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Author Archives: Cali
A Moral Life Lesson, as illustrated through old school navy tattoos
I really loved everyone’s comics but I didn’t bother to download the program. Rather, I opted to drawing my comics out by hand and writing the words on separate paper and then using ‘crazy’ scissors to cut out the words … Continue reading
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Anazaldua and I
My knowledge of who I am or where I come from is limited. When I was born I was passed from one set of arms to the next and for a while, none hung on for too long. I know … Continue reading
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The Little Things
My senior year of high school I joined a program called AmeriCorps. I didn’t know what to expect from it but I knew I wanted to do it because I’d get to be let out of school early to do … Continue reading
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A Study of Authenticity, Disillusionment, and the Digital World
You think you know a person. You think you know your best friend or your brother or your brother’s best friend’s girlfriend. You think you know the person sitting in front of you in your last MWF class. You make … Continue reading
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The Blame Game and the Thickness of Blood and Water
I’m sorry, but only because I want you to be sorry too. I guess that means I’m not truly sorry. You’re my brother and my best friend and yet, you’re a stranger to me. You should never have let someone … Continue reading
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Stars and Fireworks
My best friend in the entire world died in 2006. You linger in the awkward moment in your mind – wondering how but knowing it’s impolite to ask. He killed himself. Now you’re faced with trying not to ask how … Continue reading
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The “You” of Sherman Alexie’s “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me”
Sherman Alexie’s “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me” is indeed the perfect essay for this point in the semester. We could take any of the terminology from the Tool Kit in Smith and Watson’s Reading Autobiography and apply it to Alexie’s … Continue reading
Tell Them What They Want to Hear
Smith and Watson offer us a wealth of information hidden beneath their jargon and tie-it-up-and-torture-out-a-meaning approach to autobiography. Its quite a process to get through some of the denser material covered in “Reading Autobiography” but the result is wroth it. … Continue reading
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