I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek is a book that follows a woman named Adeline and the abusive that she faces on the internet as a public figure. It is also a book that tries to milk everything that could derive attention from a reader but also pushes the reader away in the same …
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GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!!
“Hi Lizzy. It’s about time you joined Facebook.” my first tagged post read on my brand new Facebook account. I had avoided making one for so long, mainly out of spite because everyone had wanted me to make one, but also because of its security breach that had happened. My mom had posted it, a …
Gif Poem
I chose to do a couplet with rhyme. I did the rhyme by taking gifs from the same TV show/movie in each line. For the original gifs, I put them in the same line to keep the rhyme going. What this poem is about is the process of being assigned a project, working on it, …
A Discussion of (the Lack of) Sex Education
From age 6 to 19, I attended a Roman Catholic School. So, when it came to talking about sex, we didn’t start that conversation until we were sophomores in high school, and it went like this: DO NOT HAVE SEX! I think we realized what sex was when were were in middle school and had …
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Written/Typed/DMed Observation
Throughout this study, I have found that I tend to speak to people differently depending on their ages. Although, I think that everyone would speak to their roommate in a way that they wouldn’t talk to their mother. Conversation with my roommate vs with my mother With my roommate, friends, classmates, and others my age, …
Internet Crackdown
In Stephen King’s Ur, Wesley believes that he catches Robbie Henderson playing on some sort of electronic device in his class. He attempts to take it away, but instead realizes that it is more helpful for the student than hurtful, because he is reading the assigned book on it. During my freshman year of high …
Position Post
Goldsmith and Saienni have many differing opinions. Goldsmith stands that the use of the internet and similar technologies can be placed in the category of literacy, while Saienni pretty much trashes on everything that is not considered “traditional”, in terms of literature. It is kind of hard to take Saienni seriously, simply because she is …
Literature & the Internet 