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10) Wild Card: The F*cking Leftovers (And Avengers)

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Here's the thing folks. You don't understand. The Leftovers , the little HBO show that could, that lasted 3 seasons on HBO, has infected mass media bigger than one ever could have thought, and I have cracked the case into why, secretly, the entire world in May of last year had watched the film version of The Leftovers. What film was that? Only the soon to be 2nd biggest film ever of all time Avengers: Infinity War , to be concluded by Avengers: Endgame. Which shush about that right now (I haven't seen it and I'm avoiding spoilers like the swine flu ebola bubonic plague.) But Avengers, like all grandiose major block busters, has to crank up the numbers. In HBO's The Leftovers, for those of you who don't know, 2% of the world's population mysteriously disappears and the show explores the world after a secular rapture. Avengers: Infinity War is the big budget prologue to this show. Except in Infinity War, Thanos, the Mad Titan, dusts 50% of all life from e

9) Classmate Blog Critique: Elizabeth Nalley

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Elizabeth's blog is one not like many I've seen in a blog class. While everyone surely does a great job in these blog classes, Elizabeth's is especially interesting in how in depth she goes into everything. Most of her blogs tend to run long, but in a good way. She segments her blogs with subheadings that do a deep dive into a certain aspect of whatever her topic may be. For example, in her review of Jeremy Jahns' channel , she'll first look at what the guy is all about, his channel, his style of review, and what the future may hold for him. Or in her vegan blog for Lifestyle and Popular Culture or the piece she wrote regarding Plexus and food technologies. She breaks up different aspects of certain topics which allows a specified look into her topic and also an easier read to know that she is going to jump to a different angle on the same topic. This is in contrast to me where I can tend to go on and on about some things in my blogs. One thing she does that I

8) International Media: Asian Representation in Media

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After the success of Crazy Rich Asians , Hollywood has been more inclined to produce films that better represent people of Asian decent. Not only has a sequel to Crazy Rich Asians already greenlit, but not a full week after the Thai cave crisis, when 13 young children and their  instructor were trapped in an underwater cave, the rights were optioned for an inspirational film type film. For years, Asians, even more so than African Americans, have been getting short shrift in American media.  We all remember the blatantly racist depiction of the Asian neighbor in Breakfast at Tiffany's. While Hollywood often preaches about equality, they don't tend to do much about it until financial proof makes it necessary. Crazy Rich Asians took 30 million dollars to make, but made almost 200 million dollars in the United States alone.  And making 64 million from foreign box office