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It was surprising to me that GIFs were created over 30 years ago according to Kate M Miltner and Tim Highfield in their article, “Never Gonna GIF You Up: Analyzing the Cultural Significance of the Animated GIF.” GIFs seem like they would be something that would be newer in the internet world. I have been …

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For me personally, I have had a few times in my life where I learn something that completely changes my way of thinking about something, and I’m left wondering what in the world I just read. This was one of those moments, where something I took as being one thing was told to me that …

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Most of us have heard the saying throughout our life that we can’t expect to judge or understanding someone accurately until we’ve walked a mile in their shoes. I feel like Carol Ann Duffy in her collection of poetry, titled “The World’s Wife,” is including this as one of the main messages of her book. …

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In most of Carol Ann Duffy’s poems, I went into it with the mindset that I would probably not have all my questions answered from reading the poems through for the first time. I was right. I could tell that most of the emotions she was trying to describe in words were some that I …

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While reading this article from Francis Moretti that analyzes the publication and distributions of literature across the world from the 1700’s to the mid 1900’s, something that my history professor once said in class came to mind. He told us that testing in the certain way he is asking for isn’t anything different than from …

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**Spoiler alert, if you couldn’t already tell from the title** In almost any movie, musical, drama, book, or even commercial on television, we see a main character (or more) that the audience grows to like because they’re either relatable or they’re the underdog that everyone decides to start cheering for because they feel bad they …

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I think all of us have moments when we reflect on ourselves as individuals and what we believe. When I see this portrayed in movies, it’s usually at the turning point when the main character is about to walk into a do or die situation after having a brief internal-struggle and either comes out on …