Category: education

  • Introducing the Black Gentrifier: An Emerging Social Anomaly by M. Pitter

    Introducing the Black Gentrifier: An Emerging Social Anomaly by M. Pitter

    Streaming in popular discourse has been the phenomenon of gentrification in which it appears mostly that young, open-minded, aesthetic-seeking white people move into low-income neighborhoods eventually causing the rent prices of these neighborhoods to rise and the blacks and Latinos who had lived in these hitherto-low-income neighborhoods can no longer afford to live there. Soon,…

  • Seeing all that was good in the land…by G. Mramor

    Seeing all that was good in the land…by G. Mramor

    Because I was there for the parting of the lakes and I saw the sun swallowed up by a whale and yet I stood transfixed as fires from sunset ran into houses dorming families thrown together in stitches from the war’s end and I watched muted as trees bludgeoned the ends of houses till they…

  • Correlations between Heat and Hostility by M.Pitter

    Correlations between Heat and Hostility by M.Pitter

    In Act I Scene I of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, the Earl of Westmoreland reckoned that the cause of the recent violence was due to the hot climate of the summer season. In Shakespeare’s famously enigmatic syntax, Westmoreland reflects and reasons: “On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald, That…

  • On Securing Your Own Mask Before Assisting Others  Or: Physician, Heal Thyself by A. White-Stern

    On Securing Your Own Mask Before Assisting Others Or: Physician, Heal Thyself by A. White-Stern

    Ashley Paige White-Stern considers herself an ethnographer and writes about her journey from food to medicine at “The Spoon and the Sword.” As a future physician with academic mind, she plans to integrate several fields, including ecology and population health.  Follow her on Twitter at @MsAPWS.” *** “You’re premed,” she said, surprised.  “I never would…

  • Mean Free Path by M. Pitter

    Mean Free Path by M. Pitter

    Usually, there will be a tomorrow tomorrow as there was a yesterday yesterday. Each day expanding and contracting, sun to moon, moon to sun, in harmonic regularity. We like to freeze phases to call one ‘now’, to call another one ‘next Thursday night at 8PM’ and another one ‘last Saturday afternoon’. Meanwhile we propagate like…