I WILL NOT BE ON CAMPUS TOMORROW! SEE BELOW

Hello Class,

I will not be on campus tomorrow because I have to attend another funeral. Your class folder is outside my office (1137). Each folder is labeled. Just find your class and your papers will be in that folder. Below is the remaining schedule:

Thursday 12/5

Meet in my office (1137 in the Red Area) from 11-2 for any help with the final paper.

Next Week

Monday 12/9-Wednesday 12/11

Meet in my office (1137 in the Red Area) from 11-2 for any help with the final paper.

Thursday 12/12

Meet in my office (1137 in the Red Area) from 11-2 to HAND IN PAPER (NO MORE HELP!)

Third Essay

BRING DRAFTS TO MY OFFICE (1137)

I will be in my office Mon 12/2-Wed 12/11 from 11-2 for paper help.

USE THE CLASS BLOG FOR 2 OUTSIDE SOURCES:                                                  

Eng102fall2019.blogspot.com

3 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED, SIZE 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN

Pick ONE of the essay topics below for your paper. USE TWO OUTSIDE SOURCES!!!

1)      Discuss the role of PTSD in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish.” This would require some research into PTSD and comparing it to what we see from Seymour in the story. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

2)      How does Nawabdin change over the course of his story? What is like in the first half of the story and what/why does he change in the second half? How does this complicate your view of him as a character? Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

3)      Explain how the main character from at least two of the stories: “Nawabdin,” “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” and The Castaway change over the course of their respective stories. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

AVOID USING DIRECT QUOTES IN YOUR INTRODUCTION OR CONCLUSION.

Do not retell the story! Analyze and explain your thesis (which is your main point).

Quote the stories we read and your two outside sources.

Read over your work. Have someone else read over your work.

 “Short Stories” (Quotation Marks)----Novels, Plays and Films (Italics)

Cite outside sources in the essay.

Outside Sources for Castaway

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/22/movies/film-review-ultimate-survivor-man-against-nature.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturereviews/10514113/Cast-Away-2000-original-Telegraph-review.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jan/12/culture.reviews

https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2000-12-29/79994/

https://brightlightsfilm.com/wp-content/cache/all/the-volleyball-in-the-void-tom-hanks-is-cast-away/#.W_w2D85Ki70

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "Nawabdin the Electrician"

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/02/02/alex-abramovich/the-tragic-life-of-bananafish/

https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/11320/1/Da%C3%B0i%20Gu%C3%B0j%C3%B3nsson%20-%20BA.pdf

https://sites.miis.edu/tianlinl/2017/12/10/before-the-suicide-a-close-reading-to-a-perfect-day-for-bananafish/

https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/books/0033852-every-day-is-a-perfect-day-for-bananafish.html

https://newrepublic.com/article/72876/the-salinger-generation

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/tag/a-perfect-day-for-bananafish/

https://www.litkicks.com/Bananafish

PTSD

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20355967

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/ptsd/what-is-ptsd

https://adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/posttraumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/symptoms

https://theredanimalproject.wordpress.com/tag/salinger-ptsd-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/





"Nawabdin the Electrician"

These are articles about the psychology of revenge and why it feels so good:

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2011/october-11/the-complicated-psychology-of-revenge.html

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/06/revenge.aspx

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/06/04/revenge-the-psychology-of-retribution/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-gerloff/the-psychology-of-revenge_b_856184.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/27/science/payback-time-why-revenge-tastes-so-sweet.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Ar&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry949%23%2Fwhy+does+revenge+feel+good

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/the-cycle-of-revenge/?_php=true&_type=blogs&action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Ar&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry949%23%2Fwhy+does+revenge+feel+good&_r=0

Tuesday Class---Nov 12

I gave out an updated syllabus awhile ago (see below) I completely forgot I had said there was no class today. With the funeral I had to attend yesterday, I just forgot. So I ll be in my office from 12:30-1:30 today (1137) if you need anything.

The paper is due Thursday and read “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” for Thursday:

ENG 102 TUESDAY/ THURSDAY

November

5 Film : The Village

7  Film : The Village,

12 NO CLASS  Read “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”

Character Studies and Changes

14  SECOND ESSAY DUE,  “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” Read “Nawabdin the Electrician”

15 ‘Nawabdin the Electrician”

19 Film: Castaway

21 Film: Castaway

26 NO CLASS

28 NO CLASS

December

3 In my office for help with Research Paper (1137 in the red area)

5 In my office for help with Research Paper (1137 in the red area)

10 Paper Due

Funeral—No Class Monday Nov 11

As some of you already know, a friend of mine passed away unexpectedly late last week. I will not be in today so I can attend the funeral.

We will catch up on Wednesday.

NO CLASS WED 10/30 OR THURS 10/31

Reminder....

NO CLASS WED 10/30 OR THURS 10/31

"The Sisterhood of the Night" and "The Ones Who Walk Away From Amelas"

GROUPTHINK:
http://www.psysr.org/about/pubs_resources/groupthink%20overview.htm

http://www.abacon.com/commstudies/groups/groupthink.html

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/theory/grpthink.html

http://boingboing.net/2014/08/05/how-groupthink-gets-reality-ba.html?utm_content=buffer54149&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Sisterhood of the Night

The richest of the stories in this vein is ''The Sisterhood of Night,'' in which Millhauser adopts one of his familiar narrative voices -- the affable small-town archivist explaining some local peculiarity to an inquisitive stranger.

It seems that adolescent girls are going out at night in bands, seeking ''dark and secret places.'' Witchcraft is suspected, and also various unspeakable sexual perversions. ''What shall we do with our daughters?'' is the refrain of the adults. ''Tell us! we cry, our voices shrill with love. Tell us everything! Then we will forgive you.'' When the secret is revealed, we at first suspect that a joke is being made about teen-age girls and their ways. On reflection, we discover more complex meanings, to do with privacy, sanctuary and the unknowability of other minds. It is a lovely, haunting story, whose apparent simplicity masks its true depth.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/10/reviews/980510.10mcgratt.html

Links about film:

http://www.thesisterhoodofnight-movie.com/

About the Salem Witch Trials:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-the-salem-witch-trials/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6i&linkId=44074522

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4aj-hU_s7w

Interview with the author:

http://transatlantica.revues.org/562

Salem Witch Trials/Hunt:

The Simpsons episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSCkeur662U

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.html

http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-witches-of-salem?mbid=social_facebook

 "The Ones Who Walk Away From Amelas"

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/opinion/david-brooks-the-child-in-the-basement.html?_r=0

http://www.tor.com/2015/11/19/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-is-beautiful-in-map-form/

http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/

http://www.teenink.com/reviews/book_reviews/article/133226/The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas-by-Ursula-K-Le-Guin/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/25/688925/-

No Class Tuesday Oct 22

Hi Class,

My car got towed this morning and I have to find out where it was towed to.

We’ll catch up on Thursday.

Appearance, Magical Stranger and Culture: "The Temp", "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" and Edward Scissorhands

Culture:

These links discuss cultural differences and also provides a number of links if you go to the bottom of the page. Use the information they provide as outside sources if you are writing your essay about this subject:

http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/culture.htm

http://www.worldwide.edu/travel_planner/culture_shock.html

http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/view/4510

Here is one on the effects of culture shock:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=effects+culture+shock&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=tIk6T-mJBaLn0QHXj5GXCw&ved=0CBoQgQMwAA

Links for "The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World":

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=THE+HANDSOMEST+DROWNED+MAN+IN+THE+WORLD&as_sdt=1%2C31&as_sdtp=

This week we will look at “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, “The Temp” and Edward Scissorhandsin class. All three of these stories contain individuals that become part of a community in some way and have profound effects of the people. In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” it is a corpse that washes ashore that gives the townspeople a new way of looking at their lives, in “The Temp” it is a temp hired in an office that changes the atmosphere of the wor enviroment and in Edward Scissorhands it is a unique young man that forces a rather boring town to see how boring and judgmental they really are. This week pay attention to what these “magical strangers” force the people in the stories to look at it in their lives.

The Importance of appearance:
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/the-importance-of-appearances-man-dresses-as-homeless-man-to-prove-nobody-would-help-him-video/592301/

http://www.ridingthetiger.org/2013/03/19/the-importance-of-appearance/

https://www.skillsportal.co.za/content/how-important-appearance-workplace

http://www.byui.edu/Documents/Admin_Offices/Advising/PowerOfPersonalAppearance.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/a-facial-theory-of-politics.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/appearances-mean-nothing-or-everything/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/fashion/26looks.html?pagewanted=all&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tykiisel/2013/03/20/you-are-judged-by-your-appearance/#4a2afa1b6d50

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/how-important-is-it-to-be-attractive-in-our-society/

Office Culture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/opinion/sunday/why-you-hate-work.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_WYH_20140602&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=3

http://www.forbes.com/sites/vickvaishnavi/2013/03/28/five-must-follow-rules-for-a-successful-office-culture/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/office-culture/

http://www.immihelp.com/newcomer/work-culture-office-environment-usa.html

https://www.themuse.com/advice/rally-the-team-how-to-create-a-cool-office-culture

Identity in "Mrs. Turner's Lawn Jockeys", "Live For Today" and Lion

Identity in "Mrs. Turner's Lawn Jockeys", "Live For Today" and Lion

We will discuss identity and how we become who we are in "Mrs. Turner's Lawn Jockeys", "Live For Today" and Lion.  We will see different characters and explore how they constructed their identity. Setting also plays a major role in these stories. We will look at how that effects these characters as well.

This link below has a wide variety of articles on how we construct identity.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/identity

Identity and choice:

http://gawker.com/how-i-identify-is-not-your-choice-1741671073


Newark and the surrounding area plays a big role in "Live For Today" and we will look at how that colors how people view the city and people from there. Here are some links about Newark:

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Newark-New-Jersey.html

http://libguides.rutgers.edu/content.php?pid=158675&sid=4109423

History of Lawn Jockeys

http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/underground-railroad-jockey-statues.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600851.html

http://wavy.com/2014/05/23/black-faced-lawn-jockey-creates-controversy-among-neighbors/

Black face:

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-blackface-in-america-video-20190311-story.html

Black face

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/19/world/brownface-blackface-yellowface-trnd/index.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/history-of-blackface-unmasking-the-racism/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6i&linkId=58830520

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/13/arts/music/blackface-master-echoes-in-hiphop.html

http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/minstrl.html

http://globalgrind.com/2013/10/30/reason-why-its-not-ok-to-wear-blackface-list-photos/

NO CLASS THURSDAY SEPT. 19!!! THURSDAY CLASS ONLY!

Sorry to miss class…my daughter got sick at school.

We’ll look at “Live For Today” and “Mrs. Turner’s Lawn Jockeys” on Tuesday.

See you Tuesday.

(There is a sign on the classroom door also)

Assimilation, The Namesake, "Brave We Are" and "Two Kinds"

Assimilation, The Namesake, "Brave We Are" and "Two Kinds"

Ted Talk on Assimilation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPfKlXRfJXI

Video about Gun Violence in America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_IfXmKmg9o

Video from class on Tiger Moms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAel_qRfKx8

An article about what it means to be American:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/books/review/amy-chua-political-tribes.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below


An Article about saying no to assimilation:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/29/us/a-fervent-no-to-assimilation-in-new-america.html

More on assimilation:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/education/edlife/international-students-find-the-american-dream-in-flint.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/on-assimilationists-and-nativists/

Articles about choosing names for children born in America to new Americans:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/for-muslim-americans-baby-aidan-or-baby-muhammad.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0

https://www.genealogy.com/articles/research/88_donna.html

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/education/edlife/international-students-find-the-american-dream-in-flint.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/the-great-assimilation-debate/

 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/douthat-when-the-assimilation-of-immigrants-stalls.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/07/garden/l-benefits-of-assimilation-229202.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?pagewanted=all

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/right-there-in-black-and-white-identity-assimilation-and-the-resume/?_r=0

Clink on this link for articles about food and culture:

https://www.google.com/#q=cultural+importance+of+food

These links would help with the issues in "Two Kinds" also:

Here is a link that talks about assimilation into American/other cultures.

http://m.nydailynews.com/life-style/children-tiger-moms-european-american-moms-differ-article-1.1798300

http://www.asian-nation.org/assimilation.shtml

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2673184?uid=3739808&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104040633247

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/89/3/433/

http://jbd.sagepub.com/content/29/6/505.short

Interview with Amy Tan (author of "Two Kinds")

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/travel/amy-tans-evolving-sense-of-china.html?hpw&rref=travel&_r=0&referrer=

Here is a link to the PBS website that discusses “New Americans”:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/

Here is a link that is specific to people living in new Jersey:

http://www.newamericansnj.org/

Http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0525a.htm

Here is an article entitled: “Why They Won’t Assimilate”:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/why_they_wont_assimilate.html

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President Obama’s speech about in which he discusses the American dream and what it means to us today.

http://raleightelegram.com/20120125624

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/assimilation-and-nativism-cont/

http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/dmessinger/c_c/rsrcs/rdgs/peers_social_general/Varela_etal_2004.pdf

The psychological definition:

http://psychology.about.com/od/aindex/g/assimilation.htm