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Kimberle By Achy Obejas The reason I chose this song to be in the playlist for this reading is the fact that it has to due with suicide and the lyrics say “one last pic and i’ll be gone make it count put the flash on”. Which implies suicide. A big influence throughout this excerpt […]

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The Sign of The Cross On The Hilt of The Sword

Group 5 The Lust for Gold Exterminated the Native Race of Latin AmericaIn the book, Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galiano, part 1, The Sign of the Cross on the Hilt of The Sword, talks about how Columbus came to American, and what the consequences of him arriving there. Columbus “discovered” America during […]

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Lower East Side Poem

Group 5 Our group focused on analyzing and looking into the “Lower East Side” poem, by Miguel Pinero.   The Lower East side is located in manhattan and the words mean nothing to someone who had not lived there. However to Miguel Pinero it was a way of life and his home. The description in the poem does […]

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