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This paper discusses hegemony theory and how it relates to popular culture. It particularly focuses on Christina Aguilera's song, "Beautiful" and how hegemony theory and Marxist theory relate to it. The paper discusses the views on hegemony theory and Marxist theory expressed by John Storey in his work, "Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction."

From the Paper
"Both Hegemony Theory and Marxist Theory serve as useful lenses through which to view the video because each emphasizes aspects of Beautiful that are central to its importance in greater popular culture. Viewer responses to the video on sites such as YouTube provide telling evidence as to the viability of these two perspectives. In the tradition of Hegemony Theory, many viewers interpreted Beautiful as an affirming challenge to dominant culture, writing comments such as "this video taught me that it's ok to be different and had a big change on my life." Other users, in the tradition of Marxist pessimism, interpreted the video as yet another traditional reaffirmation of social ideals. As one user eloquently put it, "Yeah Christina's trying to change her image and I don't know about that. But damn she's still hot.""

Tags:pop, image, director

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This paper discusses the relationship between the media and the development of the young adult, specifically young women. The paper focuses on a series of ads for gym shoes that feature Christina Aguilera in provocative poses. The essay argues that advertisements like this one teach harmful lessons to today's youth, specifically that there is one type of beauty, and that women are primarily sexual beings. Further, the essay argues that it is ads like this that have caused negative body images among today's youth as well as caused poor spending habits as youth strive to emulate celebrity endorsers.

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"The use of Aguilera in these images solidifies a stereotype that has long played a role in the male sexual fantasy--the tall, skinny, blond. Although advocacy groups have long attempted to debunk this particular image as the one of all men's desire and the only acceptable for women who want to believe themselves to be beautiful and sexy. The continued use of this stereotype to suggest sexiness, desirability, and beauty has many serious social and political connotations."

Tags:body image, stereotype feminism

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This paper discusses that what is new about the social consciousness movement is who is doing it and the methodology. The paper explains that the most atypical, controversial and seemingly anti social performers, Eminem, Christina Aguilera and Pink, are reaching out to the young people and bringing a positive messages about real life, real feelings, and real hope. The paper discusses the music of these performers and their evolution to social conscious music.

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"There may be no more controversial performer in popular music today than Marshall Mathers, AKA Eminem. Eminem has been portrayed as a misogynist, homophobic, foul-mouthed punk, but surprisingly he is at the forefront of the new music movement. This change is not going unnoticed. "Eminem's recent trend is to put out tracks with more of a meaning." In accordance with the new, more constructive musical philosophy, the song "Lose Yourself", from the 8 Mile soundtrack, is a brilliant anthem to believing in yourself."

Tags:methodology, controversial, performers, young, positive, messages, real, life, feelings, hope

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The paper discusses the importance of ethics in human resources management and then examines the article's use of literature, conceptual development, use of research studies, sample and setting, reliability and the adequacy of the studied samples. The paper also critiques the study's data and results, analysis, discussion, conclusions and presentation and considers the contribution of the article to this topic.

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"The article focuses on demonstrating that multinational companies across the world are implementing, or trying to implement ethics programs, but the effects are different in each case. Without a similarity in results one cannot develop a mainframe for ethics programs or ethics program models that could be successfully implemented in several companies, especially those addressing the same industry branch.
"The article proposes a series of strategies that could facilitate the implementation of ethics programs and guarantee their efficiency. The importance of the topic is acknowledged by theoreticians and practitioners in the human resources field. Some say that ethics should be "a component of the performance review process. Ethics have to be factored into the compensation system" (Lachnit, 2002). Employees and their managers must make decisions each day that affect the outcome of their activity, theactivity of the company, and the activity of other people, which means their decisions must ethical and moral in the first place (Gross, 2009).
"Business ethics has a series of implications like global competition, constant pressures, and customer expectations (CPML, 2009). The treatment of employees at work can generate unethical behavior in certain cases (Moberg, 1997). Creating an ethical environment represents the contribution of all employees (Hanson, 2008). There are several ethical models that can be taken into consideration (Federwisch, 2007)."

Tags:research, sample, setting, reliability, data, results

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This paper explains that the songs. "Genie in a Bottle," sung by Christina Aguilera, "Boom, Boom", sung by Britney Spears. and "Naughty Girl", sung by Beyonce Knowles. are among the "Top 40" pop songs that have heavy sexual references, which many people may not even notice. The author points out that all three pieces have blood-pumping music and a sort of seductive melody, which seem to inspire highly sexually suggestive movement. The paper concludes that, while there's nothing particularly wrong with sex or with art that displays sex, it seems strange that "Top 40" songs that are played everywhere, especially by teenagers, would be quietly pumping in lyrics about mutual masturbation, prostitution, and orgies.

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"Aguilera's character seems to maintain a temporary morality, saying "that don't mean I'm gonna give it away" to which she has already added "baby, baby, baby" as an indication that she is already losing control of her body. This loss of control is soon made explicit as she says "My body's saying let's go"(assumably to "give it away"). That this is sexual is so obvious that, when Disney wanted to show the video to children, they required Aguilera to change the lyrics to "My friends are saying let's go." as if to pretend that she was going to leave, rather than going to have sexual intercourse."

Tags:aguilera, spears, beyonce, teens, obvious