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My Experience in Writers’ Communities
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I am a senior at Ball State University and last year I started to attend our student club ‘The Writer’s Community’ along with other writer communities on and off campus. Although I have been writing since middle school, my writing had never been graded, nor had it ever been beneficial…
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The Fear of Knowledge: An Attack on the Act of Book Banning
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When you ban books for a second, you ban the pursuit of knowledge for a century. Books are the cornerstone of human connection. When people connect with each other’s stories, they learn to empathize, and when they empathize, it is easier for them to accept new knowledge. This is why,…
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The Trope-ification of Books is Literary Brain Rot
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Book tropes describe a variety of recurring plot devices, character archetypes, and themes that are written consistently enough to become recognizable by readers and warrant their own names. While they are not necessarily a new phenomenon, their influence has certainly grown with the rise of social media. They’ve become a…