Meme

There is a high school saying, “you can have two of the following but not all three: Social Life, Good Grades, or Sleep.” Only a mere two years ago, I vividly remember entering high school and hearing this saying. At the time, I was Timorous. What do I give up? Will I lose my friends? My good grades? As school started, I kind of found my spot. I wasn 't obtaining all 100’s but nothing below a 93. I slept eight hours a night. Life was great, I had no teachers that taught as Machiavelli. I had a…

Chloe Atkins Mr. Vaughn Advanced English 2 26 February 2024 Drake's Secrets to Success Drake is the eighth-best rapper of all time while also being one of the top Canadian rappers. Drake played the role of Jimmy Brooks in the teen soap Degrassi: The Next Generation for seven years and earned a Young Artist Award in 2002 for best ensemble in a TV series. He also released his first mixtape, Room for Improvement, in 2006, achieving modest sales of approximately 6,000 copies, and joined Lil Wayne on…

Conspiracy theories alter the perceptions of many people by shifting their previously held beliefs of reality to “unthinkable” underlying debatable truths. With modern day technology advances exposing us to an endless amount of news, stories, and theories, people are surrounded with false information that can be absorbed and believed by influence and repetition. Without even trying, they are fed this plethora of information that no one really knows the accuracy behind. Conspiracy theories are…

Lisa is being used as funny image, which are called meme’s. According to google.com memesit is “a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc. that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.”(google.com) These memes are all over there the internet a Mona Lisa with a moustache which was created by an artist called Marcel Duchamp. The portrait gave Mona Lisa a very masculine and hilarious feeling, because back in the day when I was a kid I remember draw…

sheets in a museum, where it will claim to soothe the wounds from which it came. In contrast, protest art, or the art of social movements, cannot be commodified, because when it is, it ceases to be protest art. Analogous to this logic is how an internet meme ceases to be funny once it is commodified. Protest art does not (merely) depict the world; it modifies it. Protest art often makes use of the…

The English language is a very complex language across all its forms. It means one thing to one person and something entirely different to another person even though the same words are spoken or written. Communication is the transfer from one person to another person of information and is open to individual interpretation which can lead to communication issues (Ferraro and Palmer, ND). Language and communication can generally be categorised as both verbal (spoken language) and non-verbal…

The Modern-Day Peacemaker A magical place filled with infinite knowledge. A place where no one has a face, and you may become anyone you would ever want. This place is much to demotic for a fairy tale or a child’s story. The modern-day Peacemaker, the great library of the twenty-first century. A place that changed my life for the better, that gave me purpose. This place led me out of the thick web of depression, constant real-world problems and even lead me to make friends. This place has…

Marketing is a multi-faceted and complex system of symbiotic relationships such as that between traditional marketing strategies and social media marketing strategies. Both employ different methods that mould and shape what consumers are exposed to and both experience a different degree to which consumers influence and are influenced by these attempts at communication. Those in favour of social media marketing have a tendency to use the word “traditional” to denote a somewhat negative view that…

Written. Sent. Notified. You open your phone to Yik-Yak and started scrolling through the feed: memes, jokes, and personal ads. You like a few posts just as you scroll past your name. Without considering anything else, your hands begin to shake. With panicked breaths, you slowly start to scroll back up- forcing your finger to span the smallest area possible. Suddenly, there it is in text- attacking your character and reputation- all in 160 characters. Tapped and posted like it is no big deal.…

Teachers wanting you to write about your life. So you arrive to your class that you probably do or don’t hate, you already heard what was coming in store. You asked everyone before class what we need to do and they say we have to write an essay. Then you ask what type of essay and they say a personal writing assignment. You curse inside your head, not only because you’re not the strongest writer, but because of what type of essay it is, a personal writing assignment. I mean most people won’t…