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  Getting Interpersonal in the Dungeon

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  Ian Borton Aquinas College

  October 16, 2019

  and you must earn a minimum of 8000 points to win permission to take the final exam.   To explain how ... and scores of ways students can earn the required points. In my course, quests are assessed pass/fail ...
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  Biopics and Oscar-winning Lead Performances, 2000-2019

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  Ryan Pumroy University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  October 21, 2019

  Biopics and Oscar-winning Lead Performances, 2000-2019 biopics Oscars actors actresses ... win when the 92nd Academy Awards are held in February 2020.   But, if we look at the last 20 years of ... victorious Oscar leads, it reveals an interesting trend in which kinds of roles tend to win for male and ...
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  The Joke in SNL’s Big Boy Appliances and “Man Food” Marketing

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  Emily Contois The University of Tulsa

  February 13, 2019

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  system. The ad proudly proclaims the appliances’ F- energy star rating, earned because they run on ...
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  Anthony Bourdain: Exploring Culture and Media at the World’s Dinner Table

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  Rebecca Leung and Robert E. Williams Ramapo College and New York Post

  February 12, 2019

  journalism broadcast cross-cultural Curator's Note In his Emmy-Award winning CNN series, “ Parts ...
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  The Problem with Post-Horror

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  Shellie McMurdo University of Roehampton

  March 04, 2019

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  was met with critical acclaim, and was nominated for four Academy Awards (winning the title of Best ...
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  Double or Nothing: Infertility in Jane the Virgin

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  Stefanie Davis Kempton Penn State Altoona

  September 04, 2019

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  artificially inseminates herself with Rafael’s sperm in a desperate attempt to win him back. She does so by ...
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  YouTube activism or YouTube art?

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  James MacDowell University of Warwick

  January 07, 2019

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  Curator's Note "Nobody Wins" (2018), by the YouTuber Sarah Zedig, is a video-essay response to ...
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  “It’s always ‘dark-girl hour’ on my channel:” An Analysis of  YouTuber  Jackie  Aina  and  the Redefinition of  Black Beauty Standards in Digital Spaces 

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  Melissa Monier University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  January 09, 2019

  award-winning beauty influencer and YouTuber, boasting over 2.8 million subscribers,  one of the only black beauty ...
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  Esports Was Always Physical: Or, Celebrating with firebathero

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  Will Partin University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

  January 15, 2019

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  match. Winning on StarCraft ’s biggest stage meant a post-game celebration like no other, and everyone in ...
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  Defamiliarizing Concussions

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  Nathan Kalman-Lamb Duke University

  April 09, 2019

  and I was focused primarily on my team’s winning the game, I quickly forgot about [it]. Upon seeing ...

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