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Fresh Off the Boat: Hip-Hop’s Impact on the Asian-American Identity greg austin jr.

This presentation was given in class on Tuesday May 15th to introduce this project.

Jabberwocky Genocide

Why hate the Jabberwock, my friend? Why spin this tale of teeth and claws? When will all this hatred end? When will the vorpal be outlawed? The Jabberwock is not your foe. The Jabberwock’s misunderstood. Tell me one Jabberwock you know that’s still alive, you think you could? This Jabberwocky genocide has got to end, I’m telling you! I can’t step one foot outside without it being run straight through! How these kids all get their hands on vorpal swords, I do not know, but they’ve terrorized my lands and I have nowhere else to go. And so I beg you, old and new, to take a look at what you’ve done, and please, to help me spread the truth, for being murdered is no fun.

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Assignment: Steal the first line of a poem to create your own original work.

The moon is rising everywhere

and i am settling in

right here with you.

I have seen so many moons.

I have sung under its gaze,

I have danced in and out of its light.

It has guided my way

through familiar forest paths

and foreign, cobblestone streets.

I have blocked it out when it shone too bright

through my childhood bedroom skylight,

I have welcomed it like an old friend

when I have been far from home.

I have prayed to it when I have lost my way,

I have begged it to watch over you when I cannot.

The moon is rising everywhere

and I used to wish i could chase it around the world,

but now I'm happy to settle in with you.

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Try This 2.9: Write a poem or paragraph about a relationship between surface and depth.

The bathroom mirror

is splattered with toothpaste -

because my brother spits too hard

when he brushes his teeth -

and with spray gel -

because that's where I do my hair

of course.

Have you ever focused your eyes

back and forth

between the stuff

on the mirror

and the stuff

in the mirror?

Scratches on the surface

that happened before i was born,

dust way up high

that no one feels like cleaning.

If you look closely

white things - your shirt, your teeth -

reflect twice.

Once on the surface of the glass

and once on the shiny coating behind it,

which is the mirror itself.

Not many people know that that's how

mirrors work. They just look in them

not at them.

No one ever wonders

what a mirror looks like.

Just what it looks at.

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Try This 3.9: Everyone hates something about his or her body. Write a poem or a few paragraphs in the first person about what you hate about yours. What tone will you choose? Are you laughing at yourself, genuinely grieving, wry, angry, over it?

Why the hell

are feet

feet?

Some people hate

all feet

but I only hate

my feet.

Mine are

long feet,

bone-thin feet,

monkey-toe feet,

feet with thick, rough soles