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February 04, 2012 | 
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February 04, 2012 |
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[caption id="attachment_3859816" align="alignright" width="450" caption="danoah.com"][/caption] While colossal discounts and earlier than ever store openings helped retailers rake in a record breaking $52.4 billion this Black Friday four-day weekend the competitive purchasing frenzy also came with a big violent price tag. It seems as though greed and goods were the main
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Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, MySpace, all of these would not exist how we know it if the Protect IP Act, or PIPA, passes. As Americans today, we are kind of spoiled with how we treat our social networks and access to information. However, if PIPA passes through the government, the whole
If you’re like many students on campus, your parents have dropped you from the family plan and said, “Pay for your own phone.” Now on a college budget, that’s not cheap. I went into Verizon to get an iPhone, only to learn I would be throwing away $99.98 a month.
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[caption id="attachment_3859296" align="alignright" width="460" caption="Courant.com"][/caption] Last Saturday, approximately five hours after my part-time job regained power, the lights went out again while I was hurriedly bringing a patron their chicken wrap and fries. As I quickly put my iPhone’s flashlight app into use near an elderly couple so they would
As students, we force ourselves to put in the time and energy so that eventually the mounds of debt we have accrued will be paid off with the dream job we hope to get. According to a new analysis released by The Project on Student Debt, 2010 college graduates owed
Courtesty of Students for Democracy
[caption id="attachment_3859349" align="alignright" width="280" caption="Courtesty of Students for Democracy"][/caption] In recent weeks, a group on Facebook referring to themselves as “Students For Democracy at the University of Hartford” was created with the mission of forming a more Democratic campus. The intent of this article is not to jump to the
Sitting at home and finding out about the changes to the end of the semester schedule, I freaked like so many other students. After all the stress of living with no power and canceled classes, the news came as a shock that was both expected and an unwanted surprise. However,
Halloween seemed to disappear from the minds of most this year. Should a holiday that’s so easily forgotten even be considered a holiday? | Courtesy Of Terrortitans.Blogspot.Com
[caption id="attachment_3859164" align="alignright" width="280" caption="Halloween seemed to disappear from the minds of most this year. Should a holiday that’s so easily forgotten even be considered a holiday? | Courtesy Of Terrortitans.Blogspot.Com"][/caption] When it becomes possible to cancel a holiday, you start to think maybe it shouldn’t be one at all.
“An American Family” premiered in 1973 to a whirlwind of criticism. | Courtesy of Alaskapublic.org
[caption id="attachment_3859171" align="alignright" width="220" caption="“An American Family” premiered in 1973 to a whirlwind of criticism. | Courtesy of Alaskapublic.org"][/caption] In 1973, anthropologist Margaret Mead published a short essay in “TV Guide” highlighting the invasion of television’s newest attraction, PBS’s 7-month long documentary “An American Family.” Mead explained her fascination with
Students not only were left in the dark by the power outage, the University left them in the dark as well. As a student that was not on campus during the Saturday night storm, I was left wondering what was going on. There were no text message alerts, no emails
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