Pop Culture

      Roman philosopher Plautus (254-184 BC) wrote, "A woman without paint is like food without salt."

Make up is a big part of the lives of many women. Not only because it somewhat transforms you but it also let women express their creativity. If you search online there are literally millions of blogs and vlogs that discuss make up and how to use it. Make up has literally transcended from what it used to be. Now there are whole television shows that are all about makeup and the artist. Makeup trends are constantly changing. In order to understand these changes in trends in cosmetics it is important to take a look into the evolution of makeup itself. “Women and men have been wearing cosmetics for centuries, although the styles have certainly undergone some dramatic changes over time.”

              Makeup can date back to Egyptian times for males and females. “The earliest historical record of makeup comes from the 1st Dynasty of Egypt (c.3100-2907 BC). Tombs from this era have revealed unguent jars, which in later periods were scented. Unguent was a substance extensively used by men and women to keep their skin hydrated and supple and to avoid wrinkles from the dry heat. The women of Egypt also decorated their eyes by applying dark green color to the under lid and blackening the lashes and the upper lid with kohl, which was made from antimony (a metallic element) or soot. It is believed that the Jews adopted the use of makeup from the Egyptians, since references to the painting of faces appear in the New Testament section of the Bible.”

              More than anything makeup is trending because that is what our idols really focus in on. People like Kylie Jenner or even J Lo make a good living off of makeup. So of course it is only natural for us to want to join in. Along with that in my personal opinion make up is fun. It is almost like an adult dress up time. Make up will continue to trend in pop culture as long as there are new tricks and fun things that come along with it. If you were to check the web each day for new tip hacks and fun for makeup you would be sure to find over twenty each time. The power of makeup is obviously is very strong and I think that is why people are so hooked on especially the stars that are always in the spotlight.

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Game of Thrones: Post 2

                Game of Thrones is an extremely popular television show that has aired for six seasons on HBO. “The show is based on the epic fantasy novel series, A Song of Fire and Ice, written by George R. R. Martin. The first novel of the seven-book series is called A Game of Throne”. Each new season has is about the next book in the series

In my opinion this is a great show. There are so many details and mystery to his show that it is kind of hard to stop watching. From the scenery to the acting the show really is a hit. This show is not for children of the faint hearted. This show very often have scenes that are gruesome or sexually heated. Every season is a new adventure

The setting of Game of Thrones takes place on the fictional or made up continents of “Westerns “and “Essos” it would remind you of the Middle Ages. The story has a lot of common fantasy features, like swordplay, magic, and fictional creatures like dragons, those features are downplayed a lot to not distract from the human interactions and storyline. The show has three core storylines of the book series.

      

“The first is the continuing civil war between the various houses of Westeros, each vying for the Iron Throne and control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros — hence, the name Game of Thrones. The three principle houses involved in this civil war are the Starks of Winterfell, the Lannisters of Casterly Rock, and the Baratheons of Dragonstone. At the start of the series, the Baratheons control the Iron Throne. However, with the death of King Robert Baratheon, the Lannisters seize power when Robert’s wife Cersei Lannister becomes queen-regent after her son assumes the throne; Cersei’s brother, Tyrion Lannister, becomes their chief advisor. After that, many of the other houses rise up to fight Lannister control and claim their own right to the Iron Throne.

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                  The second storyline takes place in Essos, a harsh land of mostly desert. Daenerys Targaryen, the exiled daughter and last surviving heir to House Targaryen (which used to rule the Seven Kingdoms before the Baratheons came to power), seeks to build an army and return to Westeros to reclaim the Iron Throne. At first sold into marriage to the Dothraki tribal leader Khal Drogo by her older brother (who was later killed), Daenerys has become a powerful queen and has in her possession three dragons — a species thought instinct since the rule of the Targaryens. With her dragons and the massive army she’s building, Daenerys plans to cross the Narrow Sea, which separates the two continents, and defeat those who deposed and killed her father.

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                  The third storyline takes place in the Northern part of Westeros at the massive ice structure called the Wall, which protects the southern lands from the “wildling” humans and supernatural creatures (such as White Walkers) that live “beyond the Wall.” Jon Snow, the illegitimate son of Ned Stark (head of House Stark) enlists with the Night’s Watch, the small army stationed at the Wall that is charged with protecting the southern lands. With the approach of a long winter, the Wall and the Night’s Watch are under siege from wildling invaders who seek to overtake the Seven Kingdoms. What’s happening at the Wall is mostly unknown to the rest of Westeros, and the peoples of the Seven Kingdoms are unprepared for the coming threat.”

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Music Review

Alina Baraz, a 21 year old Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter. I would say she is the next leading vocalist of somewhat of a different sound.Her music is what you would call electronic / dance.

            Alina while working underground caught the attention of electronic musician Galimatias, who she found a connection with through Sound Cloud after writing and recording her own lyrics over one of his previously-released instrumentals, which would ultimately become their first collaboration, entitled "Drift". Alina and Galimatias started working on many other songs together, coming out with a single called Make you Feel plus an EP, which includes Drift and Pretty Thoughts. They even came up with the new single titled Fantasy, which appeared on the EP Urban Flora this spring. All of these songs together for the Album Urban Flora

Urban Flora is the name of her first album. The music on their Urban Flora EP kind of sounds like easy-listening R&B soundtrack. On the album there are many songs about possession, obsession and the shortcomings of infatuation, set to a perfect, dreamily slow down tempo designed to give you thoughts about nature of desire. It all works very well together.

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Fantasy – which has already gotten over 18 million plays across Sound cloud, Spotify and YouTube. The music is said to have a sound like a, “ Mariah Carey’s song of the same name slowed to 18rpm, chopped and screwed, more sedated than seductive.” . “Take me to a place, where there’s no time, no space,” sang Baraz, referring to the dangerously rarefied air you breathe when you’re in love. Unfold displays Baraz’s voice at somewhat of a whisper and her w view of love “The kind … we can’t control”, (which is actually one of my favorite lines) over Galimatias’s delicately nice music. Maybe is a song about deceit and devotion to an unwilling partner. By Can I, is really a song about pleasing the one you love in my opinion. “Each track is a slight variation on the template, with sufficient differences to sustain your interest, although this might be the EP’s prettily poignant peak: think Cassie and Ciara slipping R&B’s moorings and drifting to the moon (“If I told you I could give you life, would you leave the boundaries of your mind?”). “Pretty Thoughts, with it is really very soothing in its sound Finally, Drift is just interesting enough to keep wanting more in my opinion. I personally enjoy her music it is very mellow but at the same time it can make you move.Recently she has a hit single called Electric which is one of my new favorites.

                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwWrSR8SFEc  

http://www.mtv.com/artists/alina-baraz/biography/

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