Tag: Community
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Don’t Hate the Player
Last Thursday marked the beginning of football season for the UCO Bronchos. #RollChos I enjoyed the game per the usual: wearing school colors, talking to friends, cheering for the team and taking Snap Chats. I pay less attention to the actual content of most sports than I care to admit, but rather find myself engulfed…
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Do it for the culture
Culture: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time (popular culture, southern culture -merriam-webster.com In appreciation for the Migos’ album Culture, my obsession with analysis, summer and instrospection, I present…
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A house is not a home
In 1964, R & B sensation Luther Vandross recorded A House Is Not a Home. In this timeless ballad, Vandross mourns the loss of the lady in his life. He compares the void in his life to the void a vacated house. A chair is still a chair Even when there’s no one sittin’…
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La revolución
It is inexcusable and almost impossible to visit Nicaragua and not learn about the revolution. The revolution began in 1979 and ended in 1990. The Iran-Contra Scandal: The US government portrayed Nicaragua as a Communist nation that threatened United States democracy. The implementation of this fear tactic empowered the US government to support international terrorist groups…
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caller id and convo
As a millennial- I don’t like answering my parents’ house phone. The call is never for me. Telemarketers are as stubborn as I am and are always selling something. Answering the house phone requires me to leave the oasis of my room. So last Wednesday, though I was already perturbed that the phone was ringing-…
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Desayuno y decisiones
I was released from university on May 4th on good behavior. As the summer began, I was most excited for my study tour to Nicaragua. This study tour allowed me to complete my Spanish minor, have an unforgettable experience and become a better person. I’m eager to transcribe all of my experiences, musings and thoughts…
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Sometimes You Say I’m Just a Friend
“A ny man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell toils; it toils for the.” Jonne Donn I can grin when I am alone, I sometimes cry in solitude, I create my daily agenda, I can create and I can complete homework. I…
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The Restrictions of Religion
I hail from Muskogee, Oklahoma- the county seat with a population of around 30,000 kind, traditional and somewhat conformist individuals. I had 114 in my graduating class. Of these 114 people there was little religious/ spiritual variety. Last weekend in a conversation with my mom, we discussed how most students and staff from my high…
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microaggressions – BIG SCREEN
Get Out was the number one in America last weekend. Written by comedian Jordan Peele, Get Out uses satire to discuss racism and its subsequent prejudices and microagressions. This film combines fiction and reality to make the topic of race more palatable/ comfortable. Microaggressions are a common phenomenon. They plague the media, relationships and conversations. Microaggressions: the everyday…
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