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?

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     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. Seeing him in excruciating pain and running an incredibly high fever was scary to say the least.

In the essay “On Being a Refugee, an American – and a Human Being,” Viet Thanh Nguyen defends the presence of refugees in American society. Nguyen published “On Being a Refugee…” shortly after 2016, the year the global refugee population rose to an all-time high of 65.6 million people (20 People).

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. Jemmott explains that the flaws of the college admissions system cause low-income students to struggle when navigating the college admission process, much less the financial aid process if they manage to get in.

 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 identity be recognized and appoints cultural influence as a primary driver to organized social hierarchy.

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My paper is addressed towards an audience of environmentalists; it is essential that environmentalists are taught about overfishing so they can teach others

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”). This alarming statistic is a product of the United States’ opioid crisis, which involves the misuse of and addiction to prescription pain relievers and illicit drugs.

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). Despite being placed at warring opposition in revulsive scenes of cannibalism and tactile horror, the two sisters’ mutually destructive behavior only strengthens their sisterly bond.

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. Due to its psychological depth, “Ying-ying’s Story” marked a key point in the development of Chinese fiction—Gu argues that with it, Chinese fiction came of age (82)—and became so popular it inspired countless other works in the Chinese tradition, including the famous Yuan dynasty Romance of the Western Chamber.