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I wouldn’t say that the topic of marriage is always on my mind, but we are at Brigham Young University. So “Long Walk to Forever,” a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, is a prominent short story among the wide range of dystopian …
My sister and I were recently discussing baby blessings and how “special” or “not special” they can be. She recently had her first baby and her new daughter was blessed last week. My new niece was showered with affection and love […]
Earlier in the semester, we discussed how, in the vast collections of books written throughout history, the likelihood of a book being read by multiple people, let alone millions, is highly unfavorable. Therefore, for a book to be read by millions of people, it must be very great. What then qualifies as great?
I will admit, AI art makes me uncomfortable. I think the root of it, aside […]
Type A My Post In his video “Everything is a Remix”, Kirby Ferguson raises the point that all forms of creativity are derived from the creativity of someone else. In a sense, nothing is truly unique…
Type: Write own blog post and have ChatGPT write a similar post My Post: The mention of the “infernal machines” immediately grabbed my attention. From a general perspective, I think we can all say that technology is an effective tool used for a variety of different things to make our […]
What I have to say: In high school, I witnessed a trend that changed the trajectory of music culture forever: the rise of the SoundCloud rapper. As demonstrated in the SNL sketch “Rap Roundtable”, SoundCloud rappers got a rap for producing cheap, low-quality music that often didn’t reach a larger…
While reading the chapter “The Pleasure Machine” from Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan, I reflected on my experience with social media. I remember as a teenager in middle school when Instagram became THE THING. Everyone was on it, and if you weren’t, you were […]
The high and ever-increasing popularity of social media has been the instigator of both praises and criticism. One common praise of social media platforms like Facebook, is that they allow people to connect […]
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Capcom’s Resident Evil franchise is no stranger to the damsel in distress trope: Resident Evil 4 depicts protagonist Leon Kennedy rescuing Ashley Graham from a zombie village in Spain, and back-to-back games Biohazard a…
