Cultural Expressions and Influences in Daily Life

Cultural Expressions and Influences in Daily Life 

You will examine the ways that cultural expressions influence your daily life. the written content needs to be at least 750 words. Share three items of cultural expression that influence your life. 1. music, – Motown http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190109-motown-the-music-that-changed-america 2. films – the color purple, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple 3. religious traditions – https://www.everystudent.com/features/connecting.html These three cultural expressions should communicate something about your beliefs, customs, and way of life. I. Give an introduction to the paper. Include a preview of your main points and a thesis that establishes what you will demonstrate in the Assignment. II. Introduce the expressions one at a time. Tell the reader about the item. You may want to explain the “who, what, where, when and why” about this item. For example, what is it? Where did it come from and when? Who has decided to keep it? Why is it worth keeping? III. After you have introduced and explained all of the expressions, consider the three expressions as a group and answer these questions. • How do these cultural expressions help define who you are, what you believe, or how you act? • If someone saw only this list of cultural expressions, what might they conclude about you? What might be an incorrect assumption that someone could make? What do you think might be accurate? IV. Wrap up the paper with a substantive conclusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.[1][a] It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the Southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190109-motown-the-music-that-changed-america Sixty years ago, Berry Gordy set up the hit factory of Motown. Arwa Haider looks at how an independent record label created one of the most influential sounds of the 20th Century. • By Arwa Haider 9 January 2019 On 12 January 1959, the music sensation that changed America – and the world beyond it – was set in motion. Detroit-born 29-year-old Berry Gordy founded Tamla Records with an $800 loan from his family’s collective savings. By the following year, he’d merge this into the Motown Record Corporation: an independent empire that would seal its genuinely iconic status, introducing legends including The Jackson 5; Diana Ross and The Supremes; Stevie Wonder; Smokey Robinson; Marvin Gaye; Martha and The Vandellas; The Commodores and many others among its hundreds of signings.