There’s a lot of bad information out there in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine. Most recently, there has been a movement to twist the CDC’s words about deaths by those who received the vaccine to suggest the vaccine is unsafe. Let’s clear the air: that’s a terrible rumor and simply
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“You’ll never earn enough money as a graphic designer to support a family.” That was the advice my academic advisor gave me as a late-starting 21-year-old college student (I had been living out of the country for a couple years after high school), unsuspecting and still largely impressionable. I did
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Home > Speaking > POWERFUL Presentations > POWERFUL Approach QUICK NOTE! The “P.O.W.E.R.R.F.U.L.” approach to presentation design is something I developed to think holistically about how to give the best presentations possible, no matter what the audience, topic, or circumstances are. This article covers what the approach itself is. To
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For as long as there have been artifacts of communication—speeches, articles, books, paintings, photographs, ad campaigns, whatever—there have been methods for analyzing their effectiveness. In recent years, high school and college teachers have been developing easy-to-remember acronyms to help students know the components of an artifact they should be evaluating.
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After a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in acts of insurrection—an event that led to the death of five people following heated remarks from President Trump in a rally just moments before—leaders from both Democratic and Republican parties (but mostly from the Democratic party) have swiftly
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Yesterday, I read an article published by CNN that touted this headline: “COVID-19 has killed 250,000 people in the U.S. That’s 10 times the number of deaths from car crashes in a year.” The CNN authors’ comparison to car crashes is designed to offer perspective. At a time when people
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Tempted to add one of those fancy apostrophes to your last name on your Christmas card this year? Don’t. It’s wrong. And it may embarrass you in front of your friends and family at the very time you’re trying to impress them the most. Why? Because apostrophes are punctuation marks
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So, you’ve just voted. And you’ve heard about the Electoral College. And now you’re wondering, does my vote even matter? What’s this “Electoral College” thing anyway? If you’ve asked these questions, you’re not alone. Frankly, it’s confusing and most Americans don’t really understand how the voting process actually works. On
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In case you missed the debate, I’ve assembled a brief—but for more palatable—summary of what you would have experienced. In sixteen short quotes—eight from each of the two candidates—I’ve tried to capture the mood and substance of the entire debate. No, the statements on the graphic weren’t said sequentially, but
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Did you know that millions of Americans, every election, don’t get the opportunity to vote, simply because they didn’t register? Don’t let that happen to you! Fortunately, non-partisan, non-profit organizations all over the country have been finding ways to make it easier for you to register. And…they’ve officially (since 2012),
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