...Pop Culture Pop culture is also known as contemporary lifestyle or items that are generally accepted by masses of people in different generations. Pop culture is typically aimed towards younger people and is transmitted through various types of mass media. One show that sticks out tremendously to our current generation is Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2. The media and pop culture are changing our society for the better and for the worst. I believe not just Teen Mom, but other TV shows as well illustrate what our culture is currently like. Teen Mom displays many things our generation is faced with. Teen pregnancy, suicide, depression, dropping out, violence, drug abuse, and domestic violence are problems that are among young mothers. Despite this, Teen Mom shows us that it is possible to be a successful young mother. All through the show, there is no holding back from anyone featured. “Look, she’s pregnant. How old do you think she is?” We’ve all heard it, saw it, and experienced society’s prejudice outlook on teen moms. We hear about the statistics, the welfare, and the inability that goes with it. Most people agree that teen moms are less likely to have strong futures. Has anyone taken the time to look at teen moms who are leading successful lives and who have beautiful, healthy, happy babies? On December 8, 2009 a new show was aired on MTV, Teen Mom. It is a show about teen pregnancy and young women starting a family in their teens. The teen birth rates in the United States...
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...Sex is always an integral aspect of human development. However, adolescent females tend to face many risks when approaching sex rather than men. It is because girls are taught to hide their feelings about sex, especially in Eastern countries where sex education is unpopular. Teenage girls’ deficiency in sex information results in plenty of negative consequences. Girls and sex, it is an important issue that needs to be concerned about. Pop culture, hookup culture, and social judgement can manipulate girls’ perception about themselves, sex, and life. The expansion of pop culture has a huge impact on girls. They try to imitate their idols in the way of dressing and acting. The problem is that symbols of pop culture like Kim Kardashian or Lindsay Lohan encourage the idea of hotness that based on how other people evaluate (Orenstein, 2016). They are obsessed to fit themselves in an ideal model and easily disappointed when receiving criticisms about appearance. Pop culture constitutes the belief that confidence is created by their clothes, not their knowledge or behavior (Orenstein, 2016). Camilla’s ideas about provocative...
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...are ultimately trapped by the influences of their cultures. The church plays a heavy influence on Eveline throughout the story. Eveline is conflicted on whether she should leave with Frank or stay behind with her father. The unknown priest mentioned in the story appears to be significant because of his absence. The priest represents the Catholic Church, a powerful influence in Dublin but he is only remembered from a “yellowing photograph” (Joyce 4). Eveline's religion is not a relief to her at this point in her life; it is a set of rules to live by, which are deeply implanted in her. Eveline is left with obligations and duties, "promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque"(Joyce 4), but she does not have support from a church to help her carry them out. The nameless priest who represents the church, like everyone else immigrated to a place far away. Another cultural factor that traps Eveline is the Patriarchal household. Eveline is living with a father who is becoming more and more abusive. She is the last that’s left of her family, her mother has died and her brothers have moved on. She sits at the window pondering over her past and what her life used to be. Her mother was also a victim of the same thing. On her deathbed she chanted “Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!”(Joyce 6) which means the end of pleasure is pain. This shows that the mother was subjugated to the same things that Eveline will face. Eveline’s mother seemed happy in the memories that Eveline has...
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...Dr. Faucette English 111 October 14, 2013 Footloose “While the 1984 original is hardly a perfect film, New Footloose has some hefty shoes to fill,” as stated by Benjamin Wood. The original movie and new make of the movie Footloose are perfect examples of change in pop culture. In my essay, I have decided to compare and contrast the values and characteristics of these two movies. From the first to the second there are the same basic ideas, but so many differences in the characters and events. Christ Lemire describes the old Footloose as a “flood of fond memories” for anyone who grew up in the 1980s. This movie was a true symbol of the growth of pop culture during this time. The main character, played by Kevin Bacon, was a bad boy from big city Chicago. He was forced to move to a small town called Bomont, Utah with his mother into his aunt’s house. All he wanted to do was dance, but it was banned. This had a lot to do with the church and their moral beliefs. The boy meets a rebellious girl and it almost halfway becomes a love story also. His goal in this movie was for the town to put on a prom for the teens in school. He even goes before the town council in order to change the law against dancing. Although he portrays a very good argument and quotes from the bible about how they danced and rejoiced, the council voted against it. The young boy is determined and does not give up. In the end they hold the prom at a grain mill outside of town and everyone has the time of their...
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...August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City. Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in the neighborhood of Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol's parents were Slovakian immigrants. His father, Ondrej Warhola, was a construction worker, while his mother, Julia Warhola, was an embroiderer. They were devout Byzantine Catholics who attended mass regularly, and maintained...
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...Modern Art or Modernism is the loose term given to the succession of styles and movements in art and architecture which dominated Western culture from 19th Century up until the 1960’s. Movements associated with Modern art include Impressionism, Cubism, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Futurism, Pop Art and Op Art. Modern Art rejects the past as a model for the art of the present and is characterized by constant innovation. Modern Art grew out of the Impressionist's rejection of the 'imitation of life' school of art. Their emphasis on the act of painting, on the paint itself, can be seen in the Expressionist and Cubist art of the turn-of-the-century. Modern art was also often driven by various social and political agendas. These were often utopian, and modernism was in general associated with ideal visions of human life and society and a belief in progress. From the 1970’s artists and movements began to react against Modernism and post-modernism was formed. Some different types of the movements in art are: abstract, action art, American realism, architecture, art deco, and art nouveau, Asian, Bauhaus, black and white, celebrity, cityscape, colorful, comic book art, conceptual art, contemporary art, cubism, cuisine, exclusive, expressionism, fauvism, figurative, floral, framed prints, Modern art and many more. There were a lot of movements in the art industry ever since the beginning of Modern art which started in the 19th Century. Surrealism is a style of art and literature developed principally...
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...Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and hordes of startups, so every employee’s departure triggers a costly, time-consuming recruiting process. Then there was the happiness problem. Google monitors its employees’ well-being to a degree that can seem absurd to those who work outside Mountain View. The attrition rate among women suggested there might be something amiss in the company’s happiness machine. And if there’s any sign that joy among Googlers is on the wane, it’s the Google HR department’s mission to figure out why and how to fix it. Google calls its HR department People Operations, though most people in the firm shorten it to POPS. The group is headed by Laszlo Bock, a trim, soft-spoken 40-year-old who came to Google six years ago. Bock says that when POPS looked into Google’s woman problem, it found it was really a new mother problem: Women who had recently given birth were leaving at twice Google’s average departure rate. At the time, Google offered an industry-standard maternity leave plan. After a woman gave birth, she got 12 weeks of paid time off. For all other new parents in its California offices, but not for its workers outside the state, the company offered seven paid weeks of leave. So in 2007,...
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...of society in general. They were looking for a change and found it in the emerging counter cultural movements of 1960s. The youngsters began to question the traditional values and culture of the Orthodox American society. They welcomed sex, drugs and pop music. The counter culture movement reached its heights in 1969, when the young people attended the Woodstock Music and Art Festival at Newyork. The festival became a symbol of anti-war movement. The festival was a mixture of hippie, pop and drug culture. One of the notable feature of the counter culture movement was the sexual freedom and rise of feminism. There was a steep rise in abortions, orphans and divorce. Political activism on the part of women resulted in the formation of National organization for Women (NOW). Other than women, homosexuals were also raised their voice for equality which was later included the Civil Rights issue. Stone Wall Inn riots in 1969 and the establishment of Gay Liberation Front were important steps in their struggle for civil rights. The counter cultural sentiments were also expressed in movies and arts. The movement did not limit in North America alone, but spread to Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand. An international rock and roll group from Britain known as the Beatles was widely popular. The counter culture movement had merits and demerits. One the one hand, it stood against the cold war, on the other hand, it rebelled against the traditions of America. The same revolution can be seen...
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...American Pop Culture Annalisa Muehlberg UOP Soc/105 Should teenagers face sex charges for nude photos on their cell phones? A question many parents should ask themselves over sixty teenagers in various states are being investigated for these actions. It has become popular with young teens to send picture text messaging and some of those messages are nude photos. My reason in choosing this article to be quit honest was the headline on the website. I think the teens shouldn’t nessicarely face charges in this matter, because they are only kids. I believe they should offer a solution rather than a punishment such as banning teens under the age of eighteen from picture messaging. This will also allow parents to feel more at ease with what exactly their children are receiving and sending with their cell phone. It is also unacceptable to charge teens as sex offenders for such a minor offense. A young teen in Virginia is facing twenty years as a sex offender and she is only seventeen. This article relates to American Pop Culture because this is an issue that would have not been brought to my attention had it not been for mass media. Personally when I hear about this issue I think of my younger sister who is seventeen, and honestly in this situation I believe it would be great concept to only allow legal adults to have access to picture messaging. I found this article online from USA Today and my reasoning for choosing an online article is online...
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...sure her mother gets at least a five-second airtime. The cameras would show muttering novena lines of prayer, rosary beads on one hand, the other pointing at the opponent. Her name is Dionisia “Mommy D” Pacquiao, ballroom dancing enthusiast, celebrity endorser, and darling of Philippine pop culture. Her sons are formidable names in the international boxing arena; one is a congressman, philanthropist, professional basketball team coach, businessman, and was once hailed as the best fighter of this era. She likes ballroom dancing. She admits to collecting bags with a shiny gold letter “H” wedged on its straps, she appears on advertisements for a pawnshop wearing a long white gown with a crown on her head. She graces late night comedy talk shows and belts “Wrecking Ball” and the crowd goes wild in laughter. With the assurance of Mommy D’s airtime, comes the assurance that local television networks work in a jiffy to get even just a short interview with her just so she can make the headlines of the evening news right after her son’s bout. The interviews would show her sitting on a sofa in her hotel room, her rosary beads still tangled between her fingers. Scores of reporters with cameras, lights, and microphones surround her, taking notes, asking questions. Sometimes she would be alone but most often, unknown women would sit beside her, trying to give her air using a fan. Such is the power of Dionisia “Mommy D” Pacquiao on pop culture. Heck, she is pop culture! Her...
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...fifteen, all types of music genres due to hit radio stations influence us but I believe that amongst all the genres of music, Pop and R&B are the most influential to our society today. As different as these two genres might be, the similarities over rule them. Our generation is beginning to confuse the two genres immensely because of their similar beats, style and publicity/marketing strategies of these tunes. Pop music as of right now is based off of hits from Justin Bieber to Taylor Swift. Pop is what radio stations now call their ‘Hits 100’. It’s the most listened to songs, with beats that make you get up and get on your feet. The definition of pop according to Google “commercial popular music, in particular accessible, tuneful music of a kind popular since the 1950s and sometimes contrasted with rock, soul, or other forms of popular music.” “You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.”(Burdon) Pop is a mix of all genres put together to make one sound. R&B on the other hand is a harsher with deeper lyrics. People dislike R&B for this reason due to the fact it has more vulgar language and uses slang that not many people feel is appropriate. R&B is a branch off of soul music and funk. It’s the beat that makes you want to sway! Pop and R&B are becoming confused today because of their similar beats. With artist who do not even know what genre they fit...
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...fifteen, all types of music genres due to hit radio stations influence us but I believe that amongst all the genres of music, Pop and R&B are the most influential to our society today. As different as these two genres might be, the similarities over rule them. Our generation is beginning to confuse the two genres immensely because of their similar beats, style and publicity/marketing strategies of these tunes. Pop music as of right now is based off of hits from Justin Bieber to Taylor Swift. Pop is what radio stations now call their ‘Hits 100’. It’s the most listened to songs, with beats that make you get up and get on your feet. The definition of pop according to Google “commercial popular music, in particular accessible, tuneful music of a kind popular since the 1950s and sometimes contrasted with rock, soul, or other forms of popular music.” “You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.”(Burdon) Pop is a mix of all genres put together to make one sound. R&B on the other hand is a harsher with deeper lyrics. People dislike R&B for this reason due to the fact it has more vulgar language and uses slang that not many people feel is appropriate. R&B is a branch off of soul music and funk. It’s the beat that makes you want to sway! Pop and R&B are becoming confused today because of their similar beats. With artist who do not even know what genre they fit...
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...audiences who will go almost anywhere in search of the kinds of entertainment experiences they want” (2). Just like with my mother, her experience with, as well as the books, new media is based on a consumer need to get the form of entertainment they want. With the Kindle, online resources, and other electronically based technology, the book has had to evolve to fit its new platforms. These new platforms, however, have not changed the book as a whole. This old media is still the same media just in a new form. This stems from a need to tell stories. After the invention of the printing press, storytelling was streamlined and it opened the doors of access to the general public. No longer was a monk required to scribe a manuscript, and literacy rates grew proportionately to the rate of book production. The production became streamlined and literacy continued to grow, until it reached the point we are at today. The utilization of the internet age by books is not a change in the media, but rather a more streamlined production outlet. The distinction comes from the ability to still hold a book in hand, and to visit a...
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...Art And Culture Art and Culture Since the beginning of time, artists have labored extensively to find innovative ways to convey sentiment, passion, and feeling. Telling stories and trying to unlock the minds of people through different avenues of artistic labors. Art touches and affects people in unique ways; it can have special or unusual meaning on the person depending on how one views it. Artists’ rendering of their art is interpreted in numerous ways by others who view it unless it is explained by the artist on its meaning giving a clear example of what they are portraying. Two people looking at the same painting, sculpture, portrait, or photo may come to different views on the arts meaning even though they are looking at the same item. Art is how one interprets it and what that person sees. In today’s society art is done in so many other forms and diverse categories. This essay will concentrate and bring together four art forms, photojournalism, painting, architecture, and sculpture. The in-depth examination of the subsequent arts will be concentrated to the following: The influence of technology on the evolution of each of the art forms: architecture, photography, sculpture, and painting. Diversity’s role in the development of the arts and how it changed throughout the 20th century. Art and popular culture’s relationship and how this developed during the 20th century. From the beginning of time, Art has been known as evidenced by the past relics. Technology certainly...
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...Lily Allen’s “Hard Out Here For a Bitch”: Parody or Prejudice Recently, there has been a huge trend going in the pop culture community; this trend is white artists, (especially white female artist, from ladies like Miley Cyrus and Lorde), biting off of the hip hop music genre, making money off of certain aspects of black culture, and at the same time showing disrespect and trying to invalidate it by mocking stereotypical things within the genre and culture. Writer for Jezebel, Kate Dries, defended Allen’s video comparing Jewel’s 2003 hit single “Intuition” by saying, “’Follow your heart, your intuition/It will lead you in the right direction’ is a great sentiment and all, but not particularly interesting or funny, two things that Allen has managed to combine in this release,” and ending the article with a personal quote from Allen, “If you can't detect the sarcasm, you've misunderstood.” Now listen, most people who can take a joke can appreciate satire as much as the next person but, guess what? Satire works best when flipping the script on the oppressor, on the system. When you are calling attention to the ways that the system is skewed by amplifying the absurdity of that system; not disrespecting the people who are oppressed by that system. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, satire has been defined as “a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent...
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