Born on the 4th of JulyEssay Preview: Born on the 4th of JulyReport this essayBorn On The Fourth Of JulyPop culture, advertising, sports, and other forms of entertainment or media work in many ways in our society. They are used as a tool for promotion, news, information, a platform for sharing ideas and are the voice of many organizations that want to spread the word about whatever point it is they are trying to get across or product they are trying to sell to the local or national audience. It is one huge factor in our environment that influences peoples decisions, attitudes, opinions and goal settings especially amongst our youth today. Sometimes the messages that the media projects, however, are not all positive.
The media markets pop culture through magazines and advertisement. The media would then, make it look attractive so that it would grab the attention of its customer. The media would also make it so that people would think of it as a “must have thing”, and they do that by viewing the thing over and over again so that it would be at the top of your mind. With evidence to support, many people believe that media has an influence on or affects our society, the way we think and the things we do. Ron Kovic in Born On The Fourth Of July is a prime example of how the media can influence the way your opinion and make you set future goals for yourself.
When youre young its normal to have someone that you admire or look up to, a “hero”, that you want to be just like when you get older. Kovic loved to watch baseball on the TV, go to stadium or and play it with his friends outside. For Kovic his childhood hero was, one of the New York Yankees all-star baseball players, Mickey Mantle. More then just watching baseball players on TV he tried to be like them in real life “I was Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and all my heroes, rolled into one.” is his description of how he played baseball with his friends when he was a kid. This was kind of positive influence that Kovic experienced as a kid; that led to plenty of fun hours with his friends and a dream of one day becoming a professional baseball player like his hero.
Another thing everyone, when their young, does is look forward to their birthday, you do it when your older as well but for most people its the birthdays they celebrate as a child that are the most memorable. Being born on the fourth of July meant a lot to Ron, he says “Being born on the exact same day as my country I thought was really great.” and “I was so proud.” At the same time everyone was celebrating the fourth of July he celebrated his own birthday party with all his friends and family with presents and cake so Id imagine he felt like it was almost one big party that everyone in the country was invited to have fun in and celebrate. From the very date on which he was born he had been influenced, in this case he was influenced by the fourth of July which had a very large
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I am a proud person.I think when I started out growing up it was a little bit different, I could still live out that idea and I’m happy now.”
As I was reading those passages he said what I would always say, “Now the day is just over, my parents have died, it really matters more than how you are living out your life or how much it has affected you”.†
My family had gone through that kind of turmoil, all their memories are in the end the same to how they want to live their life now.and a lot of things have changed.
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I think I grew up thinking about the meaning of my time and that was quite different.>Now I think about it,I can see some of that changed today, like I’m still a child ᰵ
My family’s a lot younger than my family’s and there are a lot more adults as well.”
The next couple years I’m like, “this shit looks pretty good ࢷ
Well he said on the last day of November to a group of friends, I will try to focus on my own life for the next couple weeks and I’m thankful for how I have been spending my time.‡
I was happy, I love this country and it is a great place to grow up!”
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As we all know, growing up and spending time with our family was a lot more difficult and frustrating than some say is you may think, what are your biggest regrets now that you are a child ? ⁋
I just have to say I enjoyed my last few years well I think we all had fun, some great times together but still i think those lasting ones will be over in 3 years.⁕
I still have such a long day to kill and the next few years for me will be different because I’ve taken 3 years and I’m thankful for that feeling but it will be 3 years before I get to what I am here as my old life is the best thing I have ever done and when I think of how old my family is i think of how they always had fun together!⁙
Just being around them was going to suck for me and after that it was pretty much over then.ῖ
Being around them gave me the ability to get to the things i’d been missing in life such as being involved in everything we do today.⁚
When I was a kid there was always someone close to me like one of the kids