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The Impact Of Social Media On Society, Jacob Amedie Santa Clara University

The Impact Of Social Media On Society, Jacob Amedie

Pop Culture Intersections

It is the objective of this article to present evidence from several researches that were done by many scholars in different environment that distinctly demonstrates the negative impact of social media in three main categories. First, social media fosters a false sense of online "connections" and superficial friendships leading to emotional and psychological problems. The Second harm of social media is that it can become easily addictive taking away family and personal time as well as diminish interpersonal skills, leading to antisocial behavior. Lastly, social media has become a tool for criminals, predators and terrorists enabling them to commit illegal …

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Lack Of Resources In Classrooms, Juliana Maffea Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Lack Of Resources In Classrooms, Juliana Maffea

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

In different areas of the world, classrooms lack resources. Teachers are trying their hardest to teach their students with what is given to them, but it is not enough. The result of having a lack of resources is students not graduating, teachers burning out, parents scared for their students, and students not getting the proper education. An insufficient amount of resources in classrooms comes from the lack of funding or the improper use of spending in schools. There are solutions to this wicked problem, such as raising more money, making cuts, or changing the way schools spend their money. This …

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On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner University of Massachusetts Boston

On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner

New England Journal of Public Policy

Lars Eighner became homeless in 1988 after leaving a job he had held for ten years as an attendant at a state hospital in Austin, Texas. He lives in a small apartment in Austin and continues to scavenge. This article was originally published in the Fall 1990 issue of The Threepenny Review. Reprinted with permission.

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Flying Man And Falling Man: Remembering And Forgetting 9/11, Graley Herren Xavier University - Cincinnati

Flying Man And Falling Man: Remembering And Forgetting 9/11, Graley Herren

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Online Dating Technology Effects On Interpersonal Relationships, Anabel Homnack Santa Clara University

Online Dating Technology Effects On Interpersonal Relationships, Anabel Homnack

Pop Culture Intersections

The trend of online dating has been around since the emergence of the Internet. In the generation before the online era, people would meet face-to-face in cafes, on streets or at bars or even on airplanes. People make initial contact based on a number of cues and preferences, getting to know one another in person. Today these coincidental or so to say "meant to be" moments seem to be non-existent. Why have they become such a rarity? Is it because we know that there is an easy way out? What will it take for people to be as straightforward and …

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Behind Social Media: A World Of Manipulation And Control, Spencer J. Keenan Santa Clara University

Behind Social Media: A World Of Manipulation And Control, Spencer J. Keenan

Pop Culture Intersections

This article will be arguing that big players, mainly governments and large corporations, use user data, targeted advertising, and selective speech to manipulate users of popular social media platforms. They do this in order to achieve their agendas goals at the expense of the users. These goals may range from selling a certain good or service to swaying a certain percentage of voters to cast their ballots one way or another. Regardless of the outcome, people are being taken advantage of, with most not even knowing it. Users must look past the media in front of them to see their …

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The Struggle Of Mental Health Within College Students, Skyler R. West Kutztown University

The Struggle Of Mental Health Within College Students, Skyler R. West

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

One in five college students have thoughts of committing suicide daily. We often wonder what may lead to thoughts like this. This essay uses a subjective approach to broaden the knowledge of readers regarding mental health problems within college students. In this essay, readers discover the statistical findings of factors like alcohol, nicotine, schoolwork and athletics factoring into a student's psychological destressed mental state. Without having available and anonymous resources accessible to them, students are not able to get the help they need.

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Defending K-Pop Idols Online: The Fanbase’S Underlying Issue Of Ignorance, Grace Gita Tantra Santa Clara University

Defending K-Pop Idols Online: The Fanbase’S Underlying Issue Of Ignorance, Grace Gita Tantra

Pop Culture Intersections

This article covers how parasocial relationships and echo chambers promote ignorance within K-pop fandoms on social media platforms, specifically when it comes to cultural appropriation, racial stereotyping, and anti-Blackness. Despite the recent surge in education and accountability in other areas of pop culture, K-pop has created a unique space online when it comes to these dialogues. We will be exploring this through looking at the Korean wave, implications of parasocial relationships, and the divide in the common conversation online; these concepts will be applied to specific recent examples of K-pop controversies and the fans' responses.

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The Fast Fashion Fad, Megan Wu Santa Clara University

The Fast Fashion Fad, Megan Wu

Pop Culture Intersections

New companies with mission statements to use solely recycled materials have started to pop-up all over the world. Even well established brands such as Nike or Adidas have started to create lines of products made with recycled materials. However, despite these efforts, I sadly believe that fast fashion will continue to dominate the fashion industry in the years to come due to two factors. Most consumers remain uneducated about the negative impacts that fast fashion has on the environment and mindlessly partake in society’s consumerist culture. Therefore, they fall subject to marketing schemes fast fashion companies employ. While some may …

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The Societal Influence Of The Nba, Kyle Kawashiri Santa Clara University

The Societal Influence Of The Nba, Kyle Kawashiri

Pop Culture Intersections

Based on recent events, there has been a lot of discussion about the racial issues in America. Many professional athletes have been vocal about these issues, but NBA players seem to be at the forefront of many of the conversations regarding social injustice in this country. This article will examine different factors that have influenced the popularity of the National Basketball Association, such as product distribution, online engagement, global outreach, and the choice to allow players to use their platforms. The article will then argue how these factors have allowed the NBA and its players to be leaders in the …

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Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer

Masters Theses

This is an artist talk contained within a book. It is 816 pages and 49 minutes long. Closed captions run across the spreads. A video of this talk can be watched on bendenzer.com/making-then-meaning

At RISD, I’ve been prompted to expand the scope and tools of my practice and to reflect on questions of meaning in my work.

I spend my days making things, but I’ve never really had good answers to questions of why I make the things I make, or what their meaning is. I don’t think there are simple answers to these questions.

I think meaning comes from …

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Ugly Feet, Ocd, And Other Intimations Of Resistance, Aymon E. Langlois 2023 Skidmore College

Ugly Feet, Ocd, And Other Intimations Of Resistance, Aymon E. Langlois

English Honors Theses

Ugly Feet, OCD, and Other Intimations of Resistance is a connected collection of personal essays that lie at the intersection of disability and masculinity.

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Minnesota Fishing Regulations, Karissa Wehri 2023 University of North Dakota

Minnesota Fishing Regulations, Karissa Wehri

Floodwall Magazine

Winner of the 2023 Gladys Boen Scholarship

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Histrionicus Histrionicus Histrionicus: Common Wild Ducks And Storytelling Animals, Kira Symington 2023 University of North Dakota

Histrionicus Histrionicus Histrionicus: Common Wild Ducks And Storytelling Animals, Kira Symington

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Slice Of Life, Melanie Schindler 2023 University of North Dakota

Slice Of Life, Melanie Schindler

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

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I Do Not Understand Time., Jaden Rose 2023 University of North Dakota

I Do Not Understand Time., Jaden Rose

Floodwall Magazine

Runner-up for the 2023 Gladys Boen Scholarship

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The Birds, Jaden Rose 2023 University of North Dakota

The Birds, Jaden Rose

Floodwall Magazine

Runner-up for the 2023 Gladys Boen Scholarship

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Stars, Jaden Rose 2023 University of North Dakota

Stars, Jaden Rose

Floodwall Magazine

Runner-up for the 2023 Gladys Boen Scholarship

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Song(S) Of Myself, Aubrey Roemmich 2023 University of North Dakota

Song(S) Of Myself, Aubrey Roemmich

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

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The Saga Of James Wolfe, Ian Ellenson 2023 University of North Dakota

The Saga Of James Wolfe, Ian Ellenson

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Tattoos And Chopsticks: My Mother And I, Claire Arneson 2023 University of North Dakota

Tattoos And Chopsticks: My Mother And I, Claire Arneson

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

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The Ideal Deconstructed, Kira Symington 2023 University of North Dakota

The Ideal Deconstructed, Kira Symington

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Type 1 Issue, Grace Miller 2023 University of North Dakota

Type 1 Issue, Grace Miller

Floodwall Magazine

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Ghosts Are Real, Delaney Otto 2023 University of North Dakota

Ghosts Are Real, Delaney Otto

Floodwall Magazine

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Duane, Danika Ogawa 2023 University of North Dakota

Duane, Danika Ogawa

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Your #1 Favorite Girl, Abby Plowman 2023 University of South Alabama

Your #1 Favorite Girl, Abby Plowman

Theses and Dissertations

Your #1 Favorite Girl is a memoir that attempts to answer the question “What is a late bloomer?” To do so, it tells the story of Violet, a fictionalized characterization of the author, and her friendships with five different people: Valentine, Daisy, Rose, Sunflower, and Sage. The stories in the memoir occur over a period of about ten years, but they are limited slices of that decade rather than a complete encapsulation of it. The first friendship, with Valentine, takes place during childhood and establishes a pattern of relationships characterized by enchantment and codependence. The work is meant to examine …

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Reviving Local Journalism And Storytelling: Reporting On The "Oc Weekly", Lauren E. Montoya 2023 Whittier College

Reviving Local Journalism And Storytelling: Reporting On The "Oc Weekly", Lauren E. Montoya

Whittier Scholars Program

In an effort to reflect the importance of local journalism, the following project is a narrative piece reporting on the closure of the OC Weekly, an alternative news source that ended in 2019, which was hardly reported on. This project aims to change that by further demonstrating the severe impact on communities in which these meaningful sources of news disappear, and why they matter. It calls on people to advocate for and change transform journalism into more than corporate-centered news that too often disregards the critical aspect of storytelling. Storytelling brings communities together and is the life of journalism, …

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House Of Grief, Megan Eralie 2023 Utah State University

House Of Grief, Megan Eralie

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports

This collection of essays examines how I house the grief for the losses of my religion and my grandfather. My first essay, “Body of Feathers,” looks at my body as a house of shame and how I transformed my body into something that could be mine instead. It explores a series of moments from my life where I felt disconnected from my body, usually because of rules or expectations set by someone other than me. In the essay, I move from feeling like I had no control of my body, to taking back control and experiencing my body as mine …

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The Black Testament: A Portrait Of Female Genealogy In The African Diaspora, Raven McShan 2023 University of South Alabama

The Black Testament: A Portrait Of Female Genealogy In The African Diaspora, Raven Mcshan

Theses and Dissertations

The Black Testament: A Portrait of Genealogy in the African Diaspora is a hybrid work of creative nonfiction and poetry. These pieces are based on my genealogical research into my family history. The collection traces from my discoveries in the present time back through my lived experiences, the lives of my relatives, and the lives of my ancestors. The subject of the work focuses on the women in my family and the various influences they have had in my life. The collection grapples with themes such as black womanhood, diasporic existence, and complex heritage. The traveling back of genealogical research …

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Derailed Fortunes: California's Forgotten Railroad, Alexis DePaolis 2023 California State University, Monterey Bay

Derailed Fortunes: California's Forgotten Railroad, Alexis Depaolis

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

At a mahogany bar in Collins Saloon of San Francisco’s Montgomery Street, a successful businessman James G. Fair traced a trail of water droplets for his partner Alfred E. Davis to create the map of a visionary rail line soon to be known as the South Pacific Coast. Using historical records and photographs compiled by a selection of local authors and historians, this non-fiction retelling of Davis’ experience highlights the tribulations and triumphs of the most successful narrow gauge line in California history in order to share a largely forgotten but crucial aspect of local industrial archeology, as well as …

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Juliana Maffea Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

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