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    process. Over all she is using the meme to persuade her viewers to see that the pro-choice side of the abortion controversy is allowing women to make the own decisions about their body and that it is the right choice. Abortion has been a controversial issue dating back to the biblical days. It wasn’t until…

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    In Daniel C. Dennett’s Freedom Evolves, he takes a compatibilist view of determinism. Dennett’s work evolves around the individual’s ability to function within a deterministic universe while still maintaining some form of free will. This universe is largely deterministic, and human lives are most likely predetermined by an unbroken chain of parental influence since the dawn of complex life. Humanity, however has the privilege of being able to make their own choices, although the concept of true…

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    This is me, Dylan Cronin, age 11, born May 31st, 2006. First, let me explain my personality, I am usually energetic the people that are reading this probably can tell that. I usually am crazy, I make snarky comebacks and logic ones. If someone said, “I would do my sol rather than my Third quarter”, I would say back to them, “ what you learn in the third quarter is probably going to Be on the sol.” These are the types of comebacks that i consider logic comebacks. Much loath science class, I…

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    structure. It holds no place when it comes to activism because of its lack of strong ties and its ability to form a movement with weak order. Blackmores theories help support Gladwell's idea to an extent, but also goes against it because of her ideas on memes and imitation. The civil rights movement, which first started off with a small group of individuals standing up for something they sensed was wrong. It all started out with four school’s kids and the next morning ended up with twenty-seven…

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    In “Can You Become a Mean Meme” and “Are You Being Watched” by Kristen Lewis inform you about many positive and negative things about the use of social media and ways to fix it. In these articles, there is the positive about social media which is you can keep in touch with people and there is also the negative point about social media which is that anything can happen on social media and most of the time you can’t control it. There are also the ways that you can fix like making something else to…

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    analysis of the article of An anatomy of a YouTube meme by Limor Shifman. This essay is trying to convey in the article message of a wide-spread phenomenon of today YouTube memes. Shifman explain the content and creation of the video, “Defined as units of culture that spread from person to person by means of copying or imitation, memes were identified, discussed (and disputed) long before the digital era (Dawkins, 1976; Hull 1982). Each of the YouTube memes have be get enough likes of a global…

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    creates an identity as someone who is knowledgeable about the world around them. For a Twitter account filled with mostly memes and politics, two topics known for being time-sensitive, this is vital so that one does not miss the latest political scandal or viral video and is essential in solidifying Housewright’s online identity as someone interested in politics and the generation z meme…

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    and downsides of speaking with more than one voice, as it can either provide flexibility for things in life or come off as unauthentic for the speaker. Having many different voices can be a result of imitating languages from other cultures through memes, as people will tend to pick up on all different kinds of accents and languages and put them to their…

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    A meme can also be called a cognitive bias. It is “an idea, behaviour, style or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture”, and is another basis of our moral standards (Blackmore, 2000). Dawkins himself coined the term meme, and did so in The Selfish Gene. He defined it as a big idea that competes for dominance in a tough environment — an idea that, like a catchy tune or a good joke, ‘propagates itself by leaping from brain to brain’. By using our memes to help us with…

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    Trolls post memes found on online forums like 4chan often demonstrate racism and alt-right ideas in the form of jokes. Dale Beran, a comic book writer and educator who follows such forums closely, says the memes and trolling transformed the idea of users making fun of themselves and identifying as losers behind a screen into “a political platform of taking your powerlessness and feeling empowered” by posting alt-right ideas (Collins 39-42). In other words, the Beran says the trolls use memes…

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