Essays about: "American culture"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 132 essays containing the words American culture.

  1. 11. Uncovering the cultural expression and identity of young Vietnamese American through TikTok

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Phuong Uyen Tran; [2023]
    Keywords : Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This research explores the cultural representation, identity, and practices of young Vietnamese Americans through TikTok. The primary argument is that social media plays a critical role in facilitating cultural exchange and cultivating a sense of belonging for young immigrants living far away from their ancestral homelands. READ MORE

  3. 12. Why We Fight: Subdued propaganda in movies in the age of 9/11

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Maxwell Overend; [2023]
    Keywords : Hollywood; DOD; Propaganda; Culture; Movies; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This paper explores how American culture has been shaped by the U.S. Military through the lens of Hollywood movies to be more accepting and eager to enlist. READ MORE

  4. 13. The Feminine Wasteland: Gender Roles and Women's Mental Health in Joan Didion's Run River and Play It As It Lays

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanna Jyrinki; [2023]
    Keywords : Joan Didion; Run River; Play It As It Lays; Betty Friedan; The Feminine Mystique; Gender Roles; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The American author and journalist Joan Didion was especially known for her non-fiction that pertinently described the culture she lived in, but her novels also offer a frank and realistic perspective on American society. In her two first novels Run River (1963) and Play It As It Lays (1970) Didion portrays the respective main characters, Lily Knight McClellan and Maria Wyeth, as fragile women who are failing to live up to the gender roles that were imposed on them. READ MORE

  5. 14. “Eden to Hell in the Space of a Few Seconds” : an ecocritical and postcolonial analysis of Alex Garland’s The Beach

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Hanna Strömberg; [2022]
    Keywords : The Beach; postcolonial ecocriticism; utopia; wilderness; pastoral;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes the cultural concepts of wilderness, utopia, and the pastoral in relation to The Beach from ecocritical and postcolonial perspectives. Evidently, the pastoral is critical in shaping the Western idea of wilderness, and the utopistic mindset plays an equally crucial role in wilderness gazing. READ MORE

  6. 15. From the Margins to the Center : Hip Hop and Rap as Infrastructure for the Black Americans in the 1980s and early 1990s

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Senta Terner; [2022]
    Keywords : Hip hop; Rap; Black Americans; Racism; Postcolonial Studies; Popular Culture;

    Abstract : This thesis examines whether hip hop, and rap in particular, was an infrastructure for the lower-class of Black Americans in the 1980s and early 1990s to transport their concerns, knowledge, and protest from the margins to the center. It first demonstrates what issues Black Americans from the ghetto have raised in terms of content in the first place. READ MORE