Category: Reading and Writing

Response to Pippa Biddle Article

Pippa Biddle Article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/little-white-girls-voluntourism_b_4834574 Pippa Biddle’s article definitely opened my eyes to how we can help developing countries. I never thought about how helping could be a hindrance. We should use our resources to donate materials and give the resources to those within a country so they can run their own camps because they know

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In response to Pippa Biddle’s The Problem with Little White Girls (and Boys) and Why I Stopped Being a Voluntourist

The HuffPost article by Pippa Biddle was a mindful response to the industry of “voluntourism”.  I, like the author, have gone on a “mission trip” before. My church flew a group of parishioners down to Haiti to spend a week at an orphanage helping to build church pews/benches, a goat pen, a water well, and

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Final Project

Over the semester, I didn’t really find that working with Freedom House, a local homeless shelter, necessarily changed the work that I made for the final project. However, I have a collection of finished images and sketches on my computer, so I searched around for what I thought would be best to give to Freedom

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The Reading

This is our reading for the semester. You can buy it at your local bookseller and other places where books are sold. Please make sure to get this edition with design work by Shepard Fairey. A different edition of this book is available at the SNC Library. We’ll be reading the book in these four

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