Abstract
The paper begins by explaining exactly what pop-ups are in the computer world. It then further defines how these separate windows appear when a computer is turned on and what they look like on the screen. The paper also analyses who uses pop-ups. Basically pop-ups are used for advertising on the Web, though advertising is not the only application for pop-up windows. The paper further discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this technology.

From the Paper
"This paper is on the advantages and disadvantages of computer pop-ups, the pop-up being a separate window with a message in it that appears unbidden when a computer user accesses a website. Some websites include advertising in a banner across the top of the screen, or in a list down the side of the screen, or as images and text included on a page in the sway an ad appears in a newspaper or magazine. Advertisers who want to be seen in a more memorable way use pop-ups."

Tags:pop, ups, advertising, computer

Abstract
"This four page undergraduate paper examines Harris Glenn Milstead who achieved pop culture fame as Divine and was born in Towson Maryland on October 19, 1945. The writer points out that he became an actor signer and cult figure primarily because of his professional relationship with the film director John Waters. The writer notes that as Divine, Milstead starred in several films and was perhaps best known for being a part of the regular cast and crew of the troupe, The Dreamlanders, which helped push him into mainstream pop culture. The writer details that Divine and The Dreamlanders were featured in many of John Waters' films such as Polyester, Pink Flamingos, and Hairspray.

From the Paper
"Glenn Milstead, who achieved pop culture fame as "Divine," was born in Towson, Maryland on October 19, 1945. He became an actor, signer, and cult figure, primarily because of his professional relationship with the film director John Waters. As Divine, Milstead starred in several films and was perhaps best known for being a part of the regular cast and crew of the troupe, The Dreamlanders, which helped push him into mainstream pop culture. Divine and The Dreamlanders were featured in many of John Waters' films such as "Polyester", "Pink Flamingos", "Hairspray", "Lust In The Dust", and "Female Trouble"."

Tags:pop, culture, divine

Abstract
This paper firstly examines the relationship between modernism and minimalism. It then explores the kitsch elements of pop art. In conclusion both art forms are defined and examples of art from each are described.

From the Paper
"Often new schools in the art world arise as a reaction against whatever style was dominant just before it just as Modernism was a reaction to Romanticism. However it is usually the case that the relationship between different dominant artistic style ..."

Tags:minimalism, warhol, pop art, greenberg

Abstract
Rap Music has a great effect on our pop culture and race today. In fact, since the music of Elvis, various forms of music have pushed the limits of tolerance and decency in pop culture. According to some critics, rap has done this to an extent that cannot be disregarded in terms of social standards. This paper reviews the rap music genre, while also taking into consideration the impact it has on pop culture. The paper asserts that, while it is true that some rap artists have broken rules and norms not only in their music, but also in their lifestyles, it is also true that other rap musicians attempt to use their art for social uplift in pop culture.

From the Paper
"During the 1920s, urban street jive was a form of speech developed in Chicago ("Getting"). According to some historians, this is the tradition at the root of rap music as it exists today. In its current form, rap music emerged in New York City, courtesy of a Jamaican immigrant, Clive Campbell, or DJ Kool Herc, as he is also known. During the 1970's, Campbell developed this art form by mixing music from two records on two separate turntables. The beat created in this manner was accompanied by Campbell speaking to match the rhythm of the music. The first hit in this genre was created by the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, and entitled "Rappers Delight.""

Tags:rhythm, DJ, Kool, Herc

Abstract
This paper explains that, loosely defined, Pop Art describes works, which borrow imagery from the mass culture--high art mimicking low art; everyday items such as commercial product packaging, newspaper articles, advertisements and comic books are the foundation of the Pop Artist's works. The author believes that the greatest Pop artist, whose innovations have affected so much subsequent art, is the American artist, Andy Warhol, whose works--"Campbell's Soup Can" series, "Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962" and "192 Dollar Bills, 1962"--are detailed in this paper. The paper relates that Andy Warhol, son of disadvantaged Polish immigrants, became an icon not only of Post-Modern art in the Pop movement, but also the epitome of enviable glamor as one of the leading mass-media personalities of his time.

From the Paper
"Warhol's method of reproducing identical images, echoing the assembly-line production of the objects depicted, gradually became more technically efficient and a standard feature of his work. He introduced this method of screen-printing in 1962 and encouraged the impression that works were churned out from the Factory, as his studio on East 47th Street in New York was known, by his entourage of assistants. "With screen-printing Warhol had finally found a way of eliminating altogether the distinguishing personality of brushwork, at the same time satisfying his professed desire to make himself into a machine, registering images as a mere film of color on the canvas surface.""

Tags:critics, reproduction, identical, duchamp, icon

Abstract
"Andy Warhol: Pop Art and Persona" is a five page paper that goes into how Andy Warhol's Interview in Pop Art Redefined identifies Warhol's persona as simple and emulative of the modern machine; Thomas Crow's "Saturday Disasters: Trace and Reference in Early Warhol" argues that Andy Warhol really wanted to dramatize the idea of commodity and was far more complex in motive than his outward characterization let on.

From the Paper
Andy Warhol: Pop Art and Persona Art can be seen through the interpretations and perceptions of the artist; no one defines such a filter of art than that of Andy Warhol. Not only was his work iconic of the Pop movement and of art history itself, so was the man behind the work, someone who has been debated about for years based on his eccentric, elusive but progressive behavior. Though Andy Warhol's Interview in Pop Art Redefined identifies Warhol's persona as simple and emulative of the modern machine; Thomas Crow's "Saturday Disasters: Trace and Reference in Early Warhol" argues that Andy Warhol really wanted to dramatize the idea of commodity and was far more complex in motive than

Tags:warhol, interview, persona

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This paper explains that, despite its association with Andy Warhol, Pop Art as a movement actually began in post-WWII Great Britain with the work of Richard Hamilton. The author points out that Pop Art, with its much more representational nature, was seen by some art historians as a reaction against the abstract expressionism movement. The paper reviews Pop Art leaders: Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockey and Jasper Johns.

From the Paper
"The Warhol exhibit of Campbell's Soup was so unsettling because looking at Pop Art like Warhol's was not looking into the heart of the artist, but looking into a mirror, a mirror of culture in which the spectator could gaze at him or herself, with all modern culture's sameness, carelessness, and vacuity. Thus Warhol's work said a great deal about not just modern culture, but the moment of art during the 1960. The era of the passionate artist, full of intensity and feeling was at an end."

Tags:repetition new, campbell's soup, american flag, post-impressionist

Abstract
This paper takes a look at the genre of music known as 'Bastard Pop'. According to the paper, 'Bastard Pop' is not a formal musical categorization, but rather a common, colloquial term for music that is the result of a fusion of different musical styles or elements, often using several different types of songs that are combined into one, new song or style.

Contents:
Definition
Is it Stealing?
Recent History
Artists and Critics Sound Off on Bastard Pop
The Grey Album: Is it art?
Conclusion

From the Paper
"In the 1990s, the phenomenon of downloadable music made the ability to fuse and combine genres even more accesible to everyday computer users and listeners, even young persons with only a PC in their bedrooms. Disc jockeys and then ordinary listeners could develop mixing techniques that turned first the record player, then the home computer into an instrument. Such technology-driven creativity gave birth to first such musical genres as disco, then to hip-hop and finally house and techno. "These innovations not only radically changed their immediate cultural and social contexts, but also served as templates for a variety of other musical practices around the world, so much so that contemporary popular music would be unthinkable without them." (Wehelive, 2004) Popular music, the argument goes, depends upon copying, and without such self-referential techniques, modern music would be much poorer."

Tags:original, DJ, copy, downloaders, technology, rap, artist

Abstract
This paper explains that Pop Art uses images of consumerism and everyday objects, often placing mundane objects in bizarre situations as a form of social commentary. The author points out that, although Andy Warhol is perhaps the best-known pop artist, Richard Hamilton, born in London during the 1920s, created the first piece of Pop Art, ?Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing??, a collage poster design for the ?This Is Tomorrow? art exhibit. The paper describes the author?s attempt to reinterpret this collage by using images of the latest technology of our era -- the plasma TV, the DVD player, the PlayStation ? just as Hamilton?s collage shows the latest technology of his era -- the reel-to-reel, the television.

From the Paper
"I experienced some particular problems in creating my collage. Hamilton's background in advertising and the arts gave him an incredible skill for cutting out the magazine photos, and although the proportions are somewhat skewed, he was able to piece the individual photos together in an almost seamless fashion, creating a completely believable new world. In my collage, the scissors lines are obvious, and there is not the artistic flow of the created environment. The models in my collage do not have the creepy Outer-Limits air about them, and the sense of discord within a stable environment that Hamilton captured simply is not there in my collage, which does not have a proper sense of chaos or stability. It is an important lesson to be learned, however, that even if presented with the same basic supplies, it is the artistic skill and merit of the artist that creates a true piece of art. Simply incorporating similar themes into a piece does not necessarily make those pieces companions or comparable. Hamilton had an incredible sense of the impact of the media and consumer-based society on the individual, and it was due to his own brilliance that his collage is impressive, not just, because he found pretty pictures in magazines."

Tags:consumeriems, mundane, bizarre, worhol, technology

Abstract
This paper examines how "Eastern religion," also alluded to as "Eastern mysticism" and "mysticism" and the occult, along with magic and its many off-shoots, have had a considerable influence on American pop culture over the past few decades. It looks at how movies, books, and music all have been touched and enhanced by mysticism and its cousins.

Outline
Introduction to Eastern Religion, Eastern Mysticism and Magic
The Beatles and Transcendental Meditation: Rock Superstars Dipping into an Ancient Mysticism to find Peace in a World Drenched in Chaos and Materialism
Martin Scorsese and Eastern Mysticism
Harry Potter's Magic as a Mystical Force in Pop Culture

From the Paper
"For many people who came of age and got into rock music in the 1960s and 1970s, and perhaps smoked some marijuana and even experimented with LSD, their interest in eastern religion and mysticism began with the Beatles' fascination with "and association with" the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It was John Lennon and George Harrison, in particular, who embraced the Maharishi in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in the town of Rishikesh, deep in the Himalayan foothills of northern India. 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."

Tags:harry, potter, beatles, martin, scorsese