Today‚ America is seemingly defined by its popular culture which has become a major export to the whole wide world. The pop culture refers to all things that people usually do and talk about‚ manners and beliefs that make a society grow. The culture that is well accepted and followed by everybody in the society. For every place‚ there is always different style of culture that all people who lives there are subject to follow in able to fit in to that given place. America is one of the major countries
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Nur Fajrianti Review Journal : Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up? This journal is telling us about the fact that American people are getting smarter. That statement is based on American people’s I.Q. tests results which are rising about three points per decade by using the same standard score of I.Q. test that has been kept for years. This fact is uncovered by a political philosopher named James Flynn. Meanwhile‚ other people over the developed world also get better I.Q. test
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a child’s mind? Malcolm Gladwell proposes in his article‚ “Brain Candy‚” that playing video games or watching television is just as important as reading a book. Gladwell is using rhetorical appeals to prove that in fact‚ video games are not dumbing down society. Pop culture is helping to improve test scores and knowledge. In “Brain Candy‚” Malcolm Gladwell does affectively use rhetorical appeals to convince his audience that pop culture is making our society smarter. First‚ Gladwell effectively
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Major Companies of Candy Production in the US‚ August 2012 (Market Share) Other 44.30% Mars Inc. 35.30% The Hershey Company 20.40% IBISWorld Industry Report 31134 Candy Production in the US Mars. Inc. Mars Inc. Market share: 35.3% Industry Brand Names Wrigley Skittles Starburst Juicy Fruit Airwaves Freedent Orbit Eclipse Big Red Mars Inc.-financial performance Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012* *Estimate Revenue ($ million) 1‚800 2‚160 1‚908 2‚160 2‚232 2‚376 % change N/C 20
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less proficient and probably ‘dumber’ human being of the 21st Century” The current developments in technological devices‚ media‚ education systems‚ medication and foods have created a claim: that they are the main contributors to the dumbing down of the human species of the twenty first century. This claim has created a controversy where some people agreed or disagreed that the surge of these factors has been negatively affecting the intelligence of human beings. This controversy began
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characterized as very conservative in its political and religious view. This part of the country is always referred as “bible belt” while the west coasts are more liberal in its view. Some communities such in California and Washington have a large “hippie culture” and New York has many urban areas which quite progressive on the whole. Attitudes are the way a person expresses or applies their values or beliefs. Its being expressed through words and behavior. To get to know about Americans life‚ there’s some
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November 2010 how popular culture shapes us and the environment The term popular culture‚ or pop culture‚ often refers to the ideas‚ values and goods that arise from mass media. This mass media includes books‚ magazines‚ movies‚ and television. In American popular culture two themes are prevalent: a materialistic one and a simplistic one. The materialistic one‚ that is popular in times of prosperity‚ stresses that happiness comes out of material goods‚ while the simplistic one says that happiness
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Adam Gracyalny Literature and Composition Honors Mrs. Madrigal 19 April 2013 Dumbing Down of Society Caused by Technology What would a perfect world be like? Could a perfect world be achieved? How would technology play a role in a Utopian society and how would it affect people socially? Technology plays a crucial role in our society today in economic and social ways. It allows people to easily access email and quickly return phone calls. Virtually all businesses today use some form of technology
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From the information presented in the article “The dumbing down of Canada’s universities”‚ I strongly agree with Kee Dewdney and Vanessa Morgan‚ my belief is that Canada’s school system is lacking on the basic ability of teaching. There are many reasons behind this‚ in my opinion I would say it is not just the students fault‚ yes we are easily distracted‚ yes our attention span is very low and yes we do tend not to care or put in any effort‚ but it is just as much a teachers fault as it is a students
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Technology is Eating us Technology in all of its forms -- social networks‚ smart phones‚ the Web‚ instant messaging‚ online gaming -- is a net loss for today’s young people. There are so many things that technology has given us that are wonderful‚ but we all know that too much of a good thing can be bad. We have managed to use and abuse these wonderful advancements to the point where sometimes I wish that they hadn’t been invented. Mobile phones are also things that have exploded in popularity
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