Fiction and Non Fiction

Non Fiction
Memoir is a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation
Auto Biography is oneself narrated by oneself. Little autobiographical literature exists from antiquity and the Middle Ages; with a handful of exceptions, the form begins to appear only in the 15th century. Autobiographical works take many forms, from intimate writings made during life that are not necessarily intended for publication (including letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, and reminiscences) to the formal autobiography.
Essay is a short piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author.

Fiction:
Poem is a verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
Short Stories is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels.
Novels are a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century.

Compare and Contrast

Fiction

non real things
real theme
characters have unique characteritics
the plot dont happens in real life.

Non fiction
all is real and happend in real life
real theme
characters are comun people
the plot happens in real life and its true

Culture

Culture is a term that has several meanings, for example in 1952 Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn complied a list of 164 different meanings. But they are 2 basic meanings
1. Excellence of taste in the arts and humanities, also known as high culture
2. An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning.
3. The set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterizes an institution organization or group.
In the twentieth century, "culture" emerged as a concept central to anthropology, encompassing all human phenomena that are not purely results of human genetics. Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings: the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively. Following World War II, the term became important, albeit with different meanings, in other disciplines such as cultural studies, organizational psychology and management studies.
Every culture has its own way to, celebrate, belief, act, etc. In case of the celebration in every culture they celebrate different things or gods, they can do rituals, dance or food, etc. Also every culture expresses their self through art.
In school part of what they teach us is to know and learn about the diversity of cultures on the world, to respect them and to know why every culture is different. Through the art of the different cultures we can know how they behave, what they belief in, rituals, social organization etc.
The benefits to know and learn about different cultures is that you can adopt some of them, or even if you don’t like other cultures you can see the differences between their cultures and yours and understand better your culture.

Junior High

Mafalda

Mafalda, drawn and created by the Argentine cartoonist Quino (J.S. Lavado) from 1963 to 1975, and also has appeared in a long-running series of animated cartoons and comic stripes, is familiar to every Latin American, and is well known in Europe and Japan as well. She's even appeared in Australia. Only in the US, for some reason, is she unknown.
The central character is Mafalda (named for a type of pasta). Mafalda is obsessed with the bad shape the world is in; she wants to be a UN translator, and intends to defuse conflicts by translating the insults into statements. She's also a big fan of the Beatles (even if she can't understand the words) and a dutiful if sometimes sarcastic daughter. Her one weakness is soup-- she holds a grudge against the Swiss for having invented instant soup.
Her friends are also distinctive characters. Her oldest friend is Felipe, whose sweet disposition conceals an avid enthusiasm for the Lone Ranger and an incurable aversion to homework.
Her friend Manolito is, at six, the consummate petty businessman, tireless and tiresome in his promotions of his father's grocery store. He's already an expert at publicity (smelling something rotten in the store, he remarks, "I sense this week's special in the air") and at customer relations:

I think Mafalda is a excellent cartoon and comic strip, I love the way Malfada is sarcastic and you always enjoy a cartoon of her, i like that Mafalda show serious conflicts in the world, on all the cartoons there is a situation of what’s happening on the world.


The Simpsons

is an American animated television series created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a working-class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name,[1] which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition.
The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a pitch for a series of animated shorts with the producer James L. Brooks. Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and was an early hit for Fox, becoming the first Fox series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1989–1990).
Since its debut on December 17, 1989 the show has broadcast 481 episodes and the twenty-second season started airing on September 26, 2010. The Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 26 and July 27, 2007, and grossed US$527 million worldwide.

I don’t like very much the Simpsons because i think is a very vulgar way to express conflicts on the world or serious themes, all though is very comic the cartoon, they touch very important themes and the way that they express them for me its vulgar.