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Walter Benjamin discusses the concept of an artwork’s aura, which “withers in the age of the technological reproducibility of the work of art is the latter’s aura.” Back then, before people could take pictures of […]

In this paper I would like to talk about the significance of noise, although it can first be seen as a nuisance, it could also have positive effects, even if you don’t realize it at first. Noise anywhere can h […]

Krukowski says that, “the marginal-the rejected- the repressed- is whatever the powerful have decided is of no use at the moment.” I think he is talking about the algorithm that is deciding which specific songs to […]

In “Living with Music,” Ralph Ellison talks about living in his New York City apartment building and the neighbors he is forced to listen to through the walls of his apartment. Ellison had hated being forced to […]

I think the differences between “hearing” and “listening” are that we basically hear everything that we hear everyday, but listening is really taking in that information that we’ve heard, sort of what our brain […]

Newspaper and magazine editors are selecting the photos to publish that depict black people as victims and succumbing to white violence as opposed to them fighting for their rights because they want everyone to […]

According to Berger, publicity influences each of us in a consumer society that we adjust us human beings or our lives by buying something more. It persuades us and would somehow make us richer, although we […]

Although women may still feel the same today about how they they are conscious about their appearances and what the opposite gender might think of them, a lot of women only care about what they themselves think of […]

The model of ‘entering the conversation’ is effective because as you input your own ideas, you listen to others’ ideas and respond to each other’s feedbacks. Using these templates can even contribute to your […]

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My name is Katrina and I’m majoring in Psychology. I was born in San Francisco, California. I’m into films/movies and film photography, so I love watching a good movie in my free time. Some of my favorites […]