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For this week’s assignment, I chose an article about the Trump administration’s plan to shrink and restructure the Department of Education. What stood out to me right away is how much the entire debate relies on strategic language. Supporters frame the changes as reducing “heavy-handed federal intervention” and “right-sizing” the department, while critics argue the
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Geoffrey Sirc talks about composition like it should be a “happening,” and honestly, as a writer, that makes perfect sense to me. Writing feels better when it’s an experience instead of an assignment. It works when it’s a little messy, a little playful, and connected to whatever is going on in real life. After all,
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Marshall McLuhan once said, “the medium is the message.” What he meant is that what really matters about media isn’t just the content but the atmosphere it creates around us. Radiohead has been shaping those kinds of atmospheres for decades. Take Everything in Its Right Place, the opener on Kid A. The words cycle like
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“Remember me as you pass by,As you are now, so once was I,As I am now, so you must be,Prepare for death and follow me.”
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She doesn’t usually wear lipstick. Perhaps it’s because she knows she doesn’t need it. Beauty has been stitched into her from the very beginning. More likely though, it’s because she hates attention. When the light bends toward her, she shifts away. Some call it modesty, others shyness. I just call it her. But today, she
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