assignment 1-3
Journal Article Analysis
The title of my article I have chosen is You can’t go home again….or can you? I am a big believer of family being together for the holiday or any special occasions. My grandparents raised me and my older sister so I think that is why I like all my sisters and brothers around during the holidays. When I saw this title I thought it would be a good article to analyze.
This article talks about rather or not you can go home again. We have all heard the saying that “you can’t go home again.” Thomas Wolfe says that “maturity means learning that the past cannot be recovered.” I agree with that because the past is just what it is the past. We all would love to go back to the past but that is something that nobody can ever do.
Every year during the holidays the bus, train, and airports are deluged in late December by children and grandchildren returning home to visit their families. The main holiday that everyone wants to come home for is Christmas, if they don’t get to make it for no other holiday they will make sure they make it for Christmas. The article also was talking about how Christmas comes to the television. Every show if you have notice deals the holidays during that time. Whatever holiday it is that is what the show is centered around. There was a movie called This Christmas and it was a very good movie about family coming together at Christmas time and helping each over the obstacles they had in their life.
It gives us three basic ways of thinking about home in relation to Christmas. One of them was being or staying home. What this means is that instead of going anywhere you just stay at home. Things are as they should be everyone is at home. Nowadays with everything so expensive there are a lot of people doing just that stay at home with the family that is already there including friends also and just remise. The second way of thinking about home in relation to Christmas is the restoring home. This is about distress caused by an abnormal situation. Things are not quite as they should be. Something is temporarily lacking. Someone is temporarily missing. By the end, however, normality is restored. Everything would be back to normal, that something that is lacking is there and that someone that is missing has made it home. The third and final way is going or returning home. What this means is everyone coming home for Christmas, all the family meeting at one house for that big diner to sit around talk and have fun. This is something that I see a lot with college kids these days. They might not be able to get home for no other time but they make sure they can make it home for Christmas.
As for me I think that you can go home. It is nothing like going home at anytime. There is nothing like being at home with your family who loves you. I have heard someone say if “you can’t go home where else can you go.” I think that is a true statement because you always want to be able to come home. To give you something to think about what about the people that doesn’t have a home to go to. You should always be able to go home no matter what the circumstances is because at home you will find the love and the peace that you can’t find anywhere else.
References
Nathanson, P. 1993. Journal of popular culture. Issue 2, Vol. 27. Pp. 149-162.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Weekly Written Analysis 5 Assignment 5-1
Weekly Written Analysis 5
Assignment 5-1
For my weekly pop culture I chose reality shows. Reality shows has really became very popular. Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors.
Reality television began in the 1940’s with Allen Funt’s Candid Camera. This show was about people broadcast unsuspecting ordinary people reacting to pranks. In the 1950’s a game show name Beat the Clock and Truth or Consequences previewed and it was about contestants in wacky competitions stunts, and practical jokes.
A lot of people think that reality shows just came into play in the 2000’s, but they really started in the 1940’s. The shows then weren’t like the shows of today. Some of the shows today can be so disgusted like the show where the constantans had to eat weird stuff and had do weird stuff, I can’t think of the show name right off hand but I know you know which show I am talking about.
There is some good reality shows like Run’s House, America’s Next Top Model, and Sunday’s Best, just to name a few. I named these because these are some of my favorites. Even though Run’s House is scripted it is still a very good show. America’s Next Top Model, I like the drama that the girls are calling with each other, and Sunday’s Best is the newest one of the reality show. It is base off of America’s Idol but they are singing gospel. The first season was really a big hit.
Reality shows has come along way and is here to stay.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/reality_television
Assignment 5-1
For my weekly pop culture I chose reality shows. Reality shows has really became very popular. Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors.
Reality television began in the 1940’s with Allen Funt’s Candid Camera. This show was about people broadcast unsuspecting ordinary people reacting to pranks. In the 1950’s a game show name Beat the Clock and Truth or Consequences previewed and it was about contestants in wacky competitions stunts, and practical jokes.
A lot of people think that reality shows just came into play in the 2000’s, but they really started in the 1940’s. The shows then weren’t like the shows of today. Some of the shows today can be so disgusted like the show where the constantans had to eat weird stuff and had do weird stuff, I can’t think of the show name right off hand but I know you know which show I am talking about.
There is some good reality shows like Run’s House, America’s Next Top Model, and Sunday’s Best, just to name a few. I named these because these are some of my favorites. Even though Run’s House is scripted it is still a very good show. America’s Next Top Model, I like the drama that the girls are calling with each other, and Sunday’s Best is the newest one of the reality show. It is base off of America’s Idol but they are singing gospel. The first season was really a big hit.
Reality shows has come along way and is here to stay.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/reality_television
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Weekly Analysis 4 Assignment 4-1
Weekly Analysis 4
Assignment 4-1
The pop culture I have chosen for this week is soap operas. I remember being young and watching the soaps with my grandmother. At that time I didn’t like them I just was watching them because I wanted to watch cartoons after they went off. But, after a while the soaps started to grow on me.
What is a soap opera? It is a fiction story that continues on from one episode to another, usually seen on television. Soaps have been on television long enough to be recognize as soaps. The name soap opera stems from original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Lever Brothers as the show’s sponsors. They were broadcast on radio serial during weekday daytime slots, that is when the housewives could watch them and the shows were aimed at the housewives that way making it a predominantly female audiences.
Just about every woman I know watches the soaps. They are into them so until they will record it and watch it later if they work first shift. They are very easy to get hook on, if you watch it today the way they end it for that day makes you want to watch it the next day just to see what is going to happen the next day. I enjoy watching soaps, seeing whose leaving and whose coming. Back in the day soaps stayed on for 30 minutes but not the soaps that I watch stay on for 1 hour and I really enjoy that.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soap_operas
Assignment 4-1
The pop culture I have chosen for this week is soap operas. I remember being young and watching the soaps with my grandmother. At that time I didn’t like them I just was watching them because I wanted to watch cartoons after they went off. But, after a while the soaps started to grow on me.
What is a soap opera? It is a fiction story that continues on from one episode to another, usually seen on television. Soaps have been on television long enough to be recognize as soaps. The name soap opera stems from original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Lever Brothers as the show’s sponsors. They were broadcast on radio serial during weekday daytime slots, that is when the housewives could watch them and the shows were aimed at the housewives that way making it a predominantly female audiences.
Just about every woman I know watches the soaps. They are into them so until they will record it and watch it later if they work first shift. They are very easy to get hook on, if you watch it today the way they end it for that day makes you want to watch it the next day just to see what is going to happen the next day. I enjoy watching soaps, seeing whose leaving and whose coming. Back in the day soaps stayed on for 30 minutes but not the soaps that I watch stay on for 1 hour and I really enjoy that.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soap_operas
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Weekly Written Analysis 3 Assignment 3-1
Weekly Written Analysis 3
Assignment 3-1
Assignment 3-1
The pop culture I chose for this week is computers. Computers have become the way of the world. You can do just about anything on computers. With a computer you can work from home, go to school from home, make movies, there is no end to what you can do on a computer. Just about every household has a computer or plan on buying one. That is because they are so good to have. Don’t get me wrong they have their bad side too, but overall they are good to have.
I have heard people say what a great device they are and what a wonderful help to human beings. What this means is that if you don’t want to go out and pay a bill you just get on your computer do it from home. Now days people don’t write letters like they use to instead they send emails. I never was one to write a letter but I will send an email, it’s much quicker and better also save you the money for a stamp.
All of the offices and industry are using computers. It is much easier and much better. I don’t see to many people doing things by hand these days. I work for H&R Block and the computer does all the work. I never thought that I would be doing someone taxes. All you do is put the numbers in and the computer does the rest, easy uh. There are some people that are just scare of a computer. People have said that they don’t know what to do with it; I have even heard someone say they might break it or mess it up. A computer can be your friend or it can be your enemy it all depend on how you use it. The best advice is to use it for your good, don’t try to do nothing evil with it a nd it will be alright.
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