# essex county (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover essex county. Page: Feed: --- ## [Playing Indian in the University’s Botanical Gardens](https://mylittleplanet.edublogs.org/2026/05/20/playing-indian-in-the-botanical-gardens/) _2026-05-20 · Myles Zhang · Myles Zhang_ To the specific faculty member at Taubman College who shall not be named, read this note before contacting me An essay written as a PhD student at the University of Michigan . Willow Pond at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens . “Do you know where some Indian relics for the walls might be secured?” Fielding H. Yost wrote in a 1933 letter.\[1\] Yost led the University of Michigan’s football team on a… ## [Visiting Cuba helped me realize that another world is possible.](https://mylittleplanet.edublogs.org/2026/02/14/cuba/) _2026-02-15 · Myles Zhang · Myles Zhang_ Based on my delegation visit to Cuba with two activist arts groups, Street Poets from Los Angeles and Solidarity Collective from Minnesota June 14 to 23, 2024 One of the joys of travel comes from the realization that: I have more to learn from others and from Cuba than they could possibly learn from me. I hope to return to the classroom this fall, and every fall thereafter, with these… ## [Say no to the Ironbound trash incinerator!](https://mylittleplanet.edublogs.org/2025/07/03/covanta-incinerator-is-bad-news-for-newark/) _2025-07-03 · Myles Zhang · Myles Zhang_ Speech given in July 2025, at the Newark City Council s monthly Hearing of the Citizens: . Link to full length recording of meeting (five hours) Attached sources: + Covanta s damage to Newark, a fact sheet Written 2025 by Myles Zhang + Contract between Covanta and New York City Signed 2012, result of OPRA request submitted to New York City Department of Sanitation + Transcription of Spoken… ## [Time-Lapse Evolution of Istanbul’s Urban Form: 330 AD to Present](https://mylittleplanet.edublogs.org/2025/04/04/istanbul/) _2025-04-04 · Myles Zhang · Myles Zhang_ Using the tools of historical cartography and geographic information systems (GIS), this time-lapse animation reconstructs the urban form of Istanbul during key periods of its millennium-long history. All of about 200 known and major archaeological sites are drawn in scaled plans and overlaid above the city s contemporary geography. The process reveals Istanbul as a city of layers, spanning three…