Browsing Faculty-Curated Special Collections by Type "Book chapter"
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )After I realized the toll the COVID-19 pandemic was taking on my community, I knew I needed to do anything I could to help; so, I began a 10-day fundraiser for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )How I discovered writing inspiration in my familiar neighborhood during a pandemic
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(2020-06-08)Staying busy practicing gratitude, mindful breathing, meditation, prayer, reading, writing and other activities you like are ways to be unconditionally happy and stress-free in life.
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )COVID-19's spread has made my racially marked body the symbol of the disease.
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(2020-06-05)I reflect on the shifting nature of how refugees are rhetorically constituted in the disjunctive world of the contagion, intertwined with my own musings on my doctoral journey as a British-Syrian immigrant. I argue that ...
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(2020-06-08)The essay describes a media collective effort that is providing Spanish-language and bilingual information about COVID-19 to Latinx communities, especially regarding health and safety.
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )How effective communication, care, compassion, and a system in place had transformed one small Indian state's fight against COVID-19.
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(2020-06-06)Connecting through Physical Distance are personal reflections of how the lockdown proved to be an enforced time-out to grapple with some troubling emotions and leading me on a path of reconnection with the self and others.
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(2020-06-05)I compare my situation during lockdown with that of a young Afghan named Morteza, who has been living in a refugee camp in northern Greece since 2016.
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(2020-06-08)Our collective ignorance of the underlying structure of liberal democracy endangers democracy itself; the actions of many democratic governments around the world in the age of the Coronavirus exacerbate this threat.
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(2020-06-08)The author documents his life from December through May through a series of diary entries from China, India, and the United States.
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COVID-19 Lockdown, Border Quarantine and Traditional Burial Rites in Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria (2020-05-30)This essay demonstrates how cultural practices in some areas run in conflict with government policies on the control of the spread of COVID-19.
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(2020-05-30)My story of quarantining across borders has opened a can of worms and has helped me to reflect deeply, to face my old fears and sorrows, clearing the way to change my hamster-wheel daily life and cross various borders in ...
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(2020-05-30)We reflect on our experiences with (not)wearing masks within different cultures and how these experiences have shifted across borders and time.
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(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.
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(2020-06-06)This is a reflection on home cooking, and how it intersects with gender, class, education.
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(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.
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(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.
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Handling the Deadly Virus: Our Priorities (PEOPLE OR THE ECONOMY. WE WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE THE BEST) (2020-06-08)This essay analyzes how the U.S. government and the Indian government have handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
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(2020-05-30)A poem about the use of social media during the quarantine and how we can find hope in the matter.