2023 Voyage

 #HA SHTAG      In the early 2010s, numerous people started using social media platforms daily such as Facebook and Twitter. As these platforms became more popular it became difficult to search for specific posts, there being an infinite amount of content. As a result, hashtags were created by a former web designer, Chris Messina, to compose certain posts into groups, by simply adding a pound sign, followed by a word or phrase (Edwards, 2013).       Nowadays, new generations have adapted this method to compile a vast amount of content on newer platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. Searching for relatable content online has become effortless, just click on any hashtag on any post and there, you have a collection of content that uses the same hashtag. This technique has become more commonly used in photographs and videos, creating a compilation of similar content or discovering the creator(s) of the content. The use of social media and hashtags throughout these past years has created a

#RELATABLE      A student's life is much more challenging than any other person's. There always comes a point in life at which one is forced to make a difficult choice. In many cases, many students encounter a fork in the road, half way into their school semester they begin to lose motivation and ponder on giving up or changing majors. Colleges and Universities have a well understanding of this issue and provide an extra helping hand by providing extra academic tutoring or open labs.  Many students have to manage their daily hours to fit all of their activities such as school, work, exercise, personal activities, and sleep. With such limited hours in a day, students begin to stress out and yearn for a break from all things that are occurring. This is the primary reason why many choose to quit school and start working.  Attending or becoming a full-time worker makes life easier and less stressful. Not having to stay up all night long accomplishing assignments or projects, with v

Arizona Water Shortage Crisis     One scarce material in a desert is water and for Arizona it is crucial to have, reasons being many residents need it to survive and live in these hot and dry conditions. In recent years, Arizona's water resource has diminished, and resident have not done anything major to change or help prevent the reduction of water.       The Colorado River and ground water are the main resources of water for Arizona and should be protected and supervised by the Govenor, Senators, and Representatives of the State. If the shortage of water keeps declining, it would seriously reflect the decision making and priority of our state. Clarifying that water should be use but in a more effective way, these decisions should be made by the state governor in developing some sort of water shortage prevention system.      Technology and gadgets could be used to help decrease the use of water and should be provided to each individual residence. Very little time is left, and act

Modern Illustrations           Today's anime has the best colors, textures, artistic design, life-like scenarios, and incredible visual effects. Just like CGI is used to bring visual art to life, anime has the advantage of having it all be created from art illustrations. The artist can bring out all their ideas and creativity into screen. Many shows demonstrate this creativity such as Naruto, Bleach, Attack of Titan, and One Piece.      As for color, older anime, many shows had dull or dark tints, shades, or tones. In today's anime, many studios have budgeted more in intensifying colors and illuminations in their animation. These illustrations cause viewers to want to stay longer and watch the full animated scene(s). Not only do colors make the scene more mesmerizing but so do the texture of the drawings.  For example, in Jojo's Bizzare Adventure, the creator makes its characters very muscular and adds unique details to the character's clothing and poses. Although newer

Apps of Deception        We all love to have some sort of entertainment throughout our day, either by watching a video, performing an activity, or communicating with someone. The use of social media apps helps us explore many new forms of entertainment that are easily accessible.       Although these apps are user-friendly, do we know what their main objective is? We can assume that these apps were made to entertain us, but what if we knew that the main purpose of the app was to gather personal information from the user, then many of us wouldn't even have downloaded it in the first place.       This  YouTube video from BBC News , informs the viewers about the app called TikTok, an app that was released in China, which is used for creating and posting short videos for entertainment purposes. After allegations were made that TikTok uses users' information and deploys it to the Chinese government many organizations and companies are banning the use of this app on company's and

KEEP GOING      Take a minute or two, to recollect the propositions you once had in developing a new change in your life. Many of us have thought of making changes in our daily routine, and in doing so we started with lots of confidence and determination.        Everything always seems to go well in the first, one to two weeks of a new routine. Yet, what causes one to stop progressing and give up all hopes of flourishing into a better version of themselves? Persistence is key to keeping motivated. People usually give up once they stop doing their new routine because they give themselves some time to relax or as some say, "a break". One should never stop performing their task until they have gotten used to doing their routine without forcing, or thinking twice if they'll do it again the next day.      Change is harder to accomplish if you, yourself don't want to put in the time and effort. Create a daily schedule, organizing your day by hour helps keep a neat day-to-da