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🌏🌮 Where Cultures Meet: Life Between Asian and Mexican Communities in East Tulsa

By Hope Sardella Living on the east side of Tulsa has shown me a kind of cultural harmony that people don’t always talk about, but

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🥖 The History of SNAP: How America’s Food Assistance Program Evolved

     The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), once known simply as “food stamps,” is one of the most important safety nets in the United States.

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SNAP Judgment: The Rural Reality Behind Trump’s Shutdown Rhetoric

By Hope Sardella | The Mossy Typewriter On October 31st, President Donald Trump told CBS News: “When you’re talking about SNAP, if you look, it’s

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🎧 Headphones, Heartache, and Hip-Hop: Growing Up in the 2000s

By Hope Elena Sardella      Every time I flew to see my dad or mom’s house and came back to my grandmother’s house in Texas,

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I Changed My Political Party—and It Changed Me

By Hope Elena Sardella When I turned 18, Donald Trump was one of the first people I could vote for. I was raised in a

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Milton Friedman & Health and Human services

By Hope-Elena Sardella-Claunch By happenstance, I came across an interview with Peter Robinson at the Hoover Institute with Libertarianism scholar Milton Friedman in which Friedman

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So you thought Jonestown was suicide?

Author: Hope-Elena Sardella-Claunch Originally submitted for : LSTD – 2203 – Evil Actions ,  Religious Reasons Professor Francisco Rodriquez University of Oklahoma – College of

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The Evolution of Polar Bears

By Hope-Elena Sardella, March 20th, 2019 When some think of a polar bear, one may imagine the smiling white bear holding a glass bottle of

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Is climate change real and human caused? Lets look at Premises and Evaluation of both arguments

By Hope Elena Sardella, June 11 2018 Since the early 20th century, we have seen temperatures on Earth increase approximately 1.8°F. Additionally, over this same

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Ecology and Evolution Q/A

By Hope Elena Sardella, 2019 Question 2.) “What is the greenhouse effect, and how does it influence the net radiation balance (and temperature) of Earth?”

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