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Rape Culture is Unacceptable
, , , 2nextprez, Fall 2016, Lights4Girls, Rape Culture, Repentino., Showcase, 5
Works Cited “91 Percent of Colleges Reported Zero Incidents of Rape in 2014.” AAUW: Empowering Women Since 1881. N.p.,...
I am from the wood table, from the living room furniture. I am from the nerf guns and skateboards...
Not to worry
, , , Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 2
I’m from family reunions every Christmas, From playing with my cousins every afternoon. Water guns and pillow fights, A...
Not Knowing
, , , Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 0
I’m from touch screen laptops I’m from the iPhone 6S and touch screens I’m from my father’s garden on...
Welcomed
, , , Fall 2016, Family, Friendship, Happiness, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 4
I am from documents and lawyers. From genes I do not know. As a newborn introduced to a family,...
A Day in a Girl’s Life from Bumpe, Sierra Leone
, , , Call to Action, Education, Gender, Inequality, Lights4Girls, Renewable Energy, Repentino., Showcase, War, Women, 5
See us on the “A Day in a Girl’s Life” map, and see other links under the Call to...
Can solar lanterns change girls’ lives in Sierra Leone?
, , , Call to Action, Economy, Education, Gender, Inequality, Inquiry, Lights4Girls, Repentino., Showcase, War, Women, 4
I’m a co-founder of Connected. United. 4Change, and Bumpe, Sierra Leone, is C.U.4C‘s first international partner school. The school...
Where I Learned to Write Poems
, , , Fall 2016, Family, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Social Class, Where I'm From, 0
I am from mud pies, from old stone walls and leaf-buried granite boulders. From kickball and the tire...
Rough and Tough
, , , Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, 2
I am from a poor country that’s thrown down the floor where gangsta say they rule but they look...
Faith in Us
, , , Family, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 7
I am from Oakland, CA where people get shot and killed. I am from “who cares” and selfish. When...
Unlike Any Other
, , , Friendship, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 6
I am from Oakland The place I have lived all my life A city unlike any other Where everyone...
Proving Them Wrong
, , , Crime, Economy, Education, Fall 2016, Family, Inequality, Poetry, Racism, Repentino., Showcase, Violence, Where I'm From, 0
I am from ghetto city Oakland Where it’s a very diverse place Where us Mexicans are a threat to...
Like No Other City
, , , Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Violence, Where I'm From, 7
I’m from east Oakland born and raised where it’s a miracle if you make it out at the age...
Gunshots
, , , Bullying, Guns, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Violence, Where I'm From, 4
I am from Oakland, CA I am from a world where the only thing you hear is gunshots wherever did you...
Blessings
, , , Black Lives Matter, Crime, Drugs, Fall 2016, Poetry, Racism, Repentino., Showcase, Stress, Violence, Where I'm From, 2
I’m from Oakland where people do drugs and do not give a rat when they pop yo. I am...
Making It
, , , Education, Fall 2016, Family, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 4
Living life in Oakland where the way we express our anger by killing each other on the streets Blacks...
I’m from Oakland I’m from the “deep east” From gun shots and sideshows From kids dying and mammas...
Not the Same
, , , Poetry, Racism, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 5
I’m from the city of Oakland, California. A city where your use of freedom of speech can get you...
I’m from Oakland The three and the six On the wires of electricity Always a pair of kicks ...
Trying to find the right path
, , , Family, Friendship, Poetry, Repentino., Violence, Where I'm From, 7
I am from a city where people hide their feelings where people don’t believe in self-pity where people...
On the Low
, , , Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 4
I am from days of happiness and laughter but it all goes away the day after Every time I...
510, 94606
, , , Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, 4
I am from two Stuck in between because I don’t fit in any shoe I am from simple rhymes...
Oakland Livin’
, , , Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, 3
I am from Salt Lake City , Utah the state full of Mormon whites I am from big houses...
I am from a place of darkness and light. I am from a place where everyone seems all right...
Behind the Curtain
, , , Fall 2016, Family, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, 0
I am from Oakland, California but not the one people know the one that is hidden behind a curtain,...
Love and Hate
, , , Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, 1
I am from Oakland. Where people ask me how I got to live in the hills, when I’m from...
Trynna Make It
, , , Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, 2
I am from oakland Where you here gun shots daily I am from a family of six Where there...
Oakland, California is the city, Don’t have to beg no one to be with me, All you got yourself,...
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