Category: Analysis
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NYC Travel Log: Poetic Prose Edition
Visiting NYC for the first time I had many feelings. Walking out of my Pod hotel, every sense was assaulted by smells, noises, and blatant human suffering – but still, there’s just something about New York City.
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When Did Kids Get So Smart?
We adults think we know everything but our perspective isn’t always as perceptive as we think.
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It’s a Mariah Christmas: Why We Love to Meme During the Holidays
Mariah Carey’s tenacious cameos in memes across the internet speak to a widespread cultural gloom lying just beneath Christmas cheer. Step aside conventional conviviality, Mariah has thawed.
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Ohio’s Issue 1: Ballot Language
On November 7th Ohio citizens have the chance to make a decision about abortion rights but are we being misled?
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Ohio Abortion Bill – Explained
I recently got a propaganda flier in the mail that boldly asks “have you seen the language?” and invites us to look at their markup of the full text of Issue 1. And I took the bait! So, let’s do some informal linguistic analysis and check out both the language of the proposed amendment and…
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The World’s on Fire. Fall Out Boy Fails to Say Anything About it.
In the original 1989 hit “We Didn’t Start the Fire” Billy Joel takes on the role of a passive observer. Fall Out Boy’s remake makes it modern but hollow.
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