Monthly Archives: March 2013

Am I not beautiful enough?- is society to blame?

The problem that exists with the “beauty idea” is that it holds women back from their full potential as human beings. It becomes an obsession and can have damaging effects on our health and personal lives. We are continually bombarded …

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It’s March Madness season.

I will preface this article by saying that I know next to nothing about college basketball.

But, am I excited? Hell yes.

That’s the magic! The NCAA tournament is such that you can know absolutely zero …

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Fact or Fiction: Create Your Own Web Sources

We all have the power to make a journalistic change by actively using our freedom of speech and press. Our opinion my be biased and lacking factual content, but we are still able to voice our opinions our writing and …

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Lights. Camera. Push to Start.

Technology is making our daily lives easier and smoother yet at the same time more difficult and stressful. Remember a time when you clocked out and work DID NOT come home with you? How about a time when you got …

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What your body language says about you

Your body language may say more than you may think it does. Your unconscious body language is what can give away your emotions in any given situation. I believe that our eyes are the windows to our souls and our …

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Internet Depletes Brain Power

In Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Nicholas Carr describes his personal experiences with the trouble he has when it comes to reading a book nowadays and truly staying focused.

Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to

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The Media’s Code of Ethics Is Non Existent

Today I was at work and while I was working one of my coworkers asked me to come over to her desk. There we were standing around her computer looking at the Wesh Channel 2 news page. the clicks on …

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Pirating Reaches New Heights

Pirating. Commonly know as bootlegging is stealing/ripping/illegally recording a movie and posting it on a website or burning to a DVD for profit. In music, putting on a CD and selling it to the masses for a cheaper price than …

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Are Our Minds Being Led By Robots?

Many might argue that the way we process information and think about information is being influenced by the technology-based world we now live in. Maryanne Wolf is one of those people. She stated, “We are not only what we read, …

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Google’s Dumbing-Down of Society

Since Google became society’s crutch, people have begun to rely on its knowledge rather than knowledge they should have already attained.  I can remember a time where the only way to obtain information was to crack open a book or …

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