Essays on American Culture

According to Merriam-Webster, the American Dream, coined by James Truslow Adams, is defined as “a happy way of living that is thought of by many Americans as something that can be achieved by anyone in the U.S. especially by working hard and becoming successful.” Although…

Staying updated on the daily occurrences of celebrities has never been so easy with the presence of technology combined with America’s growing obsession with pop-culture. One famous family that dominates the headlines: the Kardashians. For every time a Kardashian decides to go out to dinner,…

In Modern art, the experience within American development is expressed, felt and experienced in various ways. The American experience shows the way art replicates the aesthetics, national events and reflections, trends, and theories. In many exhibits, American visual art is one of the only remaining…

The Great Depression was an era of deep social changes in the United States. The continuous factors that affected everyone were reminded daily in the streets and fields of America. With a high unemployment, pay cuts, no savings, no new investments that lasted ten years….

Since its inception in the 1940s, scholars and film critics alike have attempted to reconcile the revolutionary potential of film noir with the conservative modes of representation that dominated Hollywood cinema. The way in which competing ideological significations manifest themselves in filmic representations of gender…

There are a few NFL players out there that prefer to keep a low profile and Olivier Vernon is one of them. Vernon could easily get into Walmart and exit unnoticed, something that can be seen as a feat considering how long he has been…

American football tight end Evan Engram was a first-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. He was selected 23rd overall by the New York Giants and was the second tight end to be selected in the draft. Engram had an amazing college year and was…

It was time for the new century to begin and already sociological changes and movements began to take place in American culture. A major factor that contributed to these new changes was the idea to create an amusement park. John F. Kasson uses the amusement…

There are a diversity of people living in different countries of the continent yet they don’t know the cultural values in the countries they live in. Mostly, this happens when people are out for vacations, honeymoon or any other reason that takes a very short…

McLuhan and Social Media Inevitably, Facebook has changed the way people interact within its ten year existence. In our evolving world of technology, things are constantly changing; however, Facebook has had one of the largest impacts on American culture thus far. Facebook replaced email and…