Academic Summary of “The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor”

In his New York Times opinion piece titled “The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor” (2019), Queens College (NY) senior Enoch Jemmott contrasts the recent college admissions scandal, in which wealthy parents paid for their children to get into universities, with the difficulties of trying to get into college for low-income students.

Transportation Revolution: The Future of Public Transportation in America

Americans are at a crossroads: Should they choose to support public transportation development over highway development?

Given the rising American population, which is typically finding itself in urban areas, a reform on transportation is imminent. What investment is the most prudent for the future of transportation in the United States: investing in highway improvement, or investing in public transportation?

Addressing the Elephant in the Composition Classroom: Let’s Talk About Race

 The first text I thoroughly analyzed in my Academic Writing course at the University of Maryland was “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” a rhetorical essay by Gloria Anzaldúa in which she demands her Chicana identit

A Caution Against Current Transgenic Mosquitoes

     It was a couple of years ago when I had my first truly troubling experience with the family Culicidae. Of course, mosquitoes have been a constant annoyance in my life, making me itch ever since I was little. However, I had never contracted an illness from these small flies. It was only when my little cousin, age 9, caught Dengue fever while on a family trip to India that I got to witness one of the many pestilences mosquitoes transmit first-hand.

Implementing Safe Injection Facilities to Combat the Opioid Crisis

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an average of 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose (“Understanding the Epidemic”).

The Issue of Overfishing in the United States

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Stop Overfishing

Rhetorical Analysis

In the essay “On Being a Refugee, an American – and a Human Being,” Viet Thanh Nguyen defends the presence of refugees in American society.

Countering the Narrative of the Helpless Indian Woman

Western feminism has always had a tendency to “other” women in the global South. In Burdens of History, Antoinette Burton discusses the role of 19th and 20th century British feminists in othering Indian women in particular. She argues that “Victorian and Edwardian feminist writers relied on images of Eastern, and especially Indian, women to bolster a variety of arguments about female emancipation” (63).

It’s A Goy! Gentile Appropriation of Jewish Self-Deprecation in Modern Comedy

“Bear with me and I will speak, and after my speech you may mock.” Iyov 21:3

Paratext of Dystopia: An Analysis of Narrative Devices and Social Commentary in Black Mirror

“Once your children are born, you can never look at yourself through your eyes any more, you always look at yourself through their eyes,” explained Hans Zimmer, when asked to discuss his approach to composing the score for the 2014 film, Interstellar, a film of whose plot he knew nothing. Zimmer’s words strikingly relate to the ways that narrative, plot, and content interact in “Black Museum,” the final episode of the dystopian Netflix series Black Mirror.

The Ancient Sage’s Teaching Fulfilled: The Resolution of Confucian and Folk Tensions in “Student Yi Peers Over the Wall”

The romance “Student Yi Peers Over the Wall,” written by monk and scholar Kim Si-Sup in 15th century Korea, bears a remarkable similarity to “Ying-ying’s Story,” an account probably based on a true story (Yu 183) written by the politician Yuan Zhen in the Tang dynasty of China.

The Fight for the Sisterhood Phallus: A Psychoanalytic Examination of “Grave”

Julia Ducournau’s Grave views sisterhood rivalry through a bitingly horrific lens. The power hierarchy delegated by le bizuntage – the hazing culture of French university – along with the “sadomasochistic” and “gory” nature of a sisterhood carved down to its most primitive form stages Alexia’s violent and abusive relationship with her older sister Justine (Ducournau, 2017).