American History

Reflective Criticism In 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World
This particular article talks about the interview of Jessica Bennet with John Tirman concerning the impact of actions that the United States is providing the rest of the world. In particular, it focused on key areas such as foreign policy and the historical development of pop culture in the region. These actions continues to be significant in outlining the course the country has taken to provide new directions that ultimately shape the way people perceive their society as a whole.

With regards to the evolution and history of pop culture, Tirman mentions in the interview how the development of todays American pop culture induced new patterns of behavior particularly within the youths and exhibited deviant norms and values accordingly. In essence, since the U.S. is considered to be an influential pop culture society, their corresponding response to these issues becomes highlighted as a norm by other societies.

Due to this, careful attention is then given towards how these actions are then induced and manifested within other aspects such as perceptions, immigration, and outlook in the environment. With the current stance of U.S. Pop culture Tirman, in the interview argues that there must be a corresponding responsibility on the part of leaders to rethink over these situations and come up with appropriate directions to this increasing problem.  

The overall aim of Gladwells article is to determine and argue within the lines of whether pop culture is degrading Americans capacity to think or is an essential tool towards diversifying their knowledge and competence. Here, he tries to connect the apparent IQ results exhibited by students to the existing patterns that Americans patronize media, television, and the pop culture associated with it. Here, it argues about the way media has changed and evolved through time and continues to exhibit the uniqueness of pop culture as it applies to todays society.

In this light, Gladwell then provides an analysis on how both media can be constructive and destructive to ones cognitive abilities. On one side, it argues that the process this change has allowed greater capacity to apply and incorporate a relatively complex cognitive display of pattern recognition and motor coordination (Gladwell, 2005). It is through this that people have the capacity to designate vital pieces together effectively.

The other side of the debate coincides with the fact that pop culture is inducing a different kind of learning  something that shifts in the academic discipline. It can be seen that many students nowadays lag behind because of this reality as they continuously become immersed into the pop culture and somewhat neglect their responsibilities in school. This process then creates insights about how instruments of pop culture are becoming appealing to students compared with homework.