Category: Eda Saridogan
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An Ode to Wilde
Read more: An Ode to WildeArtwork found on The Oliver Gal Artist Co If, with the literate, I amImpelled to try an epigram,I never seek to take the credit;We all assume that Oscar said it. — Dorothy Parker, 1927 My first encounter with Oscar Wilde’s writing was in sophomore year of high school when my English teacher announced that the…
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From Vinyl to Spotify: A Look at Physical Possessions
Read more: From Vinyl to Spotify: A Look at Physical PossessionsPaul Signac, Portrait of Félix Fénéon Not to sound like a boomer, but nowadays, our entire lives are spent behind screens. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing! Technology has allowed us to achieve some pretty amazing feats, but it is no lie that most of us probably spend too much time on our…
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An Ode to “The Good Place”
Read more: An Ode to “The Good Place”It’s not often that a sitcom makes you both laugh out loud and ponder on moral philosophy, but NBC’s The Good Place (2016) does it with such ease and delight. Created by Michael Schur (same dude who created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, so you can trust he knows what he’s doing), The Good…
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Mental Health in the Workplace: How Capitalism Destroys Leisure
Read more: Mental Health in the Workplace: How Capitalism Destroys LeisureYou know that feeling you get when you know you should be studying or working, but you’re watching Netflix instead? That gut-wrenching guilt that comes not just with procrastination, but also with doing anything with your free time that’s not school/work related? That’s a result of capitalism. In my article In Defense of Anarchism, I…
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Why Do We Write?
Read more: Why Do We Write?“Every English major secretly wants to be a writer.” This is a sentence that’s often thrown around in literature classes, but what does it actually mean? We study the greats because we want to be one of the greats? To be fair, I suppose, who wouldn’t want to be at par with Dickens or Fitzgerald?…
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