The following are three items I found for an assignment as part of COM412: Journalism Reimagined.
For a city that is renowned for being so clean, it is amazing how a little closer inspection at the right places awaits abandoned treasures also known as trash:
A poem/rhyme between two girls that I found in a cigarette box at a Starbucks
I’m not sure why it got abandoned, did they break up? Did she forget? Is this a case of fantasy love that never worked out?
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A sugar manufacturer’s confession of sin
I had just sat down at McDonald’s when I found this used packet of sugar on my table. It turns out that every packet of sugar has the same print on it, a case of corporate social responsibility, maybe?
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A box for a spare part for Apple Inc’s first highly successful mass produced computer, the Apple II
I’ve been a Mac user since I was in primary school and in case people forget, Apple computers were once grey and boxy too. This box brought back a lot of the nostalgic times when Mac users were a precious minority and we bought then because they were great machines inside and not just the eye candy that they are so hyped about today.
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