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    US Unemployment Issues

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    Cited: "Median US Household Income‚ 2001-2011" Quartz. 6 March 2013. Web. http://qzprod.

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    For the last 20 or so years‚ rap has been the most dominate influence in music and culture. Rappers like Eminem and P. Diddy have made millions and millions of dollars off their music; Kanye West‚ Macklemore‚ and countless other rappers have won Grammys every year; Dr. Dre recently sold his brand Beats to Apple for one billion dollars; Rap motifs and quotes appear in pop culture every day. Needless to say‚ hip hop is one of the most successful and popular genres in all of music. So‚ what makes

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    American Pop Culture Michelle Lilier University of Phoenix SOC/105 Robert Legaspi 29 January 2007 American Pop Culture American pop culture today is McDonald’s‚ Starbucks‚ finding a potential significant other on online dating sites‚ conversations via cell phones but with the use of fingers and not voice‚ the highly anticipated Super Bowl games and more interest in American Idol than politics. The given examples are just a few of today’s popular culture all too common to the average person

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    The culture of the United States has been going from bad to worse in recent years. Things like good manners and kindness have been weeded out. The youth of America look to the media for guidance on what is "cool" and acceptable and pop culture is filling their minds with bad thoughts. TV‚ movies‚ and radio are the avenues for this corruption. On average‚ in a two-hour period‚ a child will see a maximum of one hundred people die on TV. Music is destroying the tentative footing that women have in the

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    Technology Makes Us Lazy

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    Makes Us Lazy Humans were now beyond genius. We live in the time of technology as a medium of almost every single thing that we do. Technology is the making‚ modification‚ usage‚ and knowledge of tools‚ machines‚ techniques‚ crafts‚ systems‚ and methods of organization‚ in order to solve a problem‚ improve a pre-existing solution to a problem‚ achieve a goal‚ handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function. In other words‚ technology makes us lazy‚ it procrastinates us and doesn’t

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    Forrest Gump Pop Culture

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    Section II- Research a topic from that year Pop culture of the year 1994 left behind films‚ music‚ fashion and great television shows. Pop culture is modern popular culture transmitted via mass media and aimed particularly at younger people. Younger people are influenced very easily by pretty much anything. “Momma always said ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” -Forrest Gump (20 Classic Forrest Gump Quotes in Honor of the Film’s 20th Anniversary‚ 2014)

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    Pop culture is commonly defined as: modern popular culture transmitted via mass media and aimed particularly at younger people. Generations and decades all have different pop cultures‚ some more influencing than others but something very unique about my generation is that pop culture seems to have taken over it. Social media is how a person in the most recent generation expresses their identity as a whole‚ to others‚ and in some ways to themselves. Pop culture can touch on issues such as race‚ ethnicity

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    Us history 60s

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    going to Cuba‚ and threatened to take military action. This caused a lot of international anxiety‚ but after a few days the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missile base. Peace Corps were created by J.F. Kennedy to establish the authority of the US in Asia‚ Africa and Latin America. Young volunteers were sent to the Third World countries‚ they worked there and helped the population to gain progress. Also Kennedy passed the law against segregation in education and got society support for this

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    Pop Culture In The 60's

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    In addition to changing Canadian mentality ‚ Hippies have created an era of pop culture and lifestyle that has been carried into present times . During the early 60’s ‚ many Hippies migrated to rural areas of Canada and lived off the land as a way to get in touch with nature . For those who could not afford to live in remote locations ‚ communal living was the next best option as many Hippies were homeless and could only live comfortably by sharing with others . Communal living was the most preferred

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    How is the evolution of technology affecting us? There are two essays that discuss this topic‚ Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ and Kevin Kelley’s “Technophilia”. Carr’s view on the evolution of technology is that it is decreasing our ability to deep read‚ and therefore decreasing our deep thought. Kelley’s view on technology is that it aids us in a multitude of ways‚ and desires to be loved. While both men have opposing views on technology‚ they do agree on one thing‚ they can’t live

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