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Assignment for BECA 770: A TRILOGY

PART I: Blog can be found here.


PART II:




PART III:

While flipping through channels this afternoon I caught The Soup and they featured the following clip:

Spaghetti Cat



I'm not really sure what the purpose of the cat was, but it sure was entertaining to watch the hosts try to maintain their composure.

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Unlike most people, when I think of Mexico, I don't think of cerveza, mariachis, & sarapes. In fact, Mexico conjures far different images for myself than most would expect.

To me, Mexico is Oaxaca. More specifically, Mexico is El Trapiche.



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Just an visual interpretation of the impact of hip hop artists (the contemporary hero) on the audience/fan-base.


With this paper, I hoped to explore the role of hip hop superstars as mythological archetypal heroes, as well as how they set the standards for their own myths in today's culture, through the mythological approach. Along side with the mythological approach, I would like to investigate psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche's Enigmatic Signifier theory, in which the "self",… Continue

My world generally consists of two (and at times three) things:

1. School
2. Work
(3. Social Life: which goes hand in hand with work, as most of my friends work with me.)


As most people know, or will learn per reading this blog, I am a Starbucks barista. For the past two years I've dedicated my days to making coffee for people who are crass, rude, and pushy.

Management is poor. Morale is poor. I am poor.


Lately, my life has been overcome with longer hours, more rude customers, and a manage… Continue