1 Tumblr: An Online Community "Tumblr is life and culture and that total antithesis of the modern day pop culture which is the ingrained in today’s children. There is no possible way to explain such a phenomenon to others. You either get it‚ or you don’t‚" Urban Dictionary description number four. Though Tumblr is a little complicated to explain‚ it is not impossible. Tumblr is a blogging website that has become a huge web phenomenon and a unique kind of social networking site. You can make
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their team. All the research I have read showed that while there are differences between countries in the way fans express their emotions and behavior‚ ultimately they all are the same fans. The theoretical perspective that I believe follows this fandom life style is being in an organizational culture; within this subculture there is
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time of widespread fandom‚ The Beatles have no doubt been some of the most influential musicians to ever live. The early years of the Beatles may possibly have been the most important era in modern music history‚ as they formed the group that would influence and change rock music forever. John Lennon and Paul McCartney met in mid-1957 and soon began playing music together.
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The meaning of a literary work resides with the reader; a statement that the school of Russian Formalism would disagree with. Eichenbaum‚ Schlovsky and other scholars would argue that the audience has little to no relation with the text and therefore‚ cannot be a vessel of meaning for a literary work. For formalists‚ the form of the literary work creates the meaning that readers desperately seek. However‚ there is another school of literary theory that would argue against the Formalist thought;
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The frequently used concepts in Dracula to objectify women as sexual objects‚ gives the reader an insight into Stoker’s ways on implementing the Victorian male imagination and society’s extremely rigid expectations for a female. In the Victorian era‚ the women had only two scarce choices to choose from‚ either be a virgin – which basically consisted of being a role model of purity and innocence – or a respected wife and mother. If women did not met these socially acceptable standards they were either
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Being a descendent of immigrants to canada‚ I have a pretty weird cultural background‚ as it really is a mashup of 3 different cultures. My mother is a Taiwanese‚ my grandmother and grandfather both ran from communist China. My father is Vietnamese‚ he ran from the communist as well. Being born in Canada my biggest influence would be canada. In my collage‚ the middle cluster of pictures is all about my experience as being a canadian‚ it shows my favourite fast food restaurant‚ the sports i watch
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between the ad campaigns for Covergirls’ Star Wars edition makeup line‚ there are a few sociological observations I would personally like to include after seeing the advertisement. The advertisement does not fully reflect the audience of the Star Wars fandom. There are little girls to elderly women who appreciate the series‚ but neither of the four pictures display a range in age. All four models appear to look like they are in their twenties‚ have a light skin tone‚
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(Alternative Universes)‚ canon characters (different or similar character in an original plot)‚ and the events from which they originate. The discussions are vast‚ but they all originate from similar observations‚ and beliefs that are favored by the fandom‚ portrayed in the saturation of sketches‚ doodles‚ and fanfictions‚ specifically on Tumblr‚ and Devart. The Tumblr community is one the prominent sites for Rick and Morty‚ totaling more than 100 subcategories‚ and attracts a variety of people‚ and
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Movies are not the only part of the film industry that misrepresents mental illnesses; cartoons and tv shows misrepresent them as well. By referencing mental illnesses within children’s cartoons‚ it allows the children to learn to stigmatize mental illnesses early in life. For example‚ in a study of six main cartoon characters portraying mental illnesses‚ three of them were comical‚ and the other three were the villains (Wilson par. 15) This is another example of how the entertainment industry is
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