Creative

My New York Trip Was a Religious Experience

The Lower Manhattan skyline, as seen from Brooklyn Bridge Park. Credit: Kyle Newcombe This past April I was fortunate enough to have my last exam

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Arts and Culture

Le rayon vert (1986)

It’s the end of summer in a seaside town in the south of France. A man and woman sit side-by-side on a clifftop, looking out

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Arts and Culture

Childhood, politics, and kindness in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where is the Friend’s House?

On September 20th, I had the privilege to start off my year as a programmer for the Cinema Studies Student Union with a screening of

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Arts and Culture

School Is Back, and So Is the Violence

There is something ironic about going back to school in September and diving straight into school shooting movies at the Free Friday Films (FFF). Talk

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Creative

The Power of a Window Left Open

How do you prepare for a plane flight the next morning? Experts suggest getting good sleep the night before, checking for flight delays and cancellations,

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Creative

Embalmed

I woke up to the rotting stale air, laid still for a moment, then pushed myself out of bed and wandered down the narrow hall

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Creative

The joys of touching grass (and lying in it too)

For 20 years of my life, I moved from one massive, crowded, noisy city to the next, whether it was back home in India or

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Creative

The Black Coche

Under the black graduation gown, sweat slid down Emma’s back as she glanced at her watch. 9:45 AM. She stood at the rear of the

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History

Harold Who?

The decline of Harold Innis’ economics > Born near Otterville, Ontario, Innis was one of Canada’s great scholars. He joined the faculty of the University

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Blog

Opinion

Comedy or Compliance? How meme culture has affected our response to trauma

There is perhaps no better embodiment of this generation’s attitudes and approaches to self-expression than the modern meme. What began as a few crass jokes and references to popular culture quickly went viral and the satirical tradition of pairing an image and text has been carried on ever since. Memes have evolved within social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter, becoming the centre of mass public exchange and sparking trends on an international scale.From old SpongeBob SquarePants scenes to Bernie Sanders’ mittens, meme culture has rebranded known icons and expanded into categories and sub-categories, each dedicated to sharing specific kinds of content. There are meme accounts for history and art history, sports and sports teams, politics, religions, franchises, and literature. The list goes on.

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