Did you ever play mad libs growing up? A mad lib is a game where you randomly choose nouns and verbs that you then put into a story and the end product is a nonsense story that is just straight up funny. How about that game where you would draw Read more…
I find it really fascinating that there are 2 sides to the argument of copyright. One side saying that copyright laws are necessary to protect peoples creative works and the other side saying that life is about borrowing and sharing and that there shouldn’t be copyright laws because “everything is Read more…
There is an old saying from Marshall McLuhan that says “we shape our tools and then our tools shape us”. This is something that we have seen so many times with social media. There are many different ways that “our tools” have shaped us. I want to focus on just Read more…
This article “What is Casual” introduces to us the idea that there are two types of video games. Casual games and hardcore games. But what the author tries to determine is whether we should define casual and hard-core based on the genre of game or the people who play the Read more…
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” This is a quote from the famous Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. This statement really makes us ponder what the purpose of a name really is. Because as Juliet tells us, something’s Read more…
So, what if the Dubliners had instagram? Do you think it would be dark, dirty and depressing like Joyce’s book depicts? Or is there some way that it could possibly be bright, clean and cheery? Even though Dublin is depicted to us as being a place where there are never Read more…
The short story Sexy written by Jhumpa Lahiri dives deep into how the world interprets the word sexy. In doing so we get a glimpse at what true love really is as we read about what love isn’t. Miranda thinks that Dev loves her and that she loves him. But Read more…
