...Introduction American culture, being traditionally perceived as quite liberal and democratic, is in fact paralyzed by the overwhelming power of stereotypes which shape the current image of culture at large and its industries, including music, in particular. Even the most innovative and advanced movements’ turn to be submitted to the canons of the ideology that dominates in American culture. Unfortunately, such a situation does not contribute to the development of really free, liberal and focused on spiritual, moral and intellectual progress of the consumers of the culture. Probably one of the most interesting, new and, unfortunately, typical example of the domination of stereotypes in American culture is the development of female black rap music, which has become particularly intensive in 1980s and is still quite dynamically developing. At first glance black female rap music should be free from traditional stereotypes, it should be innovative and contributing to black female emancipation and increasing the role of black females in the society at large but, in actuality, the situation is absolutely different. Despite the fact that many female rappers pretend to be unique at developing the new image of a free and independent black female, it turns to be that practically all of them, or at least the most popular of them, are ideologically dependent on the male dominance in proper and figurative sense of this word. It means that as a rule black female rappers tend to create an...
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...S.E. Cupp is the author of "Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity," co-author of "Why You're Wrong About the Right," a columnist at the New York Daily News and a political commentator for Glenn Beck's The Blaze. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hers. Updated 4:09 PM ET, Tue February 3, 2015 (CNN)As the world now knows, the star of the Super Bowl was not Tom Brady or Russell Wilson. It wasn't Katy Perry or Missy Elliot. It was the Left Shark. His onstage dance during the halftime show has earned him global acclaim and, I must say, some unfair scrutiny for his seeming missteps. But neither the general public nor the media seem to appreciate just how much work goes into an interpretive, character-based dance such as the one Left Shark performed last night, and how easy it is, if you are committed to your craft, to lose yourself in the moment. Allow me to enlighten you. As a former ballerina, classically trained at the School of the Boston Ballet, I can assure you that Left Shark -- if he is the student of dance I suspect him to be -- trained for months to get inside the head of his character. Literally. Who is Left Shark? he probably asked himself. And why must he dance? What is his relationship to Right Shark? Are they lovers? Enemies? Do they share custody of a boy shark who's starting to ask questions about his parents' separation, for example? This is what true dancers -- or danseurs -- do. As Patrick Swayze's character said in...
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...biggest athletes (Beckham, Kobe, etc.) • Established brand name: Historically largest share of soccer market in Europe (until 03) • Hiring Nick Drake brought insider’s view of mobile technology and market Internal Weaknesses • “Second place” to Nike • No longer the European premier soccer brand • Smaller marketing budget than Nike • Placed sponsorships with risky celebs “Kobe – sex scandal, Beckham – injuries, Missy Elliot – ?) External Opportunities • Increasing spending power of 12-24 year olds • Rise of soccer’s popularity in US • Growth of overall mobile market • Mobile market relatively untapped in US External Threats • Nike • Other mobile media “applets” • Other advertisers in print (hence, their need to break the clutter) • Other billboard advertisers (again, need to break clutter) Target Market • Basketball, baseball fans in US and Hockey fans in Canada • Hip Hop market in US Positioning • Seen as a fashion statement in hip hop market • To be a leading resource in mobile entertainment Price • $70-120 for Run DMC Style to Missy Elliot Boots • Similar to Nike, possibly cheaper Product • Mobile downloads, backgrounds, etc. • Sporting apparel including shoes, clothing, etc. • Hip hop fashion apparel Place • Global (sponsorship of World Cup) • National...
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...I drip on your sink like water, I splash on your sink with water, I feel like I’m 21 Savage. Water, Water, Water, Water, Water, Water, Water, Water. I drip on your sink like water, I splash on your sink with the water, water, water, water, water. Water on my sink I keep wet like my cellphone. Water on my white skin and the redbone. Andi wrap your pipe up like some headphones. You say I ain’t got nothing I’m Andi and I’m well known I ain’t got time for no wife, Yeah, you kiss a pipe, Yeah feel like Yachty just give me one night, Yeah and if she like coke I tell her I’m going to Yeah. Yeah sink I’m a Strapped up like a Man made like a Boosie faded like a Andi join the wave Player take a hike...
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...beliefs on social and cultural issues such motherhood, the education levels of single women and illegal immigration through the leading character by the name of Marietta Greer, but is referred to as Missy. Missy is a young woman who does not want to live her adult life “barefoot and pregnant” like the other women in Pittman County in rural Kentucky. As Missy enters her adult life she quits her job at the hospital performing platelet counts to purchase a minimalistic car and leave her dearest mother and ghost town to create and shape a fulfilling life. Along the way she is put through real life situations that test her limits. Through these trials and tribulations, Kingsolver is able to expose her views through the wild situations that Missy is thrown into. Kingsolver is unique and purposeful in all of her novels. She writes sequentially with the time period and uses brilliant writing techniques and pays close attention to detail. Although, Kingsolver’s official site says that the purpose of “The Bean Trees” was not to describe her personal beliefs, but it is quite obvious she used issues from 1980 to...
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...Protagonist- Main: Miles Ryan- Miles was the husband to Missy and is the father to Jonah. He is a loving father and will do anything for Jonah. Miles is also very hard working. As sheriff he works some funky hours and that puts a damper on hang out time with his son. Sarah Andrews- Sarah was new to town. She came for a fresh start in a town where no one knew her. She had moved from a big city and was ready to live on a small town. She moved because of an ex-husband but he was not happy when he found that Sarah could not have children, so he ended things. Jonah Ryan- Jonah is the son of Miles of Missy. He was very young when his mother dies and still does not quite understand it all. Minor: Charlie- Is also a sheriff who is one of the good friends of Miles that help him in solving the case of Missy. Antagonist- Main: Brian- the brother of Sarah who was the one who hit Missy on the road that kept it his secret until Sarah tells him about Miles' obsession and violent threats against Otis Timson. Minor: Otis Timson- A long time enemy of Miles that he even confessed to a local drunk that he was the one who hit Missy even though he was not really the one. SETTING The small town of New Bern, North Carolina (At Present) CONFLICT- The unsolved Case of Missy Ryan who was the wife of Miles Ryan that keep Miles not to move on to his life with Sarah Andrews and Jonah. (Eternal Conflict) PROBLEM- Who is really the one who hit Missy that keep Miles from moving forward for the best of his...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form MS MR – cosmic love flight facilities ft Elizabeth rose – I didn’t believe cold war kids – lost that easy yeah yeah yeahs – despair mumford and sons – whispers in the dark jinja safari – hiccups jinja safari – mermaids empire of the sun – dna andy bull – baby I am nobody now architecture in Helsinki – in the future massive attack – teardrops spiderbait – buy me a pony blur – song 2 silverchair – tomorrow the wombats – lets dance to joy division muse – knights of cydonia queens of the stone age – no one knows grinspoon – chemical heart modest mouse – float on augie march – one crowded hour radiohead – paranoid android pixies – where is my mind pixies – here comes your man pixies – debaser the smiths – this charming man the smiths – there is a light that never goes out the smiths – asleep glasvegas – the world is yours glasvegas – euphoria, take my hand the big pink – hit the ground the big pink – crystal visions Bombay bicycle club – shuffle Bombay bicycle club – always like this Bombay bicycle club – lights out, words gone The wombats – Tokyo The wombats – jump into the fog The wombats – techno fan The wombats – 1996 Karise eden – threads of silence The kinks – waterloo sunset The kinks – you really got me The kinks – all day and all of the night The kooks – naïve The kooks – seaside Ray lamontagne – let it be me Ray lamontagne – trouble Kings of leon – supersoaker ...
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...Michael J. Piperato English 122-30 Fall 2014 Essay #2 A home only exists as a home when the inhabitant makes a connection with that place. This connection is not the same for everyone. Some will feel a bond with brick and mortar while others find solace amongst the tall grass and aging trees. This is the beauty of a home, it is not the same for everyone, but perfect for the one person that matters. This link between place and person is bound by differing elements such as the tranquility of the landscape, energy of the environment, relationship with the animals as well as the community surrounding it. If you were to describe an ideal home, you’d likely find peacefulness and serenity to be apt adjectives. After a long day of work or school, it’s important to be able to have a place to relax and unwind. For some, this place of calmness is found “amongst the wet grasses and wild barley-covered meadows” (Rogers 334). A person who calls the wild their home counts down the hours until they can bask in nature’s glory. For others, their sanctuary is “in the inner city” (Clifton 324). These people find peace where many would see anything but. They’ve grown so accustomed to the lights and sounds, silence is deafening. Neither is right nor wrong but a manner of preference. While some look for peace as they rest their head, others seek a dwelling that rejuvenates them as they rise. These type of people seek a place with revitalizing energy, an area that “radiates purity” and...
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...Spunk Kenny Leon’s True Color Theatre Company’s production of Spunk: Three Tales by Zora Neale Hurston at the 14th Street Playhouse on September 25, 2013, presented the audience with a very culturally embellished version of Hurston’s original three tales: “Sweat,” “Story in Harlem Slang,” and “The Gilded Six Bits.” Zora Neale Hurston strived to portray the reality of life as an African American in the early 1900s through native dialect in her short stories and novels. Her most notable production, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a prime example of her effort to illustrate the life of the everyday Negro in search of a better life. Each of the short stories portrays a different, yet comparable view on African American culture in separate areas of the United States. Director Hilda Willis depicts this play, adapted by George C. Wolfe, in the most literal variation of Hurston’s original stories; the actors from True Colors Theatre Company perform the short stories verbatim. This production is energized with selections of blues music to help the audience feel the attitude of the era in which the play occurs. Wolfe’s adaptation of Hurston’s Spunk infused the original three short stories with delineative and characteristic blues music, highlighting the mood during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Migration. “Sweat” tells the story of a woman named Delia who suffers in an abusive relationship with her husband, Sykes. Her husband tries multiple methods of coercing Delia to...
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...for their efforts. I think the title in itself represents a sense of dread and uneasiness surrounding the family. Each of the characters in this film, Zeke, Mammie, Missy, Pappy, Chick, Hot Shot and the children exhibit all the stereotypes that are associated with Blacks: always dancing, grinning, conning, goofing off and lacking commitment. Zeke, the slacker, is given the task to take the crop to market and is accompanied by his younger, hardworking brother. A pretty woman, Chick, cons him into gambling and when he losses all the money for the crop that his family has worked hard for, a fight ensues and his younger brother, an innocent bystander, is shot and dies on the way home. Zeke is changed emotionally by the death of his brother. He sees the light and God calls him to go and tell the people to get on board or die and go to hell. This is ironic because Zeke’s brother in the opening scene is the one reading the Bible with Pappy. Zeke and his family hold travelling revivals to save the souls of the lost. Chick is one of those lost souls. However, Zeke seems to be hypnotized by Chick and he runs off with her leaving his finance, Missy behind. At the end of the movie, Chick is killed after she runs off with her old flame Hot Shot; Hot Shot is killed by Zeke; Zeke returns to his family where Missy is waiting for him. I find this plot very similar to non-white movie plots that surround an impoverished white family. For instance, this movie is similar to the...
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...for Miles since his wife accident and he even started smoking cigarette. Miles Ryan has a son named Jonah, he was very small when his mother passed away. It’s been hard trying to raising Jonah on his own and he want to do right by him. As gets Jonah ready one morning for school Miles finds a letter from Jonah teacher, Ms. Andrews, saying that she wants to meet with him later that day. Miles ask Jonah if he knew why his teacher wanted to meet him and Jonah said no. So when Miles left work he head to the school to pick up Jonah and meet with Ms. Andrews. She let’s Miles Know that Jonah is falling behind on all his class work and he doesn’t know how to read. Miles is in shock and mad because he didn’t know any of this. Because his wife Missy took care of thing at school for Jonah. So they discuss options that they can do and they decide Jonah is going to have to stay after school a days a week to get caught up to the other students. Sarah Andrew starts asking Miles why Jonah is so far behind on school work and Miles lets Sarah know that Jonah’s mother pass away 2 years ago. After that Sarah starts talking and thinking more and more about Miles till one day she shows up at one of Jonah’s soccer games. Miles was in shock because he didn’t invite her. When she got close she told Miles, Jonah had invited her to his soccer game. When Jonah had saw that Ms. Andrews had made it, he was so happy. Miles let Sarah know that Jonah...
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary2 Introduction 3 Analysis of Marketing Situation 3 Relevant factor and trends 3 Competitor analysis 3 Customer analysis 4 Company analysis 4 SWOT analysis 5 Strategy and Recommendation 5 Marketing strategy – “Supplemented Mobile Marketing” 5 Pros and Cons 7 Financial Calculations/Evaluation and Control 8 Contingency Plan 9 Appendices 11 Executive Summary In late 2004, adidas has launched the Respect M.E. line of sports apparel with hip-hop star Missy Elliot in Europe, and is preparing to introduce it in the United States. The line has been promoted via mobile advertising, online, and with an upcoming face-to-face event in Miami. The focus of the campaign is the mobile effort, which is seen as an inexpensive and yet potentially wide-reaching marketing strategy. This is especially important for adidas, as their advertising budget is only about 2/3rds the size of their greatest competitor in this segment, Nike. The determination about how to proceed with the launch in the U.S. revolves around the benefits and limitations of mobile media, including the technological limitations and social considerations. The suggested strategy for adidas is to maintain its strong mobile presence, supported by online content and tie-ins, but to supplement this approach with a limited infusion of “traditional” advertising. The goal of this hybrid strategy is to advertise via a widespread and tested mainstream medium the existence and benefits of the mobile marketing...
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...Female Athletes Arise In 2012 Gender equality in the Olympics has been a common debate for years. The main argument from many is that women are always given the “short end of the stick” with little media attention compared to the men. Men are always given more clock time, mentions, and descriptions then women (Billings, 2008). This common trend has caused women in sports to falter, but in the 2012 London Olympic games female athleticism has seen a turn around and is now in the limelight. The London games have been dubbed “Year of the Women,” thus celebrating women in sports and giving them their own chance to shine. These award-winning female athletes are breaking down gender barriers and providing a sense of hope, inspiration, and confidence to not only female athletes but also women in general. Women’s athletics in the Olympics has been on the rise for years. Females were first allowed to participate in the 1900 Paris Olympics. From this point on, the number of athletes and events that women were allowed to participate in has continued to grow. In 2004, 40% of all the athletes were female. Since then, this number has increased to 42% in Beijing and 45% in the 2012 London games (IOC, 2008 & Haven, 2012). These results clearly show that female athletics has grown and is continuing to grow and become more popular. Reports show that for the first time in history the United States, whom is known to be an athletic powerhouse of male athletes, has sent more women...
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...Monique Summers Professor Susan Watters Fashion 245 March 9, 2012 Blue Jays Designers in the swimwear industry have been driven to create more elaborate and comfortable swimsuits due the growing trend of health and fitness. Not to mention that Americans are taking more and more extended vacations each year. According to Global Industry Analysis, “swimwear and beachwear are projected to exceed $17.6 billion by the year 2015.” However, swimwear is one of the toughest items to sell. However, I have created a retail store that specializes in high quality fabrics and focus on customers having a pleasurable shopping experience. According to Online Resource Directory, many women dread shopping for swimsuits. In order to combat the negative feelings that women have against swimsuits, my retail store expertise will be in quality and fit. I designed a retail store called Blue Jays that will drastically help to change women opinions about swimwear. Blue Jays will sell swimwear that flaunts a women’s figure in a flattering way. Blue Jays main goal of its store is to sell garments of superior quality and to make sure consumers leave satisfied. Sourcing from great manufactures who meet our company standards will help achieve our first goal. Our company only sells swimsuits made from lycra, spandex, and tricot. The tricot fabric helps our swimwear to be lightweight, soft, durable, and shrink resistant. It’s also a fabric that wholes it shape very well. The lycra...
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...Lindsey Matthiesen November 3, 2015 Throughout Kingsolver’s novel The Bean Trees, examples are shown of how important the name someone posses is. First, Taylor wants to change her destiny so she changes her name. Second, Esperanza’s name shows the course her life is going to take.An insight on destiny can be whown through a person’s name. Taylor and Esperanza’s struggle with identity shows the importance of naming which proves that destiny is chosen by the name possessed by an individual. When Taylor changes her name she knows she will be changing her destiny, which shows her struggle with identity. In the beginning of The Bean Trees Taylor changes her name from Missy to Taylor. When she leaves Pittman there are two things she states...
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