Popular Culture�s Influence on Your Life
Introduction: We are going to explore the topic of popular culture and how it has influenced our lives. As a society, we are constantly influenced by popular culture. Music, television, fashion trends, world events, sports, and technology are just a few examples of the everyday influences upon our lives. Our job is to explore one aspect of popular culture and how it affects our lives.
Goals:
To learn how to focus a thesis and narrow the scope of the paper.
To choose appropriate sources to support the thesis and scope.
To consult, analyze, and use multiple sources (3-5)
To learn how to document sources within a paper and to create a Works Cited list
To keep notes about your sources
To go through the process of prewriting, writing, and revising
The following are sample pop culture topics, but you should feel free to develop one of your own.
Fashion trends
Music
Television violence
Sports
TV News
Simpson�s influence on the American family (any tv sitcom)
Reality Television craze
Advertisements and Images
Tabloids
Cartoons
Movie stars (musicians) and society�s obsession with them
Commercials
War
Rise of patriotism since 9-11
Fall of patriotism since Bush's "end of war"
Books (Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter)
Other aspects of popular culture