Today we started our presentation on the Book Report Essays. The presenters today were Kathleen, Ana, Flora and Dan. They all did a wonderful job.
Make sure you bring in your book. Dan brought in an audio tape and we listened to a bit (nice touch). Keep the presentations short (1-3 min.)
Make sure you bring in your book. Dan brought in an audio tape and we listened to a bit (nice touch). Keep the presentations short (1-3 min.)
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 10:01 AM
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Colleen Low
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
3 March 2012
Evangeline Canonizado Buell’s memoir Twenty-Five Chickens and a Pig for a Bride: Growing Up in a Filipino Immigrant Family recounts her life through short stories that exemplify the fight for the common ground of equality. She is the epitome of her African American grandfather; a Buffalo Soldier a coined term for their skill, strength and bravery during battle. The author’s brazen fighting spirit against bigotry is influenced by her rich and diverse cultures of tradition and community. Evangeline’s essence is inspired by jazz, blues and spirituals because her Filipino father played the coronet and he believed that the path to an education would led to a better life. He loved his daughters and did not want them to marry too young to go to college and told his daughters it was for two reasons “First, [they] were brown, and second you’re a woman” (115). The events in her life were a synthesis and it is no surprise that she is an activist because she is a product of diversity for which sets her apart from the ordinary. Although America represents itself as a great nation based on the rights of individuals, equality and liberty, the author demonstrates the realities of social stigma of races in her examples, to which her biracial heritage provided discoveries about herself and shaped the author’s view and understanding during situations in her life.
Kathleen Adams
Professor Sabir
English 1A
May 9, 2012
Sonja Brooks has been a Business Development Officer and Small Business Program Manager at Operation HOPE since 2005. Responsible overseeing program insuring the delivery entrepreneurial training, she provides technical assistance and resources to new and existing small businesses including loan packaging, business planning, marketing and access to capital.
Sonja obtained her undergrad degree in Broadcast Communication and Public Relations from CSU East Bay and has furthered her education in Marketing at U.C. Berkeley with an emphasis on Software and Social Media. She has served on several boards including, Women’s Council of REALTORS® East Bay Chapter as a committee and board member; NorCal FDC State Loan Guarantee Program and a preliminary board member of the Contra Costa Black Chamber of Commerce. She writes poetry and is a frequent blog contributor.
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