Advanced Essay Workshop/ENGL 2270
 

Completing The Circle: How One Youth Found Their True Self

Indigenous culture varies throughout every tribe in the Americas. In several Native American and Indigenous First Nations tribes, a sacred traditional type of medicine is through dance. Indigenous dances are very different than what’s popular in the mainstream now. Additionally, there is also a unique gender identity that is specific to many Indigenous tribes, which is called …

How Instagram ads made ILLENIUM a successful Musician

Nicholas D.miller, a.k.a ILLENIUM, has been able to skyrocket to the top of the music business in the past couple of years. He has already dropped three studio albums and has been signed to a major label called Artwerks. In 2019, He performed in places like EDC, UMF, and Madison …

Activism in Art: How Keith Haring Spoke to the LGBTQ community

Keith Haring was a popular artist and AIDS activist who was part of the legendary New York street art scene of the 1980s. He is known for his colourful works that responded to contemporary social and political issues. This included the battle to end Apartheid, the AIDS epidemic and drug …

Peter McKinnon’s ‘Autumn Collection’ Featuring Some Thought-Provoking Leaves

I, for one, have never been keen on visual art. But with finding inspiration in photography, I feel that I’ve found an art form that I can grasp. I finally settled on photography, because I find the capturing and direct recording of life around us to be a better representation …

John Mulaney: And Why You Should Be Watching

John Mulaney is the American stand-up comedian right now. He is an instantly recognizable comedian known for his many Netflix specials and his work as a writer on the popular comedy show Saturday Night Live. His most recent Netflix comedy special Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, filmed in February 2018 and released …

The Try Guys Legends of the Internet Tour really is Legendary

For those that don’t know the Try Guys, they are a group of four friends that came together to create a YouTube channel. Their names are Eugene Lee Yang, Keith Habersberger, Ned Fulmer, and Zach Kornfeld. The four guys all started out on a YouTube channel called BuzzFeedVideo under the …