Chris Donald
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Arts & Crafts with The Cord
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You get to a certain point in the semester where you just can’t read anymore. We, at The Cord, understand that struggle. We too get tired of reading from time to time. That’s why we’ve taken it upon ourselves to give you suggestions of what you can do with The Cord when you can’t…
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The unwritten rules of social media you need to be following
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Is social media presence becoming too muddled for you to understand? Are you lost? Take my proverbial hand and allow me to guide you through this mess we’ve all helped to create. Here are the unwritten rules you should always be following for Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Snapchat: I’m not going to say don’t…
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My heart left soaring while the critics are roaring
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On Nov. 17, I was one of the few others that went and saw Justice League, the newest instalment of the DCEU movie series. When I say “few others”, I mean that. The theatre wasn’t nearly as packed as compared to when I saw Thor, the week previous. And by now, we’ve all heard…
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Matcha, Matcha Man, Brandon Chow is the Matcha Man
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What’s healthy, equivalent to coffee and green all over? Matcha! And entrepreneur Brandon Chow has got it by the truckload. When I first started this “Matcha Madness” escapade I had no idea what the wonderful green substance was, admittedly. “The main difference that people don’t realize is that for green tea you just dip the…
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Keeping up with a Dungeons & Dragons Master
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One night about two years ago, my sister announced to my family that she had started to play Dungeons and Dragons — and I thought that she had reached the pinnacle of her status as a “nerd.” She began printing out player sheets and then moved on to drawing her character and doing online…
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Surviving your study session when there’s no room
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Does everyone remember back in January 2017, when students petitioned for more study spots in the Laz Hall? Well, since they finished construction on Laz Hall, study spots haven’t magically become a surplus at our small campus. This is why it is important to know the best places to crank out your next assignment that…
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Remembrance Day: What it means and why we reflect?
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Every year on the eleventh month on the eleventh day at the hour, we remember. It is a day immortalized in time to look back and reflect. We take a minute of our time every year to look back upon the conflicts that caused the countless deaths of those who could have been. A statement…
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Reconsider your ‘Reputation’ Taylor Swift
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Dear Taylor Swift, I am annoyed at how often you appear in the media with your new boyfriends and I will never be able to forgive you for the moron you made of one of the greatest rappers of our generation; the one and only Kendrick Lamar. Readers, if you have not seen what has…
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The Cord Picks: Favourite Movie Scenes
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Madeline McInnis – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End The opening scene to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End will forever give me chills. This scene is so complex and well-crafted that I was able to write a 4000-word essay on it last year, and I still notice new elements each and every…
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Family drama, Opera and Laurier
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On Friday, Nov. 10, I attended an opera performed by Wilfird Laurier University students, from the faculty of music. The opera was called Family Ties and consisted of five short scenes from a variety of operas, all under the theme of family. I spoke with Madeleine Levesque, a fifth-year music student at Laurier, who not…
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