Part I: My Influence: Twitter Followers: I started the semester by determining that I will keep my Twitter that I have been using since 2009 as my Twitter profile for the class. So I began at 728 followers and over the course of the last three months, I had a 6% increase in my Twitter […]
Read more "Let’s See How Far We’ve Come"Jackie Robinson is not only one of the most influential figures in baseball history, but in American history in itself. Seventy years ago on April 15th, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and became the first African-American to play in the Major Leagues. Every year from there on out now is known throughout the […]
Read more "How to Continue Jackie Robinson’s Legacy"Going viral is similar to the medical term “virus” because viruses infect one person who infects another person and vice versa. Going viral online means that the people who viewed a video, a photo, or in this class’s case, a meme, were infected by the meme and passed it along online because a person was […]
Read more "Sliding Into Obscurity"Understand the history, ingredients, birthplace, and where to get a famous Rochester Garbage Plate in this quick summary of the famous, yet unknown Northeast hot dish.
Read more "What is a Garbage Plate?"“Turn and face the strange” is a line from David Bowie’s “Changes” and despite the age of the song, it fits perfectly with the changes in myself because of social media. We live in a world that is constantly changing, but no matter the change, people will be upset or scared because we live in […]
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