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May 3rd Class Notes

• May 3, 2019

Chinese Americans: What I learned The majority of kung fu is movies are inspired or directly from the Shaolin monks There a limited number of Asian-Americans on the Walk of Fame


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


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 […]


April 19th Class Notes

• April 19, 2019

Pareidolia = Seeing images within objects


April 17th Class Notes

• April 17, 2019

Hapa – half Hawaiian+something else Indigenous Hawaiians don’t want other people that aren’t Hawaiian to use this term