The Underlying Consequences Of Social Media,
2016
Santa Clara University
The Underlying Consequences Of Social Media, Hannah Baz
Pop Culture Intersections
Since childhood, we, as human beings, are taught to look to others for signals and indications about how to live our lives. It is an innate human desire to evaluate, assess, and improve our skills based on what everyone else leads us to perceive is right or ideal. Such comparison is a necessary facet to social order- we compare political leaders, stocks, investments, property, ect. in order to determine what choice will lead to the best outcome. However, leaping into the abyss of comparison is not always one worth taking. With the recent exponential growth of technology, social comparison is …
Editor's Notebook,
2016
Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Editor's Notebook, Amanda M. Di Battista, Paul Huebener
The Goose
Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 15, Issue 1 (2016).
Searching Cézanne’S Provence,
2016
Wilfrid Laurier University
Searching Cézanne’S Provence, Robert M. Girvan
The Goose
This personal essay describes the author's visit to Provence to see the sites where Cézanne painted a number of well-known landscape paintings. He compares the paintings with the landscape as it existed when the paintings were painted, and as exist today, to trace the connections between landscape, and art, and in particular, Cézanne's artistic techniques. Finally, the author suggests that Cézanne's close observation of the natural world, and commitment to studying the old masters still has something important to teach us today in our digital age.
A Seemingly Fatal Attraction Between Sad Souls,
2016
Santa Clara University
A Seemingly Fatal Attraction Between Sad Souls, Taylor Kay Gustafson
Pop Culture Intersections
“Even the darkness has arms,” sings the band Barr Brothers.[1] Depression is a mental disorder defined as persistent feelings of sadness that result in decreased energy and lack of interest in activities. Depression affects about 6.7% of people in the U.S.[2] One of the most difficult aspects of depression is figuring out how to cope with it. Therapy is one step, but what can a depressed person do when they are alone to feel better? Depression necessitates a healthy outlet that allows the individual to purge intrusive feelings. Listening to sad music can help ease the intensity of …
Twitter And Identity: Living Up To The Social Comparison,
2016
Santa Clara University
Twitter And Identity: Living Up To The Social Comparison, Mark Ramelb
Pop Culture Intersections
Throughout this millennial age, technology continues to develop. Every day new technology such as computers and laptops have new applications that affect our society. Humans live in the era known as the digital revolution. The digital revolution is where people are constantly using the internet, more specifically, social media applications on their computer or mobile devices. Nick Lalone, author of "Fluctuations, Technologies And Media: Social Change And Sociology Change” states “that the technological makeup sits at the foundation of computer-mediated communication has had tremendous impact on society itself the technological makeup” (Lalone 559). In other words, humans interacting …
Echo Soundings: Essays On Poetry And Poetics By Jeffery Donaldson,
2016
SUNY Nassau Community College
Echo Soundings: Essays On Poetry And Poetics By Jeffery Donaldson, Tonia L. Payne
The Goose
Review of Jeffery Donaldson's Echo Soundings: Essays on Poetry and Poetics.
A World For My Daughter: An Ecologist's Search For Optimism By Alejandro Frid,
2016
Dawson College
A World For My Daughter: An Ecologist's Search For Optimism By Alejandro Frid, Gina M. Granter
The Goose
Review of Alejandro Frid's A World for My Daughter: An Ecologist’s Search for Optimism.
Float By Joeann Hart,
2016
SUNY Nassau Community College
The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography Of Poetry, Person, Place By Tom Bristow,
2016
OCAD
The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography Of Poetry, Person, Place By Tom Bristow, Mark Dickinson
The Goose
Review of Tom Bristow's The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place.
Yes, And Back Again By Sandy Marie Bonny,
2016
University of Victoria
Yes, And Back Again By Sandy Marie Bonny, Catriona Duncan
The Goose
Review of Sandy Marie Bonny's Yes, and Back Again.
Global Ecologies And The Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches Edited By Elizabeth Deloughrey, Jill Didur, And Anthony Carrigan,
2016
University at Albany, State University of New York
Global Ecologies And The Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches Edited By Elizabeth Deloughrey, Jill Didur, And Anthony Carrigan, Joshua Bartlett
The Goose
Review of Elizabeth Deloughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan's Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches.
Animals In Irish Literature And Culture Edited By Kathryn Kirkpatrick And Borbála Faragó,
2016
Université du Québec à Montréal
Animals In Irish Literature And Culture Edited By Kathryn Kirkpatrick And Borbála Faragó, Geneviève Pigeon
The Goose
Review of Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Borbála Faragó's Animals in Irish Literature and Culture.
Ecology Or Catastrophe: The Life Of Murray Bookchin By Janet Biehl,
2016
University of British Columbia
Ecology Or Catastrophe: The Life Of Murray Bookchin By Janet Biehl, Benjamin C. O'Heran
The Goose
Review of Janet Biehl's Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin.
Listening For The Heartbeat Of Being: The Arts Of Robert Bringhurst Edited By Brent Wood And Mark Dickinson,
2016
University of Victoria
Listening For The Heartbeat Of Being: The Arts Of Robert Bringhurst Edited By Brent Wood And Mark Dickinson, Kirsten Alm
The Goose
Review of Brent Wood and Mark Dickinson's Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst.
Winds Of Change: Short Stories About Our Climate Edited By Mary Woodbury,
2016
Carleton University
Winds Of Change: Short Stories About Our Climate Edited By Mary Woodbury, Veronika Kratz
The Goose
Review of Mary Woodbury's edited collection, Winds of Change: Short Stories about Our Climate.
Educating The Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, And Future Edited By Alan Bewell, Neil Ten Kortenaar, And Germaine Warkentin,
2016
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario
Educating The Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, And Future Edited By Alan Bewell, Neil Ten Kortenaar, And Germaine Warkentin, David Carruthers
The Goose
Review of Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar, and Germaine Warkentin's Educating the Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, and Future.
My Last Continent By Midge Raymond,
2016
Indiana University - Bloomington
My Last Continent By Midge Raymond, Jessica George
The Goose
A review of Midge Raymond's My Last Continent.
A New Index For Predicting Catastrophes By Madhur Anand,
2016
Sheffield Hallam University
A New Index For Predicting Catastrophes By Madhur Anand, Andrew Gordon Jeffrey
The Goose
A Review of Madhur Anand's A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes.
Found In Alberta: Environmental Themes For The Anthropocene Edited By Robert Boschman And Mario Trono,
2016
University of Alberta
Found In Alberta: Environmental Themes For The Anthropocene Edited By Robert Boschman And Mario Trono, L. Camille Van Der Marel
The Goose
Review of Robert Boschman and Mario Trono’s edited collection Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene.
Marry & Burn By Rachel Rose,
2016
University College of the North
Marry & Burn By Rachel Rose, Carolyn J. Creed
The Goose
Review of Rachel Rose's Marry & Burn.
