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    behavior of the human’s brain. This imitation can be described by Dawkins selfish meme theory. Susan Blackmore mentions the Dawkins selfish meme theory in her article “Strange creatures”. She wants to…

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    people 's minds with information. Some are useful, while others is not, but all were created by someone or something for a specific purpose. “Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas” (Glick). This was stated in Gleick’s essay “What Defines a Meme?”, and simply voicing that all the information being processed in our head creates new ways of thinking and continues to build off of each other. On the opposite side, in “The Disremembered” by Charles Leadbeater, he suggests that Dementia…

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    population. Due to the increasing popularity of internet, all sorts of contents can be found and spread across the internet with a press of a button. Internet memes also thrive due to the widely use of internet. However, internet memes can be offensive and normalize cyberbullying if they are misused. According to Schubert[2], "internet memes" are activities, concept, catchphrases or pieces of media which spreads across the cyber world. The word "normalize" refers to return something to the usual…

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    Joe Biden Memes Currently, Joe Biden memes are trending all over Twitter. People love the memes, because it makes them laugh and are very relatable. One user, @TaylorViegut, tweeted, “I could look at Joe Biden/Obama memes for the rest of my life and be genuinely happy forever.” The memes have been on Twitter for a while, but exploded after the election. The Biden memes are the American people’s way of remembering Obama’s and Biden’s time in office and coping with the change in leadership.…

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    at Least Ten Students for Obscene Memes, article is that the Harvard students that participated in the class of 2021 group chat titled “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens” were way out of line. More specifically in the sense that their comments and memes were vulgar as well as offensive and represented, not just themselves, but Harvard as a whole in a negative way. For instance in paragraph 1 she states that the groupchat contained “sexually explicit memes and messages that...targeted…

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    Internet meme’s have been around for many years. They have been around since the 1990’s and have evolved with the internet. Most of the time memes are harmless fun, a quick laugh. But sometimes a meme starts to spread, and it can end up doing more harm than humor. A common meme that has been circling around is the Triggered meme. Originally it was a picture of someone’s face making an extreme expression, normally of surprise, with an orange bar on the bottom with the word “TRIGGERED” in all…

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    Identity and masculinity are broad terms that can capture someone 's entire being or only focus on one facet of the person. Society has a list of norms for what it means to be a man and a woman, gay or straight, black or white. However, humans are complex creatures, each unique with their own thoughts and behaviors. Can masculinity really be simplified into a standardized list of this or that? I concluded that personal experiences contrary to previously established social norms, have caused…

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    Sex has been used to sell products in American culture for decades. The alluring promiscuity of sexuality often involves exploiting women for their appearance. The first section of this analysis examines sexuality in the media. The notion that sex sells is typified in the Ralph Lauren perfume advertisement. A beautiful and blond woman is seen being kissed by a handsome young, male. The romantic ad catches the readers’ eyes, yet something is missing entirely from the advertisement: a…

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    Do you enjoy the freedom of doing what you want, not being judged? The article, “Could you Become a Mean Meme” by Kristin Lewis Discusses how anything you post can be seen by almost everyone, even if you have privacy settings set to only your friends seeing it. Two more articles, “How Private is Your Private Life” by Andrea Rock, and “The Privacy Debate” by Arthur M. Ahalt state that no matter what you are doing, whether it's going out to eat or your online looking for a recipe, you are always…

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    the use of social media by candidates, social media users have become increasingly involved in shaping campaign coverage through the proliferation of internet memes. The term “meme” was coined by an author named Richard Dawkins in 1976, who defined it as a “unit of cultural transmission that persists by leaping from brain to brain” (Hess). Memes have been used in the 2016 presidential election to add humorous entertainment and spread messages about the candidates, while enabling social media…

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