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ENGL 353. Fall 2019. Dr. Scanlon.

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Final Project Poem: Universal Themes

Thank you all for such an incredible class this semester. I learned so much from each of you, and I am in absolute awe of your personal strengths and the battles you all courageously face. You are known right where

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Connection to Kusum’s Island

With Ghosh’s book, we’ve discussed the controversy of who takes priority: wildlife preservation and the natural homes of these wild animals or human refugees. In the book, an island is set aside for nature conservation, but Kusum makes the point

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Asian Americans in Marketing

I always think it’s interesting when something that I learn in a class overlaps or connects to what I’m learning in another class. Yesterday in my marketing class, we talked about Asian American consumers, so I thought I would tell

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Hagedorn Confuses Me

There is so much about Dogeaters that I do not understand. However, I think presently one of my current questions is why does Hagedorn only choose Rio and Pucha to be first person narrators? I honestly want to know what’s

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Connection to Spanish Poem

I’m in Spanish 312, which is Intro to Literature Studies in Spanish taught by Professor Lewis. One of the first works we read and discussed in that class was Alfonsina Storni’s “Tú me quieres blanca.” Storni was a feminist Argentine

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Correlation between Character Deaths?

I just wanted to say something about the question of death in some of the books we’ve read so far. What are the similarities between Taro, Kenji, Ichiro’s mother, and the no-name woman that all made them characters in their

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A Note about the Reading for Class Today

This is just a quick thought that I had in class today about things that have happened in Okada’s book so far. The Kamasukas lost their son who fought for the U.S. in WWII. And then Ichiro’s mom takes Ichiro

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Question about Chin: POV

I’m still a little confused about the point of view in Chin’s book. It’s from Donald’s perspective and we know his thoughts and opinions, but it’s written in third person. Is there a specific term for this kind of point

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Rachel’s Reading questions for September 9 (Chin 1-85)

Clearly Chin wants us to pay attention to the names in his book beginning with main character, Donald Duk, which is also the title of the book. Why does Chin choose to use Donald Duk’s full name almost every time

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