The Odyssey & Star Wars The Odyssey has been called one of the greatest epic ever written. This epic was made by a man named Homer‚ a famous Greek poem writer. For years this had been considered the best epic ever written by man until Star Wars came along. Star Wars is kind of a future based version of the Odyssey‚ It was famous because of the technology and the characters incorporated in them. This hit movie was written by George Lucas and released in May 25‚ 1977. In both of the epics
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The culture of the United States has been going from bad to worse in recent years. Things like good manners and kindness have been weeded out. The youth of America look to the media for guidance on what is "cool" and acceptable and pop culture is filling their minds with bad thoughts. TV‚ movies‚ and radio are the avenues for this corruption. On average‚ in a two-hour period‚ a child will see a maximum of one hundred people die on TV. Music is destroying the tentative footing that women have in the
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“The Origins of Star Wars” Not so long ago in a galaxy a bit closer to home‚ George Lucas crafted one of the most iconic movies of all time. That movie was soon followed by a series of mind bending movies that captured the hearts and minds of generations up to this day. From light saber duels to the destructive power of the Death Star‚ Star Wars is one movie saga that we are all familiar with. But how did this captivating series come to be? How did it all begin? Just how did George Lucas come up
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The story of Bodies unfolds largely through the voiceover narration of R‚ “which suggests he’s fully conscious and cognitively intact‚ but just has issues translating his thoughts into action in the way he wants‚ never learn exactly what caused the undead to roam the earth — plague‚ scientific mishap‚ supernatural curse? — because R simply doesn’t remember While zombie films often differ in their reasons for how the dead start walking‚ omitting the origin story entirely is “not uncommon among
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finding himself through his journey. You may know of this story because there was a clue in the first sentence. Yes‚ this is the story of Luke Skywalker and his journey to become a Jedi knight. However‚ you may not realize that during the filming of Star Wars IV‚ the director worked very closely with Joseph Campbell. What is a mythologist doing on the set of one of the greatest science fiction of all time? Well Luke experiences what Campbell calls the Monomyth Cycle‚ during the movie. While Luke followed
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Essay on Star Wars “Aren’t you a little short for a storm trooper?” (Lucas New Hope 40). Rings a bell‚ doesn’t it? This is one of the many quotes and a memorable one from Princess Leia in George Lucas’s saga Star Wars. Lucas had created an all American myth and was the first to do it. His movie saga used every archetype known to man and was inspired by the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Campbell’s book also had every archetype known to man in it. It affected an innumerable
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should study the ideologies‚ more specifically in popular culture‚ is because of the impact that popular culture has on the youth of today. Pop culture is everywhere‚ whether we like it or not. It infiltrates every nook and cranny‚ starting from phones‚ books‚ and tv shows‚ and by understanding the ideology behind pop culture‚ one could utilize this information to understand the methodology behind what the intended ideology of pop culture entails. Understanding ideology‚ a system of concepts and
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Popular Culture and Sports in American Society Introduction Communities in many parts of the world proudly associated themselves with cultural‚ traditional and social practices that were founded by pioneers‚ which was an effort to establish identity and can be identified from the rest of the communities. Popular culture‚ also referred to as pop culture‚ is one of these traditions that managed to survived the test of times to influence the various aspects of life of the twenty first-generation
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the television shows have some influence on the way humans live their lives. Television and films are one of the many extensive parts of what is known as popular culture. Popular culture is the entirety of ideas‚ perspectives‚ attitudes‚ memes‚ images‚ and much more. The United States has been influencing other countries with pop culture as long ago as when Washington was the president‚ even if it was in different forms. Television has influenced other countries by giving them an unrealistic visual
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There is a good deal of concern that media depictions of illicit drugs‚ alcohol‚ or tobacco inaccurately portray the true nature of drug abuse and its negative consequences. I want to describe how I feel the social problem of drug abuse is reflected by the media through music and television. However‚ I mainly want to focus on the influence of music videos. I think that drug abuse has been overly glamorized showing the younger generation that using illicit drugs (mainly marijuana) is socially acceptable
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