The Problem of Tree Inequity: Redlining and its Contribution to Tree Inequity in Low Income Neighborhoods
Audience: The topic of this paper is tree inequity in low income neighborhoods. The intended audience of this paper would be environmentalists, forestry program or tree maintenance employees and volunteers, and urban planners including city sustainability or resilience coordinators. Their work generally entails working toward improving or conserving the environment. The intended audience is also local government officeholders and politicians like governors or state representatives.
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Exploring the Hardships and Stigma Students With Invisible Disabilities Face
Over 42 million Americans are considered to have a severe disability, and 96% of these are hidden (Forbes). Invisible disabilities are impairments that come with few visual identifiers and are unapparent to an outside observer (Boskovich). When these individuals with invisible disabilities are students, they struggle because they do not receive the help they need to succeed. Many students with invisible disabilities either are not identified as having them or choose not to disclose them because of stigma.
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Resilience and Resistance: Native American Stakes In The Environmental Movement
Audience Analysis: My audience for this persuasive essay is young people who are interested/involved in the environmental movement already. My paper will probably be more accessible for those at a high-school age or older, and I want to focus on the age range between 15-25 to target a Gen-Z audience. However, I welcome all readers who are interested in climate change, indigenous issues, or human rights issues in the United States.
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Tara Houska Ted Talk Summary
Tara Houska’s 2017 Ted Talk,“The Standing Rock Resistance and Our Fight for Indigenous Rights,” addresses the struggles that Native Americans currently face. Tara Houska is a Native American attorney from the Couchiching First Nation fighting for indigenous rights and justice. Houska describes the oppression that her people face, emphasizing that “when you aren’t viewed as real people, it’s a lot easier to run over your rights” (Houska 00:59).
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Munro and Reality: A Totality of Fragments
It is not so much a cycle of stories but a collection of fragments that Alice Munro assembles in her work, “Friend of My Youth.” This particular work illuminates the rigid social structure in which human relationships operate.
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“Heaven — is what I cannot reach”: How Emily Dickinson’s Voice was Influenced by Spoken Worship in Amherst and the Book of Revelation
From her bedroom in Puritan Amherst, Emily Dickinson wrote almost 1800 poems.
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Sewers and Mines in Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground
Perspective is that part of a poem, novel, or play which a writer never puts directly upon paper. It is that fixed point in intellectual space where a writer stands to view the struggles, hopes, and sufferings of his people.
—Richard Wright, "Blueprint for Negro Writing"
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The Masculinity and Homoeroticism of Joe Christmas: Reading Across Gender and Sexuality in Light in August
William Faulkner’s 1932 novel <
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“Hers and Hers Too”: Tensions Between Radicalism and Conformity in Dykes to Watch Out For
There’s something truly strange about living in a historical moment in which the conservative anxiety and despair about queers bringing down civilization and its institutions (marriage, most notably) is met by the anxiety and despair so many queers feel about the failure or incapacity of queerness to bring down civilization and its institutions.
— Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
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