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Stop Classifying People, Start Telling Stories

Posted on May 9, 2016May 10, 2016by patrick
Mt Si, Washington

Those Chinese, Indian, Hispanic, Somalian, Congonese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, etc etc. people that you see in numbers and label as simply “foreign”. Their stories are similar: they are here for a better life, they are here supporting their families, and maybe they’re here so see how the United States works on a deeper level […]

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5 Reasons Snapchat Works (& Why Facebook Doesn’t)

Posted on February 7, 2015October 10, 2015by patrick

There are various reasons why teenagers and younger age groups are flocking to social applications like Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter. Some of these reasons can be attributed to the bandwagon effect, but certainly this is not why users stick around and actively use these applications. As a teenager myself, and as someone who’s grown up […]

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Teenagers Attention Spans Suck

Posted on September 19, 2014May 14, 2015by patrick

I am a child of the internet generation; 18 years old in 2014. I have known the internet as it is my entire life. I am so different in the way that I grew up. My friends and I just arrived home from a weekend trip to Portland, Oregon. We took tons of pictures. On […]

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