Shakera Abbington
HUMN341- Pop Culture Analysis 2-1
In America’s OK magazine: Britney Spears’ sister Jamie Lynn tells she is pregnant at the age of just 16. She claims she has revealed she is “shocked” to be expecting her first child with a boyfriend Case Aldridge, which is she no longer with. The ‘Zoe 101’ star, who is 12 weeks pregnant, kept the news a secret until she got used to the idea. She told her mother Lynne shortly before Thanksgiving. “Only one of her friends knew because she needed to work out what she would do for herself before she let anyone’s opinion affect her decision. Then she told her parents and her friends. She said she was scared but she had to what was best for her. Her mom was very upset because it wasn’t what she expected at all. A week after she had time to cope with it and became very supportive for Jamie.
Jamie and Case knew each other for years, began dating in high school. Jamie is pleased about her pregnancy, but advised her young fans to abstain from sex until they are married. She said: “I definitely don’t think it’s something you should do, it’s better o wait. But I can’t be judgmental because it’s a position I put myself in.” Lynne- who has had to postpone the release of her parenting book about raising her famous daughters indefinitely- admitted: “I didn’t believe it because Jamie Lynn’s always been so conscientious. She’s never late for her curfew. I was in shock, I mean, this is my 16-year-old-baby.” Britney, 26- who only has supervised visits with her sons, two-year-old Sean Preston and 15-month-old Jayden James after losing custody to ex-husband Kevin Federline- did not know her sister was pregnant till “Gimme More” singer was shopping late last night she was told the news by a photographer. “Britney doesn’t have to listen to anyone now but her sister still does so who knows what people are telling her. She has her career now too.”
TMZ spoke exclusively with Joyce Aldridge, mother of Casey, who conformed that Jamie Lynn Spears is indeed pregnant with her grandchild. Joyce said, “We are aware of the recent interview regarding her and being pregnant, and we are in agreement with everything that was said by Jamie Lynn about the situation….everything is fine.”
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Icon Analysis
Assignment 2-2
The three icons I choose is The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy. I like fictional cartoons there hilarious to me and interesting to watch. South Park is a TV-14 rating adult cartoon that comes on comedy central not for children to watch. The Simpsons has quirky characters and a comedy. And Family Guy show jokes interchangeable and unrelated to story lines.
The Simpsons is a fictional family middle American town of Springfield. Homer is the father that works at Springfield Nuclear power plant. Married to Marge Simpson a housewife and mother. Three children Bart is a ten year old troublemaker, and Lisa is a precious eight year old activist. Maggie the baby who barely speaks but communicates by sucking on a pacifier. A family dog named Santa’s little helper, and a cat named snowball II. The Simpson’s do not physically age and still appear just as the did since the 1980’s.
South Park kids an American television comedy a funny animated American show that’s hilarious crazy episodes that Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton, and also politicized issues. The main characters are four third grade students Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Eric also other characters such as Butlers Chef, Mr. Hankey, Towelie, Jesus, and Satan. This cartoon is not also for children to watch the little devils be cursing, and bad other little things that children shouldn’t watch. This is a adult cartoon also.
Family Guy is about a dysfunctional family the dad Peter Griffin an Irish American catholic. Lois his wife that stay at home mother and a piano teacher. Three children teenage daughter name Meg who’s the built of jokes for her unattractiveness and lack of popularity. Chris the unintelligent teenage son and Stewie the evil infant son. Brain the family dog which walks on two legs and drinks martinis and engages in human conversions. Some children can watch this is not to bad has for The Simpsons and South Park kids.
The three icons I choose is The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy. I like fictional cartoons there hilarious to me and interesting to watch. South Park is a TV-14 rating adult cartoon that comes on comedy central not for children to watch. The Simpsons has quirky characters and a comedy. And Family Guy show jokes interchangeable and unrelated to story lines.
The Simpsons is a fictional family middle American town of Springfield. Homer is the father that works at Springfield Nuclear power plant. Married to Marge Simpson a housewife and mother. Three children Bart is a ten year old troublemaker, and Lisa is a precious eight year old activist. Maggie the baby who barely speaks but communicates by sucking on a pacifier. A family dog named Santa’s little helper, and a cat named snowball II. The Simpson’s do not physically age and still appear just as the did since the 1980’s.
South Park kids an American television comedy a funny animated American show that’s hilarious crazy episodes that Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton, and also politicized issues. The main characters are four third grade students Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Eric also other characters such as Butlers Chef, Mr. Hankey, Towelie, Jesus, and Satan. This cartoon is not also for children to watch the little devils be cursing, and bad other little things that children shouldn’t watch. This is a adult cartoon also.
Family Guy is about a dysfunctional family the dad Peter Griffin an Irish American catholic. Lois his wife that stay at home mother and a piano teacher. Three children teenage daughter name Meg who’s the built of jokes for her unattractiveness and lack of popularity. Chris the unintelligent teenage son and Stewie the evil infant son. Brain the family dog which walks on two legs and drinks martinis and engages in human conversions. Some children can watch this is not to bad has for The Simpsons and South Park kids.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
A History of the Future of Food/Assignment 1-3
Future of Food 1
Meals to Come
A History of the Future of Food
Shakera Abbington
HUMN 341, Journal Article Analysis
Professor Elizabeth Miceli
January 12,2007
Future of Food 2
A History of the Future of Food
"Food is important, given that food is our most basic need to survive, we humans have a long history of worrying about our future food. Warren Belasco, Professor of American studies at University of Maryland, goes in dept of the history about the future of food. Will an overpopulated planet run out of food?
1. Will science find a way to feed more people?
2. What will the future of food became?
3. What does the future hold for food population and consumption?
This article of A History of the Future of Food focuses on these three questions.
Will science find a way to feed more people?
Belasco explores this seemingly modern debate that began over 200 years ago with Thomas Malthus, William Godwin, and Marquis de Condorcet. He examines past policies, statistical projections, science fiction, World’s Fair displays, supermarkets, and even Disney World’s Tommorrowland, looking for false predictions of the future of food. Amusing is an account of "chlorella cuisine, an algae-based food source project sponsored by major research institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation and Sanford University.
What will the future of food became?
"Imagining the Future of Food", Belasco examines the portrayal of ides about the future of food in speculative fiction. He surveys, Looking Backward (1889), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), and H.G. Wells’ literacy classics: The Time Machine (1895), The War of the Worlds (1898), When the Sleeper Awakes (1899), and A Modern Utopia (1905).
Belasco overview the ideas about the future of food that will evolve over time. He examines the historical content such as the meal-in-a-pill, instant food at the push of a button, and the role of the kitchen in futuristic forecasts, remaining us that these ideas are
Future of Food 3
nothing new.
What does the future hold for food production and consumption?
Belasco informs readers of the cyclical patterns of food security anxiety, arguing that many of these debates occurred during times of increased birth rates, demographic and migratory change, and food price inflation. Belasco also notes the continues and discontinues in more contemporary prices like Robert Block’s This Crowded Earth (1968), Marge Piercy’s Women on the Edge of Time (1976), and T.C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth (2000). He contrasts the utopian and dystopian depictions of the future of food portrayed in these texts.
Belasco, a professor of American, looks to the history of food production for clues about its future. He examines ethnic and economic influences on the consumption of animal products and the preference for meat over grain-based cuisine. He recounts past food predicaments, including the inflation of food prices, the distribution of food surpluses.
He writes that the west’s preference for wheat over other grains such as rice and rye is misplaced, such foods have different environmental as well as nutritional impacts, and that many non-westerners live well without luxury foods. He looks at utopian and dystopian models of the future of food. Between traditional food supplies and population, modernist, which predicts that technology will create food such as the science fiction standard meal-in-a-pill; which combines elements of the classic and modernist approaches to create both organic foods and so-called functional foods marketed for their health benefits.
Currently, in the "Three Areas" is moving faster than the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace agreement. This gap is leading to greater imbalances in income, unsustainable urbanization, overexploitation of the environment and resource based conflict. The analysis of food will take place in larger political, social and economic analysis of the emerging situation.
Future of Food 4
References
B. Warren Meals to Come: A history of the Future of Food. Berkeley: University of California Press, (2006). The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 40, No. 6, 2007. Pg.1073-1074
Meals to Come
A History of the Future of Food
Shakera Abbington
HUMN 341, Journal Article Analysis
Professor Elizabeth Miceli
January 12,2007
Future of Food 2
A History of the Future of Food
"Food is important, given that food is our most basic need to survive, we humans have a long history of worrying about our future food. Warren Belasco, Professor of American studies at University of Maryland, goes in dept of the history about the future of food. Will an overpopulated planet run out of food?
1. Will science find a way to feed more people?
2. What will the future of food became?
3. What does the future hold for food population and consumption?
This article of A History of the Future of Food focuses on these three questions.
Will science find a way to feed more people?
Belasco explores this seemingly modern debate that began over 200 years ago with Thomas Malthus, William Godwin, and Marquis de Condorcet. He examines past policies, statistical projections, science fiction, World’s Fair displays, supermarkets, and even Disney World’s Tommorrowland, looking for false predictions of the future of food. Amusing is an account of "chlorella cuisine, an algae-based food source project sponsored by major research institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation and Sanford University.
What will the future of food became?
"Imagining the Future of Food", Belasco examines the portrayal of ides about the future of food in speculative fiction. He surveys, Looking Backward (1889), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), and H.G. Wells’ literacy classics: The Time Machine (1895), The War of the Worlds (1898), When the Sleeper Awakes (1899), and A Modern Utopia (1905).
Belasco overview the ideas about the future of food that will evolve over time. He examines the historical content such as the meal-in-a-pill, instant food at the push of a button, and the role of the kitchen in futuristic forecasts, remaining us that these ideas are
Future of Food 3
nothing new.
What does the future hold for food production and consumption?
Belasco informs readers of the cyclical patterns of food security anxiety, arguing that many of these debates occurred during times of increased birth rates, demographic and migratory change, and food price inflation. Belasco also notes the continues and discontinues in more contemporary prices like Robert Block’s This Crowded Earth (1968), Marge Piercy’s Women on the Edge of Time (1976), and T.C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth (2000). He contrasts the utopian and dystopian depictions of the future of food portrayed in these texts.
Belasco, a professor of American, looks to the history of food production for clues about its future. He examines ethnic and economic influences on the consumption of animal products and the preference for meat over grain-based cuisine. He recounts past food predicaments, including the inflation of food prices, the distribution of food surpluses.
He writes that the west’s preference for wheat over other grains such as rice and rye is misplaced, such foods have different environmental as well as nutritional impacts, and that many non-westerners live well without luxury foods. He looks at utopian and dystopian models of the future of food. Between traditional food supplies and population, modernist, which predicts that technology will create food such as the science fiction standard meal-in-a-pill; which combines elements of the classic and modernist approaches to create both organic foods and so-called functional foods marketed for their health benefits.
Currently, in the "Three Areas" is moving faster than the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace agreement. This gap is leading to greater imbalances in income, unsustainable urbanization, overexploitation of the environment and resource based conflict. The analysis of food will take place in larger political, social and economic analysis of the emerging situation.
Future of Food 4
References
B. Warren Meals to Come: A history of the Future of Food. Berkeley: University of California Press, (2006). The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 40, No. 6, 2007. Pg.1073-1074
Current Pop Culture 1-4
Weekly Written Analysis 1: Current Pop Culture
The Playstation 3 is a high entertainment system it was a big hit this holiday season. Playstation three was global in North America, Europe, and other places. Almost every child, teenager, and even some adults wanted this system. It was hard to get their hands one, but people was willing to pay up to $1000.00. The system started at a price of $400.00 for the 40GB and $600.00 for the 80GB. Don’t require no hard-to-find proprietary, download games, demos, music, videos, and photos.
People said that they think Sony just walked up to Microsoft and slapped them. “Pretty funny huh?” Sony’s challenge for 2008 is to take on software companies, sales totaled 1.2 million in North America during this season. Game systems are very popular year round, new systems, new games, a lot to choose from. Keeps children busy, and the big kid adults something to be entertain or something to do besides going to a movie, or watching a movie. There’s educated games, sports, cartoon characters, fighting games, a lot of games to play!
The Playstation 3 is a high entertainment system it was a big hit this holiday season. Playstation three was global in North America, Europe, and other places. Almost every child, teenager, and even some adults wanted this system. It was hard to get their hands one, but people was willing to pay up to $1000.00. The system started at a price of $400.00 for the 40GB and $600.00 for the 80GB. Don’t require no hard-to-find proprietary, download games, demos, music, videos, and photos.
People said that they think Sony just walked up to Microsoft and slapped them. “Pretty funny huh?” Sony’s challenge for 2008 is to take on software companies, sales totaled 1.2 million in North America during this season. Game systems are very popular year round, new systems, new games, a lot to choose from. Keeps children busy, and the big kid adults something to be entertain or something to do besides going to a movie, or watching a movie. There’s educated games, sports, cartoon characters, fighting games, a lot of games to play!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
People and Technology
Popular culture is “Popular, in it’s broadest sense, means “of the people while we often associate culture with refinement and intellectual superiority. Popular culture to me means how different culture react to the different elements, and changes that happens in the world. It’s important to understand culture in the business environment because it’s how you get people attention, but have to be updated to what’s popular at the time it can be anything, fashion, cars, music, or technology, etc. And it teaches how to become your own person and learn what’s going on around yourself. Culture popular is an example of how technology changes each year has for the internet and cell phones. There very popular right now it’s like if you don’t have a cell phone your way behind, even our elders has cell phones and learning how to use the internet. You can listen to music, text message, take pictures, even watch television on the internet and cell phones. Advertisers are lost they don’t know if they should sell flat screen television’s or cell phones. That’s why these telephone and cable companies have it now that you can get cable, Internet, and phone services for a good price if you combine it with one company. Technology is wild half of the Americans are into the technology devices, they can’t live without it.
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