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Shaolin Ulysses Notes

• May 3, 2019

In search of the American dream In the Shaolin Temple, Buddhism can be taught to all Shaolin – Little forest 1992 – first monks to America Master > parents First Shaolin branch opened in 2000 Shaolin monks cannot marry Officers learn Shaolin as a form of self-defense 72 Shaolin arts Shaolin monks are vegetarian The Shaolin […]


May 1st Class Notes

• May 3, 2019

Field trip might be rescheduled Week 5 project updates updated Week 6 partial draft (1,200 – 1,500 words) Week 7 (2,400 – 3,000 words) Friday – Open blogging time   Kung fu – Gong fu


The Joy Luck Club Notes

• May 3, 2019

June The story talks of a woman going to America in hopes of a new life for her daughter June realizes that her mother died four months ago The Joy Luck Club was started by June’s mother June can’t (or chooses not to) understand Chinese June’s mother and Ying Ying compared their daughters heavily June’s […]


April 30th Class Notes

• May 3, 2019

Week 5 reports going out today Find text adjusting widget Annual Academic Statement Can now look at paper during movie-taking notes Mentoring Day Internships – LIB 1412 2pm Study Aboard – LIB 1412 3pm Entrepreneurship – LIB 2205 3pm 2nd Glance to Alien Encounters All satire is about destruction


Talking Points: The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.

• April 29, 2019

Railroad Standard Time P. 1 She brought me in here to the …was a paradise for conspiracy, … I’ve noticed this a lot growing up and in movies. Coming to the kitchen table as a place of comfort for hard or difficult topics. P. 2 “Your grandfather collected railroad…gives it to you now,” she said. […]


April 24th Class Notes

• April 26, 2019

Manzanar is the most visited Japanese Internment camp Heavy Handed Music used to sway emotions Name comes from a Russian poem Japanese Americans first started to be released in 1943 through work release 1990 Gulf War 1988 Amerasian Homecoming Act 30,000 children, 7,000 family members 1988 Civil Libertionas Act (reparations Alan Parker: Missing Burning (1988) […]


Come See the Paradise Notes

• April 26, 2019

The film starts out with a mother and her daughter singing The film takes place in 1936 A man gets burned badly while trying to stop a fire in a theater Lily’s father forces her to meet and marry a mand that he owns a lot of money to Jack notices Lily working in the […]


April 23rd Class Notes

• April 26, 2019

Frank Chin – Provocative Writer Week 4 Statements about project needed by Friday Multimodel essay/project/composition Room change week 10 B2107 B2105 novel  —————————————–poetry                                                               Haiku used […]


Talking Points: Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

• April 22, 2019

The High-Heeled Shoes, A Memoir P. 3 She told her boss and he called the…asked, ‘Are you the girl that was raped?” It’s really sad that a man had to call to defend her, rather than the police taking her words as valid. P. 3 My presumption had been rash. It…gestures, being enjoined to liner […]


Rabbit in the Moon Notes

• April 19, 2019

Wishing to be white instead of Asian Mother died at the age of 34 School neglected Anyone 1/16 Japanese blood was evicted JACL for Japanese Americans only Kibei – Japanese educated/too Japanese Questionnaire was given to Japanese inmates to join the army Asked to see a man and not a rabbit in the moon Tule […]