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Article: So What is Pop Culture, You Ask? LINK Summary of the Text            This text teach me about how pop culture around us. Everyday we can see pop culture, the interesting part is we never care about it. Because we think pop culture just like a daily life, we never think about our surroundings.              Internet is the best way that we can understand and learn about pop culture. Through using social media, we can sharing new stuff with our friends, and to the other. Also, pop culture is a collection of thoughts, idea, attitude by the mainstream population.              The most common pop culture is entertainment, like movie, music, sports or news. Also, pop culture is changing in every year, therefore why sometimes the elder didn't understand what are the teenagers thinking about. In each decade, we create our own pop culture, like the term which is always used ...

Course Reflection

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                      Hi everyone, I hope all of you have a nice day.         Time files, this semester just gone! I am so glad to meet all of you. I love this course so much, because I love Pop Culture.         In this course, I learned lots of things about Pop Culture, and it is really fun. I learned about what is Pop Culture, where is the different between Pop Culture and the tradition. Also, I learned about movie and music.         In unit of movie, I learned about movie genre, this part is about how we definition for a movie, like why this movie is classify as a horror movie. Then, we talk about the history of cinema, the first star in the world, the big six film making studio, and the history of Oscars and Hollywood. I just recognized  that the first movie had no sound and no colour. Also, I learned why we need horror movie so badly, after read...

New Visual Project

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           This photo was taken by me. I take this photo in Chicago. I remember that this is the first time I come here. I leave my home town, family and friends, but sometimes being alone make me feel homesick. I called this photo "End of Summer", because this photo is taken in September while October is coming. I think summer always make people remember the pleasant memories. Also, at that moment I miss my family and friends.

A Cool Pop Culture App

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App Name: LIHKG Website Version [ https://lihkg.com/category/1 ]          Hi everyone, I want to share my app which is I have use it daily. It is called "LIHKG", this app was so popular in my home country. This is a forum app, I think it app is similar to "Reddit". You can find out lots of interesting topic in this app. Unfortunately is app didn't have English version.

3 Unique Pop Culture Websites

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1. Music Billboard [ https://www.billboard.com/ ]       This website is about the most popular music chart in the world. You can find some popular music in this website. 2. Yelp [ https://www.yelp.com/ ]           This website is so popular in United States. This is a review website, you can find out some restaurants review, and places review in this website before you go. 3. 9gag [ https://9gag.com/ ]            This  website includes lots of funny videos and photos, everyone love to find them out in this website, and share for their friends to watch it.

Pop in My Culture

Pop in My Culture by Jordan Chan on Scribd

Summary of Blues

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       In the unit of music, we learned about Blues. I know Blues is very important part of Chicago history, because Blues is a key influence to develop Rap and Rhythm and Blues. Also, through reading the article of Blues, I have more understand about. Blues history. Blues in the early days is a working song of slavery to express their faith along with feeling lost, longing for home and hope for freedom. [From Africa to America : A Cruel Journey (1500-1800)] A wide variety of musical styles in Africa. Participatory in nature and it is rich in complex rhyme patterns. Africa has many countries and a diversity of musical and cultural traditions. [Slavery in America (1600s-1865)] Worker songs also provided a form of communication. Work songs set the pace and eased the pain of hard manual labour. Africans passed their cultural and musical practices from one generation to another through and tradition. [Freedom and Post-Civil war Period (1865-190...