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REINFORCEMENT 1ST QUARTER
7TH GRADE
IM D2
CREATE A DIGITAL POSTER (IN PAINT OR ANY OTHER PHOTO EDITOR)
THAT REFLECTS USA, CONSUMERISM AND POPULAR CULTURE AND
HOW IT HAS AFFECTED OR HAS BEEN REFLECTED IN COLOMBIAN
POPULAR CULTURE.
CT D1 D2
WRITE DOWN AN ESSAY (IN WORD) IN WHICH THE STUDENT ANALISES
HOW CONSUMERISM AND USA POPULAR CULTURE HAS INFLUENCED
COLOMBIA. INCLUDE VISUAL AND WRITTEN EXAMPLES AND WRITE
DOWN YOU OWN OPINION ON THE TOPIC.
ESSAY:
INTRODUCTION
In this essay I will analyze how popular culture, the consumerism in the U.S.
and how they have influenced contemporary life in Colombia. We see it as
consumerism and big companies use it to sustain itself. We can also see how
popular culture has influenced the poor people to sell their products
increasingly. Finally as the United States has influenced and contributed to its
development so that we can improve our lives.
The consumerism
Consumerism is when a person wants to have non-essential goods or services
in excess. Consumerism is when you do not think about other people and things
they need and only use one. Consumerism can occur for many reasons such
as: advertising, the idea of use and discard, low quality goods and low price,
culture, and when people do not know their basic needs to spend only what is
necessary. The effects of consumerism are not positive as to generate could
damage all the people people as low-quality items have to be thrown away and
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this causes environmental damage to rivers and seas of the planet. At the
national level does not generate positive effects because it makes one person
has all the benefits we all should rightfully have. On a personal level makes us
increase our expenses and we often have to throw away used goods not why
we do not spend enough time for everything.
This is the base of the consumerism Work, Buy, Consume and Die
This is when we are consumerism and don’t give
the resources to others
How the consumerism affects EEUU:
while nearly 3,000 million people live on less than $ 2 per day, over 1,700
million, or more than 25% of the world, has adopted a lifestyle that in the past
was exclusive to the rich.
However, this consumer appetite is not only affecting the poor, but also the
sectors with greater resources.
According to the Worldwatch Institute, the country with higher levels of
consumption is the United States, where there are more cars than people who
have permission to drive them.
A classic example of consumerism: in the U.S. There are more cars than
drivers.
But not for That Americans said That They Are the happiest more. When
somebody asked, only one third of them said to be "very happy".
That date is almost the same of those who believed very happy in 1957 when
the levels of wealth in the country accounted for half of the current.
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A comic about U.S consumerism
A minimarket in Portland, Oregon, USA.
The popular culture:
Popular
culture is
the
set
of cultural
patterns, literary
and
artistic
expressions created primarily by poor people. The effects of this culture are
positive because it makes possible new musical genres such as jazz created in
the U.S. plantations and rap and reggae. But to can be harmful because
many people use graffiti to damage walls or murals. It also has a good
progress in the field of technology since many videogames have been designed
based on the life of poor people. Also the manga and comics are designed for
the poor as a means of escape to the world and to free their art.
The popular culture are the poor people
An example of popular culture was the grafitis
How USA influences Colombia:
United States is a country that has influenced much of Colombia because this
country has customs that Colombia has "copied" and used a very clear
example is
the consumerism.
In
the
United
population is being practice the consumerism
States
the
90% of
the
and have all what they
want, here in Colombia the percentage of the population that wants to be
a consumer is
70%. Another
clear
example is in
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the
U.S. there
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more cars driving licenses here in Colombia there are 41 million mobile lines
that is 92.87%
of
the population. Another
example
is
the popular culture
because they can see the graffiti on the streets as in the poorest sectors of the
U.S. as the Bronx in New York.
M D2
Write down a reflection on what you have done during the quarter, including
formal and conceptual elements. What you have to improve on. Set goals.
(WORD DOCUMENT)
WHAT WE HAD STUDY THIS BIMESTER
In the last two months we saw how consumerism affected the whole world. We
saw how the culture and the U.S. economy could affect us because this is a
world
power that
we
logos some companies. We can
"follow.
We
saw
see
too
how
the advertising and
the
U.S. popular
culture (people of lower social class) influences Colombian poor people, as we
see in the
with
the
graffiti’s
or the
new
music being
created as reggaeton or heavy metal. Finally we saw as consumerism is
already "inside" in the minds of many people to create products of lower quality
and make money faster.
In this quarter I have learned about the consumerism and how it affect our
culture and how U.S influence the Colombian commerce and finally how the
popular culture of U.S influence us to create new things.
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I think that my performance in this bimester was not the best because I did not
put attention on the work deadlines. These happen to me when I travel to
Medellin to represent the school in one sport competition and I don’t care about
the works that we have to do the days that we is on Medellin.
GOALS

I should improve my lecture

I should bring the work at time

I should put attention about the deadlines works when I don’t go to class

I should do the homework’s.
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