Author: dcollins11
Intervention Proposal
Intervening in Childhood Food Insecurity Complicated by Pediatric Sensory Processing Disorders Federal policy has been intervening in childhood hunger since 1964, when President Kennedy’s food stamp program was enacted into law as The Food Stamp Act under President Johnson (Almond, Hoynes & Schanzenbach, 2011). Now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, … [Read more…]
Narrative & Empathy
The readings “Narrative, ethics, and empathy” by Utell, The Baby in The Well by Bloom, and “Narrative Emotion” by Keen discuss the potential for narrative to elicit empathy from the reader/audience. Each of the readings also clarified the specifications of narrative in order to reach this potential. Bloom discussed the different response to names, as … [Read more…]
Freeing Students
What an intriguing idea: to reduce the stressful context of class in order to increase creative productivity in students. This punk-rock-esque methodology utilized by some universities seems like it would incubate an anarchical, half-attended, uncommitted class. However, Professor Jackson of UC Davis has found the opposite to be true; instead, he is inspired by the … [Read more…]
Masterplots
Masterplots are familiar and well-used organizational methods for narratives, which are used to convey similar plots but can differ greatly based on the story line of the narrative. Keen differentiates plot from storyline, explaining that the plot is a strand of causal events while the story is a strand of sequential events. An example of … [Read more…]
HIP Writing Assignments
In Anderson et, al.’s article regarding High Impact Writing Assignments, the information from Boquet and Lerner’s article is more explicitly explained. Furthermore, the article provides meaningful research to support the rather bold claims made in Boquet and Lerner’s article. Perhaps most enlightening, was the specification that High Impact Practices are not exclusive to writing, but … [Read more…]
Child, Wild
My mama used to call me Wild child Back when I wore vintage clothesand I couldn’t find my car keys in the ignitionbecause I was committing felonies in the back seatwith a lighter and some ink back when I was the only one in fishnets at a partyand not enough people had noticed Back when … [Read more…]
Bucket List
I have been in four oceans and fewer seas My fingertips wrinkle when they bathe in these salted waters and take what they can from them Recklessly at first And then only because their cells know to do nothing else I have a need to fill my skin to the brim with the waters of … [Read more…]
a generic love poem
(for no one in particular) Let’s brush each other’s teeth Sitting on the bathroom floor in just our underwear (We can tan each other’s skin with the whites of our eyes)And smile at trees because Like themWe have rings within us(Measuring the hours and minutes we have had to spend apart)In order to find one … [Read more…]
Narcisesse and the Sea
How many barnacles do I have to caress to be denoted in the history books as mistress of the sea? I know the touch of the ocean like most know red wine on their two front teeth. It’s matured me. Watered me until I couldn’t grow any more. Anorexic in my tendencies I flourished … [Read more…]
