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Popular Culture is contemporary lifestyle and items that are well known and generally accepted, cultural patterns that are widespread within a population according to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/popular%20culture. There are different types of culture including music, film, television, advertising, sports, fashion, toys, magazines and comic books, and the medium in which this message moves, cyberculture. For example , the Chinese always make items and send them to America. Plantains from Columbia that are taken to the U.S. are icons that are examples of popular culture. Songs like Abusadora and other spanish songs are an example of popular culture. Popular culture can even be in languages such as French , a very romantic language. It is in movies also : Mean Girls - Harm in competion and identity ; The Lion King: family, loyalty, jealousy - Aladdin: difference between social status, honesty, freedom. As you can see , popular culture is a diversity : ALL AROUND YOU.

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Education is the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. It is something that a child or an adult should treasure and be proud of. You should not waste your education. To many education may be more important than a job. Our President , Barack Obama has a plan for our education. He is preparing our children to compete in the global economy. There are three steps to that. Step 1 is to improve K-12 schooling. Step 2 is expand access to higher education. Step 3 is make sure our children are prepared for kindergarden. This is all according to the website Organizing for America : http://www.barackobama.com/issues/education. Obama is trying his hardest. Getting Better Grades in school? Well , I am! Obama is making college affordable for students. He is our cheat sheet on education. I live in New York City and my gosh , the education rates are not that high. The New York City department education gives us way too many breaks and passes. All you see is summerschool , failed regents , and kids getting left behind. I had regents week , mid winter , and I'm going to have spring vacation. I can't wait until summer comes. I am a teenager so , I am not the right one to address this situation but , I can. Graduation rates are a little low all together. Education is important. It hols your future in its hands.

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A women is an adult female person. Some woman issues are abortion , pregnancy , weight watching , breast cancer , stress , and divorce. Of corse men can catch breast cancer too but , women are most likely to catch it. Acoording to the website for diseases : http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/breastcancer.htm ,Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women and affects approximately one million women worldwide. Having no children can increase breast cancer. If you are overweight or drinking alchohol , you can catch breast cancer. They have to watch out a lot. They also have to watch their weight. Having a baby , drinking alchohol , or just overeating , can lead to being overweight. There are weight loss programs for women like Rachel Ray on commercials and Special K. There are even diet tips all over the internet. Lastly , stress can kill a woman. Most likely , stress comes from children , work , and from getting old. Medicines like Advil PM can treat that. Also , puchasing a temperpedic bed can heel hat. As you can see , women go through too much stress.

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Teen Issues : Teens face many choices and issues. On parentingteens.about.com , they are listed. Some of the problems are acne , money issues , body image , drug use : issues and prevention , working teens , sexuality , pregnancy , cars , driving , depression , and even suicide. If you go to the website , you will see it for yourself. This matter has even been talked about on The Tyra Show : http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/teen_issues/index.php. Check it out!

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This week we are working on the Monessen Taser Accident. We will come back to Martin Luther in a while. For the h/w we had to look up history of computers so we can have a quiz every day. It is on the website www.scsite.com. We are working on Discovering Computers 2010. That's all we did.

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game

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Right after a basketball game in Monessen High School , a student got tazered by a beloved Police officer. It was outside of the gym on Friday. This school is located in in Monessen , Pennsylvania and you can see what happened for yourself on WorldStarHipHop.com or on CNN : Huffington. The school president made a statement about the situation. Fox News Version. A taser is a small gunlike device that fires electric darts to incapacitate a person temporarily. Here is the link : Taser Definition.