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I had never felt a genuine sense of fear. That wasn’t until I visited the first haunted house of the Halloween season. During my childhood, I was overly obsessed with horror movies and anything that was guaranteed to send shivers down my spine. I lived to seek for blood and guts. I lived to seek for scary. I lived to seek the abnormal. Everything in the horror genre, fascinated me, but scared me at the same time. So when I finally got old enough to go out on my own, my mother agreed to let me go…

Whether it was the hashtag #PrayForParis or just adding a french flag filter to your profile picture, these helped the people show compassion. In the article, “##PrayForParis: When Empathy Becomes a Meme” by Megan Garber, the problem with these options is that to some it seemed so be selfish, she says, “there is something self-centered about this conversation of empathy into smarmery…” (Gerber 6). These messages of support were taken negatively, but…

Unit 3 Exam 11. A cultural myth are value systems believed to be true, but are culturally determined. The first myth fulfills the definition of cultural myth because the American Dream is unique to just America. For a long time, America has been known as the land of opportunity, where many get a fresh start and fulfill their dreams as long as they work hard. America is also the place where all things are possible and those opportunities are available to everyone, regardless of who they are.…

Women’s march on Washington: A movement of change In his article “My Crowd Experiment: The Mob Project” by Bill Wasik the inventor of the “Flash Mob” the author writes about his thought and ideas on boredom and the desire to use technology to create social change. He makes a strong statement in describing how “heard behavior” is created by society. In reading Wasik’s article you can see his thought about the creation of groups and how individuals come to join for a common cause. Reading about…

How did we come to such divisiveness that, most of Americans are picking sides between two different politically extreme groups? Why did the Battle for Berkley and Kekistan exist? The main reason for the political insanity started with two internet boards. Now, there are other ways to frame the causes of today’s political turmoil. However, this tale is an online messaging board called 4chan and the antithesis of 4chan called Tumblr. We will delve into the magical world called the Internet to…

solidarity with its citizens, "Ich bin ein Berliner" was the only way to express what he wanted to say. Kennedy acknowledges this fact when he says “I appreciate my interpreter translating my German!” (Line 14). The mistake is now used across the US as a meme of sorts, with people saying “Ich bin ein + (some sort of German food [Frankfurter, Hamburger, etc.]), and sometimes people simply restate the phrase “Ich bin ein Berliner”. The Liberian 5 dollar coin contains his face and the words “Ich…

public, overtime understands that the government is controlling and must be able to move towards a brighter society. If the public can’t express their disapproval to politicians, they express it on social media. On social media there are stories, memes, and pictures mocking and calling out the government for corruption and treason to the public’s rights. Finally, the government is seen as unethical and overbearing to the public and doing so allows the newspaper to express its opinions on the…

used persuasive tactics to convince the majority of Germany that it needed to be purified; and in doing so, he killed millions of ostracized Jews. Ostracism is exercised daily within contemporary society through advertisements, music videos, songs, memes,…

is the internet. My friends and I have connected through social media, video games, and viral videos. Even though we had our few share of disagreements, in the end we all make peace because of our love of new technologies such as video games and memes. Technology gives us various ways to bring us closer together. Although it does sometimes bring us together, technology tears us apart even more. Ever since the invention of technology, it has been mostly been part of our daily lives. Technology…

One Rainy Sunday Rainy days have a set vibe based on the day of the week. Rainy Mondays are exhausting, rainy Tuesdays are monotonous, and rainy Wednesdays are relieving. But rainy Sundays are perhaps the strangest of them all, a simultaneous state of serenity and sorrow. And this rainy Sunday was no different. It had only been a short while after we had moved to Round Rock from Dallas, and it felt like an eternity and a short second all at once. As familiar I felt with my friends’ faces, I…