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    About a Boy Essay 9

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    About a Boy is clearly a text about growing up. Discuss the ways in which Marcus and Will help each other grow up‚ and relate your discussion to some defining realisation you’ve had in your own life about aspects of growing up (the end of innocence‚ need for conformity/individuality‚ social pressure to conform‚ bullying‚ self-discovery‚ dealing with parents). Use examples from the text and form your own personal experience of life to support your response. About a boy is a novel which follows the

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    create my own experience of reality – the more it is possible for me to become self-determined and to be truly free in living out my own identity. From the quotation from Theodor Wiesengrund comes his warning against the desire in people‚ caused by popular culture‚ to conform to social demands that results in paradox and contradictions in identity. It is quite easy in modern Western civilization to believe that I am free. I have so many choices – the choice of where to live‚ what to read‚ what to watch

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    Advertising killed the radio star summary page 1 Advertising Killed the Radio Star Summary Page 2 In this article Josh Sanburn is exploring the evolution and merging of commercials and popular music. Commercial music made $2.5 billion last year and aired during the most popular shows on television. This is much different than when commercials started as short‚ informative jingles. There was no way to mistake a commercial jingle for any song on the radio. In the 50’s and 60’s jingles morphed

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    Iconic 50s The 50s were a time of rebellion‚ prosperity‚ and movement. America seemed to be transforming into a society that shaped the one we have today. With the development of the "American Dream"‚ a booming popular culture‚ and inching closer to equality for blacks and women make this period unforgettable. When you think of the American dream‚ you often think about a mother and/or wife staying home all day caring for the house‚ cooking‚ and caring for the children‚ while the man is hard

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    Sometimes this version of critical literacy is named ‘postmodern education’‚ bringing a rich heterogeneity of student voices into the classroom and validating popular ways of speaking and identities. In this type of education‚ students determine which meanings are important to them and the curriculum starts with these. In fact‚ critical literacy creates a space for modes of expression that have historically been

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    other cultures globally. 2. Apply Chidester’s theory that pop culture can do the work of religion (from the “Church of Baseball” chapter) and explain how we could theorize a “Church of the iPhone” using specific examples. Chidester’s theory that popular culture can do the work of religion can be applied to many things consumed in society such as his example of “church of baseball”. One example of this could be the idea of “the church of iPhone. As Chidester’s stated in his essay‚ baseball presents

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    A. McGrady 9/19/12 ENG 96: Harwood Television Summary Has popular culture grown more complex and intellectually stimulating over time when compared with popular culture from 20 years ago? That is the question Steven Johnson tries to answer in his best seller Everything Bad Is Good For You. Johnson uses tables and graphs‚ as well as the use of multiple threading‚ flashing arrows‚ and social networking to show the reader the difference in viewing a show from the 80’s (such as Starsky and

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    Literature Review Today Korean popular culture considered as the most successful and well-known entertainment industry. Since 1990s‚ the phenomenon “Hallyu” mostly recognized as “Korean Wave” spread out far away from its mother land and surprisingly made such a positive impression. There are millions of fans of k-pop over the whole world and in the last three-four years popularity of Korean pop-culture reached Kazakhstan. Kazakhstani channels show various TV dramas and a lot of music videos. So

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    will be blasted by millions of ads with heavily photo shopped and over sexualized women. The successes of women in 2013 were countless yet we don’t talk about or celebrate them. Instead we revert back to sexist advertising‚ over sexualizing women in popular culture‚ shaming women over their sex lives‚ underrepresenting female protagonists in film and television‚ and demeaning female politicians over their physical appearance rather than their views or policies. Although the media wronged women in 2013

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    Professor of American Studies and the Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions  at Cornell University in Ithaca‚ NY. According to the Cornell University website‚ his year‐long course  in American Popular Culture is among the most popular in the university. He is the author of several  books on American history and popular culture‚ including Changing Channels: America in TV Guide.    All Shook Up is a social history that uses primary sources such as newspapers and magazines of  the time period‚ as 

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