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Storytelling as Healing in Richard Wagamese’s Medicine Walk

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Healing, in its physical, metaphysical, and emotional forms, is perhaps one of the few universal postulations. Across a myriad of different and even opposing cultures, traditions, and religions, there is always healing, for the simple fact of life is that pain is part of it. Indeed, problem-solving is human nature, and when faced with even the greatest afflictions, humans learn to survive. Perhaps the oldest form of healing, surpassing in history any version of “modern medicine,” is storytelling, a practice with its origins in Native American healing traditions.

Spring 2023

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Spring 2023 Essays

General Essays

Strategies for Bee Conservation

Rhetorical Analysis of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Speech “The Urgency of Intersectionality”

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George Floyd, Freddie Gray, Daunte Wright, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner. You most likely recognize most, if not all of, these names. But what happens to our individual and collective memories when the victims of police brutality are women? Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights lawyer, critical race theorist, and minority advocate, noticed that despite Black women also being killed by police, the media (and so the populace) has focused primarily on Black male victims.

The Problem of Tree Inequity: Redlining and its Contribution to Tree Inequity in Low Income Neighborhoods

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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.

Exploring the Hardships and Stigma Students With Invisible Disabilities Face

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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.

Resilience and Resistance: Native American Stakes In The Environmental Movement

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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.

Tara Houska Ted Talk Summary

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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).

Fall 2022

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Fall 2022 Essays

Digital Forum

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Position Paper

Position Paper + Public Remediation Project

Rhetorical Analysis

Summary Essays

Munro and Reality: A Totality of Fragments