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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
Campus Life at
Campus Life at
Wright State University
Campus Life at
Wright State University
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The greatest source of fascination in our daily lives isn’t art or politics or faith, but the lives of the people around us, and those of people we’ve never met.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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A garden is a miniature version of the world.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Today, we look at Instagram feeds with the same level of scrutiny as the Renaissance merchants who converted their Madonnas into ducats. Only the criteria of judgment have changed. Does the user obey the unwritten laws of adult Instagram, posting less than once a day, avoiding too many shots of their face, going easy on the hashtags?
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
~ Sun Tzu
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DVD Finds
U2 – Live at Red Rocks
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Like other social media platforms, Instagram may owe much of its success to its role as a supremely efficient brain parasite, feeding on our need for instant connection and validation.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
~ Sun Tzu
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