“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
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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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The Lament of the American Dream
In 2002, my family and I emigrated from France to America. My father was offered an employment opportunity here. We received temporary visas, which soon became green cards, and five years later we became citizens. But the transition was not easy. My mother did not know a word of English, and my sisters were seven and ten when they arrived. School was difficult for them, and they had to make new friends. I grew up without issue, knowing both French and English.
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Social Media Political Polarization
Inquiry Presentation
A Look Inside the Inquiry Process
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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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