Personhood: A Concept of the World, Not Humans (Revised Research Paper)
Abstract As people who interpret the physical world using the five primary senses available to us, we constantly use comparable social relations to distinguish ourselves from “others,” using words like “animal” not only as a means of distinguishing ourselves from non-humans but also as a derogatory term associating “animal” with a lower state of […]
Environmental Injustice: A Dreamer’s Plague (Revised Technical Description)
Abstract The United States of America is built upon the tensions between different sociocultural groups. These tensions, over the centuries, have manifested themselves into an extension of the Jim Crow era. Apart from the more concrete, more easily demonstrable issues of police brutality, slavery, and overall deprivation of basic human rights, low-income minority communities have […]
The Capitalism of the Health Sector: A Holistic Approach to Patient Care
(Revised Discussion Board) Abstract In “Hurricane, Fire, Covid-19: Disasters Expose the Hard Reality of Climate Change,” Christopher Flavelle and Henry Fountain effectively convey the significance of recent climate catastrophes, namely the occurrence of the Apple Fire and Hurricane Isaias. That said, the authors shed light on the relevance of the latter disaster. As an inevitable […]
The Origin of Life on Earth (Revised Scientific Controversy Paper)
Abstract The origin of life, a multifaceted question arguably as old as time itself, has baffled humanity for as long as it can recollect as a society, raising icy, out of this world, and shocking theories about the creation of complex arrays of life from inorganic compounds. It is essentially the classic “something from nothing” […]
Human Impact on Geological Record (Revised Discussion Board)
Abstract Time is running out to reverse our collective impact on climate change. Core samples retrieved from the Dead Sea, per the Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project, granted researchers access to 220,000 years of sedimentary records. Strikingly, the samples revealed unprecedented results: fine sediment accumulated three to four times greater in the area during seasonal […]
Self-Assessment Essay
Abstract Over the course of the Fall 2021 semester at CCNY, I participated in Arts in New York City, Modern World Literature, and Writing for the Sciences. Modern World Literature and Arts in New York City exposed me to minor literature (tales of minor peoples articulated in dominant, or major, languages), which unveils the means […]
