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Workout your problems
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Workout your problems

All year long you make and break promises to yourself: I’ll start going to the gym, I’ll stop saving my essays until the night before, I’ll finally eat healthy. On New Year’s, though, these aren’t just promises, they are dedications to improve yourself, resolutions to be better. That is, until February rolls around. This year,...

The Harms of TikTok
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The Harms of TikTok

TikTok has an iron grip on cultural trends, fashions, and nearly every industry. What started as a silly app filled with lip-syncing clips and dances has evolved into a platform that praises alien-like beauty standards, shortens people’s attention spans to that of mice, and further propels culture into an insatiable and superficial mess.  Social media...

TikTok trends consume music industry: 2021 Most Streamed Songs in the U.S. on Spotify were all trending on TikTok
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TikTok trends consume music industry: 2021 Most Streamed Songs in the U.S. on Spotify were all trending on TikTok

TikTok is taking over – not just social media, but the entire music industry.  It’s no coincidence that the five most-streamed songs in the U.S. on Spotify were all “TikTok Famous,” a.k.a. trending on the app this year.  In order, the top songs were “drivers license” and “good 4 u” by Olivia Rodrigo, “Kiss Me...

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Hero of New York or Overused Arachnid? New Spider-Man represents the addiction to threadbare concepts

If only Hollywood knew that with great power comes great responsibility.  As is the case with most Marvel movies, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” released in December, was a spectacle filled with excellent animation and thrilling action sequences.  In an interesting twist, actors Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, who played the 2012 and 2002 Spider-Man, returned...