[pic] AMST 100 – Introduction to American Studies Fall 2013 -- 100-01 -- 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. MWF – Information Technology 229 100-05 -- 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. MWF – Sondheim 409 Instructor: Ellen Gorman Office: Fine Arts 424 Office Hours: By appointment E-mail: elg@umbc.edu; elgorman@msn.com Required Texts Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Karen Sternheimer The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz Shoplifting from American Apparel, Tao Lin It's Bigger Than
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dance music festival, and Nokia sponsors an international karaoke championship. Last year, Coca-Cola launched the Coke Studio @ MTV television series. "As a brand, we wanted to create something which has a Coke stamp to everything," says Wasim Basir, Director, Integrated Marketing Communications, Coca-Cola India. Coke Studio, which recently ended its second season, aired on MTV, Colors and Doordarshan. Brand pushers know that great music can make anything beautiful - even bitterness and politics. Thus
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Although faced with many challenges and uncertainties, small businesses continue to expand and flourish across the United States. Small businesses are created through entrepreneurship, involving creativity, energy, proper planning and innovation; they benifit the country by providing opportunities, such as creating new jobs, making profits and improving the quality of a market products. Every small business has its own unique story of success and disparity. Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, founders
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internet to check our e-mail or to look something up we had to go home on get on the computer, but now with smartphones you can access your e-mail where ever you are. Finally with the convergence of radio and television you get such things as the news, MTV, or just the plain music channel where its 24 hours of straight music by genre. If you have noticed all of my examples show how convenient things become when converging forms of media, by converging media it makes life easier for people who are on the
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1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and briefly as Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor.[1] Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2010,[2] making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. MTV ranked him at number two on their list of The Greatest MCs of All Time and Rolling Stone named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time.[3] His double disc album All Eyez on Me is one of the best selling hip hop albums of all time. Shakur began his
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International Management: Managing Across Borders and Cultures, Text and Cases, Seventh Edition SEVENTH EDITION FEATURES • Streamlined text in eleven chapters, with particular focus on global strategic positioning, entry strategies and alliances, effective cross-cultural understanding and management, and develop- ing and retaining an effective global management cadre. The seventh edition has been revised to reflect current research, current events and global developments, and includes company
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Teen Mom The show “Teen Mom” in my opinion has a very positive and negative balance of the show. Teen Mom is a television show which comes on the television station MTV, it is about a group of high school girls who have had babies, and they are still trying to maintain work, or even finish school. The show lets society into these girls’ lives, and shows the struggles, and also the high points of these teenage boys and girls lives, after having children. The show follows at least four to five young
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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 was twerked. EVERYBODY was so disgusted at her preference that she lost mutch more
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it to me. This is my first memory of really getting to explore a type of music other than country& western. I was hooked on the upbeat dance tempo, and strong message of confidence. The first time my brother showed me the music video for “Bad” on MTV I became addicted to learning the moves of the urban street gang dancers. As a pre-teen my first musical “love” was The New Kids on the Block. I had my entire bedroom plastered with the posters I had ripped out of magazines such as Tiger Beat, and
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HCS/465 September 14, 2012 Annotated Bibliography on Teen Pregnancy For year teen pregnancy has been on a problem in many countries. Here in the United States teen pregnancy has raised, with no help from programs like Teen Mom on MTV and the National Geographic’s channel. Most people see a dramatic version of what it might be like with the cameras on, but when the cameras off, life takes a completely different turn. You do not have anyone paying you for a chance for the world to
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