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Weekly Writing Challenge: Does media violence equal real violence?
This week’s Mind the Gap asks the question of whether violence in the media (television, video games, music, movies) causes violence in real life. I am of the opinion that no, media violence does not...
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Weekly Writing Challenge: Tech is the Enemy?
I’ve told you about my iPhone before. About my undying love for it, I mean. Some studies and observations have shown that technology (and smartphones, especially) are ruining our lives, our...
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Love Every Body
Body image. Positive, negative, insecure, confident. It’s easy to be hurt by what others say about your particular shape and size, and decide to bash on the complete opposite of it. “Well, at least I’m...
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Not Just a Piece of Paper
Lately, in light of the economy and difficulty in college graduates attaining jobs, there has been the question of whether college is worth it or not. People emphasize that you can learn skills without...
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Body Image and Gaming: Problematic? - A guest post
Reblogged from Tip of My Tongue: Today's guest post is from Samantha Owens. In addition to being an officer in her World of Warcraft guild, she blogs regularly at S.Owens Writes, her forum for posting...
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Zebras, Pandas and Me
When most people look at me, they think my ethnicity is ambiguous. I have very curly brown/blonde hair, brown eyes, light skin that tans easily, and facial features that don’t necessarily scream a...
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Devout to Doubtful
By the time I was old enough to know a little about what religion meant, we were attending church regularly. I remember being there when my dad and sister were baptized, in the little pool at our...
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Erroneous Assumptions
For the longest time, I’ve assumed that society’s assumptions about me because of my gender didn’t touch me. At all. I didn’t ascribe to them or let them control me. Recently though, I’ve realized that...
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We Have to Act, We Have to Speak Up
It’s true. I don’t usually say much about them. Most of the time I try to steer myself away from seeing or talking too much about it, because of the massive amount of empathy I feel and how much it can...
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Toxic Messages: They Need to Stop
While turning over the idea of this blog post in my head for the past few days, I feel like I’ve written this before, in some capacity. I’m not a person who likes to complain much (or at least without...
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