Friday, November 28, 2008

Roaming about the Music



I have done presentation about my favorite song in class of pop culture. I am not professor of music. Moreover, I found however a song I liked, I always felt tedious after I listened again and again. Therefore, I want to talk about my comprehension towards music.

When I was a child, my teacher enlightened me to learn knowledge by many songs. It likes seeds planted in my heart. In my mind, music is the most antiquated words of humanity. It brought me much happiness and energy in my childhood. I think music can shape people’s character.

When I was a teenage, I listened to much pop music. Music for me is one kind of entertainments. Whenever I happy or sad, music liked my best friend accompanying with me and never betraying me. There is a saying that goes: People who listens songs is alone people. I agree with it because in my teenage era, I don’t like communicate with my classmates much. Besides, music made me feel peaceful and thoughtful.

Time changed many things. Now the music is more and more commercial and the life is more and more busy. I don’t have much time to listen to the music now. One reason is I am tired to listen to the same old songs. There are not many creative progresses in music. In opposite, the themes of music are cliché, they are always about love. The other reason is I am busy now; I don’t have much time to enjoy music, especially the disappointed music.

I know excepting the music what I said, there are rare music likes treasures resistant. This kind of music can bring us enjoyment, peace and inspiration.

One Reading I am Interested in



I am interested in”Why We Crave Horror Movies” because sometimes I crave horror movies without reasons. I generally summarized this behavior was the expression of feeling boring. Still, this article elaborated four reasons about why we crave horror movies. It inspired me to concern this question.

In the article, the first reason is people want to show their bravery. The second, people want to prove they are in normal. The third, they just want to fun. The last reason is they want to forget pressure, and watching horror movies is a good choice.

I think three of reasons the author mentioned are reasonable, even though that’s not my reasons to watch horror movies. Besides these reasons, I suspect the second reason. I think it’s ridiculous that saying people watch horror movies can feel themselves are normal because in my experience, when I watched horror scenes, I felt I was abnormal. I thought that I must be crazy to watch movies like this. Sometimes I was afraid that if it happened in reality, how terrible it would be! I wanted to know what inspired director to create horror movies. Was it inspired from the real stories? It made me more and more feel afraid.

Therefore, in my opinion, at least one reason of why we crave horror movies is we temporary lose our saint, and we feel boring. It made us addict to such crazy thing—craving horror movies.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Pop Culture Reflection



I am not a pioneer of fashion, but I confirm that I was influenced by pop culture in many areas. In my opinion, to be a young people, recognizing some facets of pop culture is important. It can keep us always full of energy. In my daily life, I care about the new movies and music. It makes my life plentiful of fun. I like observe what happen around the world. It shapes my insight. I also have interests about the fashion trends, but I should admit that I am lack of talent about fashion. I don’t reject advanced technological products, but I have my bottom-line. In a word, I know clearly about how is influenced by pop culture.

I have immersed in a new environment since I have been in U.S. The first change for me is the attitude of life. People living here prefer to express themselves with freedom. Most of people here concern their life seriously and enthusiastically. People have regard for being professional. I admire these attitudes because it nurtures people here more advanced and creative than other countries. These attitudes have influenced me, and I am now paying attention to practice my mind professional and creative.

After I took this class, I have become aware of some about different religions. I am impressed about the first class, which is about discussing whether U.S. is melting pot or salad bowl. We then identified ourselves. It made me to consider the change of the society. I think we should keep self-respect, learn the advantages, and change the disadvantages. This is also the essence of learning pop culture.