Remembrances by Brandon Cayabyab https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho Written Works from Brandon C. | Scroll down in each timeline event to see a clip and a link to the full document! en-us 2022-12-20 21:24:00 UTC 2023-05-31 01:36:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Where I'm From: A Poem cayabyabb613 https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2426350919 I am from where the slots are wide 
But the coin is small in wage
I am from 3 small islands to the east
Yet still called home by many names
One being Manila, from where it began  
Where pearl-white sampaguita grow freely
No bounds to their domain
I am from the narrow street of Pains
And a 2-story house on Mercury 
Where the old hens crowed the moon away 
And then brought the sun awake 
I am from the getting by
From the ones who never dared ask why
The ones who never learned how to fly...

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]]> 2022-12-21 03:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2426350919 Smoke and Mirrors: A Suspense Narrative cayabyabb613 https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2426354830 “'Now, tell me, what is today’s date?' The tester asked. 
“December 28th, 2056,” he responded calmly. 
He knew that these questions- the monotonous drone- was all for a reason. He had, after all, been forced to sign over twelve forms, and was briefed on the procedure three times now. But it was all in the name of their disclaimer- for customer sanity and the company's safety. So of course, a necessary precaution."

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]]> 2022-12-21 03:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2426354830 Chains of the Past: An Illustration cayabyabb613 https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2426361665 “...the ghosts of her parents couldn’t follow and protect her neither. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us from our ghosts and our ancestors…”

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]]> 2022-12-21 03:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2426361665 Waiting to Be Tamed: An Essay cayabyabb613 https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2426364842 “What is man without the beasts? If the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts soon happens to man.” -Chief Seattle

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“'Time grows restless in these early hours of the morning. The days are all a blur for me, passing by with the soldiers’ heavy steps upon the cobbles outside. Perhaps that is why I cannot quite remember the date today.'"

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]]> 2023-05-08 18:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2582536895 Dear Mr. Roosevelt: A Letter to FDR cayabyabb613 https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2582552539 "'On my front porch, the American flag waves proudly. Nailed in our front door sits the relocation notice we received yesterday, along with a copy of your Executive Order 9066. And no, you did not have to print it in Japanese. My family can read in English, if you must know.'"

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]]> 2023-05-08 18:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2582552539 Through the Screen: An Essay cayabyabb613 https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2582565324 “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” 
–Albert Einstein

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]]> 2023-05-08 19:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2582565324 Writing About the Future: A Short Story cayabyabb613 https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2591985648 "Battering winds, ranging from the slightest breeze to the gusts that he had always known- passed him like the years he had forgotten ran by. One by one, year by year, the winds blasted the dunes and carved them to their will like pottery clay."

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]]> 2023-05-15 23:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2591985648 Winning By A Word: An Informative Paragraph cayabyabb613 https://padlet.com/cayabyabb613/wic1ugpr4ik6toho/wish/2591994319 “If you want to persuade, appeal to interest not to reason.” –Benjamin Franklin 

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