MultiDisciplinary
Anterior Cruciate Ligaments
By Alexis Jenkins
Alexis Jenkins definitely is very active from the start. Sports have always been her passion; growing up, you could always catch her outside at the softball field playing with her high school, tournament team, or family. This all was until she had an almost career-ending injury occur not just once but twice. Luckily, she could continue to play two years of college softball, but she always wondered why tearing your ACL, also known as your Anterior Cruciate Ligament, was such a big deal. Now years later, she is a Senior here at Millersville studying Sports Journalism. After graduation, she plans to work her way into the ESPN world to eventually become an ESPN Broadcast Journalist.
media analysis
How HBO’s The Idol Exploits the Female Narrative
By heather verani
Heather Verani is a second-year graduate student and graduate assistant within the department of English and World Languages. Prior to Made in Millersville, she has presented at the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities conference on sense of belonging in graduate school and the Mid-Atlantic Pop and American Culture convention on the exploitation of the female narrative both on and off the screen in HBO’s The Idol, a research endeavor where she received funding from the Student Grants for Research and Creative Activity. Currently, she is focusing her research on her thesis work, which is a cultural feminist rhetorical analysis of the portrayal of teen femininity and sexuality in popular television media. Outside of academic research, Heather enjoys reading Young Adult and Romance novels and listening to her favorite poet, Taylor Swift.
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