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3 unique pop culture websites

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/ is one of the popular net game in the world. https://www.youtube.com/ youtube we use it in class many times. http://www.bilibili.com/ bilibili is a video website like youtube, but it popular in China, because we can comment in the video screen! even can block the video.

pop culture app

instagram is an app which can share photos or short video with friend, it is very popular in U.S, also become popular all over the world.

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POPculture is the things you do everyday

pop culture in my culture

Rage comic

summary of food text

The Cooking Animal summary. Cooking base on human use fire. This is advance of civilization. When human know how to use fire, we were different to animal. Many anthropologist said that cooking as a symbolic way to distinguishing human and animals. Cooking food makes human from nature to culture. The food cooked is easy for human to get it’s energy, so human get evolution faster than other animal. That’s why cooking become a culture. In those cooking culture, people will talk about how to cook meal. When our grilling (like BBQ), we sit around on the fire, talk about life and cook. This is a higher culture that other animal never do. Many food such as French fry is hard to make at home, so more and more people love that food, and they go to restaurant. The anthropologist find out that when you not going to cook, you will eat more. So the problem is people go out for eating, and become fatter and fatter. People begin to care about their health problem, they want to eat more health, this what out Cooking culture looks like. Q1: how do you think about Cooking Animal means? Q2: what differences between human an animal?

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http://www.pinterest.com/shengyangguan1/music/ http://www.pinterest.com/shengyangguan1/

House of blues reflection

House of blues reflection I am not know much about blues before I went to the house of blues. I just know blues is a kind of music, I even can’t recognize blues and rock&roll. When I went to the house of blues, I saw some photos on wall which all are black. The guide told us blues was stated by black, and rock&roll is base on blues development. I got my aha moment. Then we listen the band show, the guide told us about blues history at the same time. Blues is from Africa to America, it came to America Slavery in 1600s, which is tradition music from Africa. More and more people played blues and became popular. That’s why I saw so many black on the wall. Blues have quickly Rhythm, we follow the beats and use our body, the player use their mouth and step makes the beats, listener can make sound with them, like yi-ha! That make us excited. It is so sad that I had class later and I had to leave early.

Film Genre

Chick-flick is a slang term for a film genre mainly dealing with love and romance and designed to appeal to a largely female target audience.[1][2] Although many types of films may be directed toward the female gender, "chick-flick" is typically used only in reference to films that are heavy with emotion or contain themes that are relationship-based (although not necessarily romantic as many other themes may be present). Chick-flicks often are released en masse around Valentine's Day. Generally, a chick-flick is a film designed to have an innate appeal to women, typically young women.[4] Defining a film a chick-flick is, as the New York Times has stated, more of a parlor game than a science.[5] These films are generally held in popular culture as having formulaic, paint-by-numbers plot lines and characters. This makes usage of the term "problematic" for implying "frivolity, artlessness, and utter commercialism", according to ReelzChannel.[3] However, several chick-flicks have received high critical acclaim for their stories and performances. For example, the 1983 film Terms of Endearment received Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Actor in a Supporting Role.[6] Some frequent elements of chick-flicks include having a female protagonist,[3] thematic use of the color pink (along with metaphorical allusions of the color),[4] and romance and/or dating based storylines.[7] Longtime producer Jerry Bruckheimer has remarked about the plots as "How do you cope with money and love?"[5] Female MSN.com commentator Kim Morgan has written, [C]inema just wouldn't be the same without movies for and about women. And we don't just mean movies about pretty women, but all women and their issues – something many guys don't usually have the patience for in real life. That's what sisters are for, right? Right... sisters or movies.[8] Alternatively, the website My Pick Flick is a crowd-sourced mechanism for determining if a film is a chick-flick or not, where visitors can vote for popular film titles to be either a 'man movie' or a 'chick-flick'.

movie poster

Poster note: Story line: Some people are trying to take over the word. A spy must find out who they are and how to stop them. Some people are trying to take over the word: bad guys want to hold the weapons. A spy:images 007 Stop them: action movie. Explosion. Gun. Car crash. Sounds: skyfall.

movie reflection

Reflection We learned about movie. First thing we learn is the genres, it means the kinds of movie, there are many genres, I know the genre such as action, horror, comedy. But in my worksheet, my genre is Chick flicks, I never hear it before. Then I do some research. Chick flicks is a kinds of movie for female, which talk about love, romantic, and their relationship. I know about it such as . That is my aha moment. The Second thing we learn about the terms, which make me know many movie terms words in English. However, there are some of them I never hear, we discuss about those terms, we learn from the people who know those terms, and the discussing makes me want to take a movie! The most make me interested is Tyler Perry’s money machine. I never hear about him. But his movie makes lots of money, like the Hollywood’s movie did. After I read the test, I wonder his movie is from a good marketing, the black people, his movie show the black people what real life, real feeling they have. That’s why his movie makes lots of money. Bumper Sticker: we make the movie, movie makes us.

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The women's movement ushered in a slew of programming featuring strong, independent females as central characters. Most notable was The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which spawned the successful spin-offs Rhoda and Phyllis, and also resulted in Mary Tyler Moore becoming the first female to head a television production company of her own, MTM Enterprises, which churned out groundbreaking programming in the late 1970s throughout the 1990s. Women were also established portraying strong characters in programs like Police Woman, Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, and others.

FAD

Chuck Taylor All Stars, or Converse All Stars, also referred to as "Converses", "Chuck Taylors", and "All Star", is the brand name for a pair of athletic shoes produced by Nike, Inc. through its Converse division. Nike has owned the rights to the brand since acquiring its former competitor out of bankruptcy in 2003. The design of the Chuck Taylor All-Star has remained largely unchanged since its introduction. The shoes consist of a stitched upper portion, a toe cap usually made of white rubber, and a sole that is usually made of brown rubber. Although Chuck Taylors are made of various materials such as leather, the original and most widely known version of the shoe is made from cotton canvas. They were first produced in 1917 as the "All Star", Converse's attempt to capture the basketball shoe market.[1] Chuck Taylor, a basketball player and shoe salesman for Converse, improved the shoe's design and became the product's spokesperson in the 1920s

UNITE 2 REFLECTION

Reflection In this unite we learn about pop culture, the first thing we did is search about fad which is some object. Fad can show what is pop culture in their time. However I just could find some logo, cloth, or some name of show. I finally realize that those are the pop things in their age,is same as apple phone and Big band theory in our life, that is my aha moment. Everyone exited about pop star presentation, many of classmate choose a music star or movie star, thought I know most of stars, I prefer choose Michael Phelps, his is an amazing athlete. I find many information about him, and I know why he became a pop stars. Just like all the pop stars, someone could find a stage to show their talent that they will become a pop stars. Michael Phelps shows his swimming talent in the Olympic games, so he become a pop stars. Classmate’s presentation talk many different stars, such as Michael Jordan, Avril Lavigne. I learn many pop stars information in U.S, I think it useful for me when I make a new friend, I can use that information and keep the topic. Bumper Sticker: Pop culture is a shining star in our lives.

pop star Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (18, double the second highest record holders), Olympic gold medals in individual events (11), and Olympic medals in individual events for a male (13). In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps took the record for the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. Five of those victories were in individual events, tying the single Games record. In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four golds and two silver medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Games for the third Olympics in a row.[6] Phelps is the long course world recordholder in the 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter butterfly and 400-meter individual medley as well as the former long course world recordholder in the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter individual medley. He has won a total of 77 medals in major international long-course competition, totalling 61 gold, 13 silver, and 3 bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Phelps's international titles and record-breaking performances have earned him the World Swimmer of the Year Award seven times and American Swimmer of the Year Award nine times as well as the FINA Swimmer of the Year Award in 2012. His unprecedented Olympic success in 2008 earned Phelps Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year award. After the 2008 Summer Olympics, Phelps started the Michael Phelps Foundation, which focuses on growing the sport of swimming and promoting healthier lifestyles. He continues to work with his foundation after the 2012 Olympics, which he has said will be his last. In April 2014, Phelps announced he would come out of retirement, and would enter an event later that month.[7]

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Unite reflection

Reflection What I learned.Culture shock is the first topic we talk about, which makes me interested. I heard Culture shock, but never feel it until I come to U.S. Some people will hug you or shake your hand hardly, it would not happen in China when someone see you. Second topic is about iceberg, I thought it is just a view. The radio told us that culture iceberg have three parts, the formal, technical, and informal. I still don’t understand, when the radio give the example, I got the aha moment. How I learned. We discuss with each other, we talked about our weekend, everyone tried to adapt the life style in U.S. The culture in U.S is mix culture, so classmate are keeping their our culture. Talking to them, I learn Korea culture such as they love hot food, Togo people love scorer. We compare our culture, ask about the culture we don’t know. For example, when I am doing my CIP, someone asked me whether everyone learned Kongfu in China. So we learn by talking. Learn about how to define American, when I am on the road, I will look at everyone I meet.Looking his/her gender and physical appearance,and think about his/her culture. Find out what is impolite and remind myself not to do that. I could make more and more friends by this way. This skill is also can work in talking. I can find many detail in someone dressing and appearance and know what he/she likes, then I can use it as a topic. Bumper Sticker:SHOCKING and LEARNING,

CIP reflect

CIP reflection By doing the Cultural Identity Poster. I learned how to use internet to search for information which I need. When I am doing the search, I learn many culture I never know before.For example, I searched many kinds of Chinese Kongfu,and I found many of them I never heard.Is a good way to learn more cultural by seeing others Cultural Identity Poster, although China is near the Korea, but I never know Korea map is like a tiger. It’s very interesting to learn other cultural, there are many differences between two cultural, some of them you never know why, and some of them is so funny.Making Cultural Identity Poster is a good experience for learning pop culture.

CIP

http://sguan14.edu.glogster.com/chinese-kongfu/

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