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    The Flash(Wally West) is best superhero in the 1960’s America. First,Wally West was the first kid flash/first kid speedster. There were no kid superheroes at the at the time besides Super Girl. Furthermore, Wally west soon became the fastest of all the speedsters, most superheroes don’t become better than their predecessors. Wally west would push his powers to the limit, this allowed him to pass his predecessors. Lastly, The Flash’s comic book became one of the bestsellers of the 1960’s. This mesant

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    Society always keeps the idea of heroes alive through media. Girls inspired by movies or television shows dream of knights in shining armor saving the day. These same shows often represent the women as weak and dependent on men. Men fight the bad guys and save the day while the women work behind the scenes giving information to the men. The gender stereotype of men protecting the women often reveals itself in television shows, especially in one episode of a television show called The Flash. The episode

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    Teen Film is a film genre, the targeted audience of teen film is teenagers and young adults. The setting of this genre is often set in high schools and colleges. Main themes in teen film include love, rebellion, peer pressure, conflict with parents and friends or alienation etc. This essay will discuss why teen films are so appealing to their audience. Adolescents in order to obtain peer recognition, eager to independence, strong rebellion, the establishment of self-image, teens can self-identification though

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    While high school in reality is full of surprises and twisty roads, teen television shows and movies are based off a strict set of conventions that allude to other teen films. In David Denby 's "High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies," he describes the typical movie storyline and characters: the blonde, superficial cheerleaders that make up the popular crowd, along with the buff, handsome jocks versus the social outcasts comprised of geeks and freaks. Denby continues to explain the nature

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    over the content that the writing is about. A type of writing that is not considered as academic writing, but should be, is teen magazines. There are several teen magazines in convenience stores or waiting rooms that target a specific vulnerable audience that happens to be teenagers. Magazines share the similar characteristics that an academic writing possesses, therefore teen magazines should be considered as academic writings. When reading academic writings, the following questions are usually asked

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    thinking of teen films our minds instantly might go to the well-known film The Breakfast Club which was released 1985. Some might think of the 1978 film Grease. We think of these films because they portray the lives of a group of teens for a day or even a school year, but the one thing teen films have in common are the characters main setting is a high school or around a high school (Denby 367). The 2002 film The Perks of Being a Wallflower can be categorized, by Denby’s standards, a teen film, because

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    The film opens with a flashback: as two planets are sucked into a black hole, each one sends out a rocket ship carrying an infant boy of that planet, the last of their kind. One child, a handsome boy endowed with superpowers, landed in a mansion and was admired by all; he became the superhero Metro Man. The other, a blue-skinned baby with super genius, ended up in a prison and was shunned by society; he became the supervillain Megamind, Metro Man's rival. All is as usual in Metro City: the town

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    In my opinion, Pretty Little Liars is the best show. There are lots of shows to choose from, but Pretty Little Liars is the best. I love watching this show because the characters are relatable, it’s suspenseful, and it’s creepy. In Pretty Little Liars the characters are young and full of life, which makes them relatable to the teenagers who watch this show. All of the main characters are in high school. Since the characters are around the same age as the viewers, they show scenes on the show that

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    Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama, mystery and thriller television series based on the popular book series, written by Sara Shepard. For those who have never heard of Pretty Little Liars, the show is based around a group of four female friends who become engrossed in a missing persons case. The "queen bee" of their group, Alison, goes missing and the remaining friends find themselves being blackmailed by an anonymous source, "A," who seems to know an awful lot of their secrets. TV shows

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    A sixteen year old girl poses for the camera, wearing a shirt that resembles something more akin to a bra than to an actual shirt. She is lying prostrate upon the floor with the photographer snapping pictures above her scantily-clad form. The girl's name is Britney Spears. She has just recorded her first hit single, named "Hit Me Baby One More Time". As Britney's veneer of a bubblegum pop princess fades, she has resorted to shedding more and more layers of clothing in order to attract

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