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Comedy Essays

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‘Booksmart’: Class of Gen Z

by Danielle Acton

May 29, 2019

Throw a reunion if you've graduated within the last ten years because "Booksmart" is the most accurate depiction of what it's like to be a high schooler in the 2010s.
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"A League of Their Own" Essays, Women's History Month

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Two sets of rules

by Amy Wasney

April 18, 2019

When men participate, it's an event. When women participate, it's a show. In video games, male characters wear full suits of armor; female characters wear metal bikinis. In comic books
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"The Virgin Suicides" Essays

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Enchanted by the Details

by Rebecca Martin

November 8, 2018

I don’t know about you, but I get chills by the intimacy of the details. Her films vary in story, but no matter what the story is about—a seventeenth-century queen,
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"The Virgin Suicides" Essays

4 min read

American Animals

by Stephanie Dykes

November 8, 2018

The question of who might be trustworthy is a constant point of contention in Bart Layton’s vision in the 2018 film “American Animals.” Can we trust the characters? Can we
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