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An Open Letter To My High School English Teacher
By: Rachel Craig I want to tell you a lot of things. Firstly, I want to thank you for teaching me how to write. That was very considerate of you, to donate your knowledge to a bunch of arrogant kids who took AP classes simply for the bragging rights and to appeal to a bunch… Read more
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RHETORICAL ANALYSIS: @CT_HOES
By Jane Adams “Twinkle Twinkle little slut, You like dick inside your butt” is one of many crude tweets by @CT_HOES, an account on the social media site Twitter seeking internet virality through humour-laden, sexism-ridden commentary on implicitly promiscuous high school and college aged women in Connecticut. Not being familiar with Connecticut, I asked my… Read more
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SWOD: @Horse_ebooks, Radical Literature for a New Millenium
By Rose Jensen @Horse_ebooks is a spam Twitter account that was originally created in the summer of 2010 to tweet random snippets of shitty ebooks about horses. However, it seems that the companion website horse-ebooks.com no longer exists in the same form it did then, as following the address redirects to a different ebook website,… Read more
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ESSAY: Losing the Presidency
By Benjamin Pitt Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you know that Barack Obama was re-elected as the President of the United States of America. And, especially if you live here in the States, chances are you saw Romney’s concession speech as well, which was delivered just after… Read more
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FEATURE: Book ‘Em, Dano
By Benjamin Pitt, who volunteered at the Burlington Book Festival to help people. Sort of. The first thing you need to know about the Burlington Book Festival is that you don’t talk about the Burlington Book Festival. No, I’m sorry, I’m thinking of something else. The first thing you need to know about the Burlington… Read more
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REVIEW: Dan Deacon’s "America"
By Rachel Craig Dan Deacon’s newest release – “America” – may be the most aptly named album of 2012. Deacon draws inspiration from cross-country road trips and the current state of America and crafts an album that seems to perfectly exemplify his feelings towards the good ol’ USA. Using his classical background fused with a… Read more
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