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Title: A lesson in language
Author: Piwowar, Robert
Pages: 14 pages
Text (TR_WF): A Lesson in Language Incarceration has forced me to postpone my plans of travelling to the continents of Europe and Asia. Six years into a twenty year sentence for manslaughter, watching Globe Trekker on PBS or flipping through vacation mags in the prison library is the closest I get. My travels into Quebec and Mexico taught me that every street sign, television or radio program, menu, and all product packaging provides a lesson in language. Simply going about a regular routine in a foreign l...
PID: apw:12347101
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T14:22:45.331Z

Title: Making a difference
Author: Piwowar, Robert Frances
Pages: 10 pages
Text (TR): MAKING A DIFFERENCE By Robert Piwowar Our Spanish 101 class had just ended. We put the desks and chairs back in their places and waited for the bell that would signal us to leave. As the minutes clicked by I knew something was wrong; the bell didn’t sound. With darting eyes I peered out the small square window in the door and saw only one c.o. sitting at the end of the hall instead of the usual two. It was now 9p.m. — ﬁfteen minutes past the allotted time for our college class. Prison follows...
PID: apw:12352505
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-15T19:45:59.051Z

Title: On the tiles
Author: Piwowar, Robert Frances
Pages: 9 pages
Text (TR): Robert Piwowar “On The Tiles” Page 1 We begin by blindly picking a single tile from a small leather pouch. I quickly open my hand, revealing an “A”. The other players show their letters, “F, “L”, and “E”. I play first. My advantage is that I’ll pick first from the pouch ofletter as well as having my first total word score doubled. I methodically shuffle the seven letters on the small wooden stand, I..N..O..W..A..W..D. I immediately notice that I’ve drawn the only two w’s available. I place si...
PID: apw:12352836
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-16T02:35:04.983Z

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