Eng 102 Summer Two 2018

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Final Grades

Final grades will be up on myecc at the end of next week, Monday August 20th the latest.

There will be no more class meetings. It was a good semester. Enjoy the rest of the summer and hopefully I will see you in the future. Good luck!

Prof. O'Connell

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

ESSAY TWO---DUE TUESDAY AUGUST 7TH! BRING TO MY OFFICE 1137 IN THE RED AREA

Bring papers to my office (1137) Wed 8/1 or Mon 8/6 so I can look over your work!

USE THE CLASS BLOG FOR 2 OUTSIDE SOURCES:

eng102summer2018.blogspot.com

3 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED, SIZE 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN

Pick ONE of the essay topics below for your paper.

1) One of the central themes found in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” “The Sisterhood of the Night,” and The Village is groupthink. Using at least TWO of these stories or film to explain how it played a role in each story.

2) Our class blog has a few articles about the Salem Witch Hunt and Trials; use those (or other reliable outside sources on the topic) to compare any similarities you see in “The Sisterhood of the Night.” It is often referred to as an updated version of the Salem Witch Hunt. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

3) Pick a few symbols from “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, “The Sisterhood of the Night” and The Village to explain how the stories address bigger topics. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

4) Using ““The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,”can you think if any analogy of the child in the room in our society? If so, who is the child, and who suffers at its expense?

5) Discuss the effects of Magical Stranger in Literature as seen in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands. Use at least two of these texts to display how a “magical stranger” comes into the lives of these people and changes how they look at themselves.

6) We also discussed the importance society places on appearance when discussing "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands. Use an example from at least two of these texts to explain how appearance played a role in their stories while discussing how important it is in today’s world.

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)

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and "The Sisterhood of the Night"

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/-

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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

Interview with the author:

http://transatlantica.revues.org/562

Salem Witch Trials/Hunt:

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

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

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

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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

First Essay Assignment--Due Wed 7/25

LATE PAPERS DO NOT GET REVISION AND LOSE POINTS
3 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED, SIZE 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN
USE TWO OUTSIDE SOURCES (NOT INCLUDING THE TEXT!) AND QUOTE THE PRIMARY TEXTS AS WELL.
Refer to the class blog for outside source info: eng102summer2018.blogspot.com/
ONLY RELIABLE SOURCES!-----Pick ONE of the essay topics below for your paper.
Assimilation
1. Use examples from The Namesake, “Two Kinds”, “Brave We Are” and from your own experience if it applies (and limit it to one paragraph) to explain the “new American” experience and the challenges of assimilation. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis. You must use at least one of the short stories as an example for this question.
2. We discussed how symbols were used in “Brave We Are” this week for the issues new Americans face. Discuss three (the meal, the song, the poem) of those symbols and explain their importance in the story. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.
3. In “Two Kinds” the mother puts a lot of pressure of her daughter to do well. This can be referred to as her “putting all her eggs in one basket”. Explain how she attempts to shape her daughter’s life in the story. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis. There are sources on the blog that discuss the pressure some Asian parents put on their children to succeed in school. These would work well as outside sources.
4. Food is clearly important in all cultures and we see that in “Brave We Are” and to a lesser extent in The Namesake; using examples from both of those texts OR JUST “Brave We Are” and two outside sources, explain what role food plays in culture. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

Identity
5. Newark plays an important role in “Live For Today.” Using the links on the blog about crime in Newark or articles you fin don your own, explain how the story uses Newark’s negative reputation to tell the story. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.
6. Explain how the dead victims in “Live For Today” and the lawn jockeys from “Mrs. Turner’s Lawn Jockeys” function as symbolic in each of their stories. In other words, explain how their communication with the main characters from each story is important. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

7. Bernie and Emma put on black shoe polish so they will not be seen when they sneak out at night to paint the lawn jockeys white. Why could this been seen as symbolic? What is your understanding of blackface? Later on, Bernie says they are invisible—could there be more to that? Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.
8. When they see their father in the kitchen as they are attempting to paint the jockeys, Bernie says to himself that his father is “thinking about who he used to be, who he is, who people think he is, and who he wants to become” (79). What does this mean? Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.
9. Pick NO MORE THAN THREE characters from “Live For Today”, “Mrs. Turner’s Lawn Jockeys” or Lion and explain how their identity is shaped or explained in their story. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources (links about identity on blog) to support your thesis.

Monday, July 16, 2018

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.