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My name is Chance, but my friends call me Chance Lewis. I'm a quasi-musician/failed-student/half-assed-market researcher living in Provo by way of Nazareth, Pennsylvania. I love a classic front porch and a good acoustic sing-along; acoustic singalongs held

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Life: 38 of 1201
"We're All Gonna Die" There was a place, there was a time; there was an ordinary guy, who told me that "we're all gonna die" I see my friends, they come and go; fading in and out like the stations on the radio; I keep my expectations low Im not as morbid as you think, cuz if thats what you think I am, then, this song is goin... More..
Entertainment > TV News & Commentary Assessing the decline of quality family-oriented television series: 2 of 23
A decline in good old family-oriented television shows isn't so much a deliberate conspiracy of network executives trying to starve the moral fiber of the nation; it's simply a case of supply and demand. New technology, high-paced schedules, and complex floor plans of millennial homes have changed families' TV consumption pa... More..
Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends 1990s television series: 2 of 20
As an elementary school student in the early 90's, I had very few examples to look to for what high school life would be like; I had no older siblings and the Internet was not around yet to culture my small town mindset. Fortunately, I did have one beacon of light in my preparation for high school: a little show called Saved... More..
Computers & Technology > Computers & Technology (Other) On living vicariously through technology: 3 of 10
Marshall McLuhan once wrote that every medium is merely an extension our own physical selves. The wheel, he said, was an extension of the foot, just as the written word was an extension of the tongue. Today, McLuhan's theory has been even more fully realized, as communications technology acts at an accelerated pace to facili... More..
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Remembering: 13 of 39
Don't we all remember the original Nintendo Entertainment System, that segueway from our innocent childhoods to the fast-paced high-tech world we now live in. Playing Nintendo provided me with the valuable motor skills and hand-eye coordination that today helps me to leave comments and add friends on myspace at record speeds... More..
Society & Lifestyle > North American Culture The names and characteristics of the four generations: 1 of 3
One interesting way to distinguish the four generations in 20th Century American culture is by their attitude and use of technology: Most of our grandparents fall into the Mature Generation. They are afraid of and skeptical towards technology. Perhaps they are threatened by computers, because they provide shortcuts to so muc... More..
Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes Problems with contemporary trends in rock music: 18 of 39
The problem with current rock music has nothing to do with how terrible the bands are you hear on the radio, it has to do with the simple fact that the music business is in fact a business, following the capitalistic principle of supply and demand. All of my friends who I would consider to have "good" taste in music are in t... More..
Entertainment > Music Business Taking a look at democratic competition on Internet music sites: 1 of 2
The democratic competition on Internet music sites is defeating the purpose of the Internet as a medium for discovering new music. First of all, these contests are oversaturating the market. People are so bombarded with spambot-powered music profiles, trying to up the band's friend count or daily plays, that listeners just g... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Political Values America is in a privacy crisis: 22 of 42
I believe that America truly is in a privacy crisis, but in a very different way than others who would agree with that statement. I believe that there is TOO MUCH privacy this day in age. Our sense of community is gone, as the picket fences surrounding our suburban homes get higher and more protective. The front porches of m... More..
Entertainment > Musicians & Bands What is your favorite band and why?: 115 of 219
Short-lived and eclectic, raw and unifying, my favorite band is Long Beach's own, Sublime. This trio was ahead of their time and yet still paid tribute to their punk, ska and hip-hop influences that came before them. Their music united genres of music and genres of people, putting the lyrical ideal of peace and unity into ac... More..