Media essay

  • Midterm Exam Question #1 The world of online publishing is replete with fictions and falsehoods. That is not to say that everything in the news is fake, but much of it came from places you would never expect. Ryan Holiday, in his

  • It is not uncommon to hear someone chortling, or speaking about utopian ideals, or discussing the latest fashionable styles, or talking about a pamphlet they received in the mail. A fact unbeknownst to many people speaking the English language is

  • Between 1904 and 1906, the Catalan artist Antonio Gaudí renovated a building located on Barcelona’s principle residential street, the Passeig de Gràcia, for Josep Batlló Casanovas, a bourgeois industrialist (Casa). The result was deeply rooted in modernisme, an artistic movement

  • Angela Lee Duckworth, a psychologist, challenges the reigning ideas that IQ among other factors such social intelligence, good looks and physical health is not the main predictor of success. In her studies which entailed identifying successful individuals amongst kids and

  • ​The first world war began in late July 1914 and ended in November 1918, leaving 17 million dead and 20 million wounded. Unlike the second world war, the causes of World War I remain controversial and debated questions still to