Browsing Quarantined Across Borders Collection by Title

Now showing items 19-38 of 80

    • Dusting off the old survival kit 
      Kovalyova, Natalia (2020-06-08)
      This essay describes a transfer of survival and coping strategies developed under one type of crisis (a demise of a political system) to the situation of the pandemic and shelter-in-place orders.
    • Expat Life Under Quarantine: Reflections of a Reluctant Cook 
      Malik, Parul (2020-06-06)
      This is a reflection on home cooking, and how it intersects with gender, class, education.
    • Eyeliner 
      Mark, Lauren (Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      This piece is an invitation into one woman’s navigations of COVID-19 alongside the threat and manifestations of viral racism as a U.S. based Asian woman.
    • Finding Home in A Pandemic 
      Popli, Ritika (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      I briefly describe my experience of how the pandemic has changed the meaning of home.
    • Food for the soul: How immigrants use food blogs to heal during times of crisis 
      Paul, Newly (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      Virtual communities built around food help immigrants cope in times of crises.
    • From classroom to online: impact on college students of the COVID-19 virus in 2020 
      Taricani, Ellen (2020-06-02)
      Students at a large university in the United States find many obstacles to continuing their learning as they move from the university to home.
    • Good done in secret - INTOKU 
      Tahirović, Almina (2020-06-08)
      Good done in secret brings not only the happiness to yourself, but also to the one your selfless act is done for, and there is not anything more that you possess in your life than what you are ready to give to the others.
    • Handling the Deadly Virus: Our Priorities (PEOPLE OR THE ECONOMY. WE WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE THE BEST) 
      Das CP, Chandra (2020-06-08)
      This essay analyzes how the U.S. government and the Indian government have handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
    • Helplessness 
      Raju, Venkata (2020-05-30)
      A poem about the use of social media during the quarantine and how we can find hope in the matter.
    • Home Alone During a Pandemic 
      Chattopadhyay, Sumana (Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      In this essay I reflect about my experiences navigating the COVID-19 quarantine within the confines of my home, alone in a foreign land far away from my family.
    • Home is Where the Heart Is: the Bruneian Context 
      Ho, Hannah Ming Yit (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      This essay offers a critique of the handling of COVID-19 within the Bruneian nation-state.
    • How do you spend your time in the quarantine? 
      Kaisar, Marilia (2020-06-06)
      Walking around a variety of landscapes and contemplating about loneliness and life during the quarantine.
    • How on earth did I lose friendships over COVID-19? 
      Wu, Jingsi Christina (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      Despite our best efforts at curbing unpleasant arguments that would result from our fundamentally different opinions of the Trump presidency, it took a public health crisis to rock such growingly tenuous friendships and ...
    • I Just Called to Say I Love You 
      Patwardhan, Nandini (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      I mistakenly thought the song “I just called to say I love you” was about a dystopian future, but it turned out to have the perfect message for the dystopian present.
    • Interrupting Privilege is Different in the Year 2020 
      Sturgis, Meshell (2020-06-08)
      This essay describes the recent changes that have taken place with the Interrupting Privilege (IP) program. It explains how the program proceeded in the 2019-2020 academic year with new funding, location, and in light of ...
    • An Iranian Narrative of COVID-19 
      Yavari, Mehri (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      Pandemics situation is very similar to life in Iran under a past war and the current sanctions.
    • Is this it? Speculation on the end of a marriage during the COVID-19 pandemic 
      Frazier-Kouassi, Susan C. (2020-06-08)
      The hope and survival of a marriage confronting the COVID-19 pandemic behind closed borders doors.
    • La Frontera de COVID-19 
      Ramirez, Anthony (2020-05-30)
      In this essay, I discuss the various fronteras (borders) caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss how it has affected my hometown of El Paso, Texas.
    • Leaves, Lemons and Lockdown 
      Vangal, Uma (2020-05-30)
      This blog post explores the motives, meaning, and role of food and the sharing of food and food pictures during this pandemic.
    • Life in lockdown: Diary of a Pakistani student in Beijing 
      Khan, Azmat (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      The essay illustrates my initial state of disorientation but also my struggle and hope for new life during lockdown