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Youtubers Influence Of Young People, Matisse Melendres
Youtubers Influence Of Young People, Matisse Melendres
Pop Culture Intersections
Youtube Influencers are the new form a fame in our society, and young people of the ages 13-17 spend a huge portion of their free time watching Youtube videos. Youtube Influencers, also known as Youtubers, have a huge amount of influence of young people. In this article, it will discuss that reaction based videos not only attract young people, but also behavior and actions in that video can be easily transferred to the young viewer. In addition, the excessive amount of time young people spend on Youtube can determine the amount of influence Youtubers have amongst the youth.
Holding The Line: A Dynamic Salary Cap For European Association Football, Kavi Sachania
Holding The Line: A Dynamic Salary Cap For European Association Football, Kavi Sachania
Pop Culture Intersections
European association football’s domination by a select few teams with the plentiful resources to buy talent exposes how a sports league can develop runaway disparity without the presence of any wage spending controls. With the introduction of the UEFA Financial Fair Play rules to keep teams from furthering their debt, much discussion has ensued on whether these financial laws need to be expanded to address competitive imbalance. While salary cap systems have been proposed before, none have been able to balance the interests of owners, fans, players, and regulators within the European Union. I plan to add to the discussion …
The Relationship Between Entrepreneurship, Business And Mental Health, Madison Bregman
The Relationship Between Entrepreneurship, Business And Mental Health, Madison Bregman
Pop Culture Intersections
This article will cover the relationship between entrepreneurship, business and mental health. As entrepreneurship has become increasingly popular in culture, many people aspire to be entrepreneurs. However, the "darker side" of it - the mental health challenges that often come with it - is less talked about and can have a significant impact on the "success" of an entrepreneur.
The Effects Of Scrolling: Social Media Takeover, Bianca Mancini
The Effects Of Scrolling: Social Media Takeover, Bianca Mancini
Pop Culture Intersections
The present research and argument examines how social media (influencers) negatively affect individuals by causing envy and low self esteem. Results suggest that many factors play a role, including time spent on social media and the individual’s level of self-esteem. To support my background research I will pull from my personal experience and a study I conducted. From these results, I have determined that we as a society have to take envy, low self-esteem, age, gender, and location into consideration when we are examining the link between mental health and social media. In the study, I will show that females …
Assistance From Alexa: The Social And Material Benefits Of The Internet Of Things, Sara Bunyard
Assistance From Alexa: The Social And Material Benefits Of The Internet Of Things, Sara Bunyard
Pop Culture Intersections
This article will apply the uses and gratifications theory to examine why people adopt products from the Internet of Things. Previous studies have applied the uses and gratifications theory to analyze why consumers have adopted forms of new media and technology, including social media and the Internet of Things. There are also many articles on the potential flaws of the Internet of Things, especially privacy concerns. This article will expand on this research by combining the benefits and concerns about the Internet of Things to asses user satisfaction. It argues that the Internet of Things satisfies user needs successfully despite …
Video Games And Social Relation, Feiyang Yu
Video Games And Social Relation, Feiyang Yu
Pop Culture Intersections
This article will be discussing how multi-player games encourage social interactions. It will over multiple games as examples to illustrate the argument. The article has two focus: game mechanics and player psychology.
Influences Of Religion In Rap Music, Joey Rubino
Influences Of Religion In Rap Music, Joey Rubino
Pop Culture Intersections
This article covers the intersection of religion and rap music. It covers many popular rappers of the current era and how their success has been bolstered by religious influence in their music.
The Impact Of The 90’S-2000’S Boy Bands, Tamia Braggs
The Impact Of The 90’S-2000’S Boy Bands, Tamia Braggs
Pop Culture Intersections
This article will be covering the impact that top tier boy bands, The Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC made in the 90's with Masculinity as well as Marketing aspects.
The Porn Crisis: This Generations Sexual Outlet, Daniela Williams
The Porn Crisis: This Generations Sexual Outlet, Daniela Williams
Pop Culture Intersections
With the development of technology, we opened a world, not only to new ideas and innovations but also to the world of pornography. Pornography has invaded our culture, in music, television shows, movies even social media. Advocates for the production and consumption of pornography claim pornography to be a form of self-expression that is healthy and essential to discovering their sexual experiences. However, this paper argues that the lack of regulation is contributing to the damaging effects pornography has on the consumers’ psyche and behavior, it is also factoring into our society’s decline of public health. This claim is supported …
Effects Of American Pop Culture On The Political Stability Of The Arab Spring!, Mina Alsadoon
Effects Of American Pop Culture On The Political Stability Of The Arab Spring!, Mina Alsadoon
Pop Culture Intersections
The Arab Spring was an act of rebellion by the youth to ask for freedom of speech, a relief from the dictatorship era, and to demand basic civil rights. It all started in Tunisia when a policewoman slapped a young boy in public when he was trying to sell merch on the sidewalk to support his family, the boy resulted to burning himself in public as its a shameful thing that a woman hit a man. That in a way started a revolution to enlighten people's minds, and be conscience to reality. In 2009, the Middle East started to get …
Review Of Fly Already, Michael F. Russo
The Misconception Of College Life: How Popular Media Is Making It Worse, Jenna Bucher
The Misconception Of College Life: How Popular Media Is Making It Worse, Jenna Bucher
Pop Culture Intersections
This article explores the misconceptions of the life of a college student and the daily struggles that get overlooked. Colleges provide support for the most prevalent cases of mental illness but disregard those who do not display these obvious signs. This focus on only those with extreme needs leaves the majority of students feeling lost and not knowing where to go for help; their feelings are not warranted and unless they are suicidal, it is not of a concern. I will argue that on top of the stresses of acclimating to college, daily work and social pressures, social media has …
Short Stories Of Latin America From Antilles To Southern Cone, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Short Stories Of Latin America From Antilles To Southern Cone, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Open Educational Resources
The study of the short story genre in Latin American literature. Literary currents in 20th century, from the Vanguards to The Boom, fiction of post dictatorships, exile, and entry into the 21st century.
'When You're A Star, They Let You Do It' To Trump: Or, President Vagina T. Fireball's Executive Order, Marleen S. Barr
'When You're A Star, They Let You Do It' To Trump: Or, President Vagina T. Fireball's Executive Order, Marleen S. Barr
Publications and Research
This is a humorous short story about how a star holds Trump accountable for his misogyny.
Youth Matters: Shedding Light On Displacement In Syrian Girls' Memoirs, Alberta Natasia Adji
Youth Matters: Shedding Light On Displacement In Syrian Girls' Memoirs, Alberta Natasia Adji
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
In the face of war and political crisis, fleeing a country seems to be the best choice to get on with life. Among many refugee memoirs, so far young adult refugee texts have received little attention. This article analyses two young Syrian girls’ memoirs by Nujeen Mustafa and Yusra Mardini to investigate their experience of displacement. I argue that both Nujeen and Butterfly are prime specimens of young displacement memoir phenomena which act as a venue for identity negotiation. This point has much to do with their navigating the tensions between personal and collective selves to disclose their trauma and …
Poems From 'I Look At My Body And See The Source Of My Shame: Ecstasy Facsimile ('My Favorite Saint Tells Me I Complain Too Often About My Soul's Shortcomings' And 'We Own None Of It'), Mark Anthony Cayanan
Poems From 'I Look At My Body And See The Source Of My Shame: Ecstasy Facsimile ('My Favorite Saint Tells Me I Complain Too Often About My Soul's Shortcomings' And 'We Own None Of It'), Mark Anthony Cayanan
English Faculty Publications
The poems are part of a manuscript I'm currently working on, which is my attempt to project a mode of disclosure, even as the method of composition--which involves the liberal extraction and combination of passages from several intertexts--works against this seeming tonality. The poems contain passages from The Life of Saint Teresa of vila (1957) by herself, translated by J. M. Cohen.
Trump Ships Out--Without Seeing The Ship, Marleen S. Barr
Trump Ships Out--Without Seeing The Ship, Marleen S. Barr
Publications and Research
This is a short story written in response to efforts to hide the U.S.S. John McCain from Trump when he visited Japan.
Review Of I Heart Oklahoma, Michael F. Russo
Review Of I Heart Oklahoma, Michael F. Russo
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Bryan Thao Worra, Pauline De Leon
Bryan Thao Worra, Pauline De Leon
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Artist Bio: An award-winning Laotian American writer, I work actively to support Laotian, Hmong and Southeast Asian American artists. I am recognized by the Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the National Endowment for the Arts. I also served as a consulting contractor with the Minnesota History Center, the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans and the Minnesota Humanities Commission. I am an active professional member of the Horror Writer Association and president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
Kentuckiana, And A Dash Of Cambodia: A Collection Of Short Stories, Brodie Lee Gress
Kentuckiana, And A Dash Of Cambodia: A Collection Of Short Stories, Brodie Lee Gress
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The following is a collection of five short stories set in regions familiar to me: “Dewberry Park,” “YouLead,” and “The Color Violet” in Indiana; “Mens Rea” in Kentucky; and “Tory Ride” in Cambodia. Gay identity plays a role in many of these stories, and other themes explored include family, region, socioeconomics, gender, mentality, and change. These stories are concerned with people on the brink, failing and surviving all the same. Some of them are intended to weigh, and some to satirize. I hope they all nick their readers.
Fistful Of Shovel, Marcee Wardell
Fistful Of Shovel, Marcee Wardell
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
My thesis project is a draft of a novel. It is literary/realistic fiction telling the story of a single father of a young daughter who struggles with navigating complicated relationships and building a meaningful life for himself and his daughter in their small town. In this draft, the protagonist, Clint, deals with developing new romantic relationships while managing his relationships with his daughter’s mother, her family, and his, as well as recognizing his portion of the blame in the dissolution of his romantic relationship with his daughter’s mother and the biases and expectations that prevent his healing and development.
Hypha, Emily Ruth-Diehl Brooks
Hypha, Emily Ruth-Diehl Brooks
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
For hundreds of years, Ona and her people have been unknowingly enslaved. Ona has given everything she is to the spiritual people on the mountain, including her own son. So when rumors spread through the swamp’s magical mycelium that she and her people are slaves, Ona must find the truth and, if possible, reunite with her son before he becomes as evil as those who raised him. Meanwhile, her son has his own doubts after his people leave his friend to die. As he and Ona journey separately to save the people they love, they find everything they believed to …
The Sad Kitchen And Song Of Neon: Two Novellas, John Paul King
The Sad Kitchen And Song Of Neon: Two Novellas, John Paul King
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The Sad Kitchen, a work of magical realism, tells the story of a saintly woman named Helen. She opens an underground kitchen where people who feel guilty can come to be comforted and nurtured in the middle of the night. The story is, at its heart, a reflection on forgiveness. Song of Neon, also of the magical realist genre, is an existential work about a nurse named Avery and her husband, an owl house maker, named Saul. Their town, Milliard, is under a trance. Avery and Saul struggle with their respective identities in the quiet, vacuum the town has become.
The Mysterious Incident Of The Missing Title: Why Did Titular Concern Vanish From Composition Studies?, John Lamothe
The Mysterious Incident Of The Missing Title: Why Did Titular Concern Vanish From Composition Studies?, John Lamothe
Publications
How much time, if any, do first-year writing instructors spend in class discussing the importance of titles on their students’ papers? Without looking at a mountain of lesson plans or interviewing a plethora of instructors from across the country, it is impossible to know what is and what isn’t commonly taught in first-year composition courses. Admittedly, introductory writing and research classes can vary greatly from institution to institution and even from instructor to instructor within the same department. However, judging by an examination of current First-Year Composition textbooks, Rhet/Comp scholars place little importance on discussing the effect of titles on …
Nicole Sumida And Alex Yu Interview, Laraib Malik
Nicole Sumida And Alex Yu Interview, Laraib Malik
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Bio: Nicole Sumida is a co-founder and co-publisher of Riksha Magazine, an online magazine featuring creative work by and about Asian Americans. Alex Yu is a co-publisher of Riksha and both have been involved in community arts organizing since the 1990s in Chicago.
“Riksha provides a space for capturing the Asian American experience through compelling writing, commentary, and artistic expression. We curate an online magazine that presents poetry, fiction, non-fiction, fine arts, and video and audio pieces. We also comment on and curate the bric-a-brac and ephemera of Asian American life.”
Ada Cheng Interview, Zishuo Wang
Ada Cheng Interview, Zishuo Wang
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Bio: Ada Cheng is the host of the storytelling show Pour One Out, a monthly storytelling series at Volumes Bookcafe. She is also the producer and host of the show Am I Man Enough? a storytelling/podcasting show, where people tell personal stories to critically examine the culture of toxic masculinity and the construction of masculinity and manhood. In addition, she is the co-producer and co-host of Talk Stories, an Asian American/Asian diaspora storytelling show, along with Randy Kim, a show where they showcase Asian/Asian American storytellers and performing artists.
Bao Phi Interview, Elyse Warnecke
Bao Phi Interview, Elyse Warnecke
Asian American Art Oral History Project
BIO: Bao Phi is a Vietnamese American spoken and written word artist. Coming from a family of refugees from Vietnam, his escapism and life values he has found in literature have allowed for many great accomplishments, such as poetry championships, several books of poetry collections, and most recently, children’s books. He uses his life stories and lessons, as well as current events to guide his audience, as well as his daughter and younger generations, through a rather difficult world. His most recent project has been publishing a children’s book illustrated by Thi Bui.
Mary Grace Bertulfo Interview, Serena Offord
Mary Grace Bertulfo Interview, Serena Offord
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Bio: Mary Grace Bertulfo lives and writes at the intersection of nature, culture, and spirituality. She has written professionally for television and children’s education in such venues as CBS, Pearson Education Asia, and Schlessinger and for conservation magazines such as Sierra and Chicago Wilderness. Her award-winning fiction has appeared in Growing Up Filipino II, Our Own Voice, and The Oak Parker and her essays have appeared in various anthologies. She is a co-owner of Calypso Moon Studio, a working arts studio, in the Oak Park Arts District. Mary Grace is a member of the international N.V.M. and Narita …
Poem From I Look At My Body And See The Source Of My Shame: Ecstasy Facsimile ("Rescue Me After The Gangrenous Limb's Been Cut Off"), Mark Anthony Cayanan
Poem From I Look At My Body And See The Source Of My Shame: Ecstasy Facsimile ("Rescue Me After The Gangrenous Limb's Been Cut Off"), Mark Anthony Cayanan
English Faculty Publications
The poem is part of a manuscript I'm currently working on, which is my attempt to project a mode of disclosure, even as the method of composition--which involves the liberal extraction and combination of passages from several intertexts--works against this seeming tonality. The poem contains passages from The Life of Saint Teresa of vila (1957) by herself, translated by J. M. Cohen.
Wrack Lines Volume 19, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2019, Nancy Balcom, Syma Ebbin, David Gregorio, Richard Telford, Judy Benson
Wrack Lines Volume 19, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2019, Nancy Balcom, Syma Ebbin, David Gregorio, Richard Telford, Judy Benson
Wrack Lines
Issue theme is: "Making Connections: As the Climate Changes, People and Nature Intertwine in New Ways." Articles include: "As More Roads Become Rivers, Communities Search for Solutions;" "Solving an Engineering Conundrum: As Coastal Homes Get Elevated, New Research Looks at Whether Vulnerability to Wind Damage Is Increasing;" "Along the Coast, Residents Consider How to Heed Sandy's Warning of What's to Come;" "All Rivers, All Lives Run to the Sea," about the intersection of waterways and the world of nature writer Edwin Way Teale; and "Crosscurrents: Connecticut Sea Grant's Retrospective Exhibition Makes Waves," about reaching new audiences and building bridges with …