Emilia and Carmen always score the highest marks in their class. Emilia uses internet to expand her knowledge, while Carmen insists that traditional learning by reading books is best as she believes that internet addiction will cause students to neglect their studies. To prove her point, Carmen challenges Emilia to turn their classmate, the internet-addicted Dennis, into a top student. Emilia angrily accepts the challenge; but how will she convince the class misfit to get a life offline?
Even though Emilia avoids strenuous exercise in P.E., she somehow manages to remain slim and trim! Joni and Mia find this so unfair! However, when a new transfer student joins their class, Emilia's reaction reveals that there's more to her that meets the eye... Can Joni and Mia help Emilia come to terms with her secret past?
Emilia and Carmen always score the highest marks in their class. Emilia uses internet to expand her knowledge, while Carmen insists that traditional learning by reading books is best as she believes that internet addiction will cause students to neglect their studies. To prove her point, Carmen challenges Emilia to turn their classmate, the internet-addicted Dennis, into a top student. Emilia angrily accepts the challenge; but how will she convince the class misfit to get a life offline?
Mia's attempts to be less introverted are warmly encouraged by her classmates. A fashion design college student is impressed by Mia's natural flair for fashion, and invites her to join a fashion show as a costume design assistant. However, the jealous Sofia forces with her cousin to compete against Mia! Whose Fashion sense will prevail?
Joni skips tuitionwith her big brother Julian to attend her favourite pop idol's autograph session with Mia. This makes Julian furious, and he forbids Joni from chasing her idols. However, Mia and Emilia say that being a fan is not necessarily bad, as it can encourage people to strive harder in their studies. Also, despite being discouraged by Mia and Emilia, their class mate Janie dresses like Joni, and even copies her every move! This all makes the Candy JEN members very uncomfortable... How will they clean up this mess?
Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.
Miss Miyuki decides to rearrange the students in her class according to their class rankings. With their top marks, Mia and Emilia get to sit together, buy Joni is seated among the students with the lowest marks in the class. Their classmate Jane grabs the chance to take Joni's place in Candy JEM. Determined to sit with her friends again, Joni starts tuition lessons from her older brother Julian to improve her results. Will Joni succeed? Will Jane succeed in her sneaky plan to replace Joni?
In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu's adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture has upended the familiar dynamic of major-to-minor cultural influence, enabling hallyu to become a dominant global cultural phenomenon. At the same time, its worldwide popularity has rendered its Koreanness opaque. Kim argues that Korean cultural subjectivity over the past two decades is one steeped in ethnic rather than national identity. Explaining how South Korea leaped over the linguistic and cultural walls surrounding a supposedly “minor” culture to achieve global ascendance, Kim positions K-pop, Korean cinema and television serials, and even electronics as transformative acts of reappropriation that have created a hegemonic global ethnic identity.
WONDER NO MORE—GET ALL THE FACTS ON DC COMICS’ FOREMOST SUPER HEROINE! She’s as beautiful as Aphrodite and as wise as Athena, stronger then Hercules and swifter than Hermes. Blessed at birth by the gods themselves, Princess Diana left an idyllic island paradise ruled by wise and brave women to bring the peace, love, and nobility of the Amazons to the tumultuous world of humankind. In January 1942, Wonder Woman took the world of comics—and its pantheon of superpowered males—by storm. Wielding her impervious silver bracelets and golden Lasso of Truth, she’s battled forces of evil from the Axis powers to a slew of super-villains worldwide, teamed up with the likes of Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, and the Flash, and become a high-flying feminist icon and pop-culture superstar. Now, for the first time in more than thirty years, here’s a definitive A-to-Z volume that draws together all the knowledge about the star-spangled, action-packed history of Wonder Woman. In more than 400 fact-packed pages you’ll find • the complete story of Wonder Woman’s origins, as imagined and reinterpreted by generations of comics writers—including her groundbreaking creator, William Moulton Marston • biographies of every major character in Wonder Woman’s universe, including her mother, Hippolyta; sister, Donna Troy; and mortal ally Steve Trevor—as well as such classic foes as Ares, Cheetah, Hades, and the members of Villainy Inc. • classic black-and-white comic book artwork throughout • two sixteen-page full-color artwork inserts—plus a dazzling original cover illustration by fan-favorite artist Adam Hughes Written by veteran Wonder Woman artist and writer Phil Jimenez and comics historian John Wells, The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia is the ultimate archive, proving that die-hard devotees of the gorgeous go-to goddess don’t have to visit Paradise Island for a taste of heaven on earth. From the Trade Paperback edition.
