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My (New) Family Room Lake Ruth God Attends Estill University Drive Lightning Strikes      My photo essay is a thematic essay about beauty in my new home. I moved into my first apartment at the beginning of this semester, and I miss home a lot. I’ve been taking pictures whenever I see something beautiful to remind myself there is beauty everywhere.       The first picture is a photo of my living room in my apartment. I decorated the walls with lots of photos of myself, my roommate, and my boyfriend. I also used my roommate’s artwork. I hung a Moroccan lamp in the corner, plants in the other corner, and made sure to include a giant book collection.       The second photo is of Lake Ruth. I lived in a dorm room in Corbin Hall last year and ate by Lake Ruth every day. My boyfriend and I sat down on a bench overlooking the lake underneath a big tree. Now, I pass Lake Ruth as I walk to my car after class. I’ve started to take pictures of ...

Grandma's Pumpkin Bread The Recipe The ingredients you will need are listed here: Wet: - 3 cup sugar - 4 eggs - 1 cup Mazola oil - 1 can Libbey Pumpkin - 2/3 cup water Dry: - 3 1/2 cup flour - 2 tsp baking soda - 1 tsp baking power - 1 tsp salt - 1 tsp cinnamon - 1/2 tsp nutmeg - 1/2 tsp allspice - 1/4 tsp ground cloves Step One Grease loaf pans and preheat oven to 350 degrees. Step Two Combine sugar, eggs, and oil in large mixing bowl.  Step Three Add pumpkin. Step Four Combine dry ingredients. Step Five Slowly add dry mix to wet mix. Step Six Add water and mix. Step Seven Add to loaf pans and bake for one hour.

Body Inclusivity in the Media      Body inclusivity in the media is virtually nonexistent. Throughout my research, I've been able to speak to a full-figured model, analyze the famous Barbie Effect, look at Disney characters and movie tropes through a microscopic lens, and acknowledge the lasting psychological effect all of these things have on people.     This project means a lot to me because I am plus-sized myself. I grew up with the Barbie Effect, I was and am treated differently because of my weight, I am looked down on. Seeing that the treatment I receive on a daily basis is not in my head is upsetting but validating at the same time.  Conversations with a Model      When I chose this topic to do my research on, I remembered I had a family friend who is a full-figured model. Literally nothing in my life has lined up to be this perfect before! Deanna Tennant is an absolute gem of a human and a stunning woman. She has worked as a full-figu...

 Ready Player One      Ready Player One is a book-to-movie adaptation based on the book, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. The story features Wade, a gunter in a post-apocalyptic America. In this world, citizens pass their time by playing in a virtual reality simulator called The Oasis. The Oasis was created by a man named Halliday, who became the richest man in the world thanks to its success. After Halliday’s death, he left a video telling the world that he’d hidden an egg deep inside The Oasis. The first player to reach the egg would receive his entire fortune. Wade dedicated his whole life to finding Halliday’s Easter Egg and ends up succeeding with the help of his friends, Aech, Shoto, and Art3mis. The movie does not follow the book’s plot at all. I understand the need to switch the plot up to make the movie more marketable, but the plot of the movie was simply awful. The length of the movie was way too long. It barely included anything from the book yet was two...