Tag: writer
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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…
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Japan: An Intercultural Experience
By Kacie Fowler This was an APA-style assignment from my Communications 101 class and also a bit about my trip to Japan (that came at the perfect time if we are honest). The assignment asked that we describe an encounter we had with a person and/or group from a culture that we are not from,…
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Short Story
Prompt: Author writes his own murder before it happens. “Yah, yah, yah.” I drawl to my editor who has been hounding me all month about my new project. He’s been practically down on his knees, begging for even just a chapter to show the publishing team. “I’ll send it to you when its ready, John.”…
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Prompt: It Was A Dark and Stormy Night
Another rendition of the stories we wrote in my high school creative writing class. I think this may have been one of my favorites. The prompt, “It Was A Dark and Stormy Night…” was set upon us on Halloween in 2013. We had just finished up our study of Edgar Allen Poe and we were…
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Quarter-Life Crisis?
Do you ever wonder about life like Carrie Bradshaw, dream to look like Mortitia Addams, fear like Stephen King, and love like Jane Austin? What happens when all of the aspects of your life collide and clash like a fatal land slide? Akin to most people with ADD, the endless hobby hopping is one thing,…
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How 5.5” Ruined My Day
The fact that this is the first post since the D-Day post, should say something. We are on month four since he departed the country and the first mental break has hit. It is always the smallest things that breaks the damn holding back the big. Home projects are one of the ways I have…
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Quality Over Quantity: In Writing
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca We hear this old phrase often and in regards to a variety of life’s aspects. The most common instance perhaps is pointed at the type of company one keeps, going along with “I’d rather have a few best friends, then a hundred friends I…
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Is Said Dead?
If you are a writer to any capacity, you will have no doubt heard the phrase “said is dead”. This is reference to the boring and repetitiveness of writing a dialogue where every line is literally ‘said’ from one character to the next. In our current day, where time seems to be the most precious…
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25 Days Later…
A Life update: *low whistle* well, we made it. We made it to Washington and to the house we fought so hard to get. Let me tell you, it was well worth all the headache and frustration. Our new house is immaculate! It is a roomy 3 bedroom, 2 and a half bath, two story…
Everything With Nothing 