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Protected: Out in the Great Alone

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I’m really glad I chose to read this essay because it had the most happening as far as multimedia and story elements go. I liked how Brian Phillips basically took an idea that he liked, with elements that he had no experience with—such as cold weather and piloting an airplane—and just went with it. It’s really inspiring to see it work for a journalist and all of the pieces of this essay to fall together so well. At the beginning of the essay it seemed as if this would be focused solely on the Iditarod, but Phillips chose to take it beyond that and address the land that makes up the Iditarod. I was fascinated with the concept of the author focusing on the land and the people that he encountered along the way to further his own story.

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Protected: The Fight for All-Ages Shows

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Jes Skolnik (1254 read)

This essay is one-of-a-kind, because you can see how much work the author has put into not just the writing, but the planing behind creating an all-ages space. This is unlike most of the other articles that I read because it doesn’t feature much in the terms of multimedia use. Skolnik relies heavily on their own emotions to drive the story, rather than pictures, graphs, etc. They do include links that give more detail about other situations or related topics that the reader can look into, which is helpful. This whole essay seems like a brainstorming piece because the author is constantly asking questions, that they don’t have the answer to.

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Protected: The Greatest Story Reddit Ever Told

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Kevin Morris (5562 words)

People on the internet, as a community, can be so inexplicably nice, for no reason. I’ve never had any experience with Reddit so I can’t attest to that platform personally, but from this article I was able to get a closer look into that community of helpers. From the beginning of the article I didn’t know what to expect, honestly I was half expecting the story to actually take place on Reddit through threads. This was much better. It was a long article, but I think that each part was important.

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Protected: Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks

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Jia Tolentino (8,145 read)

After reading this article, I have so much respect for both the woman being interviewed and the author. This is such a s difficult topic to discuss for a woman going through this painful process and for a woman trying to understand why she’s doing it. IT’s hard to see how abortion is a selfish act when it is used to save a life. I think the set up for this article is what makes it so easy to read and understand what’s going on. It’s conversational and it’s as if the author knows each of the questions that you’re thinking of, but they are able to actually ask it.

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Protected: The Most Deranged Sorority Girl Email You Will Ever Read

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Caity Weaver (1597 words)

“Thank god Arcadia doesn’t have sororities,” was my first thought when I read this article. I think this piece was a work of art, and after reading it for a third time I will begin to explain why but first, I need to talk about my own brief run in with sorority girls. I believe in order to fully appreciate this article in particular you have to at least know or experienced what it's like to be around a sorority girl for an extended amount of time. I never actually believed that the Sorority Girl trope was a real thing until I studied abroad in London for the summer. I somehow managed to befriend four sorority girls and for the brief four days that I spent with them, all they talked about was LITERALLY (exaggerated for emphasis) their respective sororities and how amazing they were.

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Registrations By Lobbying, Year: 2016, Quarter 4 Part 2

This pie chart is in relation to name of company that registered using Open Data. Registrations By Lobbying, Year: 2016, Quarter 4 

This pie chart is the same Open Data information from the above chart, but it is in relation to the lobbying subject—some categories only had one company that registered, so they were included in "other" this includes: Aviation, Children, Corrections & Prisons, Energy, Environment, Food & Beverages, Gaming - Casinos, Housing, Human Services, Insurance, Lobbying, Local Officials, Planning, Smoking & Tobacco, Water.

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Why You Never Truly Leave High School

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After reading this article I have never wanted to complain more about how terrible high school was than right now. I didn’t have the worst high school experience, but I definitely hated high school. I know that so many people had it (and continue to have it) worse and they’re forced to just deal with it. That is why I hate the idea of high school even though I’ve been out of it for almost four years, You. Never.