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I have to write an essay for my English class on anything that has to do with Pop-Culture... Anything at all... The topic is so vague.. My brain is drawing a blank any time I try to think of something to write about... Any suggestion would be nice.

"I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here". Don't know if you've heard of that or not.

EDIT:Location: Near-ish to Seattle Ah, you probably haven't.

"I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here". Don't know if you've heard of that or not.

EDIT:Location: Near-ish to Seattle Ah, you probably haven't.Yeah... you're right.

Reality TV, and the corresponding sudden drop in the American intelligence.

Well, things to do with pop culture are quite easy to think of - Elvis, tabloid newspapers, the latest movie, adverts, fashion, etc.

Reality TV, and the corresponding sudden drop in the American intelligence.
REality TV has been take by several other people.

Well, things to do with pop culture are quite easy to think of - Elvis, tabloid newspapers, the latest movie, adverts, fashion, etc.
There are too may of them...

Well.. damn this sucks...

There are too may of them...

Elvis, and those who think he's still alive.

low rise jeans

If you want something to talk about talk about how the American Pop-Culture is corrupting the youth.

Robert Putnam wrote an article about five years ago that became a book called Bowling Alone. He used the decline in bowling leagues (at a time when more Americans are bowling than ever before) as a theme for increasing disconnectedness in modern society. Among the statistics he cited:

• Since the mid 60s, the number of Americans who reported that they had attended a public meeting or town or school affairs has fallen by more than on third.

• Labor union membership has fallen for three decades.

• The ranks of volunteers for civic organizations has plummeted. In the mid-1970s nearly two-thirds of all Americans attended club meetings, but by the late 1990s nearly two-thirds of all Americans never do.

• Involvement in politics has declined. Participation in political parties has dropped and less than 50% of our eligible citizens voted in the last presidential election.

• Membership and activity in local clubs and civic and religious organizations have been falling at an accelerating pace.

• We spend about 35% less time visiting with friends than we did thirty years ago

• Leisure activities that involve doing something with someone else, from playing volleyball to playing chamber music, are declining.

• Our willingness to trust one an other is fraying. For example, employment opportunities for police, lawyers, and security personnel were stagnant for most of this century. America, for example, had fewer lawyers per capita in 1970 than in 1900! But in the last quarter century these occupations have boomed, as we have increasingly turned to the courts and the cops to make others keep their word.

Putnam argues that over the past thirty years we have become ever more alienated from one another and from our social and political institutions. You might want to build on his ideas and offer your own for why this trend has developed. Increased TV, video games, and computer time? Changing role of women? Social mobility? Loss of values? Decline of wages and increased hours working?

You get the idea.

all good suggestions

thanks

Do a report on the history of grunge (the music, not the dirt.)

I have to write an essay for my English class on anything that has to do with Pop-Culture... Anything at all... The topic is so vague.. My brain is drawing a blank any time I try to think of something to write about... Any suggestion would be nice.
Why the Spice Girls should get back together. (You said Pop lol)

Why does Bigfoot hide all the time.

Why does more people believe in Angels than Heaven but more poeple believe that angels live in heaven also?

You could always discuss the transgression between original pop and today's pop rock by comparing the degression in quality.

Or popped collars. I friggen hate those things.

How about the way common usage of language has changed/is constantly evolving? You could compare usages ie "Sick" - traditionally meaning ill. then deviant, now wonderful.

Poor example perhaps, but you get what I mean...

Image and its judgemental downfalls and blessings

How what's cool today *coughrap-hiphop-pop-and-being-a"gangsta"cough* isn't actually that cool, and, in fact, sucks.

Elvis, and those who think he's still alive.
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That we are reaching a point where, regardless of whether or not you believe Elvis died on a toilet in Graceland or not, Elvis is more or likely dead-the transition point from 'spotting' Elvis to reporting Elvis' 'actual' death. Because, providing he faked his death, he would still be getting near a point where he'd die anyway, from old age or just wear and tear. This is, in fact, the moment where we Elvis' mortality/immortality is transitioned. In ten years, fifteen, Elvis sitings will move from faithful to the realm of Loch Ness-an act of another kind of faith.

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Authority and rebelion in detective or crime dramas. Look at private enforcers and thier relation to the officials whose jobs they overlap: Perry Mason's Hamilton Berger, for instance. Berger is the District Attorney who takes weekly loses to Mason, who solves the crimes to absolve his client. Berger refers to Mason's "typical theatrics and tricks," which has to imply that even though Berger still books Mason's confessors he must in some way believe that Mason is setting those people up. This goes back all the way to radio, with The Shadow's Commisioner Weston or the comedic detective foil for characters like Boston Blackie.

In instances where the official officer is the focus of the show, thier involvement tends to be bitter sweet at best. The original Untouchables is the greatest example. If Ness offers you help or becomes involved in you life in anyway, regardless of whether you take it, you will get killed if you're lucky....

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I thought I had another....ah well......