While many of my posts on social media may be redundant and express my most basic twenty year old female self, my social media does tell a story. My VSCO tells an accurate story of my life from my senior year of high school to my sophomore year of college. The collection of images I …
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Explaining Something I Do Not Even Understand:
Jarett Kobek’s novel, I Hate the Internet, gives us a story of a wide variety of people to follow. The characters in the novel all have ties to the internet, and their struggles with the internet are reflected throughout the novel. Kobek touches on how the hateful acts said and done on the internet can …
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The Life of A Furry Friend
Our lives are fairly planned and predictable. School and/or work during the week. While we are busy during the week, we may forget about what our furry friends are doing at home. Thinking of exactly what they do during the day can seem a little difficult and vague. Their day consists of morning time, before …
Sexy or Sexist??
Growing up my mom taught me how to “act like a lady” and present myself in a mannerly fashion as I got older, but social media showed me how to be a so called “sexy, confident” woman. On social media apps such as Instagram and Snapchat, the females who got the most likes, comments and …
LOL : Laugh out Loud or Lots of Learning
I communicate with myself and others many different ways throughout the day. As a student, one of the ways I communicate with myself is by taking notes. During my classes, I take notes to go back and study later. I make sure to always write my notes down instead of typing them, because when I …
Is Accessibility the new Intelligence?
The way we are learning and reading is consistently upgrading and growing. Maria Cecire’s “Massively Open” and Stephen King’s UR are both stories revolved around the forever upgrading internet, and its influence on schooling and literature. Though both of these stories show the negative almost scary side of the internet, they do also give evidence …
The Accomplishment of Connection
Humans have strived to be connected to others since the beginning of time. Finding ways to connect to others has been a serious job in our society for ages. Now that we have accomplished this constant connection and availability to anyone around the world, people are beginning to find it a burden. This accomplishment has …
Literature & the Internet 