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Upon the Jeweled Spears of Heaven
… and I departed the tent when it was -59F to replenish the Yukon stove’s fuel, and looking up, I saw it, the ten thousand (i.e., limitless) spears piercing from sky to sea, from sky to snow. I set down the empty mogas container, and walked through waist high snow far away from the tent […]
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On the “Bases” of a Contemporary Adult
This was written for Washington State University’s SOC-352, Youth and Society, lead by Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, PhD. A minor spelling error has been corrected. Introduction I grew up in suburban then rural Virginia on the edges of Spotsylvania County and Culpepper in the 1980s and early 1990s—children, teen, and adult was a common differentiation. Contemporary […]
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Carter’s Stickiest Thorn: Segregation & Divisions, Subordinate Typologies, and Associated Stereotypes
This was written for Washington State University’s SOC-352, Youth and Society, lead by Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, PhD. Divisions (e.g., gender), subordinate typologies (e.g., he, she, they), and associated stereotypes are the most powerful social forces maintaining inequalities among youth. These are responsible for dimensions of poverty-affluence and adversity-opportunity. Furlong (2013) mentioned “the big three” divisions […]