Category: Blog
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Drugs and Society: Intro
CJ Trowbridge HED 315 – Drugs and Society 2020-06-01 Reaction Points: Unit 1 ethan nadelman’s ted talk Effects of the war on drugs Created a $300b global black market for drugs More drug use than ever Same failure as the prohibition on alcohol Treaties emphasize criminalization rather than treatment Most money spend around the world…
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Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 1)
I’ve been very excited for a long time to start this series. Heir to the Empire is the first Thrawn book. Part of the reason I enjoyed Tarkin and Plagueis so much is that they both focused on the philosophy of power and high-strategy. This topic is essentially the core principle of my life, education,…
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Beat The Smoke Without N95
Update: With one of these in my room, the PM2.5 stayed at zero even when the outdoor PM2.5 was over 800! Hoarding N95 masks and other medical supplies during covid is irresponsible and unhelpful. I will show you a better alternative. I have severe asthma. As such, fire season in California poses a real…
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Giovanni’s Room Refutes Sexual Orientation
CJ Trowbridge 2020-05-21 English 16 Final Giovanni’s Room tells the story of a character struggling to fit simultaneously inside several contradictory identities, all of which fail to encompass the truth of his life. David is a straight man. David is also a gay man. David treats his multiple selves like characters to be played. He…
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Conversation with a Professor
This was in a lower division LGBT Studies class. We were discussing “Redefining Realness” by Janet Mock. Me: I really connected personally with the line “When I look back at my childhood, I often say I always knew I was a girl since the age of three or four, a time when I began cataloging…
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Coronavirus and The Environment
CJ Trowbridge Environmental Problems & Solutions 2020-05-20 Final Exam In preparing for this essay, I looked back for evidence on my early personal response to coronavirus. I recall that early on, it seemed like a repeat of SARS-CoV-03. Since then, we have learned that though SARS-CoV-19 is much less lethal and contagious, the response has…
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The fact that housing is almost always only being built by investors means it’s not possible to have affordable housing for everyone.
CJ Trowbridge 2020-05-12 USP GWAR Urban Studies GWAR Final The fact that housing is almost always only being built by investors means it’s not possible to have affordable housing for everyone. In this paper I will show that when real estate investors act in their own rational self-interest, they harm everyone else. I will show…
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Sexual orientation is not a “real fact” about people.
CJ Trowbridge 2020-05-14 Feminist Ethics Final Essay Sexual orientation is not a “real fact” about people. In “What is Sexual Orientation,” Robin Dembroff argues that neither of the two popular ideas about what sexual orientation is, holds up to scrutiny. The behavioral perspective tries to classify people based on what physical characteristics their partners have.…
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What’s Coming
Things are about to get a lot worse. Once numbers start to appear about how many businesses will never reopen, then we will fall off the cliff.
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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is a lesbian cartoonist who famously gave us the eponymous Bechdel Test. The Bechdel test, also known as the Bechdel–Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in fiction. It asks whether a work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The…