Themes Of Pop Culture

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One of the main themes in this chapter is pop culture. Its is pop culture because Matthew Kabong is a normal guy working as a delivery man and he is spreading the mainstream culture just like the other working teens did. This day he was delivering pizza to a trailer in a place called Meadowbrook. There were five member who worked in the kitchen to prepare the pizza.
Dave Feamster is the owner of the Little Caesars. He used to play in the youth hockey leagues and went to college for a business degree as a backup plan. He played for the National Hockey League until March 14, 1984 when he was struck from behind by a player from a team called Minnesota North Stars. Three months later, he was still wearing a back brace as the doctor had instructed to do so. His team, The Black Hawk players wanted him to play just as badly as he wanted to play. The doctor told him that he should move on and find another job because there was no chance that he could go back and play hockey again. Sadly, The Black Hawks just quietly faded away from him without a goodbye or good luck.
He later entered a course to become a travel agent in a class full of girls. His professor then acknowledged him saying that this was not the right job for him. That made him drop the course and drive around for hours. At a
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They are selling their cattle and going out of business. This is an example of industrialization because the industry is starting to go from agriculture to manufacture. The growth of fast food restaurants is one of the reasons that their business isn't working out. The fast food has encouraged the industry to become a meatpacking industry. For about fifty years, rancher sold their cattle while the meatpackers were competing and bidding for on the cattle. Today, the four top meatpacking companies own twenty percent of the cattle in the United States. This is a discreet way of controlling the prices of captive

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