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  1. May 2017
    1. lightly modified

      This shirt is not okay to wear around town. For me, any shirts with bad language are not appropriate to wear in public because you do not know who is watching... to me, the shirt is trashy

    2. ed merchandise,

      The media has created this, they put her on air and helped her build the 'empire' she is making of herself. While I do not agree, everyone giving her the attention is what is helping her be successful and she is using it to her advantage.

    3. er opportunit

      Which is good for certain things, but in my opinion this is not a good one because this girl is famous for disrespecting people around her

  2. Apr 2017
    1. our souls.

      i think everyone is slowing realizing the effects technology can have on our lives, maybe this will change in the future? Maybe we will be able to find the balance.

    2. cut my daily silences from one hour to 25 minutes; a

      while you should stick to it, you cannot look at this as failure that will only make you continue to do it

    3. completely helpless in this newly distracted er

      people who make this decision will follow through only though.

    4. or quiet has

      we still look for the "me" time or for someone to not text or tag us, it is just much less now

    5. t still exists is the showe

      There are cases that fix this

    6. update every half-hour or so,

      and it is disappointing because as readers, we sometimes expected to be updated right in that instance rather than be patient.

    7. But I’d begun to fear that this new way of living was actually becoming a way of not-living.

      SUCH a good point. When you become too engaged with your smartphone or labtop in no longer becomes another way to connect or talk to people, it becomes the only way you talk and there is less connecting

    8. I was no longer alone.

      This is society today, everyone is so wrapped up in their own world... this can technically makes us all addicts as well, do we go to counseling to then?

    9. I’d been a web obsessive, publishing blog posts multiple times a day, seven days a week, and ultimately corralling a team that curated the web every 20 minutes during peak hours.

      While I understand why she was concerned for her well being and addictive behavior of any kind is dangerous, who made her believe this was such a negative one?

  3. Mar 2017
    1. Trump insisted the conversation had been “very civil” and dismissed claims to the contrary as “FAKE NEWS” that the “media lied about”.

      I am concerned on what he believed he would gain from this.. I am curious what his motives are

    1. core it represents little more than a particularly brazen set of techniques to manipulate people to get them to do your bidding

      He was a genius on what he did.. he managed to change people's minds without over complicating it and without their notice.. he was successful

    2. he promoted cigarettes as both soothing to the throat and slimming to the waistline.

      He never promoted the negative effects that came from smoking though

    3. Yet propaganda had acquired a somewhat pejorative connotation (which would be further magnified during World War II), so Bernays promoted the term “public relations.”

      What kind of connotations were made?