Tag: personal blog
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From Dada to AI Revolt: A Brief History of ATCs & ACEOs
A brief history of how the industrial revolution led to the Dada art movement which let to ATC and ACEO art trading and creation. Mention of Mail Art, Yoko Ono, Ray Johnson, Comte, Satre, Stirnemann, Warhol. Art History. Art revolutions.
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For the Love of Books
To read a book more than once out of personal interest rather than requirement is not only and ode to the author but a display of love from a true bibliophile. As someone who jumps from one book to the next the second my eyes pass over ‘The End,’ I rarely do reread books. The…
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Spring is Here and So is the Existential Dread
Never experienced 80 degree weather in April before, but here we are. As the air warms so does the stress of life. Through the winter, we hunker down, keep stock of what we have to survive off of, and plan for the warmer days. This is good in theory but difficult when you never get…
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Little Things: Routine
In trying to stay true to my first ever list of New Year’s resolution, one of which writing something everyday, if I feel that there may be something remotely close to being good enough to share, I will. I want to talk about routines and how the lack of one gives me almost as much…
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2025…
New year, same busy ass life. It is currently 5:57pm on December 31st, 2024. I hate to name some cliche like “oh what a year it has been”, but damn…what a year it has been. My house flooded due to a burst pipe. I went to Japan and had an amazing time being able to…
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Introduction to Literature- Sylvia Plath
Death by Domestication By Kacie Fowler November 2024 Sylvia Plath’s life, and subsequent death, demonstrated the many of the struggles with societies norms, questions, and shortcomings that are bestowed upon women who find themselves living the ‘American Lifestyle’. Lady Lazarus is a poem that shows us just how mind-numbing and soul-damaging domesticity can be for…
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Find You Van Gogh
When I think what is it I want to write about, many things pass through my mind. I want to write to share experiences, to hear other people’s experiences, to teach, to learn, to express, to make an impression, to create conversation, and most importantly, I want to write to… That’s always the question. I…
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I Believe in the Power of Books
This I Believe essays are prompts that ask anybody and everybody what it is they believe in. These collections of personal narratives follow genre constructs that use a belief statement followed by personal experience that support their belief. This is exactly what we studies in my English Composition class earlier this quarter. Below is…
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Post-Truth Criticism of The BBC News Interview with Trevor Noah
By Kacie Fowler This is the final assignment from my communications class that tasked us with watching the BBC News interview with Trevor Noah from The Daily Show in terms of how they present news in the form of parody and how that differs from ‘fake news’. This paper answers specific questions we were given…
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Rhetorical Criticism of Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
This was the first assignment we had to write in our communications class. The task was to pick a speech of our choosing and analyze it in terms of the use of rhetorical concepts, theories, and paradigms. I had combed through about twelve speeches before choosing Malala’s. One reason I did choose this, outside of…