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  Is Pop Culture Good For You? What is Pop Culture?  “Pop Culture is a universal language that manages in all of its seemingly trivial glory to make us dream and smile; to connect us across racial, political and social divides. It’s parts of our fabric as human beings; it says something about us, about our better nature”( TED, 2013).  The idea of what ‘pop culture’ is has a very distinctive form to certain individuals while for others it may be completely different. The truth is that while ‘pop culture’ did begin as this “fluff” (TED, 2013) little by little it became more than that. Pop culture is anything that causes a reaction or transmits an idea. While at first this was mostly possible through the current art and culture, as Miller explains, changes in technology have moved pop culture to the digital world and now all you need to “agree” is click the like button (TED, 2015).   Andy Warhol Why does it matter? “When certain ideas, interest or choices reach a critical mass within a so

“ Once I was seven years old ” As long as I can remember, literacy has always been a part of my life. I was born in Havana, Cuba therefore my first language is Spanish. Even though books were considered a luxury, my parents understood the importance of integrating literature in my life. My mom loves to tell the story of how, just being a couple of months old, she would give me a book with just words, no pictures, upside down. She says that I would put the book right up as if I were reading it. She found this bazaar so she said she gave me the book right side up and to her surprise I left it the way it was. I don’t know what this means, maybe I was a smart baby, all I know is that one way or another I was always connected to books.   Some of my biggest influences were my grantparents and great-grandparents. My great-grandfather would recite poetry and I would memorize it and my grandma would read stories to me every night. I had an aunt and uncle who worked at a school and would bring m