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    The Active Audience In modern communication, there are various types of culture. The most widely known of these types is pop culture. Pop Culture in short, is every meme, perspective, image and phenomena that are within the mainstream of a culture which has created an active audience. This active audience has a role in pop culture as to how it creates and defines music, movies and race in popular culture. In a culture, there will always be an active audience in the music industry. In the article

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    Food is very much a part of pop culture, and the beliefs, practices, and trends in a culture affect its eating practices. Pop culture includes the ideas and objects generated by a society, including foods, and other systems, as well as the impact of these ideas and objects on society. For example, Mcdonald's is another of the thousands of fast food chains that populate our cities though they often use the term “popular culture” only to refer to media forms. Their popularity has also increased

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    Pop culture in the 1950s can be summed as culture in the 1950s. Cold war baby boomers Korea red scare. The 1950s america can be summed up as music the best fashion and the best music. People moving to suburbs and babies were being born because soldiers were returning home.After World War 2 ended, many Americans were eager to have children because they were confident that the future held nothing but peace and success. Much of this increase came from government spending: The construction of interstate

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    ‘Popular culture’ is defined by the oxford dictionary as “culture based on the tastes of ordinary people rather than an educated elite.” This definition implies that those who are educated are inclined to ignore this gossip, or are ‘too good’ to never indulge in it, which is simply not true. Carey’s article states that “long-term studies…have confirmed that…people devote anywhere from a fifth to two-thirds of their daily conversation to gossip” (2005, n.p.). Many people deny these facts, but when

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    Pop Culture A variety of different genres make up what we read, listen to and watch in society. Each theme tells a different aspect of how a book is being told. These personal thought come through an individual’s style of how they write. Their writings reflect off of what the theme is based on. Themes are categorized by different subjects in the world. Each theme tends to reflect off their society and how history was made. Pop culture is a big theme that many people read about. This

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    manage the sudden changes in culture the community brings, they do know that each day in a store brings new products and different arrangements throughout the store to fit the consumer's needs. Specifically enough, each store creates an image for themselves that exemplifies the culture and shows us something about the times we live in at that moment. Hot Topic influences the way the consumer buys their products by integrating family friendly items and American pop culture within their products in order

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    Sports in Pop Culture

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    (Petracca & Sorapure, 2007). For Instance; the mass media of newspapers who allot an entire section sport reports and statistics, weekly and monthly publications focusing on sports, and, important sport events, such as the Super Bowl. Sport in American culture are some of the higher rated on the TV broadcasts, and various cable network that are dedicated to branding sports 24 hour a day (Petracca & Sorapure, 2007). The fans of America have fun in their subcultures playing sport trivia games call sports

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    local culture of Washington DC, Lebanon, and Colombia side by side. In addition, he also has the opportunities to explore different languages, such as English, Spanish, and French. He also knows the value of diversity. By the way, he got the chance to explore different cultures within his family. However, I think, the main opportunity provided by the globalization for him is that he is born and living in the United States with parents from two different nation and cultures

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    The term ‘popular culture’ holds different meanings depending on who’s defining it and the context of use. It is generally recognized as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time. As Brummett explains in Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture, pop culture involves the aspects of social life most actively involved in by the public. As the ‘culture of the people’, popular culture is determined by the interactions between people in their everyday activities:

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    sometimes it is wealth, commonly religion, and other times race. But more often than not, identity is mainly defined by a combination of factors which take into account race, gender, and class. This paper will analyze the psychological effects of pop culture on identity by looking at specific case studies, generalized theories, and statistical change in mindsets overtime. Both logically and scientifically speaking, if the brain is physically altered, then the way one thinks is prone to change. Similarly

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