Archive for category: Repentino.

Nano Wrimo – is it just an event?

Repentino., November 3, 2017, Fall 2017, Inquiry, Quality Education, Repentino., Showcase, NANOWRIMO, 0

NANO Wrimo is on – what is that? We highly recommend signing up for NaNoWriMo. Young writers (0-18) can...

Rape Culture is Unacceptable

Hadley, November 2, 2016, 2nextprez, Fall 2016, Lights4Girls, Rape Culture, Repentino., Showcase, 2nextprez, Rape, rape culture, 5

Works Cited “91 Percent of Colleges Reported Zero Incidents of Rape in 2014.” AAUW: Empowering Women Since 1881. N.p.,...

Welcomed in a Not So Welcoming City

Zachary, October 31, 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 5

I am from the wood table, from the living room furniture. I am from the nerf guns and skateboards...

Not to worry

Johanna, October 31, 2016, 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

Christopher, October 31, 2016, 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

Hailey, October 31, 2016, 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

Abby, October 29, 2016, Affordable and Clean Energy, Call to Action, Gender, Gender Equity (Women), Lights4Girls, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Repentino., Showcase, War, 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?

Abby, October 18, 2016, Call to Action, Gender, Gender Equity (Women), Inquiry, Lights4Girls, No Poverty (Economy), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Repentino., Showcase, War, 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...

Rough and Tough

Cristhoffer, October 12, 2016, Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, My life, 2

I am from a poor country that’s thrown down the floor where gangsta say they rule but they look...

Faith in Us

Stephanie, October 9, 2016, Family, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, Faith, 7

I am from Oakland, CA where people get shot and killed. I am from “who cares” and selfish. When...

Unlike Any Other

Quest, October 8, 2016, 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

Adriana, October 7, 2016, Crime, Fall 2016, Family, No Poverty (Economy), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Poetry, Quality Education, Race Relations, 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

Tamara, October 6, 2016, Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Violence, Where I'm From, Oakland, 7

I’m from east Oakland born and raised where it’s a miracle if you make it out at the age...

Gunshots

Destiny, October 5, 2016, Bullying, Guns, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Violence, Where I'm From, poetry, 4

I am from Oakland, CA I am from a world where the only thing you hear is gunshots wherever did you...

Blessings

Maxwell, October 5, 2016, Black Lives Matter, Crime, Drugs, Fall 2016, Poetry, Race Relations, 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

Aunesha, October 4, 2016, Fall 2016, Family, Poetry, Quality Education, 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...

She Does What a Man Can

Phatima, October 4, 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, Poem, poems, 6

I’m from Oakland I’m from the “deep east” From gun shots and sideshows From kids dying and mammas...

Not the Same

Semon, October 4, 2016, Poetry, Race Relations, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, Conservatism, Oakland, poetry, 5

I’m from the city of Oakland, California. A city where your use of freedom of speech can get you...

Where I’m supposed to be

Cindy, October 4, 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, memyselfandI, 5

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

Alexandra, October 4, 2016, Family, Friendship, Poetry, Repentino., Violence, Where I'm From, high school, Oakland, Poem, poetry, skyline, 7

I am from a city where people hide their feelings where people don’t believe in self-pity where people...

On the Low

Lorena, October 4, 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, Oakland, Poem, poetry, skyline, 4

I am from days of happiness and laughter but it all goes away the day after Every time I...

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Joselyn, October 4, 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, california, emotional, latina, mexican, Oakland, poems, poetry, poetryslam, real, spokenword, whereimfrom, 4

I am from two Stuck in between because I don’t fit in any shoe I am from simple rhymes...

Oakland Livin’

Miyako, October 4, 2016, Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, Oakland, salt lake city, 3

I am from Salt Lake City , Utah the state full of Mormon whites I am from big houses...

Happiness before Silence

Mei, October 4, 2016, Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Stress, Where I'm From, stress, 2

I am from a place of darkness and light. I am from a place where everyone seems all right...

Behind the Curtain

Robynne, October 4, 2016, Fall 2016, Family, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, family, 0

I am from Oakland, California but not the one people know the one that is hidden behind a curtain,...

Love and Hate

Angie, October 4, 2016, 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

Nomar, October 4, 2016, Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, Where I'm from, 2

I am from oakland Where you here gun shots daily I am from a family of six Where there...

Staying with the Fake

Natalia, October 4, 2016, Fall 2016, Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, Oakland, 1

Oakland, California is the city, Don’t have to beg no one to be with me, All you got yourself,...

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