" This message of being thin can be more closely examined using the philosophy of Descartes. Descartes believed humans to be made up of the thinking substance (the mind) and the extended substance (the body) (Russell, 73)
Lindsay Lohan encapsulates Marshall's concept of celebrity as requiring a "relatively stable media system," (634). Moreover, the news items related to Lindsay Lohan show how celebrities do fit the characteristics of being "out of control" with many "scandals" and lots of "gossip" (Marshall 634)
" Harry Potter's Magic as a Mystical Force in Pop Culture The latest Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was ranked #3 in summer box office receipts through August 9, 2004, with $244.6 million (Bowles, 2004), according to USA Today
" Meantime, while the books are certainly entertaining, even mesmerizing, to readers young and old, the movies are mind-bending and so innovative as to be addictive to some viewers. As one more example of how riveting the Potter series is to moviegoers, Current Science ran an article (Davy, 2000) titled, "Could Scientists re-create the magic in J
Kundun was seen by some as a radical departure from his other films, like The Exorcist, The Omen, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver; it was also seen as incongruous for Scorsese, a Roman Catholic Italian-American. But a thoughtful article in Film Netribution Network (Enright, 2001) points out that although Scorsese's films, "on the surface," have seemed to be fully "Christian" - as references to the Bible, the Virgin Mary, and images the Crucifix are plentiful - "his characters and worldviews and his own philosophical orientation often seem to owe more to Hindu and Buddhist mysticism
" Why are people who are part of the American pop culture so fascinated with witches, by the way? In an article published by the Continuum Publishing Group Ltd. (Goldenberg, 2004), the writer, an instructor in the Department of Religion at Central Michigan University in Mt
com. Fresh or not, the newest Potter film, on top of the sensational reviews and acceptance of first two movies, has become what an article in First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life calls "the Harry Potter Phenomenon" (Jacobs, 2000)
The media clamored for photos of the Beatles hanging out and drinking in the good vibes of this holy man in white robes who preached peace through self-awareness and higher consciousness through meditation. But in addition to the media, tens of thousands of Beatles' followers arrived in northern India, swept up not only in curiosity about transcendental meditation and the Maharishi, but in fact, "most of them really made the trip to pay tribute to the Beatles" (Lacayo, 2001)
" It is important to remember that the normal experience of mysticism is not intellectual, but rather, that experience focuses on a kind of cosmic enlightenment, where deep thoughts about the reality of the world give way to mind-clearing moments in search of a higher consciousness, in pursuit of a loftier, less mental state where the possibility of magic and telepathy come into clearer perspective. And when lining religion and theology up side-by-side with mysticism, in a very real way, "all theology is mystical, inasmuch as it shows forth the divine mystery: the date of revelation" (Lossky, 2004)
Goldenberg's shrewd strategy answers the question perfectly.] Another article examining the issue of witches and magic in Harry Potter appeared recently in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (McVeigh, 2002)
They interviewed sources from local media, get the neighborhood's words, and design their own paper. As young players were behind the wheel, they love to cover hot topics taken from magazines, TV and the Internet, about computer games or even violence (Amster, 2000, pars
For example, Mangajin monthly that was translated into English and Japanese language depicted Japanese culture, which would help studying culture and Japanese language for English-speaking students. The others were in the form of comics that include both versions of language in the book (English and Japanese), for example The Teenage Tokyo comic by Boston Children's Museum (Brooks, 1994)
Student learned the procedures of lottery drawing and hopefully they would find the link and practical use of their combination formulas to apply in actual situation. As the example covered national attention, it is possible to use the illustration for national curriculum (Burghes, D
The associate dean created a program that instructed the students to watch the "Survivor" show, assuming that they would learn how a man should make tough decision and picture how a real leader should be like. He thought that it was best for students to see how leadership took place in life incidence, rather than merely reading theoretical explanations from the textbooks (Flora, 2002)
However, some teachers and students often take up classroom practices from the wrong start. While crammed with valuable and scientific information, some textbooks do not always present themselves graciously to the readers (Kelsky, 2002, par
Hence, the learning process would be threatening no more. As an example, a research was done on using Teletubbies and Batman as the teacher's tool to teach literacy in young learners' class (Marsh, 2000)
These ideas are explored in greater detail below. According to sociologists Eric Barnouw and Catherine Kirkland, popular culture personalities and performers within Japanese culture serve to provide entertainment, but also serve to help develop and foster relationships and outcomes that make sense to the public, and offer comfort in a chaotic world (Aoyagi, 324)
Gendered identity is fabricated and projected back to the consumer, who imitates the star and perpetuates the cycle of gender identity construction. Lana del Rey is not a "real person," but a "media text" when she performs on stage (Dyer 63)
Contextual Essay Lana del Rey epitomizes what Gill calls "postfeminism," which consists of seven core features. First, postfeminism is qualified by an "obsessive preoccupation with the body," as the core feature of femininity as opposed to nurturing or motherhood (Gill 149)