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Mp3’, Mp4s, Music that we come to love and share amongst our own loved ones have come under threat by anti piracy laws . Laws that remove the freedom to share artistic creations to one another with no ca […]

Have you ever thought that you had a great sense of time, that you can guess the time of day simply by how it looks outside? I thought did! Recently my concept of time has been called into question. Here’s a l […]

9/11 the day the earth stood still. A cloud of devastation swarmed and coated buildings and everything around it in a thick ash. Everyone has a story about the day and some did not come home to tell to the […]

When one thinks of modern images of wealth, a lot of the imagery comes from social media. Pictures of men and women posing in front of pools, decorated homes, extravagant vacation spots all dawned in beautiful […]

Since I was a child, I have been raised to be modest, to not show “too much skin.” Skirts should not go passed your fingertips, and shirts must have sleeves or else “You would be a distraction”. A distrac […]

ENG 101: Blog Post #1

In Berger’s first Episode of Ways of Seeing, he touches on the use of cameras use to convey a conversation with its user yet took away a sense of truth, originality and personality from p […]