The Birth of Dystopia

At the beginning of the semester, I defined dystopia as a dreadful place where no one wants to live and where one’s rights and liberties have been taken away. After completing this course, my definition still remains the same. However, I have learned more about the aspects of society and Continue reading

IP Check

This week, I learned what intellectual property is and how detrimental it is in the process of creative production. Intellectual property is when one’s work has rights such as a trademark or copyright. This protects the individual’s creativity from being utilized by another person. So far in our podcast production, Continue reading

Make America Fascist Again

In ā€œUr-Facismā€, Umberto Eco described the most common features of facism. In my opinion, many aspects of facism described by Eco existed during the reign of Donald J. Trump. The first aspect of Ur-Facism is the ā€œcult of tradition.ā€ This entailed a time when only men worked, women were only Continue reading