Category: Blog
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Power and Politics in American Indian History: Sacred Water, Standing Rock I
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-02 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response: Sacred Water, Standing Rock I It was very compelling to hear the story of the black snake and the end of the world; the argument that the people need to stand up to the black snake or the world will end. I can see…
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Black Online – Cyberspace, Culture, and Community: Final Project
The final project for this class was to create a tool people can use for building communities of racial justice online. Here is the outline, and the PDF of the final project. How to create structural change in organizations and institutions plagued by systemic racism and anti-blackness. (especially online institutions) We live in a culture…
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Drugs and Society: Harm Reduction
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-30 Drugs and Society Section 10 Reading Response: Harm Reduction Swapping Politics for Science When the drug czar calls for an end to the war on drugs, it’s clearly the start of a new era. Obama lifted the federal ban on needle exchanges in 2010 all of the top brass in the Obama…
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“The daily hustle for heroin often forces users into other illegal activity”
CJ Trowbridge Drugs and Society 2020-06-30 Reading Response: Heroin and Social Problems “The daily hustle for heroin often forces users into other illegal activity, like petty drug dealing, prostitution and burglary, to support their habit, and creates an expensive, unproductive revolving door between prison and the street. Methadone, covered by insurance, frees people from this…
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Drugs and Society: Meth
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-26 Drugs and Society Section 9 Reading Response: Meth Frontline: the meth epidemic Meth can be made from cold medicines Cold medicines are a $3b industry Cold medicine industrial complex opposes restrictions on cold medicine Meth can also be made from many other things Common ingredients found anywhere Meth is a major factor…
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The Last Command by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 3)
The Last Command was a really wild book. The further along it went, the more clear it became that this series is not canon. 🤣 Leah’s children have different names, some major characters die, some relationships change in different ways than they should for the rebels series. Keeping all that in mind, it’s a great…
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Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 2)
Dark Force Rising was a cool book. I liked the focus on Kardde, who became probably my favorite character in the series so far. He is described as basically what Han might have been in he had not found the rebellion. Like the opposite of Jabba; an underworld crime boss who is honorable and inspires…
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Drugs and Society: Cocaine
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-23 Drugs and Society Section 8 – Reading Response: Cocaine coke: the history and truth of cocaine Cocaine is snorted, smoked, or injected Coocaine is addictive Cocaine is often cut with many other things Biopharmacology Reuptake inhibitor for serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine Second most popular drug in the world after marijuana Natural substance found…
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Power and Politics in American Indian History: Origins
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-22 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 3 Nick Estes, Our History is the Future (2019), Chapter 2, Origins The North American white ethnostate has seen several iterations – currently it’s called the United States – but whether we’re talking about the current iteration or one of the previous ones, it…
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Drugs and Society: Opiates
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-16 Drugs and Society Reaction Paper – Section 7 inside the story of america’s 19th century opiate addiction Morphine was seen as a wonder drug which could immediately ameliorate many common symptoms in the short-term Morphine quickly created an addiction epidemic. By 1895, morphine addiction was commonplace in America. Benjamin Franklin took opium…