Wallace Shawn is displeased with how America handled the stated at atrocities. We must care for another. Life is too short to focus on killing one another. We should be singing songs that make us happy. Â In order to do this, we must put aside petty differences of race and try to live together.
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Madeline Martinez: Shawn Summary
The author is expressing how people view and feel about being an American. He doesn’t understand how the United States, which he said was founded on a “genocide”, should dictate policies to other countries. He freely admits that he enjoys the benefits and living in the United States, but doesn’t agree with their policies or considers himself an American. The one and only edition of the magazine was for him to state his views.
“An American” by Shawn Wallace Summary
Joseph Floyd
English Comp II D492
In “An American ” is about an author who publishes  his first magazine.  The author Shawn talks about the United States government and their views. He then goes on to explain how his magazine sold. Shawn explains his thought of other countries and how the United States is different. Then he ends his essay with an conclusion of why his magazine is called the final edition.
Salwa Syed: Shawn Summary
In “An ‘American’ Publishes a Magazine” Shawn writes about a magazine he published called Final Edition that went out of business after only one issue.  In this essay Shawn writes about Americans and how they reacted to the images  of American soldiers “tormenting desperate, naked, extremely thin people in chains” (49). Later on Shawn concludes his essay by sharing his opinion about United States and the world regulations.
Leslie Morris
In this Magazine the author Wallace Shawn views the American public as those with the most power in society. He goes on to express his disappointment in the way that the American public and government officials responded and handled an incident that occurred involving American soldiers who tortured and mocked extremely thin people. Shawn also gives his personal opinion and of what it feels like to be an American from through his eyes.
Jess Cifuentes: Shawnâs Summary
     “An ‘American’ Publishes a Magazine” is about the personal experience of author Wallace Shawn as an American putting together a magazine with other American authors that would only have one single first and final issue.  In this short essay Shawn discusses his complicated relationship with other Americans, including the government. He resents other people’s apathy, and how almost no one says anything when the U.S. military are the ones trampling and setting fires in other countries, yet thanks to that sense of righteousness the country has, is that he, as well as the rest of us, can live in our own bubble as a society.  This is why he asked his fellow writers and artists to contribute to this journal, so they can say what they need to say about the things we don’t like to discuss, and when all is said and done, everyone can go their separate ways . Making more issues would only create another institution of which Shawn doesn’t want to be a part of.
For our Feb. 24 Homework,Huilin Chen: Shawn Summary
      Americans in general were to give their reactions based on their life, news, online post, or magazines. This essay of âAn âAmericanâ Publishes a Magazinesâ contains how living in American isnât as good or bad in onesâ opinion. Instead, it morally tells people how one would personally feel about living in America and trying to think about being Americans.
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There are No Classes on Monday, February 15
This is just a reminder that we will not be meeting on Monday, February 15, as the school is closed for Presidents’ Day.
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See you on the 17th!