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    Andy Warhol, is one of the major influences of the Pop Art Culture. Everything started when he was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Andy was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became an artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He made made art based off a wide variety of art forms. Some art forms included performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and blurred the lines between art and aesthetics. He was first recognized for his ability to give a regular

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    Pop Culture Needs to Stop Hating! Aesthetic surgeries are surgeries in which the main point is to improve one’s appearance. Most of the general public see it as an excuse to get attention. Many people get them and not just famous people. Those who do, do it to feel more confident. Plastic surgeries should be seen more positively and not as an act of vanity because it boosts people’s confidence levels. Many people get plastic surgeries so they can be more self-confident. When someone talks

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    Pop Culture is a way of living for people, how they speak, what type of music they listen to, and their way of life. Shakespeare had changed the way English could be spoken by making more descriptive words for the emotions people can feel like lust or despair , if it weren't for the changes he made, Pop Culture could hardly cease to exist today. William Shakespeare has also made iconic characters and people that are still referenced to today like, Romeo, Juliet, and Hamlet. He has

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    What is Pop Culture, Who is involved with Pop culture, is Pop culture even important? Pop Culture is a modern popular culture transmitted via mass media and aimed particularly at younger people In today’s society. High schools are where all the trends and latest fads are set. How you dress can be the deciding factor whether you are “cool” or “popular.” Pop Culture can allow you to see how people dress and give a good idea of what is an idea of cute clothes or not. For example, when a person goes

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    or put off the progress of the current generation. Though many forms of entertainment are the main reasons for our current society’s procrastination, Johnson states that today’s pop culture is educational. It exercises the mind and brain in ways we don’t even realize. Over the course of thirty to forty years, pop culture and media has changed significantly, enhancing the way we think and live our lives. Johnson proposed a theory called the “Sleeper Curve”, which basically states that current U.S

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    society and current fashions that have transfixed the world over time. Barbie is a tangible embodiment of pop culture throughout the years, she has managed to become popular and stay popular, because she has done what many toys could not, she has grown to fit the world around her, and by doing so has captivated generations. Barbie’s changing fashions overtime have reinforced popular culture as she has resembled what is ‘trendy’ and ‘in’ at time

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    Virtual reality has been presented in pop culture as an extraordinary opportunity for every connected person to find his or her field. Exploring the vision of communication through the concept of virtual reality is simply discovering the limits of physical reality and how a virtual environment is presented to an individual’s senses. In “Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”, Adorno and Horkheimer argue that all forms of popular culture are designed to satisfy the rising needs of mass

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    Zada English 205 Ms. Shumate July 21st, 2015 80’s and Pop Culture Pop culture fills our lives today. No matter if one is interested in the topic or not, it seems as if pop culture appears everywhere whether it is on the radio, in magazines, at a grocery store, or on the Internet. Due to pop culture’s constant appearance, celebrities through their music, shows, or style, have influenced many ordinary people. The 1980s was a decade that pop culture truly beamed and its effect on us today is overlooked

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    Pop culture is known as the “cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people” (popular culture, n.d ). Now in the digital era where everything is available at just one click women have taken over the world causing a full sex revolution because they got tired of being the good girl in the kitchen. Still the pop culture carries on labeling women as pieces of meat and making them less than a man. Movies and different music videos

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    Popular culture is a society’s likes and dislikes of that year. America’s tastes are unique and always changing. In the year of 2004 Americas admirations were different from the ones now. Three aspects of popular culture in the year of 2004 were movies, food,and cellphones. One thing that was really popular in the year of 2004 was movie product. Shrek 2, Shark Tale, Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events, The Incredibles, and Spider-Man 2 all had a total gross of over 118 million dollars

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