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Questioning home through essay assignments

Posted on February 10, 2017October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

by Marina Tinone -1- Write about your most comfortable place. It doesn’t have to be your home, though many choose to write about their home. It can be your favorite place, a place you feel at peace, or a place that you want to return to. Why is it important to you? Think of the…

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A Call from my Mother ; A Call for POC in Fear

Posted on January 27, 2017October 1, 2022 by Emily Almendarez

My mother called me today. She called me to say, “I am so proud of you. I hope you are safe.”The invocation of safety was thrown in as a filler for protection which she could no longer provide. She is now 2,000 miles away. The mention of pride still flushes my face and creates a…

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Nostalgia, or Homecoming Pains

Posted on January 27, 2017October 1, 2022 by Sohum Pal

For so many Americans, India still evokes an Orientalist tableau–kings and queens dressed in luxurious swaths of cloth, riding on elephants to the Taj Mahal. That vision is fictive, in part because India formed a democracy after a devastating revolutionary war, and in part because the Taj Mahal has only ever been a tomb. A…

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