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This interactive narrative is an interactive documentary short that follows Marta Aviles, a longtime resident of Brooklyn’s Los Sures neighborhood in South Williamsburg, NY. Living there for nearly forty years, she now faces challenges with the rapid gentrification of her neighborhood. This piece documents her journey in deciding whether to stay or to leave her home. The narrative was broken down into the following structure: Introduction, The Street, The Stairs, The Apartment, The Listing, Part…

How to Write a Kickass Paper Let’s set the scene your Intro to Psychology of Child Development Class is slipping into the C range and you need to raise it back up to a B so you can keep your B average. How are you going to do it? You’re going to ace the next paper that’s how! Well that’s the plan at least, but you’ve been sitting in front of a blank word document for the past hour and a half. Maybe you’ve opened a note book to “review the material”, or maybe you’re really ambitious and opened…

eing the only girl and growing up with two brothers, an older brother and a younger brother, I was always use to playing with boy toys or playing with all my Barbie’s or Polly Pockets alone. It wasn’t until we moved to America where I was finally given the chance to associate myself with a girl playmate that was not far from my age. Her name is Anabell, and she is my cousin that is only a year younger than I am. Growing up, Anabell and I did everything together; from playing our Barbie’s and…

of poetry affectionately called Drunk Poetry, and all of the authors in this particular genre happened to be restricted to Daniel Bailey’s immediate friend circle. This concept of Drunk Poetry has often been considered in the same category as the hipster ironists’ Flarf poetry. Admittedly, The Dunk Sonnets do share some similarities with these parodies of poetry, including the fact that all of the sonnets…

quirky concepts and a politically significant ex-husband, but nothing alarming. That all changed with “Pizzagate,” a political scandal surrounding his pizzeria, Comet Ping Pong. At first glance, Comet Pizza is nothing special. It is described as a “hipster-heavy pizza parlor in the Upper Northwest with rough concrete walls, bathrooms hidden behind secret panels, and table tennis galore” (qtd. in Comet Ping Pong), but Comet Pizza has been through incredible controversy, a controversy that was…

Blurred Lines It is a Friday night in East Halls; Fetty Wap, Drake, and Justin Bieber are blasting from all of the different rooms as gaggles of underage girls and boys are putting back Fireball, Svedka, and Vladimir Vodka (basically nail polish remover) like it is going out of style. Scantily clad lasses drunkenly stumble as they run to catch the over packed White Loop with their Vineyard Vines attired frat bros trailing at their heels. Upon arriving at their destination, the dimly lit basement…

Gentrification - can rural areas be gentrified? Can rural areas be gentrified? This is often the cause for debate when it is compared alongside urban in gentrified areas. Perhaps, in-order to understand the foundations for rural gentrification it could be argued that when we look at types of class within rural populations, middle class homeowners, gentrifiers could be seen to be acting ruthlessly as proactive capitalist developers acquiring land at cheaper prices and creating a different form…

I had originally planned to meet Sachy, Alvaro, and Victoria at the Getty, however both these plans fell through as we all clearly have very poor organization skills. So on a breezy Sunday Morning I embarked on a solo mission to LACMA. Well not really because my mother was lovely enough to accompany me. When I initially woke up that morning, I was overcome with regret of waiting until the last weekend to get this assignment done. The whole ride there, the clouds threatened rain and my mother…

Do not just assume, actually get to know the truth behind those unbroken doors. Everyone at a point has seen someone in a certain way yet has never talked to them, because it happens to the best of people and it is just so natural that it does not even seem like a big deal and society becomes accustomed to it. Society has stereotypes and misconceptions because of the simple act of people looking at others in a certain manner. Some have achieved the point in which they can ruin lives and any…

First, let me say that there are a lot of styles of necklaces, at least if you describe a necklace as the whole combo –chain plus anything added to it. The types I describe as “push present necklaces” for the sake of this article are ones that are easily linked to the birthing occasion in some way OR styles that are considered classics, appropriate for any occasion. If you are leaning toward buying a necklace, by the end of this article you should be able to narrow your search to a particular…