Breaking Into the American Mainstream - Korean Pop\u27s Expansion and American Influences

American popular music has been constantly evolving, providing new sounds from various genres, and its latest addition has been the Korean export of K-pop. The United States has had an incredible impact in the musical world but the scope of this paper will cover that influence in Korean pop music. Specifically, this paper will answer these two questions: Why is Korean pop, or K-pop, becoming so popular globally, and what is the United States’ influence on K-pop? To find these answers, this paper will explore influential periods in American musical history, draw possible links between them and current K-pop trends, discuss the current music consumer climate, and distinguish what is different in K-pop from other world genres that is making it stand out in present times

Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Strike Benefits May Be Gifts

Taxpayer received assistance from a labor union while he was participating in a strike called by the union. The area in which he lived had become a distressed area as a consequence of the strike, and the union had established a general program of aid for strikers with no other source of income. Both before and after he joined the union payments were made to taxpayer under this program. Taxpayer sued for a refund of the income tax he payed on the value of the assistance so received, and the jury returned a verdict in his favor, finding the payments to be gifts. The trial court entered judgment for the Government despite this verdict. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed on the grounds that strike assistance, regardless of whether it is a gift, is not within the statutory definition of gross income, and that in any event the jury\u27s verdict must stand. On certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, held, affirmed, three Justices dissenting. When the payment of strike benefits is motivated by charitable considerations, the payments may be excluded from gross income as gifts. United States v. Kaiser, 363 U.S. 299 (1960)

Outdoor recreation in the Winter of a Pandemic

A pandemic has the ability to affect lives from many different perspectives. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the way people live, learn, and interact with one another; and it will create new social patterns reaching across virtually all platforms. One of the unforeseen problems with a pandemic includes the adaption needed to partake in social and recreational activities. Using a Qualtrics online survey posted on a popular forum for outdoor recreationists, this research study looked to investigate the varying trends due to COVID-19 on the winter outdoor sports community. The results demonstrate that the pandemic affected how people recreate, including whether they obtained resort passes and where they recreated. Additionally, it seems that the impact COVID-19 had on outdoor recreation varied across different geographic regions. In conclusion, this research suggests that the pandemic has caused changes within the outdoor winter recreation community. Understanding these effects is important on both individual and macroscale levels. Indeed, the data supports that resorts and communities dependent on tourism may see a decrease in commerce. Further, as recreationists find new places to recreate, safety concerns may increase. The trends in the data allow for an increase in the understanding of how global crises, akin to the COVID-19 pandemic, affect outdoor recreation and tourism, as well as how such crises impact emergency personnel

La simplificación de la identidad cultural en la historia de la Guerra Civil española

La euforia reinante tras la muerte del dictador condicionó la idealización de la producción cultural de los republicanos durante la Guerra Civil. Sin embargo ocultó a la vez las contradiciones y simplificaciones inherentes en algunas de estas obras. En este contexto los actuales críticos de la cultura nos pueden facilitar una visión de aquellos años más matizada donde se enfrenta con el peligro de la manipulación de la cultura por el Estado, pero sin olvidar la extensión de la práctica cultural a un más amplio sector de la població

Does the Family Investment Hypothesis Explain Immigrant Labor Market Activity?

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Will Health Literacy Research and Initiatives End the Confusion?

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