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Pop Culture Icons Have you ever looked at pop culture icons and wondered why certain celebrities appear in ads? Especially when the person has no apparent relationship with the product being sold in the ad. It seems like there is some mysterious force that attracts companies to recruit these stars to be in their ads. What most people do not realize is that these ads try to entice younger viewers into looking at them by displaying pop figures who are popular and controversial. These companies

American popular culture has always been a market for sales. Everything that is and has made pop culture what it is in America has been built through commercialization. The ability to sell the main product and then the countless other revenue items that go with that product define American culture. Today in the United States a person would be hard-pressed to fined a movie showing in theaters that does not have a soundtrack out, t-shirt even action figures that go along with it. So where did this

Created Two Different Pop Icons At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, pop icon Madonna joined two of the biggest pop stars at the time, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, on stage and would share a buzzworthy performance that kept the world talking and cemented the performers as some of the greatest MTV has ever seen. At the time, Spears was about to release a new album. She was still in the only years of her career, but with this performance, where the three female pop stars exchanged open mouth

the fastest runner, the best speller or the most talented golfer were the icons of the culture. Today, those with the biggest and most expensive toys win, or so it seems. In the modern society, the only time that talented athletes are revered is when they are seen in commercials using the latest cellular telephone or smiling on a box of sugar coated cereal. There is much that can be said about happiness as an element of pop culture as it relates to consumerism. Within the dollar-driven world of modern

for the genre. Popular culture has helped influenced many of us, and it has made us the people we are today; after all, haven’t we all heard a child say they want to grow up and be a superhero? These icons, such as superheroes or actors, have helped inspire people both negatively and positively. One icon which has inspired me is Lucille Ball, her influence has made me more optimistic because she overcame great difficulties in her life and because the characters she played were very independent and outgoing

Alfred Pennyworth, The Dark Knight, 2008. He’s known by many names; The Clown Prince of Crime, Killer Clown, Mr. J, but to most he’s simply known as The Joker. Being one of the few villains that are just as popular as their hero, The Joker is a pop culture icon. There’s a dark past and a mysterious history behind one of DC comics most beloved villains. There have been countless stories told and a few actors that have portrayed Batman’s nemesis, but the dark cloud of The Joker’s past remains obscure

Rebekah Brickeen Ms. Howard AP English 11 6 December 2016 Pop Culture Mix Modes Rough Draft During the teenage years, pop culture becomes very important and has a major influence on a teen’s daily life. Pop culture begins to have negative effect on teens when they begin to change themselves to fit into the social standards created by modern TV stars, fashion icons, and musical artists. It is fine to be interested in wealthy and famous people, because they are without a doubt, interesting and it

On three of the four walls all at once, you see the entirety of the room. You look around- at yourself, at the strangers, at the fourth wall. You cannot help but notice how present you are. You are here. . . why are you here? Upon entering the first room of the Public, Private, Secret exhibition, you are immediately surrounded by mirrors, making you hyper aware of your own presence within the exhibition space. Suddenly, you are cognizant of the other guests, too. Looking through the mirror, you can

Britney Spears' prevalence as a pre-teen pop culture icon cannot be denied or ignored.  Spears, along with her colleagues Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore and many others, are ever present on the "Top 40," make frequent appearances on MTV, and can often be found on magazine covers and in photo spreads.  Spears is especially popular among pre-teen girls, who buy her records, singing and dancing along to the lyrics.  These lyrics often deal with love, lust, and sex-topics some consider

Media construct our culture, and the media we use to communicate with one another shapes our perception of reality. Our society is centered on media, it is the most influential factor in constructing our culture, but is it a positive culture? If we examine the effect that media has on children, we can say that it breeds a harmful culture, one that throws values and morals out the window. This is because the media is profit driven and has developed its own code of ethics of "anything-goes". As