Post on 24-Mar-2016
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Pop the
Culture
Written by: Melissa Lam, Jasmine Lee,
Vi Nguyen, Lezlie Allyn Plaza, Hannah Richman,
and Cynthia Thurairajah
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Dream Wedding ….Pg. 5
TV Dinner ….………....Pg. 17
I Want to Be Famous .………...……Pg. 27
Belle Femme’s Beauty Secret ……....Pg. 37
A Man’s Health …….Pg. 47
Y.O.L.O ……………….Pg. 55
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One day, a mother and daughter sat
down to spend their daily 20 minutes of
family time together. The TV turned on
right when the popular show “Keeping Up
with the Kangaroos” ended with Kim crying
as usual.
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Rachel began to flip through the chan-
nels, passing “Shoobie Shore” and coming
across “Say Yes to the Dress”.
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“Wow, look at her. She looks beautiful!
But the dress is a bit too long; it’s all the
way down to her thighs,” said Rachel.
Rachel’s mom looked up from her phone
and scoffed, “Is that what wedding dresses
look like nowadays?”
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“Here, watch our wedding video!” said
Rachel’s mother. She popped the tape in
and Rachel said, “Wow, it’s on a VHS, how
ancient is that?”
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“At my wedding, I wore a beautiful white
gown, the white cake was three tiered, and
my wedding song was “Beautiful in White”.
White was the new white.”
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“Ew, gross. Really? That sounds like a boring wedding. I want to have a classy
wedding, so “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore will be my wedding song. I’ll go to the thrift
shop with $20 in my pocket. My dream dress will be skintight with my entire back
open. Maybe I’ll get some moccasin some-body’s been walking in or even better some
green gator shoes.”
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“But why should I spend money? Maybe
I’ll just take Grandpa’s style, take his plaid
button-up shirt, his flannel zebra jammies,
and his leopard mink. I’ll look
incredible! My first dance will be to “I’m
Sexy and I Know It”. Do you think Mack-
lemore would come if I invited him?” asked
Rachel.
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The clock just chimed nine o’clock. From the kitchen, Mrs. Bond yelled, “Dinner
time! Your five minutes to eat starts now!”
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Stumbling to the kitchen, Elle groaned,
“Mom… I was doing something important.”
Mrs. Bond interjected, “Ooh, have you
finished your homework already?”
Elle scoffed, “Homework is not im-
portant. The newest edition of my maga-zine just came out. Now that’s important
and isn’t it too early for dinner?”
Mrs. Bond responded, “Elle, go tell your
brother and father that it‘s dinnertime.”
Elle shouted, “Dad, come to the dinner
table and you too Arod.”
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Everyone sat down at the dinner table, each absorbed in their own world while the
dog laid nearby. Arod was reading baseball stats, Elle was reading her magazine, Mr.
Bond was watching baseball on TV, and
Mrs. Bond was sewing her scarf.
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Mrs. Bond questioned, “So how is the
food?”
Elle, giving her food to the dog, shouted,
“Mmm, this is yummy!”
SO H
OT
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Mrs. Bond murmured, “I bought the
salmon for fifty dollars!”
Her husband exclaimed, “Wow, that’s a
nice catch!”
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Mrs. Bond gushed, “Isn’t this a lovely
dinner? We’re talking to each other and
enjoying the food. I love our family because
we’re so close!”
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Every morning Carly wakes up and heads downstairs to the living room to
watch the world news with her family. To-day, E! News was covering a story about
her idol, Lindsay Lohan, who was heading to a trial once again. Her parents rolled
their eyes, but Carly’s eyes were glued to
the TV.
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Carly had seen every movie Lindsay was in and just like Lindsay, she wore pink
on Wednesdays. Her room was plastered with magazine headings, movie posters and
collectables all starring Lindsay.
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Her friends dreamed of becoming singers and actors to achieve fame, but Carly did-
n’t. She was the only one who had done her research and knew exactly how to
achieve the fame that Lindsay had. She could skip all the hard work of school or
acting classes and just get the media to recognize her. Then, everyone would love
her.
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After school she decided to take her shot at fame. Carly went to her room, turned on
her laptop and started vlogging.
“Those stupid police officers don’t even
know Lindsay like I do, she would never do drugs! Just look at her, she’s an angel!
Those police officers won’t know what’s
coming when I get to them….”
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After a half hour of trash talking police officers and making countless death
threats to protect her idol, she uploaded her video to YouTube. A few days later she
heard a knock at the door and ran down the stairs.
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Two police officers walked in, along with a camera crew from Channel 10 News.
Carly, kicking and screaming, knew that all her friends would be watching.
She would make the front page, finally be-coming famous.
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Belle hated the way she looked. Whenev-
er she turned on the television, she would
see fashionable celebrities and she wanted
to look just like them. She wanted their
shoes, hair, and makeup.
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While doing her homework one day, Belle
came up with a plan. All she needed was
her emergency credit card and a trip to the
nearest mall. She could do her homework
later on; her appearance was much more
important.
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When Belle returned home from the mall,
she was carrying twenty full shopping bags
and had a new haircut.
“Well, I think this is a pretty decent start
for my new look. I should probably try
some of the clothes on,” she decided, for-
getting about her homework.
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After Belle put on her new feather dress and applied matching makeup, she ex-
claimed, “Wow! I look just like that singer. I
feel gorgeous!”
“Those celebrities really know how to dress themselves. I have to keep up to date
with what they’re wearing all the time
now,” said Belle.
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And so, Belle continued her life by spending all of her time planning outra-
geous outfits and bold faces. She fully em-braced her artificial beauty, and she was
absolutely ecstatic.
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Once upon a time, there was a very ill, old man in the hospital. The doctors said he
only had a few more days to live.
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Concerned for his grandfather, Jake visited him in hopes of offering comfort during
such a difficult time.
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“Hey Pop, how are you feeling?” Jake
said.
“Not well at all!” Grandfather gasped as he
coughed up a lung.
“You don’t sound too good. Let me get the
nurse-”
“No, forget her!” Grandpop interrupted,
“Get the IT guy, the remote ain’t working.
Also, I need my Men’s Health magazine!”
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“You should be worrying about your own
health, Pop,” Jake said.
“Justin Bieber is on the cover of the new issue and I need it now! I’ll die if I don’t get
it!” Grandpop said as he uttered his last
breath.
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On a Saturday morning at the park,
there was a group of young children play-
ing together. Sam, a seven-year-old, was
riding his bike without his helmet, knee
pads, and elbow pads. “Hey guys, look! I’m
riding my bike without my training wheels
– YOLO! I bet you can’t do this! I can feel
the wind in my hair.” yelled Sam as her
struggled to keep up with the old lady.
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Tim, his arch nemesis, was jealous because Sam could
ride his bike; he didn’t like Sam at all. He thought Sam was always doing dangerous
stuff and plus he always said that stupid slogan YOLO. Since Sam had one life, he
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Sam always thought that Tim was ruining the fun for everybody. Sam felt that since
you only live once, nobody should let life go to waste.
“Hey guys, let’s go play on the swings and
slides!” screamed Sam.
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Instead of going towards the swings or slides, Sam ran towards the monkey bars.
When Tim saw this, he shouted, “STOP! You can’t go on the monkey bars. My mom-
my said that it’s too dangerous! Forget YO-
LO!”
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“Tim, going on the monkey bars is the whole point of life! I can never forget YO-
LO! It’s not like I’m going to break my arm!”
Sam replied.