My Reflection of Interdiction to POP Culture

	My Reflection of Interdiction to POP Culture

            To know what is Pop culture we have to know what is pop and what is culture. What is Pop Culture reading shows us that pop is a shortcut of popularity and it means " of the people". Culture points to the body of beliefs, behaviors, values, and thoughts that influence us every day.

            Moreover, we looked for fads from the 50s to 2010s, pop star presentations, team projects (American popular culture) and pop culture studies. Also, every Monday we start our class with red Eye.

            What are the skills we used them?. We read What is Pop Culture, we thought about the important events in American culture and watched them such as Super bowl and Oscar, we have done different researches like pop stars and influential objects, technology, person, music, fashion, events, TV shows and movies. Also, we did two presentations, one was individual and the other one was teamwork.

            In the last 4 weeks, I gain much information and I tried to improve my expository skills. I learned that "Pop culture is made up of all the places, people, objects, and events and they can be real or imagined" for example, objects like, Barbie dolls, rap songs, TV shows, I-phones and clothing and Events like, 9/11, the Olympics, the Super Bowl, Thanksgiving dinner, or high school proms and more. I also learned what is the difference between fads and trends. Moreover, I knew that energy drink was popular in the 2000s and The Titanic was popular in90s. Furthermore, from Pop star's presentation I knew that Michel Jordan, is Nike brand face, Barack Obama, was born in Kenya and Steve Jobs, listed as the inventor on 342 lists in the USA and from my pop star which was Angelina Jolie I found that before the 2000s she had never thought about herself as a mother. As well I learned from pop stars as I learned from American popular culture. I knew that yoga was a fad from the 70s. Moreover, from 70s Superman is the most expensive movie. One information I really like was that the DNA discovered in the 50s. I like when my classmates told us information because I keep remembering the interesting information.

            My aha moment was when I recognized why I know a lot of things about singer or athletes even though I have no interest in music or sport. I understand that I have this information from people around me because of the Pop culture.

            I did not know that popular culture is a mirror of our life and it shows all popular things.

My pop star is Angelina Jolie

My pop star is Angelina Jolie

Biographical sketch

            Angelina Jolie is an actress, producer and director. Jolie born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Some of her movies are Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005),Wanted (2008), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Changeling (2008) and Salt (2010). She has been married to actor Brad Pitt since 2014. JOLIE-PITT kids are Pax Thien, Zahara Marley, Shiloh Nouvel, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

Achievements and failures

            Jolie was presented the Global Humanitarian Action Award in 2005. Also, In 1998, she earned her first Golden Globe Award. One of the failures, at the age of 18, she was given her first leading role in the 1993 film ‘Cyborg 2’. With the failure of this film, Jolie was disappointed with her performance.

Anecdote

            Angelina took a trip to Cambodia with the United Nations and recalled the moment her perspective on motherhood changed, saying, "It's strange, I never wanted to have a baby. I never wanted to be pregnant. I never babysat. I never thought of myself as a mother. " She then had an epiphany while playing with a few kids at a Cambodian school, stating, "It was suddenly very clear to me that my son was in the country, somewhere." In 2002, Angelina adopted her first son, Maddox, from Cambodia.

Why I chose her

            I chose her because I like her action movies and the way she think. From what I know about her I think she is a really good person and she loves people no matter how different they are.

       Some of my classmates pop stars are Johnny Deep and Lady Gaga.

            I learned from Tzanis about Deep that he has the ability to transform himself at any kind of character.

            I learned from Renee Tingyin about Lady Gaga that she is has been included time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

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2010s Fads.

Selfie
A self-portrait photo usually taken with a camera phone, to be posted on a social network, or to be sent to a friend on Snapchat. It started by teenage girls.

https://youtu.be/7UoaeDUTVec

Zumba

Zumba is a dance fitness program created by Colombian dancer and choreographer Alberto "Beto" Perez during the 1990s.

Frozen Yogurt Stores

Place of origin	United States
Region or state	New England
Main ingredients	Milk solids, sweetener, milk fat, yogurt culture
in the early 2010s a new type of frozen yogurt store exploded on to the scene, where it offered self serve frozen yogurt machines with many different flavors.

My reflection on American popular culture from 2010s and the future. (Team Project)

.My reflection on American popular culture from 2010s and  the future                      

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              How we made it? At first, in the class, we divided the Items between us. Also, We decided to use Prezi and email to communicate with each other.

              My parts were TV shows and movies. Honestly, I do not learn that much because our periods were not from a long time ago. I still learned some things like, who directed, created and writer some of famous movies. I started with TV shows. I chose The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. Frank Darabont is a creator of The Walking Dead. This series has 7 seasons and it's nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Moving to the other Tv show, which is a Game of Throes. This series has 6 seasons and it's creators by Davis Benioff and D.B Weiss. Moreover, This series won one Golden Globe. The rating for both Series is very good. The Walking Dead Rating is 8.6 of 10 and 9.5 for Game of Thrones. My other part was movies, I chose Inception, X-men2011, X-men 2014 and for the future Me Before You. Starting with Inception, I liked this movie, which directed and wrote by Christopher Nolan. Inception got 8.8 of 10 and it won four Oscars. I think X-Men (The First Class) that came out in 2011and X-Men (Days of Future Past) which was in 2014 have a lot of American fans and that is why I chose them. X-Men (The First Class)that directed by Matthew Vaughn, has no Oscar. However, X-Men (Day of Future Past) which directed by Bryan singer, won one Oscar. Me Before you Which coming soon is starring Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, and Jenna Coleman. Also, it's directed by Thea Sharrock.

              I learned different things from my classmates.Things that I learned from our project Is those slim-fit jeans worn by men started in 2010. Also, the first commercially available Jet Pack was in 2010. From Tania's group, I learned that the first phone has a camera was created by Samsung in 2000. Also, I saw the original Cross shoes in Tania part.

              Unfortunately, I was so disappointed when I knew that Ken and  Lazar did not do their work in time. After I and Jaime showed our Prezi we did the other members work too.

              In the end, I created the Prezi and designed. Also, I did TV shows, movies, person and one object.

Jaime did objects, technology, music, fashion, and events.

My contribution = 50%

Teammate 1(Jaime) = 50%

Teammate 2(Ken) = 0%

Teammate 3(Lazar) = 0%

Total    = 100%