CUNY Academic Commons | deanna boyd | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/deannab/activity/ Activity feed for deanna boyd. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 ca6e65a4770d80330d552c6a825250c4 deanna boyd wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page https://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=959 Wed, 10 May 2017 16:27:45 -0400 Tenure has shown to be an ineffective solution for improving universities. In fact, tenure can be the limitation factor to provide quality education for students. Perhaps universities would have less tenured […]

]]> 703066deb8e77e996a36fc3ffd8197fe deanna boyd wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page https://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=919 Mon, 08 May 2017 14:32:54 -0400 Tenure limits quality education for students and causes professors to teach more outdated material. In fact, research shows that neither colleges nor students benefits from tenured professors. Adjunct professors, […]

]]> b4292b124285e54d8e3bd5f2e0629c37 deanna boyd wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page https://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=883 Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:01:48 -0400 Summary: This article is about the Excelsior Scholarship, which is New York’s new program to cut the cost of tuition for SUNYs and CUNYs in New York for students whose family income is less than $100,000. The […]

]]> fb8e4187bda22a85ffecba4471b68dd5 deanna boyd wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page https://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=872 Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:43:22 -0400 In order to fix the problem why Black students are less likely to get a job than White students, we need to create more career counseling programs in predominantly black schools. By creating awareness through […]

]]> 7fa8d7da66e6d150e30131418d8728d0 deanna boyd started the topic Border Crisis in the forum Talk Activism https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/talk-activism/forum/topic/border-crisis-2/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:47:11 -0400 Illegal immigration is a problem in the United States, but deportation is not the solution. Mass deportation will cause more harm than good to both the individual families and the economy. A better solution to illegal immigration would be to provide a path to citizenship. Providing illegal immigrants with an opportunity for them to obtain…[Read more]

]]> 5ceec9a077e9c7d70910e45ca318dc1e deanna boyd joined the group Talk Activism https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/460431/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 13:54:39 -0400 325cc6ab08b341f8c65993002f302d17 deanna boyd wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=790 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:35:24 -0400 Link: […]

]]> c1d80e639f5df3ff9421ac89882871d5 deanna boyd wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=701 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 15:40:43 -0500 The number of Americans that are addicted to drugs is on the rise. According to Childress (2016), “Until a few years ago, the VA was treating veterans’ chronic pain almost exclusively with prescriptions for o […]

]]> cbdd1d178e020cdba17e2b4d4bbc7723 deanna boyd wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=564 Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:35:34 -0500 In the United States, death from drug overdose is on the rise.  In Article 1, According to the Editorial Board (2017), “The opioid epidemic killed more than 33,000 people in 2015.” (para. 1).

]]> e09fbab92d44c2427125c91307ecd888 deanna boyd wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=329 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:14:45 -0500 In the New York Times article, Can you get over an Addiction?, Maia Szalavitz writes on the importance of changing the way we view addiction. The author begins the article telling about her past struggles with […]

]]> a2b55bcd9f1eb34406823352449b8736 deanna boyd wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=205 Wed, 08 Feb 2017 15:02:04 -0500 In Jamila Lysicott’s spoken-word video, she uses the different types of English she speaks to explain how articulate she is. She talks about each forms of English: the standard American English she speaks in the […]

]]> e7ba9f2e0fc2aa09bc09cf3dfa6040d4 deanna boyd wrote a new post on the site Spring 2017 English 121 Course Page http://empathyandcomp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=70 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:25:15 -0500 How are writing and empathy similar and what is the value of empathy?

Empathy is one of the most important tools that are used in writing. Empathy is shown in many pieces of writing. Books, newspaper articles, […]

]]> f56f8ff99ce2096d2b738d8f8950b9d2 deanna boyd became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/452782/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:48:04 -0500