in the 1960s, was also a major influence to Jim Morrison. Another extremely popular band during this era was “The Doors”. “The Doors” were major influence to “Iggy Pop”, along with “The Velvet Underground”. One of the most prominent figures in rock during this time was Alice Cooper, and his band. His band was really the definition of cultureless American society. Alice Cooper gained a lot of press for an...
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...explain the core concepts of strategic management of a retail industry, David Jones. In conducting this research, academic journals, textbooks, David Jones’ company reports and online news are used as the sources of information. This report analyses the external environments such as macro-environment and industry environment as well as examine the internal core competencies, using PESTEL model and Porter’s Five Factors. Moreover, core strategies and their application will also be addressed in the article. Several key challenges faced by the current business climate and some suggested recommendations for the firm’s future strategy to overcome the challenges will also be taken into consideration. Introduction David Jones Limited (DJs) is a high end Australian department store chain and was founded by David Jones in 1838 when it first opened in Sydney to...
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...SECTION 1 Project Name The Knot Project Background Wendy and her boyfriend Bob, now fiancé, have announced to her parents that they plan to get married once they have completed their Project Management course. Their course come to end 3 months from now, therefore their wedding is schedule to be on February 11th, 2015. The parents would thus like to plan and throw a memorable wedding and reception for their daughter and her fiancé. Project Justification - Business Case This project charter, entitled The Knot, suggests a business case for the preparation of the wedding for Wendy and Bob. The project of The Knot has begun after the initial shock and response to Wendy’s engagement announcement by her parents. Given the time constraint of 3 month, this project will outline, design, and execute a wedding that will be an unforgettable experience for both families and their guests. The parents have decided that the overall budget will be in the order of $20,000, with an invitation list of 150 guests, which will create a proper and legal ceremony followed by a formal reception. The Knot will therefore be developed and submitted for approval to the Project Sponsors, as well as to the Project Executives. The business case of the project charter may also be periodically reviewed, given the time constraint of 3 months, to ensure that the project is on track to deliver the implementations and to ensure the project effectively and efficiently meets the needs to the memorable wedding...
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...They feel like the lyrics were describing their lives. White people say that Hip Hop grew out of the South Bronx; others say that it was DJ Kool Herc who started everything. Kool Herc is a dj born in Jamaica. He was credited to making Hip Hop in the early 1970’s in the Bronx. Herc joined jazz and poetry together to make Hip Hop. He accredited James Brown and Lightning Rod for the foundation they provided but he gave life to it. Some African Americans say that it was made by the black youth movement in 1960. The Black youth movement was young African Americans from ages 15- 35 coming together to stop the inequalities, their poor education, poor housing, sexism, and racism. They started to take a stand, boycotts, and walk outs. In 1968, Hispanics youth joined the movement. Hispanic youth started the walk outs; in response to poor education. Hispanic youth organized school-walkouts. All these movements organized by African Americans and Hispanics were movements that influenced the start of Hip...
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