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Fighting Against Your Own Happiness. PS- you’re not a failure

Being a determined [aka stubborn…] person comes in handy in a lot of fields and circumstances. You need to have that determination because there are going to be plenty of people who try to tear you down, plenty of “no”s and “you can’t do it”s especially in a field as competitive and harsh as mine […]

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I have way too much homework to be writing this but here I am…

It’s true, I essentially don’t even have enough hours in a day to be able to do any of the things that I have planned (literally, I didn’t even know that was possible but I could use like 30 hours in a day rather than 24 lately) so why am I using some of that […]

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I love people…

While on the phone with my mother the other day, I told her that I really want to get to know all of the people in my life even more but the problem is that I just hate people [in which she laughed at but I was being serious]. No, the title of this post […]

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on a train (intro post?) – august 19, 2015

To be honest, I am not quite sure what this website is meant to be at this very moment. It was originally for my Intro to Mass Comm class so you may see some posts that were directed towards that (but are still my thoughts, just with a word count on them), but I definitely […]

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Millenials and Media (Blog Assignment #4)

Media has evolved since the days in which the public would just flip on the television or turn through a newspaper to get their daily source of news. This change of primary media mediums and expansion in available sources highly influences our media lifestyles, especially for the younger generations. Newspapers and television news still exists […]

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A Movie with a Message (Blog Assignment #3)

“…Stories form our culture. I profoundly believe that. The storytelling impulse is built into us and it’s the way we explain and describe our entire lives, all the time.” -Bill Nicholson Discovering the word “storyteller” was a monumental moment for me. It explained everything about my life. It made everything about me finally make sense. […]

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Advertising as Interruption or Storytelling? (Blog Assignment #2)

Advertising has formed from an informative segment to a source of entertainment itself, especially in recent days with the emergence of the internet and mobile devices. Technology keeps changing and opening a broader span of viewership and ways of viewing entertainment. This changes the aspects of advertising and ways to appeal to the new network […]

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Does Media Manipulate the Consumer? (Blog Assignment #1)

Media is meant to exist to communicate the truth. The public has come to trust the media to do so but something most people don’t take the time to think about before believing the “sources” is how easy it is to pass off a piece of information as the truth that is not in fact […]

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Intro to Mass Comm: Assignment #2

I apologize in advance if I did this wrong. I just did my best and worked with what I had… I just wanted to make sure that I turned in something but I am completely willing to re-make it if needed. Just let me know! 🙂

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What is this For?

I’m Elizabeth Griswold and the two things I think everyone should know about me is that I am an artist and a storyteller. I am a freshman Film & Media Studies major at the University of Oklahoma from a suburb of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas that currently works at a sports broadcasting organization for OU called […]

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