When You Give a Dog a License: How We Can Stop Service Dog Fraud
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Letter to Doug Bowser
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The Potential for Video Games to Improve Mental Health Care Access
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My primary audience is American counselors because they can educate the public about the lack of access to mental health care in the United States and support the use of video games to supplement such services. It is critical that this audience reads this paper so they become aware of gaming’s psychological benefits, which are less known than those of face-to-face counseling.
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Summary of “The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor”
In a March 28, 2019, New York Times op-ed titled “The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor,” , Enoch Jemmott describes the inequities faced by poor students navigating the college admissions process. Jemmott grew up in a neighborhood where most students, including himself, come from low-income families and where there is a lack of college counseling in schools. Jemmott writes to expose the flaws in the college admissions process and advocate for a system that aids those in poverty.
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Convincing of the Urgency of Intersectionality
Without a frame to contextualize the view, one can be blind to a dead body in plain sight. In her 2016 TED Talk “The Urgency of Intersectionality,” Kimberlé Crenshaw argues that because the public has no “frame” or point of view that includes women of color in discussions of racial and gender discrimination, women of color are ignored, and that has led to unseen prejudice. To combat this problem, Crenshaw creates the concept of intersectionality, a frame that would include both race and gender, to aid women of color.
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The Commercialization of Blackness: Consumerism’s Influence on African American Identity
Ailene Hoover said, “I should think as an African American you’d be happy to see one of your own people get an award like this.”
I didn’t know what to say, so I said, “Are you nuts?”
“I don’t think we have to resort to name calling,” Wilson Harnet said.
“I would think you’d be happy to have the story of your people so vividly portrayed,” Hoover said.
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Illusory, Latent, and Conflicting: The Resolutions of Psycho and Marnie
“It is only the writer’s ‘ars poetica’ that these otherwise repulsive daydreams are converted into a pleasurable experience for the reader” (Shopper 181).
— Sigmund Freud
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“Nature is the source of all cures”: Revolutionary Ecology in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
In a chapter of Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms, Chengyi Coral Wu argues that focusing on aesthetics in African environmental literature enables the recognition of “the historicity and particularity of an indigenous African environmental consciousness” (162). In short, aesthetics can be used to assert an indigenous environmentalism particular to Africa.
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Cupcake Trucks, Groundhogs, and the Unrealistic Beauty of Meg Ryan: Genre Aesthetics and Narrative Justification in Rom-Com
I watched When Harry Met Sally for the first time just a few weeks ago, motivated mostly by the need to escape from the interminable misery of midterms season. It is, to put it plainly, excellent; screenwriter Nora Ephron’s unparalleled ear for dialogue and Rob Reiner’s dynamic direction come together to produce a film that is deserving of its status as a cinematic giant. When it comes to personal and professional achievements, When Harry Met Sally outpaces me by eleven years and one Academy Award nomination, placing it solidly beyond any need for my own endorsement.
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