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Last year, my AP Composition teacher assigned an implied argument essay based on Jonathan Swift's ” A Modest Proposal “, which exposed the English stereotypical

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The Poem

The next time it happens I hope that I am coming from just having written a poem Because I like poems more than I like

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Dokhtar-e Amrika-i

1 At the dinner table We talk politics I say we shouldn't go to war We are hated around the world. My mother snickers: Akh!

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Taste of China

My initial observation as an Iranian on a first trip to China, and it's quite funny really, is that everyone is Chinese (ba chesh-haye badoomi).

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Oppressed once more

So I was an Iranian, a kid born to parents in America who themselves had been born in Iran. So I walked around humming Dariush

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Notes from the edge

News control The word oil — like the substance itself — has to be refined before it can be sold to consumers. Once the Pentagon,

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Wider front

“In Nazi Germany, citizens were asked to declare their religion, and if they were Jews, they had to wear a yellow star and were discriminated

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