It seems like everyone today wants to be a content creator. With this, there are also bombardments of ads capitalizing on this fact. But at the same time, it seems like a lot of content creators are experiencing burnout and are not enjoying their art anymore. Creativity: Where does art come from? “Toward a psychology of the artist” by Nietzsche, p. 518 in The Portable … Continue reading Authenticity v. Inauthenticity and Creator Burnout
What if someone were to tell you that you can have anything you want? Anything, if you can just believe you could. Within the 2006 documentary, The Secret, screenplay writer and executive producer Rhonda Byrne walks us through the centuries-long secret of the Law of Attraction: changing your life with your thoughts alone. In its debut, the world was fascinated with Byrne’s work, which was … Continue reading Understanding “The Secret” (The Law of Attraction) and its Egyptian Origins
The Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell can be, and has been, applied to a great number of stories written throughout time. Today I am sharing my own Hero’s Journey through both college and university, from high school to being a graduate. Please check out the original source for this version of The Hero’s Journey by Thearetical.com, which details the meaning behind each step. Ironically, in … Continue reading My “Hero’s Journey” through College and University
The year 2020 will be one of the most memorable years of the 21st century. It was just over two months after COVID-19 came to the US when the entire world saw a US cop kill a black citizen, George Floyd, in cold blood. Unable to fathom the sight of this, the world changed. People started to protest peacefully, and across the country and even … Continue reading Hank Azaria and The Creators Behind “The Simpsons” are Taking a Stand Against the Use of Blackface in Entertainment
Image from The Actors Fund and Thomas Safran & AssociatesBreak Ground on The Hollywood Arts Collective Press Release Background The Actors Fund was established in 1882, 140 years ago next year, to serve all individuals in the entertainment community – including those in television, film, radio, as well as those in music, dance, and all forms of performing arts.1 The campaigns that Actors Fund organizes … Continue reading The Actors Fund “The Hollywood Arts Collective” Campaign: A Community Relations Formal Case Study
Throughout the past five months, from mid-March to August 1st, I have felt the most drained I have ever been. Part of this is because I have allergies for the first time in my life, and the other is because I have been in quarentine. What this meant was that for nearly five months, I really only left my house to get groceries. For the … Continue reading Why ‘The Office’ is Our Best Friend
Biotechnology today has become an incredibly advanced and expansive system of using both biological beings, such as plants or animals, as well as technologies that are constantly evolving the process. The question to put forward now is: how far should biotechnology go to benefit and extend the human lifespan? In looking through all of the extensive research on the subject, the question can not be … Continue reading Using Biotechnology to Extend The Human Lifespan
The issue brought into question comes from “Codes of Ethics: Texts in Practice,” written by Peta Bowden and Anne Surma, published in 2003 in Professional Ethics, which highlights the possible errors that having official ethical codes within industries can cause. Authors Bowden and Surma suggest that having ethical codes set at a highly official capacity can lead to alienation in the workplace. They then argue … Continue reading Improving and Modernizing Business Ethical Codes
In the interview between Ralph Nader and Milton Friedman, “Government Regulation – Too Much or Too Little?” with moderator Hugh Sidley (1979), Nader and Friedman discuss just that. Does the United States government have too much or too little regulation on businesses, enterprises, or our consumer autonomy? The importance of this discussion is because of how government regulations do affect consumers on both positive and … Continue reading Nader vs. Friedman on ‘Government Regulations’ and Consumer Rights
Across one semester, me and my fellow Ad/PR students moved through a process called “RACE” (Research, Action, Communication, Evaluation) to create a campaign planbook for one of our school’s departments. The acronym “RACE” is something we have learned to be at the very core of advertising and public relations methods of improving businesses’ brand, image, outreach, crisis control, and overall problem-solving. This was the task … Continue reading Creating a Public Relations Campaign Planbook From Scratch
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