Tag: Individuality

• Eeriness of Echo Chambers in Blogging

  Social media prompts users to live within echo chambers. Echo chambers are created by individuals with similar ideologies, reinforcing ideas and inhibiting diversity of thought. Within the many social media platforms, blogs are the most user specific. For every hobby, religion, food preference and random thought there is blog, which allows an individual to feel…

  Kalen Nicole

  March 9, 2017

  Assimilation

  Acceptance, beliefs, Blogging, Community, conversation, cultural diversity, culture, differences, diversity, Experience, growth, identity, Individuality, Influence, Institutions, Others, perspective, politics, reflection, religion, Social Media, spain, Tolerance, travel

• “I am whatever I say I am”

  “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” – Alan Watts It’s easy, but kind of pointless. My name is Kalen. I’m majoring in Strategic Communications. I like to read and write. I’m graduating next May. I think I’m pretty funny. I love to drink coffee and eat dessert. I have…

  Kalen Nicole

  March 5, 2017

  Growing Up, Young Adult

  culture, diversity, growth, identity, Individuality, Others, perspective, reflection

• More Than Meets The -I-

  

  The need for community it an intrinsic human desire. When asked of the greatest commandment, Jesus  said, “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”  Mark 12:30-31. Written almost 1,000 years later, The Epic of…

  Kalen Nicole

  February 14, 2017

  Growing Up, Young Adult

  Community, culture, Faith, Golden Rule, growth, identity, Individuality, Love, Man In The Mirror, Others, reflection, Self-Love

• Mary Tyler gave television Moore

  Mary Tyler Moore is a dearly remembered actress, who embodied style, charm, grace, independence and confidence. Moore challenged social norms of what a woman should be and how she should act. She inspired women to shape their identities that didn’t rely on being a Mother or Wife (Feldman). As a millennial, I missed many of Ms. Moore’s original…

  Kalen Nicole

  January 26, 2017

  Growing Up, Young Adult

  Acceptance, Adulthood, Experience, Feminism, growth, identity, Individuality, Mary Tyler Moore, Nicki Minaj, Womanism