Monthly Archives: December 2015

I have been listening to Christmas songs on repeat lately, and the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” has been appearing frequently in my headphones. When I decided to listen to them in the car with my … Continue reading →

My suite-mates have been watching a marathon of “Say Yes to the Dress” on television today. After watching for several hours, they began noticing that TLC shows the same commercials over and over again. These commercials consist of advertising for … Continue reading →

As Christmas is getting closer and closer, I have noticed more and more of a presence of Charles Dickens. I always associated A Christmas Carol with Christmas obviously, but I guess I did not know enough about Charles Dickens to … Continue reading →

This morning when looking through BuzzFeed, I found an article titled “We Had Women Photoshopped into Stereotypical Comic Book Poses and It Got Weird”. This really made me think of my project presentation yesterday and the conversation we had afterwards … Continue reading →

As a final blog post, I wanted to reflect on the projects put together by my classmates to think about some of the major themes we have learned in this course. One central theme that spanned almost every project was … Continue reading →

As we have discussed in class, Dickens was writing in a transitive time. With the rise of the publishing industry and literacy rates, the market for literature was completely changed. However this explosion of print that has endured up until … Continue reading →

I’m also an econ major so I thought it’d be interesting to look up some statistics about the advertising industry, and wow I was shocked when I found them. Statista is a great website that I have used a lot … Continue reading →

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis Althusser 1969-70 This is my last post, and it’s going to be a short one, but I want to offer a quick shoutout to an article that professor Meadows gave me at the … Continue reading →

Debtor’s Prisons were one of the darker parts of the society in which Dickens was raised. Unable to pay off debts, prisoners were forced to perform hard labor while incarcerated—slowly paying back the debts to the state, or debt-distributer, and … Continue reading →

Dickens’ death was an absolute sensation. I mean, he potentially died from the stress of reenacting a violent death scene! Thinking about his death at the end of this course, I have also been thinking to the extents other artists … Continue reading →