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  Rory Day Professor Weiner WRT 205 4/23/2024                               Unit 3 Reflection  Finding the medium that stuck out to me the most was very difficult at first.  I had trouble finding a way to be creative with this project, because for the first 2-unit final assignments the only content I created were formal essays with loads of data and information.  The third assignment on the other hand made it so that I could not do that again and forced myself to go out of my comfort zone and experiment with other mediums.  Here is where I hit my major roadblock which was finding mediums that I wanted to engage in as well as a format that I was genuinely interested in.  On top of that I had to find a medium that would allow me to formulate my opinions and present all of the research that I had conducted throughout the entire semester.  Through many cla...

 Unit three final project. Click the link bellow to view my project https://prezi.com/view/fnvzilUDeyli6YL9eoqd/

                    The Peanuts Graphic Novel   The graphic novel I chose was The Complete Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz and i greatly enjoyed it.  The novel brought back so much nostalgia from my past, and when I passed it in the library I knew that I had to check it out and read it again.  I have never been the biggest reader or book worm so graphic novels were always ways that i would enjoy reading when I was younger.  it is a great was to tell a story through the dialog and being able to connect that to a panel on the page that perfectly depicts the emotion and action of the character in a drawing.  these stories can be as long or short as the author wants them to be so this medium allows for an extreme amount of flexibility, as well as the rise of technology these graphic novels can be shared or posted to be read on our phones or computers.  because of the rise of graphic design and use o...

                                                                                          Reddit      I really like whet people are doing to change reddit for the better, because they are taking a negative aspect of the platform are changing it to a more wholesome and family friendly content.  I personally do not use reddit ever but if I was going to use reddit these subreddits of hate and vulgarity would deter me from engaging with the content i came for.  People love to spread hate and I like that people are taking a stand and making a change for the better person by person.  Like in the podcast shows, no one really knew what the internet was going to pan out and become so it was impossible...