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.

Social Media Political Polarization

Inquiry Presentation

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.

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.

When You Give a Dog a License: How We Can Stop Service Dog Fraud

"It was the Friday before Thanksgiving break and I was excited to go home for the first time since moving to College Park. My service dog and I made our way to the airport and were waiting in line for a quick bite to eat."

Letter to Doug Bowser

"Based on what has worked for SPARX and BraveMind—games that have been seamlessly incorporated into the toolbox to address mental health disorders ranging from depression to PTSD—I would also like to propose three specific gaming elements for Nintendo’s app."

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.

An Ecocritical Look at the Long Eighteenth Century’s Presentation of Wild Spaces

I have come to recognize that the challenges that climate change poses for the contemporary writer, although specific in some respects, are also products of something broader and older; that they derive ultimately from the grid of literary forms and conventions that came to shape the narrative imagination in precisely that period when the accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere was rewriting the destiny of the earth. – Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement

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.

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

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.

“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.