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Guns. Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them

So we are now 25 days into 2014, and all I see in the news is guns! There have been 14 days of school so far and 8 school shootings! That is more than one every other day! Not to …

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Bortles Makes the Top 5 in Latest Mock Draft

Nearly 100 underclassmen have declared for the 2014 NFL draft, which is shaping up to be a very deep crop of talent. One of those 100 underclassmen includes UCF’s star QB Blake Bortles. Bortles has made a name for himself …

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The Growing Problem of Social Narcissism

How many likes did your last Facebook status receive? How many re-tweets on your last tweet, or upvotes on your last post? If you’re like me and have been keeping track of all of those numbers, waiting and watching them …

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Are Affairs More Common These Days or is it Just Easier to Get Caught?

Just this past Sunday, word got out about Central Intelligence Agency Director, David Petraeus, and his recent resignation due to an extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. Information about the scandal is arising left and right from emails, text …

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We Can Now Predict the President

The 2012 elections are finally over. Barack Obama is our returning president and we can all breathe a sigh of relief that our Facebook friends will no longer trash our newsfeeds with political propaganda. The winner was officially announced around …

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How to Stop Switching to Social Media During an Important Assignment

It typically takes me about 3 hours to write a decent one page essay. Two and a half of those hours are spent clicking between Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter and 30 minutes are spent actually writing. This doesn’t just happen …

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Ad Block is Not Just Blocking Ads, it’s Blocking Revenue Too

Nowadays, you cant go anywhere without someone trying to sell you something and the Internet is no different. Go to pretty much any website on the Internet and you will see an advertisement somewhere on the page. These range from …

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Not Just a Typo: 24 Hour News Cycle Causes Editors to Make Mistakes

It is pretty apparent that editing in the world of the news media has become a bit of an afterthought. With the high demands of a 24-hour news cycle, factual errors and typos seem to frequently slip through the cracks. …

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What War Really Looks Like

When Osama Bin Laden, the former head of al-Qaeda was killed on May 2, 2011, millions of Americans came together in great cheer. They went out into the streets shouting: “USA, USA!”, they shot off fireworks months before the fourth …

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Are We Really as Dumb as They Say We Are?

There is no question that our news media, and the way that we get our information today, has changed significantly. People no longer have to wait for the daily paper or nightly broadcast news for knowledge of events going around …

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