hcontrerascruz28Dec 16, 20213 min readFinal Thoughts: Prince George Country vs. Kent CountyPreface: Keywords- Prince George, environmental injustice, racism, urban areas, Kent County For my final project, I created a photo...
hcontrerascruz28Nov 19, 20213 min readThe importance of a CeremonyIn this week's reading, we read " Slow Violence" by Rob Nixon and the first few pages of the book "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko. In...
hcontrerascruz28Oct 29, 20213 min readEnd of Dillard and onto something new...We concluded the week with the last chapters of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. To add to this week's reading, we read a chapter from Rachel...
Hilary Contreras-Cruz Oct 21, 20213 min readMountains, animals, creek...Annie Dillard"s "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" can be read like a journal filled with Dillard's observation in Tinker Creek. She uses...
Hilary Contreras-Cruz Oct 8, 20214 min readToo down to earth: damaging the earth with actions not words.This week's reading was from the anthology "American Earth: Environmental writing since Thoreau". I choose to read the excerpts from...
Hilary Contreras-Cruz Sep 16, 20213 min readThoreau thinks too...I feel like this week's readings (up to "the ponds") were just very technical. We get a side of Thoreau that is more focused on his...
Hilary Contreras-Cruz Sep 10, 20212 min readThoreau thinks...In this week's reading, we were assigned to read Thoreau's "Walden". The first chapter "Economy" really touched on this idea of the...
Hilary Contreras-Cruz Sep 7, 20213 min readMy Ecocritical InterestsI have no previous knowledge of American Environmental Literature but I'm excited to learn and unpack the readings that are centralized...