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This document provides guidance on analyzing the Mexican film La Zona, including character profiles, researching publicity materials and their representation of the film's themes, and answering research and comment questions about how aspects of film technique reinforce social differences, the fears of those living in The Zone, comparisons to the film Tsotsi, and whether the film comments on Mexican society and the fears and tensions within it.
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1. ASSIGNED READINGS1) Critical Essay on the Film The Class2.docx
1. ASSIGNED READINGS
1) Critical Essay on the Film The Class
2) The Intouchables racist - French people don't think so and here's why - Slate
3) Untouchable- How did a French comedy about disability become global hit. The Guardian
2. VIEW/ STREAM ONLINE
To stream online the French films:
1
. The Intouchables
.
2
. The Class.
Requirements of Homework:
1. Discussion:
Share TWO posts on the discussion forum designed for Module 3, in response to ALL of the following questions.
Two
posts must be individual contributions:
Your assigned readings show that the French film
Intouchables
was received with mixed reactions nationally and internationally. Discuss this idea using examples from your readings to explain why this was the case.
Discuss and compare how social conflict is represented in both
The Intouchables
and
The Class
by answering the following questions:
1). How does the film
The Intouchables
signal
differences
that exist between the two main characters? How do those differences reflect social realities and
biased social
perceptions of difference
in France? How does the film portray the ways both characters come to form meaningful connections,
affirming self-perceptions (to counter biased social perceptions of their difference)
and bonding experiences despite their
differences
?
2). What kinds of struggles do students face at school in the film
The Class
as a direct result of class and racial differences
? What are the consequences of those struggles? What challenges do teachers face? What factors contribute to those challenges? How do they attempt to resolve them?
2. Assignment:
Question/Prompt:
Please answer ALL of the following 3 questions:
Summarize what you learned from this week’s
three
assigned readings, by indicating how they help us understand the setting, themes and social issues explored in the films
The Intouchables
and
The Class
. Illustrate your points by using
specific
examples
directly
from
the assigned readings.
In the film
The Class
, how is the figure of the teacher portrayed in this film? How does he respond to the struggles faced by the students? How does the school experience of the students shape their sense of identity? Choose one character from the film and offer an analysis of his/her dilemmas/struggles and their school experience and how it mirrors larger social issues that affect contemporary French society.
In the film
The Intouchables
, what do
you
consider to be a strength and/or a weakness in the film’s character portrayal and the social issues it explores (immigration, disability, class relations, race relations)? Does the film advance our understanding of these realities in France? If so, how does it do so? Give specific examples directly from the film to illustrate your points.
.
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List of Writing Prompts
For students:
There are three prompts below each with four texts. For your literary analysis essay, choose
ONE prompt and text pairing that interests you. Then, take a look at the guiding questions for
the text you choose. You don’t necessarily need to answer all of these questions in your paper.
The questions are there to help get you thinking in a direction that will be more likely to lead
you to a successful literary analysis.
PROMPT 1.
Write an analysis of a key character in a literary work. Focus on two or three key actions of that
character. Discuss the character’s motivations and decisions in terms you can support with clear
evidence from a critical reading of the text. Consider whether this character’s actions fit
together or contradict each other. You may also want to consider whether or not any other
characters in the story are aware of this conflict, and if so, how they influence the character you
are writing about.
Literary Works (choose one):
“Interpreter of Maladies” (Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does a new outsider community member like Mrs. Das influence Mr. Kapasi, who
seems to have become bored with his life and his role in the community?
2. How does Mr. Kapasi’s desire for Mrs. Das make him unable to understand Mrs. Das’
desires, leading to his failure to fulfill his role as the Interpreter of Maladies?
3. How do the Das family’s actions surrounding their children show that their desires or
interests do not accord with their obligations?
“What You Pawn, I Will Redeem” (Sherman Alexie, 2003)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does the grandmother’s property at the pawn shop help to define the narrator’s
desires and feeling of obligation to recover it? Why is it so important?
2. How does the character accomplish his objective, and how is this surprising considering
all of the unfortunate events and bad decisions he makes along the way?
3. How do the other characters--the Aleuts, the pawn shop owner, the waitress, the police
officer, the other Indians at the bar--each play an im.
Week 3 Assignment Literary Analysis DraftLink to Video Transc.docx
Week 3 Assignment: Literary Analysis Draft
Link to Video Transcript
For your Week Three assignment, you will write a two and a half page draft (excluding the title and references page) of your Week Five Literary Analysis. The draft should contain a working thesis (which you wrote in the Week One assignment), an introduction, at least three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Be sure to include some paraphrases and quotations of the reference material in your Week Two Annotated Bibliography. You should use your research to help you develop and support the thesis.
· Copy and paste the writing prompt you chose to explore in Week One at the beginning of your draft (this will help your instructor see if you focused well on the prompt).
· Restate your working thesis after the copy-and-paste prompt.
· Develop your working thesis based on the feedback you have received. Again, the thesis should offer a debatable claim in response to one of the prompts on the list.
· Analyze the literary work(s) from the approved list of prompts chosen in Week One that pertained to your selected topic and include the three key ideas developed in the Week One Proposal.
· Focus on one or two primary text(s).
· Include references from at least two secondary sources identified on your Week Two Annotated Bibliography. More sources are not necessarily better.
· Apply your knowledge of literary elements and other concepts in your response to the prompt. Reference the List of Literary Techniques.
· Avoid any use of the first person.
· Do not summarize the plot.
List of Writing Prompts
Click each prompt below to expand and click twice to collapse.
View in PDF
Writing Prompt #1
Write an analysis of a key character in a literary work. Focus on two or three key actions of that character. Discuss the character’s motivations and decisions in terms you can support with clear evidence from a critical reading of the text. Consider whether this character’s actions fit together or contradict each other. You may also want to consider whether or not any other characters in the story are aware of this conflict, and if so, how they influence the character you are writing about.
Literary Works (choose one):
“Interpreter of Maladies” (Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does a new outsider community member like Mrs. Das influence Mr. Kapasi, who seems to have become bored with his life and his role in the community?
2. How does Mr. Kapasi’s desire for Mrs. Das make him unable to understand Mrs. Das’ desires, leading to his failure to fulfill his role as the Interpreter of Maladies?
3. How do the Das family’s actions surrounding their children show that their desires or interests do not accord with their obligations?
"What You Pawn, I Will Redeem" (Sherman Alexie, 2003)
Guiding Questions
1. How does the grandmother’s property at the pawn shop help to define the narrator’s desires and feeling of obligation to recover it? Why is it so important?
2. How does the character accompli.
List of Writing Prompts For students There are th.docx
List of Writing Prompts
For students:
There are three prompts below each with four texts. For your literary analysis essay, choose
ONE prompt and text pairing that interests you. Then, take a look at the guiding questions for
the text you choose. You don’t necessarily need to answer all of these questions in your paper.
The questions are there to help get you thinking in a direction that will be more likely to lead
you to a successful literary analysis.
PROMPT 1.
Write an analysis of a key character in a literary work. Focus on two or three key actions of that
character. Discuss the character’s motivations and decisions in terms you can support with clear
evidence from a critical reading of the text. Consider whether this character’s actions fit
together or contradict each other. You may also want to consider whether or not any other
characters in the story are aware of this conflict, and if so, how they influence the character you
are writing about.
Literary Works (choose one):
Lahiri, J. (1999). Interpreter of Maladies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Retrieved from http://central-lausd
ca.schoolloop.com/file/1251955222331/1251955217263/2279767265736662414.pdf
Guiding Questions:
1. How does a new outsider community member like Mrs. Das influence Mr. Kapasi, who
seems to have become bored with his life and his role in the community?
2. How does Mr. Kapasi’s desire for Mrs. Das make him unable to understand Mrs. Das’
desires, leading to his failure to fulfill his role as the Interpreter of Maladies?
3. How do the Das family’s actions surrounding their children show that their desires or
interests do not accord with their obligations?
“What You Pawn, I Will Redeem” (Sherman Alexie, 2003)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does the grandmother’s property at the pawn shop help to define the narrator’s
desires and feeling of obligation to recover it? Why is it so important?
2. How does the character accomplish his objective, and how is this surprising considering
all of the unfortunate events and bad decisions he makes along the way?
3. How do the other characters--the Aleuts, the pawn shop owner, the waitress, the police
officer, the other Indians at the bar--each play an important role in showing how the
http://central-lausd-ca.schoolloop.com/file/1251955222331/1251955217263/2279767265736662414.pdf
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/04/21/what-you-pawn-i-will-redeem
narrator is committed to an important mission he is worthy of completing?
“We Came All the Way from Cuba so You Could Dress Like This?” (Achy Obejas, 1994)
Guiding questions:
1. To what conflicts does the title allude (social? Political? Cultural? others?)?
2. The first-person narrator switches tenses (from present to future). How does this create
tension in the story?
3. How is the narrator’s internal conflict (“man v. self”) merely an internalization of
political, familial, and social conflict?
“The Things They Ca ...
List of Writing Prompts For students There are th.docx
List of Writing Prompts
For students:
There are three prompts below each with four texts. For your literary analysis essay, choose
ONE prompt and text pairing that interests you. Then, take a look at the guiding questions for
the text you choose. You don’t necessarily need to answer all of these questions in your paper.
The questions are there to help get you thinking in a direction that will be more likely to lead
you to a successful literary analysis.
PROMPT 1.
Write an analysis of a key character in a literary work. Focus on two or three key actions of that
character. Discuss the character’s motivations and decisions in terms you can support with clear
evidence from a critical reading of the text. Consider whether this character’s actions fit
together or contradict each other. You may also want to consider whether or not any other
characters in the story are aware of this conflict, and if so, how they influence the character you
are writing about.
Literary Works (choose one):
“Interpreter of Maladies” (Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does a new outsider community member like Mrs. Das influence Mr. Kapasi, who
seems to have become bored with his life and his role in the community?
2. How does Mr. Kapasi’s desire for Mrs. Das make him unable to understand Mrs. Das’
desires, leading to his failure to fulfill his role as the Interpreter of Maladies?
3. How do the Das family’s actions surrounding their children show that their desires or
interests do not accord with their obligations?
“What You Pawn, I Will Redeem” (Sherman Alexie, 2003)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does the grandmother’s property at the pawn shop help to define the narrator’s
desires and feeling of obligation to recover it? Why is it so important?
2. How does the character accomplish his objective, and how is this surprising considering
all of the unfortunate events and bad decisions he makes along the way?
3. How do the other characters--the Aleuts, the pawn shop owner, the waitress, the police
officer, the other Indians at the bar--each play an important role in showing how the
http://central-lausd-ca.schoolloop.com/file/1251955222331/1251955217263/2279767265736662414.pdf
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/04/21/what-you-pawn-i-will-redeem
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“We Came All the Way from Cuba so You Could Dress Like This?” (Achy Obejas, 1994)
Guiding questions:
1. To what conflicts does the title allude (social? Political? Cultural? others?)?
2. The first-person narrator switches tenses (from present to future). How does this create
tension in the story?
3. How is the narrator’s internal conflict (“man v. self”) merely an internalization of
political, familial, and social conflict?
“The Things They Carried” (Tim O’Brien, 1990) - 5.4 in Journey into Literature
Guiding Questions:
1. The second paragraph of the story b ...
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Topic 2
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Topic 7
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Topic 8
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Discussion (200 words)
What are some of the main claims of critical theorists about popular culture and the media?
How does critical theory explain racial and ethnic stereotyping? How/why is stereotyping harmful? Please provide specific examples of racial/ ethnic stereotyping. Post one item of relevant supplemental material.
Describe examples of the different types of norms operative in popular culture, and how these are related to the process of social control. Analyze culture within individual, social, historical, political, economic, and global contexts.
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1) Select a movie: For this assignment, you will need to select one movie. Even if it is a movie you have seen before, you need to re-watch the movie with a critical eye towards the social construction of reality and illustrations of other sociological/cultural concepts.
CHOOSE ONE ONLY:
Titanic
Rain Man
Dogma
2) Analyze the movie: After watching the movie, you will write a 3 page review, consisting of:
a) 1 intro paragraph noting the relevance of the movie to the course
b) 1 page description/summary of the contents of the film
-How was the story presented? i.e. flashbacks, sequential, from a particular character's point of view, etc.
-What was the intention of the film and/or filmmaker? Was this intention fulfilled or met?
-Did the way the movie was produced and presented affect the content?
-Were there specific scenes or occurrences, which stood out as being essential to the development of the story and/or to your understanding of it?
-Major substantive points of the movie?
-Any secondary points made?
-Any 'unintentional' results of the movie?
c) ½ page in which you discuss how popular culture themes were constructed in the movie use at least 3 examples
d) 1 page in which you use at least 4 sociological/pop-cultural concepts covered in this course to analyze the movie (cite class materials as you do so)
e) Analyze which issues emerged as the strongest...as the weakest?
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3) Untouchable- How did a French comedy about disability become global hit. The Guardian
2. VIEW/ STREAM ONLINE
To stream online the French films:
1
. The Intouchables
.
2
. The Class.
Requirements of Homework:
1. Discussion:
Share TWO posts on the discussion forum designed for Module 3, in response to ALL of the following questions.
Two
posts must be individual contributions:
Your assigned readings show that the French film
Intouchables
was received with mixed reactions nationally and internationally. Discuss this idea using examples from your readings to explain why this was the case.
Discuss and compare how social conflict is represented in both
The Intouchables
and
The Class
by answering the following questions:
1). How does the film
The Intouchables
signal
differences
that exist between the two main characters? How do those differences reflect social realities and
biased social
perceptions of difference
in France? How does the film portray the ways both characters come to form meaningful connections,
affirming self-perceptions (to counter biased social perceptions of their difference)
and bonding experiences despite their
differences
?
2). What kinds of struggles do students face at school in the film
The Class
as a direct result of class and racial differences
? What are the consequences of those struggles? What challenges do teachers face? What factors contribute to those challenges? How do they attempt to resolve them?
2. Assignment:
Question/Prompt:
Please answer ALL of the following 3 questions:
Summarize what you learned from this week’s
three
assigned readings, by indicating how they help us understand the setting, themes and social issues explored in the films
The Intouchables
and
The Class
. Illustrate your points by using
specific
examples
directly
from
the assigned readings.
In the film
The Class
, how is the figure of the teacher portrayed in this film? How does he respond to the struggles faced by the students? How does the school experience of the students shape their sense of identity? Choose one character from the film and offer an analysis of his/her dilemmas/struggles and their school experience and how it mirrors larger social issues that affect contemporary French society.
In the film
The Intouchables
, what do
you
consider to be a strength and/or a weakness in the film’s character portrayal and the social issues it explores (immigration, disability, class relations, race relations)? Does the film advance our understanding of these realities in France? If so, how does it do so? Give specific examples directly from the film to illustrate your points.
.
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List of Writing Prompts
For students:
There are three prompts below each with four texts. For your literary analysis essay, choose
ONE prompt and text pairing that interests you. Then, take a look at the guiding questions for
the text you choose. You don’t necessarily need to answer all of these questions in your paper.
The questions are there to help get you thinking in a direction that will be more likely to lead
you to a successful literary analysis.
PROMPT 1.
Write an analysis of a key character in a literary work. Focus on two or three key actions of that
character. Discuss the character’s motivations and decisions in terms you can support with clear
evidence from a critical reading of the text. Consider whether this character’s actions fit
together or contradict each other. You may also want to consider whether or not any other
characters in the story are aware of this conflict, and if so, how they influence the character you
are writing about.
Literary Works (choose one):
“Interpreter of Maladies” (Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does a new outsider community member like Mrs. Das influence Mr. Kapasi, who
seems to have become bored with his life and his role in the community?
2. How does Mr. Kapasi’s desire for Mrs. Das make him unable to understand Mrs. Das’
desires, leading to his failure to fulfill his role as the Interpreter of Maladies?
3. How do the Das family’s actions surrounding their children show that their desires or
interests do not accord with their obligations?
“What You Pawn, I Will Redeem” (Sherman Alexie, 2003)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does the grandmother’s property at the pawn shop help to define the narrator’s
desires and feeling of obligation to recover it? Why is it so important?
2. How does the character accomplish his objective, and how is this surprising considering
all of the unfortunate events and bad decisions he makes along the way?
3. How do the other characters--the Aleuts, the pawn shop owner, the waitress, the police
officer, the other Indians at the bar--each play an im.
Week 3 Assignment Literary Analysis DraftLink to Video Transc.docx
Week 3 Assignment: Literary Analysis Draft
Link to Video Transcript
For your Week Three assignment, you will write a two and a half page draft (excluding the title and references page) of your Week Five Literary Analysis. The draft should contain a working thesis (which you wrote in the Week One assignment), an introduction, at least three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Be sure to include some paraphrases and quotations of the reference material in your Week Two Annotated Bibliography. You should use your research to help you develop and support the thesis.
· Copy and paste the writing prompt you chose to explore in Week One at the beginning of your draft (this will help your instructor see if you focused well on the prompt).
· Restate your working thesis after the copy-and-paste prompt.
· Develop your working thesis based on the feedback you have received. Again, the thesis should offer a debatable claim in response to one of the prompts on the list.
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· Focus on one or two primary text(s).
· Include references from at least two secondary sources identified on your Week Two Annotated Bibliography. More sources are not necessarily better.
· Apply your knowledge of literary elements and other concepts in your response to the prompt. Reference the List of Literary Techniques.
· Avoid any use of the first person.
· Do not summarize the plot.
List of Writing Prompts
Click each prompt below to expand and click twice to collapse.
View in PDF
Writing Prompt #1
Write an analysis of a key character in a literary work. Focus on two or three key actions of that character. Discuss the character’s motivations and decisions in terms you can support with clear evidence from a critical reading of the text. Consider whether this character’s actions fit together or contradict each other. You may also want to consider whether or not any other characters in the story are aware of this conflict, and if so, how they influence the character you are writing about.
Literary Works (choose one):
“Interpreter of Maladies” (Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does a new outsider community member like Mrs. Das influence Mr. Kapasi, who seems to have become bored with his life and his role in the community?
2. How does Mr. Kapasi’s desire for Mrs. Das make him unable to understand Mrs. Das’ desires, leading to his failure to fulfill his role as the Interpreter of Maladies?
3. How do the Das family’s actions surrounding their children show that their desires or interests do not accord with their obligations?
"What You Pawn, I Will Redeem" (Sherman Alexie, 2003)
Guiding Questions
1. How does the grandmother’s property at the pawn shop help to define the narrator’s desires and feeling of obligation to recover it? Why is it so important?
2. How does the character accompli.
List of Writing Prompts For students There are th.docx
List of Writing Prompts
For students:
There are three prompts below each with four texts. For your literary analysis essay, choose
ONE prompt and text pairing that interests you. Then, take a look at the guiding questions for
the text you choose. You don’t necessarily need to answer all of these questions in your paper.
The questions are there to help get you thinking in a direction that will be more likely to lead
you to a successful literary analysis.
PROMPT 1.
Write an analysis of a key character in a literary work. Focus on two or three key actions of that
character. Discuss the character’s motivations and decisions in terms you can support with clear
evidence from a critical reading of the text. Consider whether this character’s actions fit
together or contradict each other. You may also want to consider whether or not any other
characters in the story are aware of this conflict, and if so, how they influence the character you
are writing about.
Literary Works (choose one):
Lahiri, J. (1999). Interpreter of Maladies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Retrieved from http://central-lausd
ca.schoolloop.com/file/1251955222331/1251955217263/2279767265736662414.pdf
Guiding Questions:
1. How does a new outsider community member like Mrs. Das influence Mr. Kapasi, who
seems to have become bored with his life and his role in the community?
2. How does Mr. Kapasi’s desire for Mrs. Das make him unable to understand Mrs. Das’
desires, leading to his failure to fulfill his role as the Interpreter of Maladies?
3. How do the Das family’s actions surrounding their children show that their desires or
interests do not accord with their obligations?
“What You Pawn, I Will Redeem” (Sherman Alexie, 2003)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does the grandmother’s property at the pawn shop help to define the narrator’s
desires and feeling of obligation to recover it? Why is it so important?
2. How does the character accomplish his objective, and how is this surprising considering
all of the unfortunate events and bad decisions he makes along the way?
3. How do the other characters--the Aleuts, the pawn shop owner, the waitress, the police
officer, the other Indians at the bar--each play an important role in showing how the
http://central-lausd-ca.schoolloop.com/file/1251955222331/1251955217263/2279767265736662414.pdf
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/04/21/what-you-pawn-i-will-redeem
narrator is committed to an important mission he is worthy of completing?
“We Came All the Way from Cuba so You Could Dress Like This?” (Achy Obejas, 1994)
Guiding questions:
1. To what conflicts does the title allude (social? Political? Cultural? others?)?
2. The first-person narrator switches tenses (from present to future). How does this create
tension in the story?
3. How is the narrator’s internal conflict (“man v. self”) merely an internalization of
political, familial, and social conflict?
“The Things They Ca ...
List of Writing Prompts For students There are th.docx
List of Writing Prompts
For students:
There are three prompts below each with four texts. For your literary analysis essay, choose
ONE prompt and text pairing that interests you. Then, take a look at the guiding questions for
the text you choose. You don’t necessarily need to answer all of these questions in your paper.
The questions are there to help get you thinking in a direction that will be more likely to lead
you to a successful literary analysis.
PROMPT 1.
Write an analysis of a key character in a literary work. Focus on two or three key actions of that
character. Discuss the character’s motivations and decisions in terms you can support with clear
evidence from a critical reading of the text. Consider whether this character’s actions fit
together or contradict each other. You may also want to consider whether or not any other
characters in the story are aware of this conflict, and if so, how they influence the character you
are writing about.
Literary Works (choose one):
“Interpreter of Maladies” (Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does a new outsider community member like Mrs. Das influence Mr. Kapasi, who
seems to have become bored with his life and his role in the community?
2. How does Mr. Kapasi’s desire for Mrs. Das make him unable to understand Mrs. Das’
desires, leading to his failure to fulfill his role as the Interpreter of Maladies?
3. How do the Das family’s actions surrounding their children show that their desires or
interests do not accord with their obligations?
“What You Pawn, I Will Redeem” (Sherman Alexie, 2003)
Guiding Questions:
1. How does the grandmother’s property at the pawn shop help to define the narrator’s
desires and feeling of obligation to recover it? Why is it so important?
2. How does the character accomplish his objective, and how is this surprising considering
all of the unfortunate events and bad decisions he makes along the way?
3. How do the other characters--the Aleuts, the pawn shop owner, the waitress, the police
officer, the other Indians at the bar--each play an important role in showing how the
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narrator is committed to an important mission he is worthy of completing?
“We Came All the Way from Cuba so You Could Dress Like This?” (Achy Obejas, 1994)
Guiding questions:
1. To what conflicts does the title allude (social? Political? Cultural? others?)?
2. The first-person narrator switches tenses (from present to future). How does this create
tension in the story?
3. How is the narrator’s internal conflict (“man v. self”) merely an internalization of
political, familial, and social conflict?
“The Things They Carried” (Tim O’Brien, 1990) - 5.4 in Journey into Literature
Guiding Questions:
1. The second paragraph of the story b ...
Topics for DiscussionTopic 1What were the contributing factors.docx
Topics for Discussion
Topic 1
What were the contributing factors that led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s? What did various factions blame the disaster on? Take both sides of the debate and make an argument for each.
Topic 2
What type of work was Bam White looking for when he and his family traveled to the Texas Panhandle? Why were his hopes for a good job dashed, and what did he attribute it to? How did his son feel about the region many years after the family first arrived?
Topic 3
What was the XIT Ranch and what role did a Chicago syndicate have in its creation? What was the fate of the ranch, and what part did the syndicate have in the decline of the region?
Topic 4
Why did Hazel take no pay for her teaching job in Boise City? What did her baby die of, and why was she conflicted about leaving Boise City after she had another child?
Topic 5
What was John McCarty’s stance on the debate over the blame for the decline of the High Plains? What did he do to push his view onto the people of the area? What was the name of the club he established and what impact did it require of its members?
Topic 6
What was Hugh Bennett’s area of expertise and what opinion did he have on the cause of the conditions leading to the Dust Bowl? What position did he hold with the government and what was his plan for renewal of the land?
Topic 7
Contrast the difference between the approaches that Hoover and Roosevelt each had toward the crisis in the High Plains. What was Roosevelt’s fundamental belief about man and the challenges of nature? What specific idea did Roosevelt have for helping to fix the High Plains, and how was it implemented?
Topic 8
What was the most devastating dust storm to hit the plains, and when did it hit? Describe its origin and its trajectory, the damage and misery left in its wake, and how it was different than other dust storms.
Topic 9
What was the importance of Don Hartwell’s diary? What larger meaning did they have than just the words of one man? Reading between the lines, go through his entries and describe the deeper meaning they held.
Topic 10
What was the importance of the documentary made by Pare Lorentz, and how was it received by the people of the Dust Bowl? What impact did it have the rest of the country? Why McCarty was angry over the documentary and the paintings about the region and what steps did he take to diminish their impact?
You will choose and read 3 or more books (fiction or non-fiction) related to U. S. history post-civil war
(totaling 750+ pages). For EACH book you will turn in an analysis of the historical content and come up with a potential research topic ( Steps 1 & 2 below). For one book you will also investigate a related question or topic; you will turn in a description and evaluation of the sources you consulted and a reflection on the what you found along the course of your research including how your questions may have changed (Steps 3 & 4). A book and the historical analysis must be completed in eac ...
Soci 220 week 3 (discussion and assignment) Discussion (200 word.docx
Soci 220 week 3 (discussion and assignment)
Discussion (200 words)
What are some of the main claims of critical theorists about popular culture and the media?
How does critical theory explain racial and ethnic stereotyping? How/why is stereotyping harmful? Please provide specific examples of racial/ ethnic stereotyping. Post one item of relevant supplemental material.
Describe examples of the different types of norms operative in popular culture, and how these are related to the process of social control. Analyze culture within individual, social, historical, political, economic, and global contexts.
Assignment (3 pages)
1) Select a movie: For this assignment, you will need to select one movie. Even if it is a movie you have seen before, you need to re-watch the movie with a critical eye towards the social construction of reality and illustrations of other sociological/cultural concepts.
CHOOSE ONE ONLY:
Titanic
Rain Man
Dogma
2) Analyze the movie: After watching the movie, you will write a 3 page review, consisting of:
a) 1 intro paragraph noting the relevance of the movie to the course
b) 1 page description/summary of the contents of the film
-How was the story presented? i.e. flashbacks, sequential, from a particular character's point of view, etc.
-What was the intention of the film and/or filmmaker? Was this intention fulfilled or met?
-Did the way the movie was produced and presented affect the content?
-Were there specific scenes or occurrences, which stood out as being essential to the development of the story and/or to your understanding of it?
-Major substantive points of the movie?
-Any secondary points made?
-Any 'unintentional' results of the movie?
c) ½ page in which you discuss how popular culture themes were constructed in the movie use at least 3 examples
d) 1 page in which you use at least 4 sociological/pop-cultural concepts covered in this course to analyze the movie (cite class materials as you do so)
e) Analyze which issues emerged as the strongest...as the weakest?
f) Briefly compare the popular culture themes in the movie you watched for this assignment to another movie you have previously seen that had similar themes.
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- 4. Research and comment questions: 1) How do aspects of mise-en-scene and camerawork reinforce the differences between rich and poor? 2) What ‘fears’ do the inhabitants of The Zone have? How are these fears presented in the film? 3) What are the similarities and differences between La Zona and Tsotsi? Draw a table to illustrate your ideas 4) Do you think La Zona is making a comment on the structure of Mexican society? What impressions do you have about the fears and tensions within Mexican society having watched La Zona?