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Controversial Coca-Cola Commercial Causes Uproar With the Nation’s Most Ignorant Inhabitants

Normally when people think of Super Bowl, they think of hilarious commercials that go down in history. This year many of the commercials were rather boring, but one in particular stood out to people. Coca-Cola’s advertisement enraged many Americans as …

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Protests in the Ukraine are Being Kept From Mainstream Media

Over the past couple of weeks Ukraine has been experiencing protests that are reminiscent of the Occupy London movement. The protests have been equally as violent and the scenes in Kiev look like something out of the Book of Revelation.  …

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Justin Bieber Drunk Drag Racing in Miami Leads to Arrest

It’s been seen time and time again. For some reason celebrities tend to view themselves as invulnerable and above the law. The prime example of this scenario is Justin Bieber following the recent events that took place in Miami Beach, …

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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is being Expanded to Include Diagon Alley

On June 18, 2010 Islands of Adventures Orlando was changed forever when the doors to the long awaited Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction had been opened. This new island featured many new attractions such as Harry Potter and the …

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No Such Thing as a Tech-Savvy Generation

Siva Vaidhyanathan brings up some great points in “Generational Myth: Not All Young People Are Tech-Savvy.” And it’s true, not everyone in my peer group is tech-savvy. In fact, I know more people who hate technology than those who seem …

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Finding a Balance between Recognition and Solitude

William Deresiewicz brings up a few great points in “The End of Solitude”, but the one that strikes me the most is the idea of what the contemporary self wants. During the period of Romanticism, the soul or the self …

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The Effect of Technology on Writing Style

In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet is doing to our brains”, Nicholas Carr mentions how Friedrich Nietzsche began to use a typewriter to write when his vision began to fail. Though the machine allowed him …

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The Consequences of Adapting to New Media

As Nicholas Carr discusses in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet is doing to our brains”, our brains are highly adaptable. Their plasticity is what allows us to adapt from old media to new media, like …

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Mythic Technology: Can We Live Without It?

Neil Postman brings up many excellent points in “Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change”, and of those many points, the one that strikes me as the most interesting – because I never considered it myself – yet …

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Today’s Technology: Distracting or Useful?

New technologies are being introduced every day. Students multi-task more than ever before, watching movies on Netflix while working on essays, Facebooking while studying for tests, etc. As recently as six or seven years ago, cell phones were mainly used …

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