Carmen and Juni Cortez grew up with their parents separated while the kids were very young, say newborns. The weight of the child births broke the marriage of their parents. Their father took Carmen while their mother took the younger son, Juni. The two grew up not knowing the other existed, but both followed in …

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In starting to watch Kurt Vonnegut’s lesson on story lines, I was not expecting a refreshing taste of comedy and accuracy. But by the end, I was totally on board with his points. And to reference Kingsman yet again,  the curve where Kurt described the Cinderella story seemed applicable to Eggsy. Eggsy started below the X …

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I was so excited when I saw Kingsman on the list of movies to blog about. I can honestly say it was the first spy movie that I was fully invested it. I’ve referenced it already a few times in my blog posts, but haven’t gone too in depth on the movie itself. What sets …

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When Scooby Doo and Twitter at the center of my homework for the week, I know it’s going to be a fun week. And it was, but I feel like I left a lot on the table. Given better resources, I feel like I could have made the things I made just a little better. …

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This one wasn’t easy, despite having only two stars. Finding the right photo was hard enough, but finding a good quote was even tougher. Even though it’s not a very well known spy movie, the movie “Spy” (clever name) had the best quote I could find, which came from Melissa McCarthy. I chose my favorite …

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For a while, I’ve wondered how people so expertly create fake tweets from celebrities, most recently being Donald Trump. I found this in the assignment bank and was instantly drawn to it. I saw it as the perfect opportunity to apply our spy theme and came up with what I thought was a pretty funny …

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Below are are of the things I could type in 10 seconds that I’m thankful for. In hindsight, I should have added Joe Biden’s dank memes, but those 10 seconds went by too quick for me. My health my girlfriend my family dog running coaches teammates UMW This was a fun and interesting mission because …

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I’ve always had difficult with Google, in the sense that it is so integrated into everything on your computer. I use Google for other roles in my life as well. For example, I am the editor of the school newspaper and have two Gmail accounts associated to it, so adding a third was not a …

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I’ve never been in a class with a theme, but I’ve never bee in an online class either so I guess it comes with the territory. With the last name of Bond, I’m surprised Professor Bond hasn’t already used this theme before and channeled his inner James. I’m not a huge secret agent movie fan. …

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By Chris Markham I’m a journalism guy. It’s my major and it’s one of the things I would like to do with my career. As it relates to sports, I want to write articles and tell stories about athletes, games, teams, etc. I have a fine appreciation for articles and journalism as a whole. My …

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I’m excited for a semester of learning this ins and outs of digital design and interaction.  We’ll see how this goes! Here are some of my first works for the class. Everything here is brand new to me, except for Twitter. I think I’m alright at Twitter. From Flickr, a picture from an indoor track …

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