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Jamaican Creole and the Quest for Linguistic Validation
Multimodal Post #2 | Antoneisha Dunn | October 30, 2023 Please see the appropriate credits in the document below:
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ONE LINER
by Kelli-Rae Francis | Opening Line Prompt | October 27, 2023 Looking back, all I see is a void of darkness consuming my thoughts.
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OPENING LINE PROMPT
“In the fortress of mind, dementia is an unwanted guest.” REVISIONS: Narrative Essay #1 “Tori carried the weight of a burden that not even Jamaica’s warm breeze could lift.” Narrative Essay #2 “In the vibrant streets of Manchester, Jamaica, lived a remarkable man named Harold Murray.” Narrative Essay #3 “Doris sat in her favorite pew…
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Bilingualism is a fancy word for forked tongue.
by jessiemayers | Class Blog 4 | Opening Line Prompt Bilingualism is a fancy word for forked tongue.
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Only his feet peeked out from the pan of the pickup truck.
by Blaire Santos | 28th October, 2023 | Opening Line Prompt
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Writing Prompt 1: My Granny
Phone batteries die, trees die, pets die, and even the people we love die. Death is inevitable, yet it is something we can never seem to prepare enough for. Diabetic, heart-broken, old, and needing around the clock care, and still her death shocked me as if though she was a healthy, athletic 17-year-old that got…
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Navigating Conspiracy Theories and the Palestinian Plight
by Blaire Santos | 16th October, 2023 | Challenging Beliefs Prompt DISCLAIMER: This post contains distressing images and information. I remember not having to take my shoes off to get on a plane, but now I expect to be selected, supposedly at random, for a body search every time I travel through the US. TSA…
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Donkeys, pigs and other farm fables
We’re not allowed to tell our little cousin stories: the lies you tell children for entertainment, the myths or superstitions. My aunt would say we’re not allowed to tell him “Foolishness”. Children believe everything. They believe that when you flush fish down the toilet they go to the ocean and that if you walk over…
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A CONSPIRACY’S UNFOLDING BEFORE OUR EYES
by Kelli-Rae Francis | October 13, 2023 I have heard many conspiracy theories in my life, ranging from 9/11 being an inside job to us living in a simulation. Most of these sounded absolutely ridiculous to me but there’s one that stood out…. The theory of the existence of a secret society called: “The ILLUMINATI”…
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The Linguistic myth We’ve All Heard
Antoneisha Dunn | Blog #3 | October 14, 2023 When I was a tenth grade student, my language teacher shared with me the belief she had regarding creole as a vulgar and substandard language. I had stood there talking with her, and for reasons unknown to me, I code switched. I hadn’t said a sentence,…