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Religion is brought onto a society by that society. Not everyone believes in the same religion because everyone finds different aspects of life “most important to them.” “Religion is a function of human life that grounds and propels us into the world based on that which is most important to us.” (HOW DO I CITE THIS?) Religion whether or not you believe in a God is something that makes us better people because it helps us strive for excellence. Something can become one’s religion when it is sacred to them: it means more to them than just an object. It is something that you praise because it has made you better. In BLANK’S book, BLANK HE?SHE explains a theory that Richard Johnson developed in 1986. “He therefore proposed a holistic approach to studying cultural systems which would be interested in the contexts, structures, and processes of cultural production, the texts and artifacts produced, the ways in which these texts and artifacts were read or used by people in real-life settings, and how these processes of cultural production and consumption related to wider social structures and relations.” (last, year) Johnson explains that film can be very influential, especial when having to do with something people think so strongly about like religion. Society takes these simple concepts …show more content…
The first one was Augustus Gloop, a German boy who loves chocolate so much that he ate chocolate bar after chocolate bar; in fact no one ever saw him without a chocolate bar in his hand. All Augustus thought about was chocolate which ended up hurting his chances of winning the competition. Augustus represents one of the deadly sins: gluttony, which is the desire to consume more than one requires. Augustus ends up falling into the chocolate river when trying to slurp up as much perfectly melted chocolate as he can. He is then carried away in a pipe so that he does not contaminate the pure

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