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I started by listening to songs about boxes. I found the song "little boxes" and used it as a way of thinking about aspects of the course. I started to unravel aspects of the theory in the lyrics of the song.

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The song title refers to houses, but it also refers to metaphors. How metaphors are little boxes for packaging our meaning, meaning that spills out and reflects and refracts social change.

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My thoughts are not boxes. They are more like roads, but when I think about how aspects of culture, I notice how I do think about them as contained and packaged I see how in the way I create lists of things to do, I generate them by using the concept of boxes.

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There was a show on Disney called "Out of the Box" that aired in the late 90s - early 2000s. The idea of the show, from what my 7-10ish year old brain can remember, was about a clubhouse that was literally inside a box while telling children to think outside the box with crafts and songs.

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It was interesting to read Lizzie Jepsen's post thinking about the box metaphor. At one point she talks about how the only time we really try to go outside our boxes is in our angsty years. This got me thinking, and it is something they have us think about a lot in boxing, to be outside the box you have to continue to challenge yourself to breakdown the walls of the next box. Even if you are thinking outside the box there is still a limit, your walls. You can never know if you are still in a box or not because you have to think outside of it before you can look back and see that you were previously in one.

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Starting off the semester I didn't only start off school, I started off my nannying job that I had a break from during the summer and I added hot yoga to my workouts. This has made me put my life into mental boxes and in literal boxes on my calendar. I have to separate out all my time to know what mode I need to be in to get through the next box on my calendar.

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We gave our boys a puppy for Christmas a few years ago...she didn't like being inside the box (for the 20 seconds she was there). Sometimes we let ourselves get put in boxes we don't like, we are trapped in our boxes of our own making or boxes we don't like. To shed those ideals we need to think outside the box...or redefine what it means to be in a box.

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I haven't actually ever watched that movie...but I hear that metaphor a lot...I can relate it this way, you don't know what your going to get...sometimes life gives you stuff you might not like...kind of like the dark chocolates in your box, but, you also get the creamy milk chocolates and if you want, because its your box, you can take a bite out of all of them just to see what they are...or could be.

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Shoulder pads were a thing in the 80's and 90's.  My favorite plaid blazer had them (until I cut them out). I didn't like looking boxy, which was also a thing...I don't like living my life in boxes, like calendar boxes,because I feel like the "boxiness" is stifling, yet if I don't create boxes I don't accomplish anything. I am learning to create boxes that have room for...movement.

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Reading the second chapter MWLB made me think about how "Time is Money" is the basis of Film and Theatre, and not in a metaphorical sense. In arts fields your time spends someone else's money. Every hour spent on a film set costs the budget X amount of dollars so to keep to the filming budget you must keep to a strict timeline. Where "time is money" means something different to someone who isn't on those restrictions.

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Being new into the Administration field for a university and also running a box office on the side, I am working to change the standard of how this job was done before. taking what others have done and tweaking it to my style and bringing it into more modern ways of completing tasks and becoming more efficient. it's hard work as this department has been going for a very long time, but with each process I change the better I am at helping faculty, students, and patrons.

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It's pretty cool that the words Building Blocks can mean so many things. From an actual block for children to learn letters and balance, Lego bricks that instill engineering and creativity, building your life with block of stability, or even a business designed to assist those with disability learn speech and life skills that other take for granted.

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This is a metaphor I see often. One that i am actually kind of curious as to its origins, but it is meant to hint that what is being mentioned may be of greater use to someone. Just as food is used to nourish and grow a body what is being said can nourish and grow the mind.

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Ghosting is a social media term used for someone who just disappears off of social media. Ghosts actually appear from nothing so it is ironic that term is used. The way it is used on social media is turning people into metaphorical social ghosts.

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I had a bit of difficulty finding a metaphor for this category. I chose this one because i tell it to my son every single night, they're words meant to bring comfort and encourage good sleep.