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Genuine Fur is a Green Resource, Faux Fur is a Carcinogenic Pollutant

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  We picked some Styrofoam trash out the river while trapping beav.            Genuine fur is a green, naturally recurring, near infinite, renewable resource from which not only high fashion can be attained, but fur is also a highly effective and utilitarian clothing that excels at keeping relatively weak, soft, and nearly hairless humans warm in conditions that could potentially literally freeze the blood in our veins before we finish dying.   Faux fur is not only derived from petroleum, a finite resource, but its production is caustic, its components are carcinogenic, and when you throw it away it could take up to a thousand years to decompose, during which time it is a toxic microplastic floating around the Earth shortening the lifespan of anything that crosses its path.               Beaver makes a fine specific example, but many points made can be extrapolated to o...

Geronimo, An American Legend and The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

  Geronimo: An American Legend and The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History A Comparative Essay By Temple Dillard I wrote this for my American History class. The assignment was to read the book Journey of Crazy Horse, written by written by Joseph Marshall, which is the history of Crazy Horse as passed down to him by his Lakota family, including the defeat of Custer.  We also watched Geronimo starring Wes Study as the title character, Gene Hackman who's character General Crooks was involved in the the Crazy Horse conflicts, Matt Damon as the green Army officer, Jason Patrick as the seasoned officer, and Robert Duvall as the gritty Indian Fighter.      The purpose of both of these pieces was to tell a story.   Though from greatly varied positions, they both tell the story of European American expansion into The American West at the expense of the Indigenous Americans who were there before.   Though told from different perspectives, they c...