'Let’s Move!' away from criticism
"Get your damned hands off my fries, lady. If I want to be a fat-fat-fattie and shovel French fries all day long, that is my choice."
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"Get your damned hands off my fries, lady. If I want to be a fat-fat-fattie and shovel French fries all day long, that is my choice."
June 1999 marked the launch of the first ever user-to-user, online file-sharing program, known to the public as Napster. The technology that co-creators Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker employed sparked an Internet revolution and changed how the world acquired it’s music, stirring up quite a controversy by infringing on numerous copyright laws.
Last year wasn’t a great year for Arizona in the news. Although most of the previous year’s headlines dealt with Senate Bill 1070, a law that encouraged racial profiling, it really shouldn’t come as any grand surprise that in 2011, Gov. Jan Brewer and AZ lawmakers signed a law that will allow Arizona to ask the federal government permission to drop 280,000 people from the state Medicaid program.
With finals week rapidly approaching, I can’t seem to rid myself of the anxiety that never fails to overcome my emotional stasis at the end of the semester.
Let me preface the following column with somewhat of a disclaimer. My mother’s job with a major airline has afforded me free flights for most of my life and in my travels I have met some interesting people. From typecast “guidos” in Jersey or intimidating hotel security in Mazatlan, Mexico to snobby French girls with misleading smiles in Amsterdam. This holiday weekend, I’m sitting at a computer workstation in the lobby of a Holiday Inn Express in Springdale, Ohio, where I came face-to-face with a newlywed couple that made me really thankful for what I have. Let’s be honest, that’s what this holiday is about right? Wrong! It’s about turkey and stealing land.
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A few weeks back, I composed an open letter to everyone’s favorite over-achiever, the classmate who never shuts up. Now, either I’m an uptight, egotistical, hipster-jerk who needs to stop complaining, or the world really is out to get me.
When traveling, a sight that is often overlooked and underappreciated by most tourists is coincidentally the most vital step in the whole vacation process — the airport.
Picture this: You’re pulling up to a McDonald’s, and as you make your way through the seemingly never-ending drive thru line, salivating in anticipation for a greasy, processed and probably part-plastic double cheeseburger, your eyes meet the boldly colored, 6-foot high and 4-foot wide sign in the window; you are greeted by the surprise: the McRib is back.
Sex! Sex, sex, sex!
Each week, ASU students face an adversary that is both more common and more perilous than anything that is to be warned of in even the most conclusive student handbook.
Last week, I read something in the news that really shook me to my core. I wasn’t inspired to live a better life or emotionally moved by some depressing image of a starving child in Uganda. Simply put, I was dumbfounded and rendered speechless by the fact that some Americans are so incredibly stubborn that they enable certain situations to spin out of control and into reality.
This past weekend, I read an article from The Washington Post pertaining to the recent travel alert issued by the U.S. State Department for people looking to travel to Europe. The State Department cites escalated terrorist attacks threats as the reasoning.
While social networks like MySpace Music and file-sharing programs like Napster may have contributed to the decline in record sales in recent years, there is overwhelming evidence that these sites may be more effective marketing outlets for artists than their record labels.
Remember when ol’ Grandpa Cliché sat you down on his lap, and said, “If you tell a lie enough times it becomes the truth.”
For some people, being born on American soil doesn’t make a baby “American enough.” U.S. Sens. John Kyl (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are leading the pack in an effort to repeal the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment.
In previous columns, I’ve focused on subjects that at one point in time would seem laughable or absurd, yet now make up what society understands as reality. From flat screens to social networks, we are living out the dreams of science fiction writers of the past. But, today I bring to you a rant on a different kind of evil amongst us. This one, so incredibly insidious that it threatens to shake the very foundations of the entertainment industry and re-shape our perceptions of fame: the “Pseudo-Celebrity.”
Twitter isn’t just your average social network. In addition to allowing its users to upload and share status updates, pictures or any other useless 140-character banter the user feels like posting on the Internet, Twitter is revolutionizing how we obtain information, report the news and keep in touch – in a condensed form.
In the wake of scientific innovation, corporate mega-mergers and medical miracles, new technology runs rampant. Authors such as Ray Bradbury, Cory Doctorow or George Orwell, whose writing packed so much possibility of “coming true” with their eerily accurate imagery would be hard-pressed not to say, “I told you so!”
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