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ENGL 353. Fall 2019. Dr. Scanlon.

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Michelle’s Final Project

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Marriage in The Hungry Tide

As I’ve been reading further into The Hungry Tide, I’ve started to notice a recurring theme surrounding marriage. All three marriages we have seen so far in the narrative (Piya’s parents, Fokir and Moyna, and Nilima and Nirmal) have been

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Michelle’s Reading Questions for October 11th

Intimacy appears to be a recurring theme throughout Franny Choi’s poems in Soft Science. For example, in her poem, “Solitude,” the speaker tells of a time she jumped into the Narragansett Bay for her birthday, and near the end of

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The Mother’s Death

Today’s discussion on the death of Ichiro’s mother was extremely interesting and brought up points about the symbolism of dying in a bathtub that I hadn’t thought about while reading through No-No Boy. Personally, I saw her death as a

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New SNL Cast Members

Hi, guys! I wanted to share these articles I have come across concerning the new cast members of SNL, most notably Bowen Yang and Shane Gillis. Bowen Yang, who is Chinese-American and previously wrote for SNL in 2018, was recently

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More Thoughts on Donald Duk — Identity and Frustration

While reading and discussing Donald Duk, I began to think about Donald’s resentment towards his parents and others in the novel for failing to Americanize themselves in the way that Donald believes they should. This frustration seemed familiar to me

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