South Park Episode

Dear Trey parker-

I have an idea for your next southpark episode. Southpark elementary children have recently gone into an obsession of Apple products such as the Ipad. Kyle and Stan have bought an Ipod Touch already and Cartman is exceedingly jealous. Cartman naggs his mother for an ipad at the Electronics store and she is trying to convince cartman to get the toshiba maxipad instead as it is much cheaper. Cartman however does not want a crappy toshiba and swears at his mother. She storms out and says he isnt getting anything. Cartman decided he will have to buy the ipad himself. During cartmans travels cartman discovers two abandoned baby's fighting over crack. Cartman realises he could make crack baby cage fights to fight over the cocaine. These baby's are addicts due to their high reckless mothers giving them crack and then abandoning them. Cartman leases out a small building and wires the cage matches over the internet. He develops a betting program and starts gathering thousands of dollars from the matches. Cartman expands his crack baby empire by seeking new combatants in the arena and makes teams for the baby's. The crackbaby cage fighting turns into a national sport viewed on TV by millions. EA games contacts Cartman for the rights to turn this sport into Crackbaby Cage Fight 2012 and cartman signs the contract without reading it due to his obsession for making more money and later discovers that the contracts stated that the entire sport would be handed over to EA games and cartman left penniless. After all that cartman didnt have enough money to buy an ipad.

I hope that you will use this idea and it suits your politically
incorrect theme in your episodes.
From Tim Butler

My FIrst Kiss by Lian Low

1. How does the author describe Malaysia in regards to showing affection?

The first few sentences state ''I never saw people share mouth to mouth kisses' this represents people showing effecting to each other but obviously in Malaysia it isn't done in this way. 

2. What happens to the author when she hits puberty?

She didn't grow big breasts but instead ''Envied her father's flat chest.'' This caused her not to be as popular and white girls wouldn't approach her or talk to her. 

3. What is the author’s experience at school when she first arrives to Melbourne?

She is very quiet and wasn't one to contribute to ''Oh he's soo hot!'' conversations about the new kids. She fantasied about flying like Superman and played chess at lunch time. She was also put into the ESL class for English. 

4. What is it that made the author feel that she wasn’t Australian even though she spoke English fluently?

That only overseas Asian kids would approach her no other white people. 

5. What else was it about the author that further alienated her from her peers?

That she was placed in the ESL English class and didn't make many friends until Year 11 when she enrolled in literature and received one of the highest marks in Year 12 literature. 

6. What does the use of description like ‘crash hot’ do to the audience’s perception of the author?

7. What opportunity does university give the author? What is it about university which would allow her to express herself more freely?

She got her real first kiss because she was making a film that she wanted to have a have a kissing scene in. This allowed her to open up more freely. 

8. What role does creativity play for the author? Why do you think that creativity would be so important to her?

ABC Supermarket

The story is about 2 sisters who's parent's were shop owners, and they were very happy there, they could have ice cream, chips and softdrinks any time they wanted, They would race down isles on trolleys without a care. They used to play hide and seek in the boxes that hadnt been opened yet or turn on the PA and thump the Mic for giggles. But then in 1995-1996 many buisness's went down and there parents declared bankruptcy. 

This story is important because it shows the unfortunate declines that many small time Asian Buisness's go through. It is important to understand why other cultures live in poor conditions in some cases. Australians should in return not abuse their situation.

Teenage Dreamers by Phillip Tang

1. What are the first two sentences of the story and how do they create a tension in the story? 'My father had a sixth sense. He knew when people were going to die.' it creates tension in the story as you know that some one will die and you want to know who this is going to happen to, and when it is going to happen.

2. What has happened to the author’s father as a result of his wife’s death? The author's father looked for something to care about.

3. How does the description of the father removing his hands from his face as ‘unmasked’ related to the seriousness of his following statement? By removing his hands from his face he is showing and letting out all his emotion which he does not show often.

4. Consider how the father lives his life and conducts himself and the other people in the theatre for the film the author and his father are watching. How does this relate to the title of the story?

Conversations with my Parents by Oanh Thi Tran

1. What is ironic about the way the author and the father become close? What has to happen to the father? The Irony of the father and the author becoming close is that they become close in sickness, but they should have been close throughout the whole of the authors life.

2. How would you characterise the conversation that the author has with her parents? The conversations the author has with her parents are always brief and they don't have much to say to each other.

3. What is it that worries the author most about these conversations? The biggest worry that the Author has is that she can never tell her parents how much she loves them, but doesn't know how to and she wants to do it before its to late.

4. There is a gap between the author’s need to express feelings common in western countries and her family’s lack of desire to express their feelings verbally. How does the family still express their feelings for their child, just not verbally? The family expresses feelings to the Author by telling her that they had a specific meal one night and telling her how much she usest to love that meal and how the meal made the family think of the author.

Lessons from my School Years by Ray Wing-Lun

Lessons from my School Years by Ray Wing-Lun

1. There is a stark contrast created in the opening of this story between what the narrator had been doing before entering school and what will be expected at school? What is this contrast and what does it immediately create in the story?

Before the narrator came to school he had been doing nothing exciting but now he is at school he cant wait to play on the playground and have fun. There is a contrast between his old boring life to his new exciting adventurous life. 

2. The author continues this theme of contrast at the start of the story. How does he do this in his description of his experience of Sydney’s North Shore?

The author describes the Sydney's North Shore was not for him as he didn't like leafy green streets or solid brick houses. His world revolved around the stretch of shops along the highway , a back lane where mechanics drove cars backwards and forwards, the railway line behind the back lane and the library and park at the end of the lane. This is how he describes the where he lives in Sydney's North Shore.

3. What was the father’s background in business before he opened the fruit shop? What has helped him become successful?

Before he came to Australia he could not speak English and had no business experience. The attributes he has as a person that helped him become successful are he drew customers in with his wide smile, he was keen to ask what people wanted and was very friendly and chatted to all his customers. 

4. The narrator’s description of his father is complex. What makes the father a complex character?

That he is such a nice person who runs a very successful business. He never used to speak English and had no business experience before owning his fruit shop. This shows the great character he has because obviously did not have a lot but now has come to a different country, started a family and runs a successful business. 

5. (91) How does the author describe his role in doing ‘things that counted’?

He has to listen to what his family has to tell him about school to learn what is right and wrong. This is the only way for him to learn as he doesn't like asking questions. 

6. What experience does the author have at school while keeping to himself? What does he learn from this experience?

His bad experience is him at school as he is the only asian in an Australian school. He doesn't talk to anyone and keeps to himself and he learns to be nice and friendly to people. 

7. How would you characterise the narrator’s tone in regards to the events that are occurring around him?

The narrator uses a mono tone and sees the world in a horrible way. His expectations are very different to real life which makes a very one sided view. 

8. How does the narrator characterise the ways that one could ‘get the strap’ and ways that one could avoid it? He characterizes it as very easy and hard to avoid. A couple ways to avoid the strap would be to mispel words, get and answer wrong or walk very fast or very slow.

9. What event evokes a racist speech to the class by the teacher?

The boy could not swim and his sister wrote him a note so he didn't have to swim in the carnival. The teacher reads it to the class and adds ''We all know these Chinese people never contribute to anything.'

10. What effect did the author’s experience with ‘Strap Happy Jack’ have on him?

It made him think about the the few Chinese people in the area and think about racist comments which don't mean much but have little affect on the population. 

11. What was the one advantage school provided the author?

That when he went through high school some teachers noticed his talents and one teacher told him his test scores reflect he has a very bright future. 

12. What did the author do at his school? What was his motivation for doing it? What did he feel was lacking at school?

He started a workshop program the motivation was that he did something that he enjoyed and he had to the interest to set boundaries for the program. He thought the school lacked the ability to give him the choice to choose his own future. 

13. What did the parents want their son to do at school? What did the author fear would happen by obeying his parents?

They wanted their son to pick a specific profession. His mum wanted him to be a doctor something that he didn't want to do. He felt like he would have to choose a path based on the teachers decision.

14. At school, what did the author learn about his own type of thinking and how to use it?

The Relative Advantages of Learning my Language by Amy Choi

The Relative Advantages of Learning my Language by Amy Choi

1. The author opens the story with an anecdote. What is the anecdote and what effect does it have on the reader?

The anecdote is that the author ''Was never really kind to her grandfather.'' This is the opening sentence and from this sentence we can tell that the author wasn't very close with her grandfather. It makes the reader feel sorrow for the author and grandfather and makes us want to read on and gather more information about this. 

2. What is the author’s view of the Chinese language in the 2^nd paragraph?

That there was no point in being able to speak Chinese even though the author grew up learning it as a first language. They lived in Australia and the author thought there was no point in being able to speak it as at school they spoke English and when they watched T.V. it was in English. 

3. What is symbolic about the house that the Grandfather mistakes for his own? What does it say about the assimilation of his family into Australian culture? What does it say about his understanding of Australian culture? What is ironic about the inhabitants of this house?

That even though the house belonged to a family that was a different culture there were some similarities such as the yellow rose bush, the painted timber mailbox and the Ford Falcon parked out of the front of the house. It shows us Australia is a very multicultural place but these people have many similarities such as the plants they like or the cars they have. 

4. What does the death of her grandfather inspire the author to do? It makes her feel regret and she learns Chinese again.

5. Why is she motivated to know Chinese? What is it she wants to ensure she is able to, regretting that she couldn’t do it with her grandfather?