Pop Culture Assignment | Online Homework Help

This is the outline I sent my professor. For something old, I was thinking about maybe incorporating an old video game? I used to play super mario brothers on the nintendo 64 (I think that’s what it was called.) I thought this would a good thing to use in my essay because it’s something I was very obsessed with and it’s very old. I also feel like a lot of people my age played this game because it was super popular. People still play this game today but other/newer versions of it. If the research doesn’t do much, then I was thinking about Forrest Gump. It’s still a popular and talked about movie as it came out the year I was born, so SUPER old 🙂 I feel like both options can relate to pop culture in some way. A platform game developed and published by Nintendo. The successor to the 1983 arcade game, Mario Bros. When this game was released it helped launch the gamings popular franchise. It stars Mario and Luigi, two Italian plumbers who find themselves in the Mushroom Kingdom trying to rescue Princess Toadstool from the evil King Bowser. It’s one of the best selling games and has over 40 million copies sold. Super Mario has become a global cultural icon. David Gibson, an analyst at Macquarie Securities, a broker, reckons that his antics account for a third of the company’s software sales over the past ten years. Games in which he features have sold over 500m copies worldwide. The film Forrest Gump was an enormous success at the box office; it became the top-grossing film in America released that year and earned over US$677 million worldwide during its theatrical run, making it the second highest-grossing film of 1994. I will add a quote and do an oreo for this topic. For something new, I saw this show on netflix that I’ve been wanting to watch. It’s called All American and I’ve heard really good things about it. This show can relate to issues we are having today and there can be a lot to talk about with this show. This show basically represents Black Lives Matter. It also shines light on rich and poor, gangs, violence, police brutality, and LGBTQ. I can talk about a lot of this in this essay. The show’s main image is completely realistic. I will add a quote and do an oreo for this topic. For something borrowed, I already reached out to a friend and asked her to suggest one of the topics and she suggested a comedian named, Bill Burr who is also an actor and a podcaster. William Frederick Burr is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster. Outside of stand-up, he is known for playing Patrick Kuby in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad. Bill Burr talks about politics and other things so I can focus on one of his stand ups or one of his podcasts. Finding context and history in one of them. Bill talks about statistics in one of his episodes so instead of finding a general statistic, I can refer to that video? Or even some of his interviews. I will add a quote and do an oreo for this topic. For something blue, I will probably talk about the show FRIENDS or talk about music because I tend to turn to these things when I’m feeling sad or blue if you will.

Castino Reid

COVID-19 Survival Kit

Final project for 1111

Spring 2020

In this final essay, I would like you to assemble a group of four popular culture suggestions for a person stuck inside. I would like to see you choose a variety of the following things – movies, books, video games, podcasts, television shows, and comedians.

One more twist: you need to choose items that imitate that adage from weddings – something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

For example: you could write about a favorite movie for something old, or you could watch an OLD movie from, like, before you were born. Then you could try a new television show you’ve never watched for something new. For something borrowed, you could reach out to a friend and ask for a suggestion. And as for blue? Well, maybe the word “blue” is in the title, or you suggest something that has a sad tone to it, or something that contains “blue” language. Or when you feel blue, you turn to this selection to help you feel better? Feel free to get creative here.

I have listed the objectives below:

–     Share with your readers the title of the item. List the principle people involved, such

as actors, writers, musicians, hosts, artists, etc. (one ¶)

–     If you can find some history and/or context, go ahead and share that. (one ¶)

• Identify the genre of each selection, and offer why it’s a good example of it. (one ¶)
• Offer 2-3 reasons why you like said choice. Consider framing it as an invitation: If you like X, Y, Z, you’ll love A. (Per topic, 2-3 ¶)
• Include at least ONE interesting statistic about each of your selections. (one ¶)
• Include a 2-3 quotes/Oreos that connect to each topic. Possible support might be reviews, history, context, or notes on the genre, interviews from either the people involved or fans who love the choices you’re writing about. (Quotes should be woven into the paragraphs in appropriate places.)

Other thoughts and considerations:

• Paper length: 4 pages at a minimum, 10 pages max.
• Please, for goodness sakes, have fun with this. J I want to learn more about how we survived, (are surviving?) the pandemic with the help of popular culture.
• If you have another item beyond the ones I’ve listed – movies, books, video games, podcasts, television shows, or comedians – and you think it has a popular culture connection, go ahead and propose it.
• Yes, you still need to research for a few things. But you can get this fulfilled by offering the quotes (reviews, interviews, genre definitions) and/or stats about each of your items.
• You have my permission to use pictures, graphs, or other visuals. You must not let it be bigger than ¼ of a page, and you must use text wrapping. Cite images when necessary!

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