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The Mandalorian: Getting Into Star Wars

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The Mandalorian by Jon Favreau Well, we are halfway through the first season of The Mandalorian written by Jon Favreau. The guy who played Happy Hogan from the Iron Man and Spiderman movies. When rumors came out of him writing a Star Wars series for Disney's streaming service I was a bit hesitant. I had some trust issues with Star Wars ever since The Last Jedi came out. Taking something we all loved and taking it to a completely different direction left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. Now I am biased because I really love Star Wars. Solo was good on its own but I didn't know how a television series would play out since Star Wars has only been on the big screen, with the exception of the animated series. With that being said, Star Wars has been written by so many different people that it has become so convoluted which can be a good or bad thing. JJ Abram wrote Force Awaken to almost mirror New Hope don't at me. Rian Johnson wrote The Last Jedi where you c

13 Reasons Why Season 3: Sympathy for the Devil

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SPOILERS AHEAD FROM ALL SEASONS Another year, another season of 13 Reasons Why but this time with a murder! I will admit, I didn't see billboards or that much advertisement on Facebook this time around and I actually appreciated that. When I saw the trailer finding out that Bryce Walker was murdered, I was actually excited to watch this season. You know how much I despised Bryce due to his 1-dimensional writing of the walking embodiment of toxic masculinity. Bryce was not a human in the first 2 seasons but a fill-in the spot for the "bad guy". My wife and I watch the entire third season in a 2-day span and I will say that this was the best season yet. Very few times did I want to rip my hair out by the obvious stupid choices the characters would make throughout the show, unlike the first two seasons. This season is a murder mystery of who killed Bryce rather than the first two seasons of pointing fingers of who cause Hannah's suicide. I am going to break down

Easily Offended

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(Photo: Underwood Archives, Getty Images) On April 8th, 2019, I posted a poll on Facebook posing the question, "Do you believe that people are more sensitive and more easily offended now (the 2010s) than ever before?" 66 people voted with 71% (47) people saying yes and 29% (19) people saying no. Comments discussed social media being a factor as well as age. The question presented if people were offended but did not specify a group of people. Now some people asked if this was to start a fire on Facebook especially how "divided" we are as a country. Throughout the last nine years, I can see in person and social media the belief that people are becoming "soft" with participation trophies and being rewarded for their failure...or that is what I am being told. My social media is riddled with people expressing frustration that millennials are sensitive and lazy due to being babied more than the other generations. This isn't only with older generations

The Influence of Jones

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What makes a leader? Is it their beliefs? Is it their charisma? Is it their compassion? With every leader, one must have a follower. Followers will look towards their leader for guidance. How far would you follow a leader? Would you ever follow someone to your own destruction? On November 18th, 1978, Leader of the Peoples Temple, Jim Jones, would lead over 900 of his followers to commit murder and suicide in the name of Jones. With his followers all being from America, many people questioned how one man could lead to the death of so many Americans. For over 20 years, Jones would create a socialist movement that would gain a following of over 3,000 Americans. Jones would use the civil rights movement, political power, complete socialism, and paranoia to have full control over his congregation and inevitably use his influence to take the lives of 900 members to send the message that they would lay down their lives as an act of revolutionary suicide. Histography