Pop culture such as movies‚ music‚ sports‚ books and so much more are all critical aspects of everyday life in today’s time. It is hard to avoid pop culture in the modern world because it is seen in every aspect of society. Big businesses are the back bone to pop culture as they produce things that are popular to society to seek profit. The movie Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks released in 1993 is a product of pop culture at the time. During this time period many people in America were just learning
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popular culture that has mainly origins of English speaking countries with U.S.A. as the main exporter of popular culture through music‚ movies‚ television etc. In this essay I explore the positive aspects that using popular music in the classroom might potentially have. In my main issues I discuss the motivational aspects of popular culture‚ why teachers might feel insecure or unwilling to use the student ’s personal interests of popular culture in the classroom. Also how popular culture can be
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Harry Potter – Gender Representation – English Language There is a lot of gender representation in The Order of the Phoenix although this is not done purposely by the author‚ J.K. Rowling where there is a much larger group of main characters who are female. More often than not the male characters are depicted as more fun and easy going throughout the books especially in the first book when Hermione followed the rules to the letter‚ one of her most memorable lines being‚ “... before you get us
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Are Harry Potter Books Harmful for Children? As far as I’m concerned‚ the Harry Potter series are quite suitable for children to read. As we all know‚ this set of books is written about a boy who is a wizard‚ and he fights with the devil for the justice‚ during the process it also show us how to treat our real friends and our family. Some parents and censors consider this book harmful for children to read and try to ban it‚ because of the manipulation‚ lying‚ violence‚ witchcraft (which they
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A Book Review of HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE JEFFREN PANCHO-MIGUEL BSED – ENGL 3 English 20‚ TTh 2:35 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (also Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) is a magical‚ fantasy‚ and fictional novel written by New York Times Bestselling British Author Joanne K. Rowling‚ popularly known as JK Rowling. It is the first installation of the Harry Potter series. The story is all about a young boy named Harry Potter‚ who is known to be the only person
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Media has changed the perspective of it’s audience of different cultures and political problems. Early movies and even books that portrayed cowboys and Indians‚ disguised the cowboy as a hero and the Indian as a savage‚ both were portrayed incorrectly by the media by what actually happened historically. Bringing this idea back to the present it is still seen but replace cowboys with the average American citizen or soldier and the Native American with an Arab or Muslim. “As paranoid‚ oversensitive
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quest‚ resulting in Shrek falling in love and the death of Farquaad. Throughout the film‚ elements of pop-culture are seen. The fairytale creatures are predominantly derived from American pop-culture. Shrek and the fairytale creatures
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Pop Culture Plants Insecurities in Young Minds Does popular culture psychologically affect society’s self-perception? Society spends an alarming amount of time on social media outlets such as television and the internet to follow their favorite celebrities. This unhealthy amount of exposure to these people‚ who are being constantly trained and edited into these “perfect” human beings‚ causes the average person to feel insecure and go through extreme measures to resemble them. Alarmingly‚ those
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Pop culture is becoming an ever-growing ever-addicting way of life for our nation. I address it as a way of life because if you were to sit down and think about your day-to-day activities I could guess that some of those things include pop culture in some way. Personally‚ I am an admitted addict to everything celebrity and current. The majority of my life would have pop culture references in the mix. Now not only am I in this boat but most of America is. We see this based on how pop culture has now
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In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ by J.K. Rowling‚ the main theme is the idea of good vs. evil. Harry Potter is a wizard that lives with a muggle(human) family. When he was a baby‚ Voldemort‚ the most powerful dark wizard‚ killed both his parents and tried to kill him‚ but instead of dieing‚ Harry was a left with a lightning bolt scar and the memory of his dead parents. He was left at the doorstep of his muggle aunt and uncle who highly dislike him and his wizard powers. When he was sent
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