Violent video games have been extremely popular in our society since the first wave of them were released throughout the 90’s. In fact, in 2008 the Pew Research Center estimated that 97% of teens played some sort of video game, and two-thirds of them included violence. Along with these findings,
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Literature is filled with authors who used pseudonyms in an effort to get their work published. Often, members of minority factions have changed their names in order to seem more like the supposed mainstream ethnicity. So one can easily imagine a situation where an author, fearing that their name will
It sounds like the start of a bad joke: an art forger, after having stolen massive numbers of pieces, discovers that his own forgeries have also been stolen and replaced by an even worse forgery. Yet nevertheless, it happened. To summarize: Xiao Yuan, who was working at a librarian at
Until recently, performance art had not been widely accepted as a form of expression. However, one woman was able to change this public opinion in the mid-1970s. Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Marina Abramović’s first well-known performance piece proved that calling herself the “grandmother of performance art” is anything but inaccurate.
The line between cultural appropriation and appreciation is thin, but some things just can’t be argued. Cultural appropriation is a highly contested issue, and yet again we see another example of this with the Inuit people. The Inuit are a people living in the North, whose clothing consists of parkas,
K-pop, Korean pop, is a rapidly growing industry, reaching vast audiences across the globe. If anything, k-pop has more popularity internationally than they do in its own country. With more global influence and the shift to cater to international audiences, k-pop groups have moved to more risqué concepts that suit
Recently, Amazon released an episodic adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s novel The Man in the High Castle through their TV streaming service. The show, like the book on which it is based, follows the fate of an alternate United States taken over by the Axis powers following the Second World
Recently, a Canadian art school student came under fire when a heart was found in a trash can near his house. This caused suspicion by local authorities, who jumped to the worst conclusion and concluded that this must be a human heart. The student didn’t respond with panic because the
As the struggle against unrealistic body images portrayed in the media continues it takes extreme courage to stand up and put oneself in a vulnerable position in society. Jae West takes a stand against body shaming and unrealistic body expectations. “The Story of a Girl Undressing in Public” is a
In March, 2015, Kenneth Goldsmith is still reciting his conceptual, uncreative poetry of rearranging pre-existing documents, but this time decides to rearrange Michael Brown’s autopsy report and title it “The Body of Michael Brown.” The reading during the conference Interrupt 3 at Brown University received few responses from the audience