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The subject is supposed to be pop culture, somehow relating popular cultural trends to the values of U.S. society at large (eg, Rihanna and Chris Brown or whoever getting into domestic abuse disputes being indicative of kids growing up too fast or of violence becoming more or less acceptable). He also said we could write about anything we wanted as long as we had an argument, but I think he'd prefer that we met his guidelines.
So what should I write about?
Answer
Argue about how society is influenced by the following quirky aspects of society:
__A. SLANG TALK: Each generation's popular social practices, often become accepted into our formal language and lexicon. In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. What is understood as the âgeneral vocabularyâ is itself an ongoing social process which privileges certain groups and perspectives; therefore, despite its critics, the slang talk that becomes apart of the general vocabulary, is created by a "privileged" class of people.
__B. -FOOD: In each culture there are both acceptable and unacceptable foods, though this is not determined by whether or not something is edible...it is determined by the values, beliefs, and attitudes of the culture. For example, Americans have become a nation of Fast Food Junkies which is largely in part because of our instant-gratification, fast-paced lifestyles in an individualistic culture. Whereas, some other cultures view our "fast food addiction" as absurd and disgusting. Likewise, horses, turtles, and dogs are eaten (and even considered a delicacy) in some cultures, though they are unacceptable food sources in other cultures.
__C. -PHOBIAS: These fears come in all different, and sometime strange, forms. Cross-cultural psychologists point out that phobias are influenced by cultural factors. Agoraphobia, for example, is much more common in the United States and Europe than in other areas of the world. A social phobia common in Japan but almost nonexistent in the West is "taijin kyofusho", an incapacitating fear of harming others through one's own awkward social behavior or imagined physical defect.
--SCHOOL BURN-OUT: This controversial issue is concerning the amount of school-related activities and requirements young people face now in school or the community and how that often leads to "school burn-out." Faced with an unlimited amount of choices combined with the pressure of a fast-paced-world, young people are spreading their selves too thin by engaging in a number of commitments. Besides physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion, there are several more pressing consequences of school burn-out.
--YELLOW JOURNALISM: Media for many people are a source of information on topics and news. But the current trend has showed how sensationalism in journalism is becoming widespread. These sensational and scandalous stories are called "Yellow Journalism," which is journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers or viewers. Tired of news on TV that exploit other people's misfortunes? Why it is unethical for journalists to make money from stories on victimizations, scandals, natural disasters, deaths, and war?
--CYBER-BULLYING: (cyberbullying is defined as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.") Cyber-bullying has grown as a means of threatening, intimidating or harassing others over the past several years. It can take many forms, including posting private or embarrassing photos of someone, developing websites to rate peopleâs appearance, creating hateful blogs about someone, stealing electronic passwords, or spreading lies. This controversial issue explores the arguments of censorship, the freedom of speech, the definition of 'willful harm/harassment.'
The following are questions and topics that can easily be structured to fit a persuasive essay format:
--Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Modern technology is creating a single world culture... OR... Telephones / email have made communication between people less personal.
--When famous people such as actors, athletes and rock stars give their opinions, many people listen. Do you think we should pay attention to these opinions?
Argue about how society is influenced by the following quirky aspects of society:
__A. SLANG TALK: Each generation's popular social practices, often become accepted into our formal language and lexicon. In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. What is understood as the âgeneral vocabularyâ is itself an ongoing social process which privileges certain groups and perspectives; therefore, despite its critics, the slang talk that becomes apart of the general vocabulary, is created by a "privileged" class of people.
__B. -FOOD: In each culture there are both acceptable and unacceptable foods, though this is not determined by whether or not something is edible...it is determined by the values, beliefs, and attitudes of the culture. For example, Americans have become a nation of Fast Food Junkies which is largely in part because of our instant-gratification, fast-paced lifestyles in an individualistic culture. Whereas, some other cultures view our "fast food addiction" as absurd and disgusting. Likewise, horses, turtles, and dogs are eaten (and even considered a delicacy) in some cultures, though they are unacceptable food sources in other cultures.
__C. -PHOBIAS: These fears come in all different, and sometime strange, forms. Cross-cultural psychologists point out that phobias are influenced by cultural factors. Agoraphobia, for example, is much more common in the United States and Europe than in other areas of the world. A social phobia common in Japan but almost nonexistent in the West is "taijin kyofusho", an incapacitating fear of harming others through one's own awkward social behavior or imagined physical defect.
--SCHOOL BURN-OUT: This controversial issue is concerning the amount of school-related activities and requirements young people face now in school or the community and how that often leads to "school burn-out." Faced with an unlimited amount of choices combined with the pressure of a fast-paced-world, young people are spreading their selves too thin by engaging in a number of commitments. Besides physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion, there are several more pressing consequences of school burn-out.
--YELLOW JOURNALISM: Media for many people are a source of information on topics and news. But the current trend has showed how sensationalism in journalism is becoming widespread. These sensational and scandalous stories are called "Yellow Journalism," which is journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers or viewers. Tired of news on TV that exploit other people's misfortunes? Why it is unethical for journalists to make money from stories on victimizations, scandals, natural disasters, deaths, and war?
--CYBER-BULLYING: (cyberbullying is defined as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.") Cyber-bullying has grown as a means of threatening, intimidating or harassing others over the past several years. It can take many forms, including posting private or embarrassing photos of someone, developing websites to rate peopleâs appearance, creating hateful blogs about someone, stealing electronic passwords, or spreading lies. This controversial issue explores the arguments of censorship, the freedom of speech, the definition of 'willful harm/harassment.'
The following are questions and topics that can easily be structured to fit a persuasive essay format:
--Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Modern technology is creating a single world culture... OR... Telephones / email have made communication between people less personal.
--When famous people such as actors, athletes and rock stars give their opinions, many people listen. Do you think we should pay attention to these opinions?
What site is the best for starting a blog?
Danny
I have no clue about starting blogs but I have some computer knowledge. What website is free and popular and customizable for publishing blogs?
Answer
http://www.livejournal.com/
LiveJournal is an online journal service with an emphasis on user interaction. A basic, fully-functional account is free, while paid accounts receive access to premium features.
http://www.tumblr.com/
Tumblr is your friendly, free, and terrifically easy tool for creating tumblelogs.
Tumblelogs are the refreshingly simple new way to share anything you find, love, hate, or create.
http://www.blogger.com/
Create a blog in 3 easy steps:
Create an account
Name your blog
Choose a template
http://wordpress.com/
WordPress.com is an easy and powerful way to start blogging.
http://www.plurk.com/
Plurk is a social journal for your life that lets you publish and share your thoughts. Share your life easily with friends, family and fans.
http://www.vox.com/
Vox is a new personal blogging service. Itâs all about ease of use, privacy control, playing well with other web services, and staying connected to the people you care about.
Control exactly who gets to see each of your posts and photos.
See all the posts from your friends and family on one page.
Bring in content from other web services you already use (Amazon, YouTube, more).
http://www.blogupp.com/
No signup. No email and privacy exposure
No ad submission and no efforts
No animation and annoying ads
Multilanguage support
Cheat-proof and fair sharing
WordPress platform and alike friendly
Targeted readers reach
Welcome bonus for everyone
Best de facto exchange ratio (10:9)
http://www.wibiya.com/
Wibiya features:
Create a blog community using Facebook Connect
Gain traffic from Facebook through your members news feed
Engage readers and raise pageviews with applications such as post navigator and blog search
Track your traffic growth through simple analytics tools
Share your tweets with your readers in real time
http://www.scribnia.com/
Scribnia is a community where users discover new bloggers and columnists:
For Readers: Rate authors using Context Ratingsâ¢, and share with your friends the authors you love and hate Discover new authors using Scribniaâs recommendation engine, which analyzes your unique tastes.
For Bloggers: Install the scribnia widget to enable readers to rate you and drive new readers to your blog Connect with readers by seeing what they like and dislike about your posts.
http://templatr.cc/
It should should be easy to create an individual Design with the templatr. With a little experimentation you will be able to reach the desired result much more quickly than with endless written explanations.
http://www.pimpthisblog.com/
PimpThisBlog is a place where you promote and publicize your content.
Itâs simple and effective⦠just let us know that you have new content and weâll âpimp itâ for you. Your content will be shared, syndicated and spread on Twitter, Google and FriendFeed, to name a few, in no time at all. Just sit back and watch your website traffic grow!.
http://themerockstars.com
A new site providing the freshest wordpress themes.
http://www.measuremap.com/
Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world.
http://www.palmood.com/
Palmood has an easy and fast way to blog your mood and share it with your friends, family, and the rest of the world.
http://www.redanyway.com/
http://grou.ps/
GROU.PS is a platform for social groups to get together. Use it for any purpose. Choose your template and pick all the modules that you want (wiki, blogs, photos, links etc). And get your group web site without waiting. No branding, itâs free! Plus itâs integrated with 3rd party services such as Flickr and YouTube. Your friends will love youâ¦
http://www.socialgo.com/
SocialGO lets you easily create and run a feature-filled social networking website. You choose who can join, what they can do and how it looks and the best part is itâs free to get going.
http://www.soup.io/
Soup is a tumblelog, a super-easy blog that can do more than just text: post links, quotes, videos, audio, files, reviews and events.
Make your personal remix of the web: When you see something cool online, just click a button to add it to your Soup.
http://www.kontain.com
Kontain is a free website, for you to blog and share your photos, videos and audio with friends, family, even beautiful strangers.
Kontainâs primary goals are:
The easiest site to upload, share and browse media
The most aesthetically beautiful media destination
To offer a wide range of innovative features and tools
http://shoutem.com/
ShoutâEm is platform on which you can easily start co-branded microbloging social networking service. Something simple as Twitter or with more features like Pownce. It is up to you :)
http://www.sociableblog.com/
Latest news, article, video on social networking, social media, social community and social software from worldwide.
http://www.snappville.com/
SNAPP Free is a quick, easy, and FREE way to launch your own branded social network.
SNAPP Free is ideal for hobbyists, startups or anyone passionate about something.
SNAPP Free is a free service, has easy-to-use site templates and even has 50% Google AdSense revenue sharing!
Launch Your Site in 3 Steps:
Setup your community
Choose your template
Invite friends & launch!
http://www.myebook.com/
Create your eBooks, Photo albums, Comics, Magazines, Fanzines, CV, Brochures, Books⦠When youâre done, publish and share your ebook full of photos, video, audio with friends, family, and the world.
http://socialthing.com/
See everything thatâs going on with your friends in all the sites you use, easily figure out where youâre missing connections with your friends, interact with multiple sites at once, and more!
Socialthing! makes it easy to see all the things your friends are doing. Itâs a news feed for every site that you use in one place.
Itâs a place to see âwhatâs upâ in your digital life, and figure out where to go to from thereâ¦
http://www.livejournal.com/
LiveJournal is an online journal service with an emphasis on user interaction. A basic, fully-functional account is free, while paid accounts receive access to premium features.
http://www.tumblr.com/
Tumblr is your friendly, free, and terrifically easy tool for creating tumblelogs.
Tumblelogs are the refreshingly simple new way to share anything you find, love, hate, or create.
http://www.blogger.com/
Create a blog in 3 easy steps:
Create an account
Name your blog
Choose a template
http://wordpress.com/
WordPress.com is an easy and powerful way to start blogging.
http://www.plurk.com/
Plurk is a social journal for your life that lets you publish and share your thoughts. Share your life easily with friends, family and fans.
http://www.vox.com/
Vox is a new personal blogging service. Itâs all about ease of use, privacy control, playing well with other web services, and staying connected to the people you care about.
Control exactly who gets to see each of your posts and photos.
See all the posts from your friends and family on one page.
Bring in content from other web services you already use (Amazon, YouTube, more).
http://www.blogupp.com/
No signup. No email and privacy exposure
No ad submission and no efforts
No animation and annoying ads
Multilanguage support
Cheat-proof and fair sharing
WordPress platform and alike friendly
Targeted readers reach
Welcome bonus for everyone
Best de facto exchange ratio (10:9)
http://www.wibiya.com/
Wibiya features:
Create a blog community using Facebook Connect
Gain traffic from Facebook through your members news feed
Engage readers and raise pageviews with applications such as post navigator and blog search
Track your traffic growth through simple analytics tools
Share your tweets with your readers in real time
http://www.scribnia.com/
Scribnia is a community where users discover new bloggers and columnists:
For Readers: Rate authors using Context Ratingsâ¢, and share with your friends the authors you love and hate Discover new authors using Scribniaâs recommendation engine, which analyzes your unique tastes.
For Bloggers: Install the scribnia widget to enable readers to rate you and drive new readers to your blog Connect with readers by seeing what they like and dislike about your posts.
http://templatr.cc/
It should should be easy to create an individual Design with the templatr. With a little experimentation you will be able to reach the desired result much more quickly than with endless written explanations.
http://www.pimpthisblog.com/
PimpThisBlog is a place where you promote and publicize your content.
Itâs simple and effective⦠just let us know that you have new content and weâll âpimp itâ for you. Your content will be shared, syndicated and spread on Twitter, Google and FriendFeed, to name a few, in no time at all. Just sit back and watch your website traffic grow!.
http://themerockstars.com
A new site providing the freshest wordpress themes.
http://www.measuremap.com/
Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world.
http://www.palmood.com/
Palmood has an easy and fast way to blog your mood and share it with your friends, family, and the rest of the world.
http://www.redanyway.com/
http://grou.ps/
GROU.PS is a platform for social groups to get together. Use it for any purpose. Choose your template and pick all the modules that you want (wiki, blogs, photos, links etc). And get your group web site without waiting. No branding, itâs free! Plus itâs integrated with 3rd party services such as Flickr and YouTube. Your friends will love youâ¦
http://www.socialgo.com/
SocialGO lets you easily create and run a feature-filled social networking website. You choose who can join, what they can do and how it looks and the best part is itâs free to get going.
http://www.soup.io/
Soup is a tumblelog, a super-easy blog that can do more than just text: post links, quotes, videos, audio, files, reviews and events.
Make your personal remix of the web: When you see something cool online, just click a button to add it to your Soup.
http://www.kontain.com
Kontain is a free website, for you to blog and share your photos, videos and audio with friends, family, even beautiful strangers.
Kontainâs primary goals are:
The easiest site to upload, share and browse media
The most aesthetically beautiful media destination
To offer a wide range of innovative features and tools
http://shoutem.com/
ShoutâEm is platform on which you can easily start co-branded microbloging social networking service. Something simple as Twitter or with more features like Pownce. It is up to you :)
http://www.sociableblog.com/
Latest news, article, video on social networking, social media, social community and social software from worldwide.
http://www.snappville.com/
SNAPP Free is a quick, easy, and FREE way to launch your own branded social network.
SNAPP Free is ideal for hobbyists, startups or anyone passionate about something.
SNAPP Free is a free service, has easy-to-use site templates and even has 50% Google AdSense revenue sharing!
Launch Your Site in 3 Steps:
Setup your community
Choose your template
Invite friends & launch!
http://www.myebook.com/
Create your eBooks, Photo albums, Comics, Magazines, Fanzines, CV, Brochures, Books⦠When youâre done, publish and share your ebook full of photos, video, audio with friends, family, and the world.
http://socialthing.com/
See everything thatâs going on with your friends in all the sites you use, easily figure out where youâre missing connections with your friends, interact with multiple sites at once, and more!
Socialthing! makes it easy to see all the things your friends are doing. Itâs a news feed for every site that you use in one place.
Itâs a place to see âwhatâs upâ in your digital life, and figure out where to go to from thereâ¦
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