Tag: Margaret
Marilyn Monroe: Mini Biography
By: Margaret Goree Norma Jean Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. Her dad abandoned her family, leaving her mother to take care of her. Her mother’s side of the family, however, had a long history of mental illness, dating back generations. Gladys Mortenson (the mother), had a lot […]
Flappy Bird
By: Margaret Goree On May 24, 2013, Vietnamese Dong Nguyen put Flappy Bird on the iOs app store. Flappy Bird, a simple game of just tapping the screen to make a bird fly in between pipes, was only intended by Nguyen to be a moderately popular app to just bring in a bit of money […]
Twitch Plays Pokémon
By: Margaret Goree Twitch Plays Pokémon is a “social experiment” conducted by the website Twitch, launched on February 12, 2014. Users can put their commands for the game into a chat box, making the player-character in Pokémon Red move. However, after TPP gained popularity, the chat box exploded with hundreds of random commands being typed every second […]
Kindergarten
By: Margaret Goree Probably the only full day I remember from Kinder is the first day. I remember stepping on the hot, smelly, stuffy bus with my 9 year old brother, who ran down the seats to meet with his friends who he’d missed over the summer. I didn’t have anywhere to sit and I […]
Taking Out the Trash
By: Margaret Goree As I slammed my fence gate behind me, I readjusted the smelly, heavy garbage bag that was resting on my shoulder. It was a stifling, humid, ridiculously hot summer day. The sun shone super bright through the tops of the trees and stung my bare arms and face. I brushed my sweaty […]