Category: Blog
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Power and Politics in American Indian History: Land Acknowledgement
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-18 Power and Politics in American Indian History Forum 1 Real estate developers are digging up and destroying sacred indigenous sites to replace them with temples to capitalism, erasing history and indigenous culture in the process, according to the speakers. This is just one example where young people today are not just being…
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Nick Estes: Siege
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-18 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 1: Siege The story begins with a declaration of war on the KXL pipeline by the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in March of 2014. (Estes 33) The tribe is concerned with the potential dangers to their water supply if the planned…
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Drugs and Society: Marijuana
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-16 Drugs and Society Reaction Paper – Section 6 Illegal drugs and how they got that way: marijuana Most drugs were previously legal and later banned 20 million Americans have been incarcerated for marijuana since it was banned At the time, Marijuana was growing all over the country as a weed and had…
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Drugs and Society: Hallucinogens
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-11 Drugs and Society Reading Response – Section 4 Illegal drugs and how they got that way – hallucinogens All currently illegal drugs were recently legal All cultures have parties, usually including the use of drugs Ecstasy fills an unmet need for connection, empathy, connectedness, and openness between people in a hostile culture,…
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Drugs and Society: Legal Drugs
CJ Trowbridge Drugs and Society 2020-06-09 Section 3 Reading Response treat drug users as you would want to be treated We are all drug users. Coffee, alcohol, cigarettes, weed, Viagra, ecstasy, antidepressants, anti-anxiety pills and more: people are using these drugs on a weekly or even daily basis. Coffee helps me start my day and…
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Multpurpose Apocalypse Sensors v2
The end seems pretty nigh, so why not measure it? This sensor array is ready whether it’s fires or nuclear war. This Sensor Array Measures: Particulate Matter: PM2.5 is the international standard measure of air quality related to fires. It measures density of particulate matter with a size larger than 2.5 microns (Technically 2.5 microns…
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Drugs and Society: Public Health and Harm Reduction
CJ Trowbridge HED 315 2020-06-04 Reaction Paper: Unit 2 Reducing Drug Related Harm (Powerpoint) Course goal: To give participants the opportunity to examine drug-related harm, and help participants gain a basic understanding of how harm reduction principles, policy and practice work together to address that harm. Harm reduction is an approach that aims to reduce…
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Corona Country
Corona Country is a twist on the earlier project Covid19 Progress. This app shows you data at the county level in your area. So you can see how coronavirus is going where you are. There are a couple of reasons I decided to launch this project. While it’s interesting to compare countries and states, I…
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Covid19 Progress
I saw an opportunity around the lack of clarity and accessibility for coronavirus statistics. I also saw a lot of misleading claims made by people with an agenda. I wanted to bring clarity to the data and make it easy to understand and compare. And so, Covid19 Progress was born! This simple site allows anyone…
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“The drug war is the international projection of a domestic American psychosis.”
The drug war is the international projection of a domestic American psychosis. Focusing just on drug use and not on the causes for addiction, I was struck by this line from Ethan Nadelmann’s Ted Talk. It reminded me of arguments made by founding Queer Theorist Michel Foucault in his landmark book Discipline and Punish. Foucault…