Author Archives: Kristi Samantha Kwok

Hoax Podcast Final Draft

Hoax Podcast First Draft (audience paragraph at the bottom)

My podcast could be approached the from the perspective of a breaking news story report or a documentary style broadcast explaining the true details behind Emory’s rhinoceros appearance. From a news story standpoint, I would utilize interviews with witnesses such … Continue reading →

My hoax will be based on the Cornell’s rhinoceros prank, where a student, Hugh Troy, faked rhinoceros tracks in the snow around campus and fooled many professors and students. However, my hoax will be set on the Emory campus instead … Continue reading →

This image was actually really easy to make since it was accidentally created when my friend tried to take a panoramic picture of the Emory sign and I walked in front of it. As a result, my hand is eerily detached … Continue reading →

Depression seems to be overlooked in our society and over-dramatized in the wrong ways by social media and entertainment. It isn’t always considered a serious mental condition and people may perceive depression as unimportant since they think it can be … Continue reading →

The recipe to a successful hoax requires several important elements, as exemplified by Barnum’s short story, The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of George Washington. Although the line between a believable hoax and an unreasonable tale can be ambiguous, … Continue reading →

Kristi Kwok ENG 181-000 A hoax is a work of fiction created by the author to purposely deceive others so that the readers will interpret any convincing story as the truth. In order to do so, the author crafts the … Continue reading →