Sunday, September 26, 2010

Questions For the Start of the Class:

I am just starting my Humn 341 class, and these are my beginning focus questions that will start off this blog.


  • What is popular culture, and what does it mean to you?


    • I believe that popular culture is what is typical in the culture of people. Sometimes divided by individuals, families, groups, states, countries, and nations. Even though there can be many interpretations of what is current in popular culture there is most likely things that people can agree on. For example in the beginning of the technology era everyone would have thought that the computer was a sign of popular culture then. When the first airplane was flying, when the first television was invented, when movies where the most glamorous thing that happened. To me popular culture is what ever the people of the world is experiencing.

  • Why is an understanding of popular culture relevant to you in a business environment and in your present and future career?


    • Understanding what people think, feel, want, and how they live can help relate to them in a much better way. As employees, managers, or customers a business person needs to be able to objectively, and subjectively know what other people may be seeing, or thinking about. Also understanding the whys, when s and how's of multiple people is able to be achieved through popular culture research.

  • What would you consider to be an example of a pop culture artifact? And why would you choose it?

    • I chose a cartoon with a seemingly respectful person asking for a news paper. The librarian replies that the news paper would be found in the fiction section. I found this to be a "play" off of the current since that the public feels that they can no longer trust the news reports. There has been so many times that stories have been falsified, bias stories are a typical format, and to find out the real facts one has to have actually been there.
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    1. CinSeptember 30, 2010 at 8:56 PM

      Boy is the Dr. Seuss Quote true. Dr. Seuss is my all time favorite. I am a grandmother and still love to read his books to my grand kids. I really like the one "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go NOW". This book was the only way my kids would sit on their grandfathers lap. He would grab that book and he would also have three grand daughters on his lap to listen to him read it. When I became a grandmother I had to go and find it just so that I could read it to my grand kids.

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    2. mcgraw07October 1, 2010 at 10:42 AM

      Amanda Mcgraw-
      I like this cartoon as a current artifact of popular culture. It can be looked at in two ways. One for example is the librarian. She represents the mass of people who believe that the news today is nothing but lies that the media thought would be interesting enough to watch. But the reason the media does this is because of the other individual in the cartoon. He is interested in reading the fiction that the media gives us. He is a representation of popular culture in how he feeds off the lies and speculations from the media.

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    3. HolcombOctober 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM

      Thank you guys so much. In my search to find a pop culture artifact I looked for something that meant something to me. That showed how I see pop culture, and the world today. I really felt that this cartoon spoke volumes with saying very little.

      Shelby

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    4. HolcombOctober 1, 2010 at 1:49 PM

      One of my favorite things to do in my free time is read inspiring, funny, or meaningful quotes, sayings, or stories. This is why I have these posted here on the blog. Most are not only relatable to popular culture, but they also help to keep yourself interested in the meaning of what each of us are trying to accomplish.

      Shelby

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    Quotes

    Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present, so always treasure today because u can and may lose it

    Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

    It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field

    Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown

    All's Well That Ends Well

    A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley

    It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown

    We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive

    It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields

    Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford

    I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth

    If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh

    Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

    I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller

    Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

    People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

    Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein

    Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown
    Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown

    What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan

    I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall

    The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief. ~Shawn Purvis, ShawnPurvis.com

    I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk. ~Edward J. McGrath, Jr.,

    "An Exceptional View of Life," quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, 1993

    If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown

    Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~Peter T. Mcintyre

    Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969

    Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. ~Richard Bach, Illusions

    You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

    It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary

    Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain

    Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton

    A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~Sydney Smith

    Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash

    Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale

    Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown

    The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~Paul Tillich

    Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne

    People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ~Sa'Di

    It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970

    When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. ~Cecil Selig

    Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ~Les Brown

    You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoes.You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.You're on your own.And you know what you know.You are the guy who'll decide where to go.~Dr. Seuss

    Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline

    Knock the "t" off the "can't." ~Samuel Johnson