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Project Update Week 4

https://marketingf1.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/athlete-marketability/ This will be useful because it talks about what makes an athlete marketable and I can use what is assessed here for Ichiro. There are a variety of different factors I can look at. http://www.sportspromedia.com/from-the-magazine/most-marketable-2018-hookit-marketability-score-explained This is another site … Continue reading

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

Railroad Standard Time “The big railroad watch, Elgin.” (Page 1) What is a railroad watch? “Rows and rows of Chinamans learning English in a hurry from Daffy Duck.” (Page 4) I did not know Warner Brothers produced media to teach … Continue reading

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Come See The Paradise

There is an explosion in the movie theater. Hiroshi is in debt. Jack and Lilly are the love interests in this movie. Jack and Lilly have a daughter. The whole movie is a flashback to prior events told from the … Continue reading

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Disorientation & Reorientation Week Two

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/movies/crazy-rich-asians-cast.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FAsian-Americans&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=collection Why did it take so long to have an all-Asian cast for a movie between The Joy Luck Club and Crazy Rich Asians? That question asked in a New York Times article looking at that very question. Normally Asian … Continue reading

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Final Project Update – Week 3

I have decided to do my project on Ichiro Suzuki, because I feel he is one of the greatest baseball players of all time. I also think he is the greatest Japanese athlete that has played here in America. I … Continue reading

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Rabbit In The Moon

Before and after the internment camp point of view for the Japanese seem like before and after 9/11 for Americans. The media can make any situation appear to be positive, like with the propaganda video about the internment camps. America … Continue reading

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Better Luck Tomorrow

Ben seems to be taking on too many activities in order to have the best application for college. Ben is labeled as the token Asian on the basketball team. It seems in this movie everyone is doing a lot to … Continue reading

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Talking Points: Seventeen Syllables

The High-Heeled Shoes, A Memoir Who is Tony? Pansies are nice flowers Men wearing high-heeled shoes is an odd sight Was Tony the man in the high-heeled shoes? Seventeen Syllables It is very difficult to learn another language. It sounds … Continue reading

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Disorientation & Reorientation Week One

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/nyregion/hammer-attack-brooklyn-chinese-restaurant.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FAsian-Americans&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection In January of this year, a man named Mr. Martunovich killed three people with a hammer in a Brooklyn Chinese buffet restaurant. He has had a history of mental illness but had no history of violent outbursts. He was … Continue reading

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My America … or honk if you love Buddha Movie Notes

I think it is cool that there is Chinatowns in various different places of the United States with traditional Asian culture. It is nice that Asian people can have a town to give them traditional culture that they had back … Continue reading

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