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When it came to preparing for this essay, I feel that I could have prepared more. To prepare for this in-class essay I reread the chapter of the Tastemakers that we used for the essay. I then took note of some possible quotes that I could use for the essay, and then I made a list of some trends and fads that we have in our pop-culture today. Whenever I first received the prompt I had to take a bit of time to really think about which prompt I wanted to use for my essay. Once I chose the prompt I wanted to use, I started to make notes on which trends and fads I wanted to use. I chose my two trends and two fads, and then I went through to find what quotes I knew I definitely wanted to use. This took me about ten minutes, and then I started actually

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