Chinese Amercian Presentation (WEEK 5 THOUGHTS)
Friday presentation: Gabriel, Karlie, Alyssa I walked in a little late so there are a few things that I missed but I walked into talking about the Vietnman War, and the entire time I...
Category: Talk Story
Posts in this category include class notes, seminar writing assignments, film analyses, and an ongoing synthesis of ideas across program texts.
Talking Points: Dark Blue Suit
Dark Blue Suit: Undocumented cheap labor Language barrier with children Constant yearn for home Rico: Toxic masculinity in MOC populations Minorities joining the Military to get out of poverty in the juxtaposition of most...
Talking Points: The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
Railroad standard time: Being lost in translation. When her mother was talking about her grandfathers watch and she was speaking about it in Chinese it made the watch more valuable, but when she reduced...
Talking Points: Seventeen Syllables
The High-Heeled Shoes, A Memoir: One cannot be prepared for violence. This is interesting because it is true when someone asks you “what would you do if someone were to hold threaten to stab...
Talking Points: Alien Encounters
Narcissistic naïve Americans most often than not, tend to generalize and give labels to everything and everyone. Labeling, however, this isn’t a new phenomenon that we do as people due to the fact that we...
