Meme

There is a popular meme that has made it’s way around the internet that is a perfect example of the stereotypes that are seen on welfare holders. It is of a picture of two stereotypical refrigerators. The left is a middle class refrigerator and the right is one that belongs to someone in the lower class that is receiving government assistance. The middle class refrigerator has some milk, cheese, eggs, condiments, and some fruit, but the lower class refrigerator is overflown with frozen TV…

the Australian public”- So Far (2012). Shannon also found the spotlight in Ireland for a few months with “What About Me?” reaching 2nd spot on the Ireland Singles Charts. The Shannon Noll was Robbed of Australian Idol memes originated in Australia on a Facebook group called Sh**Memes. This just shows that Australia truly was Nollsy…

still a deep racial divide in this country. Interestingly, the African American vernacular often used in internet memes have become widely adapted by many millennials across many ethnicities and economic backgrounds on social media today. Perhaps much like rise the of Hip-Hop that helped drive racial integration with White youths in the 1990s, the widespread culture of internet memes could be a driving force in closing the cultural…

on his neck, with the true cause of death being aspiration of vomit. Once Michael had died, the killer spelled out "Hollyweed" on his left arm, using a syringe. The killer would place the syringe on a meme sculpture before placing Michael into a bee costume and hat and stringing him up onto the meme gallery room's fan via noose, in order to confuse us with the true cause of…

Specifically, if memes are understood as modes, that is to say a collection of textual fragments whose potential force is defined by form, then in the case of stock character macros, these modes are capable of exerting their own ethos. The modal poles, in defining the form of the meme, also function as the ethos of the meme. Specifically, as modes manage the affective and narrative potential of the text, they imbue a particular ethos onto that textual mode. Particularly in the case of memes,…

night studying for the test” It makes the teachers chuckle, not because students deserve praise, but how detrimental it is to one. This meme lines up with that train of thought, it depicts a college aged female studying from an open book, surrounded by darkness with a grim smirk on her face, in the midst of twenty-one-ish other books in various school subjects, the meme contains text that says “PULLS ALL NIGHTER STUDYING…FAILS EXAM” It is a very relatable illustration for college students and…

-According to Joseph Healey (2002), “cultural assimilation is demonstrated when the minority group suppresses their language, food, lifestyle, and way of living in order to adapt to a different system with a total different regime than the one they were used to practice (p. 49). Usually, this happens when they move to another territory. Secondary structural assimilation is defined when the minority group adapts to the new culture they decided to reside and starts to educate himself or herself to…

online. I had been looking for a new horse for months. I had become very impatient and lost the hope of finding the perfect horse. To be honest, I did not want to go see Zeke at all. To me he didn't look that great or special, but I was forced by my Meme to go see him. After an hour of driving from Flower mound to Decatur, Texas we finally pulled up in the driveway. We hopped out of the Truck to see a gorgeous Bay horse with a long black mane and tail. My attitude was starting to turn…

The Art Form of Humor The Different Views Of Punching Up And Down In “Why Punching Down Will Never Be Funny” by Schaach Koul, she argues that punishing down as in making jokes of those with less power is not funny. I both agree and disagree with her. Comedy has become such a controversial topic. Can a joke be considered funny depending on who is telling the joke or is it based off the intensity of the joke? In my opinion comedy is for entertaining purposes. People should…

The media has made a big influence in our lives. From the print media where we read newspapers, magazines, and journals to broadcasting media through television and radio, we all have experienced using these types of media. It has been a little over a decade since the outbreak of social media has drastically changed the way we view ourselves, the way we see others and the way we interact with the world around us. The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan and Writing Restructures…