Whitewater

Latino/Latina, disability, LGB, gender, and socio-economic status experiences. Each experience allowed me to feel and sense what life was like from someone else’s perspective. I was able to understand and appreciate what some students must experience at UW-Whitewater every day. When I entered the disability experience, someone immediately started yelling telling us what station to go to as if we were hard of hearing and couldn’t follow directions very well. One station had us use wheelchairs,…

Mary Youngest of six, mother of two, wife, dog enthusiast, photographer, avid reader, karate black-belt, crossword puzzle solver, badass, best friend, Mary, Ma, Mom. For my eighteenth birthday, she gave me a little blue spiral notebook with a picture of the globe on the cover. The pages were penned with handwritten anecdotes and thoughts from when I was in her womb to my entire childhood and teenage years. At the end of every entry she signed I love you. I could only bring myself to read it…

By January 1348, the plague was in Marseilles. It reached Paris in the spring, 1348 and England in September, 1348. Moving along the Rhine trade routes, the plague reached Germany in 1348, and the Low Countries the same year. Historians agree that 1348 was the worst of the plague years. In May, 1349, an English wool ship brought the plague to Norway. The Great Mortality then made its way to Greenland and after killing a large proportion of the population there encountered the towering ice…

was a documentary that was released in 2008 before the 2008 Primaries. This was a movie about Senator Hillary Clinton and it talked about and went over all the scandal’s that Hilary Clinton was involved in. It talked about White House FBI files, Whitewater and White House travel office. This movie was produces by a non-profit organization, Citizens United. The film was sold on their website and they had planned to play if over the air for cable subscribers. This video’s main agenda was to…

in with the rest of the student body. To start I feel that my life experiences will help enrich the campus. I have done many different events thanks to my parents. I have been camping at many different State and National Parks. I have hiked, whitewater rafted, downhill skied, cross country skied, visited many states, and plenty more in my life. These have shaped who I am today. I have also experienced many hardships. I have had two major surgeries already. The first was on my 16th…

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her transition from Evvie to Celestina, a transition not only physical but also metaphorical. Raven confesses, “[A]nd all the while I was waiting for the mask to slip, the muscles to slacken, a dullness to overcome her features. But of course it never did” (TMS 212). Evvie’s transformation of herself was her means of existence in a hastily shifting postcolonial America. But quite contrary to her, Raven reconnects with his roots as he craves for the power that comes with being indigenous, a…

The only way to find one’s identity is through losing oneself in isolation. Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, utilizes many rhetorical strategies to convey his central argument to adolescence in understanding that to find one’s identity, they must step out of society’s machinery in order to formulate personal morals, opinions, and beliefs. Furthermore, Krakauer felt compelled to write about the life and death of Christopher McCandless to justify the actions, reasonings, and beliefs of…

Dr. Pilar Melero is a very accomplished professor, researcher, and journalist. Her latest speech at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater was called “Women of the Revolution!” and was on the role of women in the Mexican revolutionary war that started in 1910. She opened with a story of a beautiful big-eyed little Latina girl who was dying. The girl’s mother was desperate to find a cure for the little girl. Her mother went to doctors, churches, and even the government to try to find help for the…

almost ate our snack. My mom, dad, aunt, uncle struggling to keep up with my cousins, my brother and I. The cold water slowly seeping into my tennis shoes contrasting with the hot 100 degree temperature. Adventure tubing down the river through the whitewater sections where my cousins, my brothers, and my rafts twisted and turned…