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Why Do Celebrity Deaths Affect Us? Understanding Celebrity Death Celebrity Death. Why does it hurt so much? A Celebrity Death Can Feel Like Losing a Family Member The Effect of Kobe’s Death Grieving a Great of the Game Why Do We Grieve Celebrities? Grieve them? I barely even Knew Them! Trying to Understand Celebrity GrievingContinue reading “Writing Challenge #5”

One of the most surprising outcomes of the passing of Kobe Bryant was the fact that so many people who didn’t follow basketball felt hurt. I had a conversation with my teacher about this subject, and he mentioned he cried when he heard the news, even though he doesn’t watch basketball. This made me realizeContinue reading “Writing Challenge #4”

I added research and a bigger picture idea Many fans took to social media as an outlet for the expression of their grief. I came across countless messages implying that people had no reason to feel sad because they didn’t know Kobe personally. Some might choose to grieve alone, but many people seek a senseContinue reading “Writing Challenge #3”

David Kaplan, chief professional officer of the American Counseling Association explained it as if the celebrities we follow become like extended members of our families in an interview with Huffington Post. “We grow up with these people,” he said, and by keeping up with what they’re doing on a regular basis, we feel like weContinue reading “Writing Challenge #2”

Grief is something that most people experience at one moment or another, but very few understand. It is hard to truly understand grief because how it is experienced varies from person to person. Julia Samuel, author of “Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving,” works with grieving families and put it very well whenContinue reading “Writing Challenge #1”

Imagine you’re dealing with an incredibly unpleasant customer at your evening job, and thinking about how you need to get in 5 hours of studying and 8 hours of sleep before your 8AM class tomorrow. But you only get off work at 11:30. On top of that you haven’t been able to find time toContinue reading “Practicing Pathetic Arguments”

For the following days I didn’t feel like talking to anyone about it because it genuinely hurt to think about. Genuinely maybe isn’t the perfect word Really Honestly Without a doubt Truly Undeniable For the following days, I didn’t feel like talking to anyone about it because the pain I felt about the situation wasContinue reading “Thesaurus exercise”

I didn’t believe it, but deep down I felt like something was off. Something was off. Something was very off. I felt something was very off. I just couldn’t understand why I felt something was very off. I couldn’t understand why I felt something was very off. I couldn’t understand why something was very off.Continue reading “Choices Exercise”

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