Chinese Epidemic: The Thin Ideal

“I can’t believe you’re an XL in China. That’s crazy!”

Growing up my mom used to buy all my clothes from China, and every clothing item she bought for me seemed to be a size XL that would sometimes be too tight for me. I couldn’t bring myself to…

Bed-Stuy gentrification draft

What neighborhood we live in is one of the defining characteristics of our identities. It’s important enough to start fights over for some and, the social status associated with where we live is a point of great pride for others. Your neighborhood is the place where you rest…

The University Of Southern California Can Also Be Held Accountable For Gentrification In The South LA Community

Ingrid Hernandez

Professor Zen Dochterman

The End of White Picket Fences in Suburbia

Dylan Mesina

Professor Dochterman

WRIT 150

29 November 2021

The End of White Picket Fences in Suburbia

Gentrification of Farmers’ Markets in Beijing

3 am, in a dimly lit street in Beijing, the silence was broken out by a family…

Modern Homelessness in New York City

At this time, the number of homeless people in New York City is at an all-time high. With a population of more than 8.3 million people, one in every 106 New Yorkers is homeless, amounting to almost 80,000 men, women, and children. The COVID-19 pandemic, which put…

Smog Pollution in Los Angeles and China

There are all types of pollution. Water, land, noise, light, and air pollution are some of the few kinds. Smog is an example of air pollution that first appeared in the early 1900s and has been around ever since. It is a common issue in Los Angeles due to the…

Replacing SROs in U.S. Schools

Imagine yourself huddled in the corner of your classroom amongst your peers, unsure of your future safety in the wake of events like Stoneman Douglas school shooting. Unfortunately for students across the United States, these types of lockdown drills are often reality…

Cupertino’s Fight Over a Dead Mall

Home to the Apple Headquarters, Cupertino, California is the ultimate dream city for people to live in, as it provides job opportunities, safe environments, and superior public school education. However, despite Cupertino being the most ideal place for families to move…

Do Badges Belong in Classrooms?

Picture this: a third-grader being handcuffed, crying and confused, because he was “disrupting the class” — this has been a reoccuring reality spanning across 50 states for the last 50 years or so.

How to Remedy Silicon Valley’s Red-Hot Housing Market?

Today, the Bay Area faces a housing crisis on an unprecedented scale. Take Pat Swan, who grew up in Wisconsin and, after visiting friends in California and falling in love with the state, moved to the Bay Area in 1989. However, Pat, now 62, has lived in a rent-controlled…

The Anti-Immigrant Stance in Poland

You may have seen recent news coverage of a crisis on the Poland-Belarus border. Hundreds of, mostly Iraqi, migrants were stranded at the border, attempting to illegally cross into Poland, and the EU respectively, at the behest of the Belarusian president Andrei…

License To: Eradicate or Kill?

Miguel Bugayong

Professor Dochtermann

Writ 150

4 December 2021

My parents, who always enforced the rules and had strong hopes on raising a socially acceptable child always…

Is Skinny the only standard of Beauty?

If you were asked to define what is the standard of beauty, what would you answer? What is beauty and what can represent beauty? Is it only about having a skinny body, photoshopping every picture, forcing ourselves to live in the ‘fake’ world? Some people said…

Societal position on Oral systemic health disparities

Let’s take a moment to consider objectively. Most of our perception states are passive. In daily situations, you wouldn’t suddenly wonder what the condition of your feet is. Of course, with very few exceptions, including when you…

Waterworks in Hawaii: How Colonial Management Fails

Lauren Richards

Lecturer Zen Dochterman

WRIT 150

29 November 2021

WP4 Rough Draft

Aidan Banan

Writ 150

Dochterman

December 4, 2021

Santa Barbara Housing Crisis

Covid-19 has skyrocketed the value of houses across the world, worsening the global housing…

Are Current Policies Enough to Minimize Food Waste on College Campuses?

During my first time at the USC Village, the first thing that popped up into my mind was “why are there so many trashcans right next to each other?”, however upon closer inspection, they were all for…

WP4

Owen Wendell-Braly

Professor Dochterman

WRIT-150

Due: 11/29/2021

In this essay, I will analyze how emerging personal finance technologies (or FinTechs) — tools that democratize access to investments and financial…

More gun, more blood

Brazil has had a long history with gun control and a growing issue surrounding violence and homicides. In 2003, the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva established a new law ‘Estado de Desarmamento’ which made buying a firearm significantly more rigid. However, recently the current 2021…

An Unending Cycle of Corruption and Crime

Brazil has long been known for its corrupt politicians, unfair government, and dwindling economy. Yet, nothing hit the news quite like Operação Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash), the biggest money laundering scandal in the country’s history involving…

Critical Race Theory and the Education of America’s Youth

The death of George Floyd marked much more than an example of racial injustice; it even marked more than an upsurge of activity for the Black Lives Matter movement. His death marked a confrontation of racism with effects far…

Private pools and Michelin-starred dinners: How the rise of the uber-rich and societal deference to them has shaped London’s housing crisis — and why we have to look beyond the M25 to tackle the issue

Sexual assaults on campus & Problematic greek life

On October 20th, I received a crime alert from DPS. It is about the drug-facilitated sexual assaults at the Sigma Nu fraternity house. Within the email, it says that The Sigma Nu fraternity has been placed on interim suspension. Sigma Nu may…

Title 42 is being used to exploit immigrant populations in the United States. It has long been established in the US and international law that immigrants who qualify as “refugees” or “asylum seekers” are not to be returned to their home country when it could mean putting them in further danger, and should instead be accommodated accordingly. The…

Racism Towards Asian Americans in Atlanta

Atlanta is known for many things: slavery, the birthplace of MLK, the rebirth of the KKK, and modern de facto segregation. While Atlanta’s history of injustice toward African Americans is extremely important, what is often neglected is the anti-Asian…