The Funnies (End of the semester, Part 1)

Last weekend, while it was snowing two feet, I shoveled…I mean, graded final exams and papers. Grading finals is mind-numbing, and sometimes students even write sentences. No really, it’s not that bad (most of the time). Sometimes their answers are funny, like the ones below (the bold is mine and my comments are in red).

On the I-Hotel:

• This hotel was targeted for demolition in order for business to gentrificate

On Filipino WWII vets:

• In February 18, 1946, U.S. Congress passes the supplemental surprise appropriation rescission act.

On the pioneer wave of Filipino immigrants:

• These migrants were essentially all male. So some were in transition?

• 1st wave of Filipino migration were basically Filipino pioneers known as the "Mango generation" And they were fruits. LOL

On nursing:

• An example of colonialism at its best is when the US trained Filipino women to become nurses. Well that’s one way to put it.

• One year of work as a nurse in the Philippines was equal to one month's work as a nurse in America. This is ludacris… 8-0 OR :,-( ?
  

Tomorrow Part 2: History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.