She felt she was more mature than other kids at school. It seemed that most kids her age only cared about how they looked and who they hung out with, but she didn't care about any of the things they thought to be important. ... Mary not only had to get adjusted to a new culture, but she didn't get to do all the other things that kids her age did; like going out with friends, going out on dates, and having her first boyfriend. When asking what are some factors in your life that has been major influences, Mary expresses that the number one influence has been church. ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

An Evaluation of Fight Club and corporate America The film Fight Club shows the influence of consumer culture in America and how it destroys our individuality. ... Since consumer culture has influenced people to value possessions more then people, its harder to find people who will love her. ... When we were in grade school, classmates wouldn't think you were cool unless you knew everything the New Kids On the Block or had the new Air Jordan's. ... Such influence can be thought of investing in pop culture. ... Companies are willing to invest in the influence of pop culture icons...

• Word Count: 1981
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• Grade Level: High School

It creates confusion in kids also because they are growing up thinking that they should be what society thinks that is the ideal. ... It can influence cultural interaction in positive and negative ways. ... Girls after watching this would be influenced and suffer to try to attain what they see in media. ...

• Word Count: 1341
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• Grade Level: High School

Many different cultural contexts are the garden from which my identity grows, and although I would not consider myself a "cultural broker" or a "third culture kid," the ways in which I perform my culture leads to the creation of an enriched cultural blossoming of my identity (p.207-209, Martin, Judith N., & Thomas K. ... These events happen at the same time as more historically important national and world events and in my case was influenced by them. ... When we examine the role of history in intercultural communication, we gain an understanding of how our past influences ...

• Word Count: 2124
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Popular culture and its natural process of development can be and is affected by virtually everything from other cultures (the recent Latin influence on American popular music), the weather (would Morrisey have happened in a country that didn't get as much rain?)... Political, climactic, and cultural (to use previous examples) influences have a total subconscious affect on any human being, let alone the artist. ... Right now, it seems as though these kind of "saccharine bands" are on the downswing due to over-saturation, but a general sense of dismay or a need for escapism amidst a depres...

• Word Count: 1582
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• Grade Level: High School

This not only illustrates that worldviews are flexible and open to change, but it also helps to illustrate the notion of power, (the ability to transform a given situation), and how it affects and influences what we can and cannot do. ... First of all he implied that a child is always with his or her mother, since he had no evidence to assume Stewie was Meg's kid. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When those diverse couples have kids they will be able to spread diversity in their lifetime from the day they enter pre-school till the day, they move that tassel from left to right and change some part of the world....

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