Intersection

The NYU Urban Farm Lab is an urban farm located on Houston Street in Manhattan and is used as teaching space for the Urban Agriculture class. The farm area also has some beds that are used by residents of Silver Towers. The Farm allows students to get hands-on experience with planting, harvesting and winterizing gardens. Managing the farm is Melissa Metrick, instructor for Steinhardt’s Introduction to Urban Agriculture class and Farm Manager at Roberta’s Pizza in Brooklyn, NY. Roberta’s is…

The crowd was roaring and jubilantly jumping from the intersection that just transpired against the TCU. Everyone was astronomically ecstatic as students waved their white towels and cheered on our team. The smell of donuts and popcorn filled the air as the game heated up. Waves of yellow and dark red filled the stadium agnate as nation. Thousands of people cheered on the gophers as we went up against second best college football team TCU. The crowd commenced to lose hope as the gap widen to 3…

The feeling of fall is in the air when the air begins to feel slightly cooler and the colors of the leaves on the trees start to turn into a rainbow of seasonal shades. During this time of year it is so enjoyable to be outdoors without worrying about the temperatures being either too hot or too cold. Many residents looks for things to do, places to go and sites to see while the weather is at its peak during autumn. In Alabama there seems to be many exciting events, fairs, festivals and ways for…

I hope to gain an exemplary foundational career experience from the EKU REU program. I was initially attracted to this program because the theme of disturbance ecology complements my own research interests in anthropogenic influence and conservation biology. Through individual research this summer and the research of others, I hope to learn more about the impact of human activity on landscapes, how to approach restoration, and what sustainable and effective scientific study looks like. I am…

society creating it a public issue. Personal solutions don't solve social problems. In C. Wright Mills' article "The Promise of Sociology" he says, "no social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey." “The Forest, the Trees, and the One…

It is unfair to define one by a single characteristic; there are many factors and intersections that defines a person. We live in an interconnected society, where one thing influences or effects something else. Therefore, categorizing a person as “obese” because one views him as being lazy, or as a person who lacks self-control, is narrow-minded…

Intersectionality In order to increase diversity in STEM, one must look at the relationship between race and gender in order to analyze how it impacts engineering. Donna Riley states, “we often separate gender and race as discrete isolatable categories of analysis, when in fact these identities (and others) intersect.” (Riley 2011, 4). Current efforts treat gender and race as different categories, but they both shape one another. According to Riley, feminists of color have critiqued the sole…

Northwest students react to the shooting Oct. 1 in Lawrence, Kansas. Northwest students Haley Meier and Brittney Olds are both juniors that were affected directly by the shooting. Meier went to high school in Topeka, Kansas. She went to school with victim Colwin Lynn Henderson, 20. “It makes me pretty upset. Colwin was a really nice guy in high school...He also just recently had a daughter,” Meier said. “I feel awful for his family to lose him at such a young age.” Meier’s home town Topeka…

African-Americans in the twentieth century. In Everyday Use, Alice Walker characterizes an impoverished, African-American house where the narrator shifts from lack of self-confidence to confidence. While narrator and her daughters are standing at an intersection of culture transforming and ancient heritage. These…

visualizing myself in that moment. I would explore and relive those feelings I had that very moment and allow myself to freely remember what I thought occurred that day without worrying about the accuracy. Like Hampl stated, a memoir should be an “intersection of narration and reflection of storytelling” and I’m eager to discover where my memories would take me to and what I…