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Feb 20

Change and Growth of White America in the 19th Century

Editor’s note: the following essay was written in response to the prompt in a 10th grade US History course which asked how the move from subsitence economy to market economy in the early 19th century “united America.” Kamara Evelyn Introduction Understanding the dramatic change in American life from subsistence economy…

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Feb 6

The First Love

Immigrant Stories, Immigrant Lives Clarabelle When I was 16-years-old, I fell in love with a very young, handsome man. But, when my mother realized what was happening, she sent me to Quezaltepeque in El Salvador, far away from where I was born. …

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Jan 14

Dissatisfaction and Satisfaction, Addiction and Recovery

Part One In Disease In the context of the active life of the disease of addiction, dissatisfaction is overarching of satisfaction, which is dependent on the former — satisfaction as an approximate state owes its existence to dissatisfaction which is absolute. Dissatisfaction, as a physical, mental, and spiritual disposition, precludes satisfaction and…

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Dec 27, 2022

Suzanne Lynn

Note: each of the three characters mentioned by name are dead but not gone… Thursday, December 20, 2022 Journal Entry: Suzanne Lynn Suzanne Lynn made an appearance last night. That happened this way: I was bringing Monica to Conrad Lynn’s house to introduce her to the rest of the family…

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Dec 25, 2022

Never Let Me Go

Read this story with the following song for background music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Ju5lw5MeA Peter, I’m sharing the following with you, because of your depth of knowledge in the form of the disease of addiction called compulsivity with sex and romance. I woke up this morning and heard Majeeda imploring me: Just let…

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Dec 24, 2022

The Superstitious Reverence for Treatment

Big Pharma is the name given to the monopolist corporations which make up the prescription drug industry, the pharmaceutical industry, such industry which is the second most profitable industry in the United States by measure of total assets (banking being #1, and health insurance being #4). …

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May 5, 2022

The Politics of “Resolving” Homelessness and “Treating” Drug Addiction

By Majeeda Amadadeen The following was written in response to a writing prompt for an essay for a graduate course on mental illness. The subject is a five-day program addressing homelessness at a local clinic. I work in the Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center, 185 East Newton Street, Boston…

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Apr 15, 2022

“Heavens to Betsy! White People are Killing White People”

Watching the Nightly News, April 15, 2022 “Ashley, this portends to be the worst crimes, humans against humans, since World War Two.” “Yes, Murgatroyd, I can’t remember seeing anything so heart breaking…” Every elementary school child knows that since the ignominious defeat of the United States at the hands of…

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Feb 18, 2022

The United States does not know how to fight White Countries

White Supremacy and Male Supremacy at Odds with Each Other? The United States emerged from World War Two as the victor. And who better to carry on the banner of the white supremacist system than a country which was founded on 300 years of chattel slavery, and on the annihilation…

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Feb 16, 2022

Recovery and Revolution

Journal Entry, February 11, 2022 This journal entry examines the February 11 spiritual exercise from the Narcotics Anonymous meditation book Just for Today. A curse into a blessing “We have become very grateful in the course of our recovery…. We have a disease, but we do recover.” Basic Text, p…

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