Did you learn anything unexpected?

Did you become curious about anything new?

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. Stories about empires move us because they’re echoes of the memories that reside deep in our collective consciousness. We live in a world of migrating peoples and interconnected markets, a global system of wealth creation built upon acts of violence. In the Americas, European conquerors erased ways of life that were alien to the, fought wars, enslaved people, razed temples, and outlawed religion . . . Hollywood takes the history of colonialism and conquest and dressed up the characters in robes and helmets and gives them prop weapons, and it transforms this history into a crowd-pleasing fantasy. As Junot Díaz once put it: without the history of racist ideologies, X-Men makes no sense; without colonialism Star Wars make no sense; and without the history of chattel slavery in the New World, Dune makes no sense.

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. I’ve been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite, can stop the bleeding–most people forgot this when the war ended. The wear ended depending on which war you mean: those we started, before those, millennia ago and onward, those which started me, which I lost and won– these ever-blooming wounds

Did you change your mind about anything?

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. If I were to build my womanhood on this self-evident truth, it is the love of the Chicana, the love of myself as a Chicana I had to embrace, no white man. Maybe this ultimately was the cutting difference between my brother and me. To be a woman fully necessitated my claiming the race of my mother. My brother’s sex was white. Mind, brown.

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. “We’re going to have to do something your tongue,” I hear the anger rising in his voice. My tongue keeps pushing out the wads of cotton, pushing back the drills, the long thin needles. “Ive never seen anything as strong or as stubborn,” he says. And I think, how do you tame a wild tongue, train it to be quiet, how do you bridle and saddle it? How do you make it lie down?”

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage.   You will search for another landscape in which to speak with your dead. No words will respond to the voices of your love. You will make up another gaze and you will walk with your head owed as if wounded in borrowed cities.

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a baby’s beshatted diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

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