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The super fun @booksparks #src2017 is coming to an end! Did you join? How many books did you end up reading? . Here's another recent addition to my TBR by the amazing team at @booksparks! I'll definitely be sure to paint my nails this gorgeous color while reading this one. 😉 . 💬Have you read The Leavers by Lisa Ko? Thoughts? ________________________________________________________ 📖Synopsis: One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. . With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an “all-American boy.” But far away from all he’s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother’s disappearance and the memories of the family and community he left behind. . Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging. It’s the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he’s loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past. . This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice. ________________________________________________________ @algonquinbooks #theleavers #lisako #bookmail #flatlay #flatlays #vscobooks #vsco #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booknerd #bookworm #book #📚

This meme is about Trump’s response to the state governments request for medical equipment in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. There has been some controversy about Trump’s response to the pandemic by not taking appropriate action or distributing the medical supplies based off favoritism.  Despite the states urgent need for medical equipment he refuses to utilize his power to send the states the supplies they need to fight the virus and expresses that the states shouldve prepared in advance for the pandemic by stocking up their own supplies without any reliance on the federal government.

This meme is about President Wilson’s response to women’s suffrage. The NWP and other women activists were very frustrated with President Wilson’s response to women’s suffrage. He continually pushed for state governments to pass women suffrage laws and avoided pushing for a federal law despite the fact that many states were reluctant. 

This meme is based off Chris Burden’s artpiece “Shoot.” The original intent of the piece was to promote awareness about gun violence and the brutality of war in response to the Vietnam War. Ive created this meme demonstrate that the purpose of Chris Burden’s art was not to promote gun violence but bring awareness to the issue of gun violence

Many memes are controversial about the content. If we were to put restrictions on controversial content how would that impact the quantity of or emphasis on society’s responses to social and political issues that need to be voiced?

In reference to the evolution of memes while retaining their original identity, I would think as we increase the mutation of themes the original identity would eventually become absent so how can memes maintain the original aspects and meanings they evolve?