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L Categories Essay Leaning Pines What responsibility do writers have when they write about the environment? Environmental writer and memoirist Carole Firstman shared an example and her thoughts:“When we write about..
t Categories Essay the gravity of play: a reader response I grew up around guns, though less directly than my peers. My dad was the only father I knew in my south Louisiana town who..
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