This Week’s Milestone Asks You To Select One More Popular Culture Arti This week’s Milestone asks you to select one more popular culture artifact. Refer to your Final Project Worksheet and Final Project Overview documents from Week 1. Remember that there should be no more than two artifacts from the same category with three overall. The categories are: Film, Episodic moving image (TV shows—may be broadcast or streamed), Music, Music videos, Fashion, Advertising, Animation (general animation/cartoons such as Disney or Warner Brothers or genre-specific animation such as Japanese anime), Food, Printed material (books, magazines, manga, comic books, or graphic novels). To prepare: Choose a new popular culture artifact, your third, to include in your Final Project analysis. This element should be current (within the last 5 years) and relate to the issue you have chosen. Consider how this new popular culture artifact defines or disrupts “normal.” Submit by Day 7 a 400- to 500-word (with references) essay that analyzes how your chosen artifact of popular culture relates to society’s values. Explain how this new popular culture artifact defines or disrupts “normal.” Evaluate whether this artifact of popular culture has changed society’s values.
Paper For Above instruction The influence of popular culture artifacts on societal values is a dynamic interplay, reflecting and shaping societal perceptions of normalcy, identity, and cultural norms. In recent years, one particularly influential artifact is the Netflix animated series Squid Game , which premiered in 2021. This South Korean series quickly garnered global attention, not only for its intense narrative and aesthetic style but also for its critique of social hierarchies and economic disparity. Squid Game exemplifies a disruptive popular culture artifact that challenges traditional notions of social normalcy and reveals underlying societal anxieties. In terms of defining or disrupting “normal,” Squid Game pushes viewers to confront the stark realities of inequality and the extents to which individuals are willing to go to escape poverty. Traditionally, societal norms have often emphasized meritocracy and individual