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I'm Julia Jenne, an eighteen-year-old writer, creator and travel enthusiast currently studying Arts & Culture at Dawson College. This website is the humble yet proud beginnings of my ever-growing writing portfolio. Enjoy reading, and find out more in my letter of intent.

The Commercialization of Hipster

Water

Sex, Religion & Film: Catholicism in C.R.A.Z.Y

The Moment Before

Garbology

Christmas, in Moderation

Campaigning in the age of Likes, Comments and Shares: Social Media and the 2015 Election

History Repeats Itself - A Sestina

Dinner With God

Challenging the Menstrual Shame Game: An Ad Analysis

The Commercialization of Hipster

What is a hipster? Any good research piece on the topic of hipsterism would begin with a good, solid definition, and I of all people...

Water

Everyone else is inside. The sun fell over the mountain an hour ago, two hours ago. The sky is dark, as dark as she’s ever seen it. You...

Sex, Religion & Film: Catholicism in C.R.A.Z.Y

The relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality – or any overt display of sexuality, for that matter – has never been a positive...

The Moment Before

The highway was dark. They’d passed the last set of streetlights a half hour ago when they flew by the exit to who knows where at a...

Garbology

No trash bag. No trash bag to harness the contents of the garbage bin, so that all the chewing gum he's been eating to mask the taste of...

Christmas, in Moderation

Ah, the Christmas season. A time of joy, celebration and cheer. A time of self-indulgence and senseless consumerism. A time when retail...

Campaigning in the age of Likes, Comments and Shares: Social Media and the 2015 Election

The 2015 federal election is over. Eleven weeks of campaigning has ended and its peripheral hype is dwindling slowly as Canada gets...

History Repeats Itself - A Sestina

4 am on a suburban street. A dripping wet bone-chilling night in mid fall. Hunched over on ripped stockings, groping the night’s...

Dinner With God

Jesus is my lord, her bumper sticker says, practically reading itself aloud every time a car passes us on the boulevard and gives us a...

Challenging the Menstrual Shame Game: An Ad Analysis

The marketing of feminine hygiene products has come to be touchy subject matter among women. More in tune than ever with advertisers'...