Told my parents about my travel plans today to see them in a few weeks and to go to Boston in two weeks. My dad kept undermining me about my current job, where I'm using my English degree more than I ever have as a copyeditor and doubting that I could make enough money to make a living just doing that. He suggested I take up dog walking with Rover ( Read more... )

The year is 2021 and we are a year into the global pandemic known as COVID-19. I can't wait to be able to get back to regularly going out and seeing my friends but I've actually been handling the quarantine pretty well overall. I wrote about some of my major life updates in my other account (amandasveganxxx) but the biggest update is that Monica ( Read more... )

Taking advantage of the human affinity for stories: A narrative criticism of an ad campaign for Meningitis ( Read more... )

The idea of the American Dream is something that has always been of interest to me since I first learned about how my great-grandparents arrived to Ellis Island for a better life in the early 1900s. It wasn’t until I read The Great Gatsby in high school that I was introduced to a critique of this dream and since then I have been intrigued by any ( Read more... )

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