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Editor's Introduction : Environmental issue
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This issue of Artifacts, which we hope will be but the first of its kind, was opened to writing that explores any aspect of environmental studies, although we especially sought work with an interest on issues that touch our local campus, community...
Restoration
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri, 2013)
This is a poem by Lacy Mans.
Soils : to be or not to be ... on campus
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Soil erosion causes harm on and off-site. On-site impacts are confined to the local area where as the damages caused by off-site impacts are felt by society at large. The most harmful on-site impact is the actual loss of ...
The Price paid for building anew
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Currently, the University of Missouri-Columbia has seven construction projects being worked on throughout campus according to the campus facilities department. With the increasingly important goal of providing a top-notch ...
Editor's Introduction : questions of policy
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri, 2013)
Many of the pieces published in this issue invite readers to think deeply about questions of policy--which course of action should be pursued in a given set of circumstances?...
Treasure found in a trash heap : composting at Mizzou
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
A pile of apple cores, melon seeds, half eaten bread, corn kernels, and broccoli wait on a curb in black trash bags. But this food waste has a different destination than similar trash bags. Instead of being transported to ...
Issue Brief : Alcohol impaired drivers
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri, 2013)
Injury resulting from a motor vehicle crash is the leading cause of death in the United States among those aged 1 to 34. In 2002 17,419 of 42,815 traffic deaths were alcohol related. At that rate about one in every ten ...
The Art of music, apple pie, and coping
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Every human has negative energy that needs to be channeled to some place and the reality is, we thrive on emotion and must maintain a healthy equilibrium in order to function. Whether it is turning to external remedies or ...
Reblogging : The crocodile's bite - Russia's "meth problem" and drug reform - explicit
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri, 2013)
What drives people to inject literal hydrochloric acid into their veins? Only the junkie knows but by getting a glimpse at the state of despair that these people live, for me at least, gives a better sense of how desperate ...
Pollution, soil, and Columbia Missouri
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Columbia Missouri is getting bigger in every aspect. From parking lots to mega apartment complexes Columbia is expanding its borders constantly. Because of this rapid growth there are many effects of the construction that ...
Was the need to produce pesticides higher than need to protect civilians?
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Your blood turns cold. Your eyes become blind. Panic hits and all of a sudden air won't enter your lungs quite as easily. In the dead of the night of December 3rd, a noise resembling the pain of thousands of people was ...
Green building
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
"Thinking Green" is the new buzzword of the twenty-first century. There are the green IBM commercials that demonstrate a substantial amount of money saved if a business, "goes green" the Mac commercial with the new energy ...
Energy from unlikely sources : MU Power Plant's road to sustainability
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The University of Missouri Power Plant has been the source of steam and electricity for the University of Missouri campus for over 85 years. Established in 1923, the plant began with only four coal burning boilers and two ...
Gastrointestinal disease and diet
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Despite the large number of people affected by digestive diseases, gastroenterologists maintain a less than optimal course of treatment. The medical community has largely ignored the role that diet plays in treating and ...
The Gate to marriage : benefits and detriments of arranged marriage
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The processes of choosing a lifetime partner dramatically differ between Western and Eastern cultures. In Western cultures, mates select one another directly based on interpersonal attraction. Since marriage is not the ...
Dove Chocolate : a love story
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri, 2013)
Advertising has the power to make people think. However, it is only as effective as its audience allows it to be. Ads can really only play off the ideas and emotions that are already present in the minds of the audience, ...
A Feminist critique : the value of a body
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri, 2013)
The poem, "The Bog Queen" by Seamus Heaney is one that, through rhetorical tools of personification, communicates the role of the female body in the later years. While the poem can be seen as a literal illustration of the ...
The evolution of Russian media
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri, 2013)
In May of 2012, the official newspaper of the Communist Party in Russia celebrated its 100th anniversary of publication. Founded in St. Petersburg in 1912, Pravda prospered throughout most of the twentieth century, with a ...
Women veterans face challenges of homelessness
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
, as the number of enlisted women has increased from six percent in 2000 to eight percent in 2010, women are experiencing the issue of homelessness....