Final Papers Due This Week

Tues/Thurs Classes:

YOUR PAPERS ARE DUE ON TUESDAY!
I will be at on a conference starting on Thursday so I will not be here to collect papers on Thursday.
Get me your papers on Tuesday!

Mon/Wed Classes:

YOUR PAPERS ARE DUE ON WEDNESDAY!
I will be at on a conference starting on Thursday so I will not be here to collect papers on Thursday.
Get me your papers on Wednesday!


All Grades will be on MYECC next week

"The Story of An Hour" Kate Chopin

http://www.qsm.ac.il/asdarat/jamiea/7/daliaFadili-final.pdf

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=31191

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=31191

http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/njes/article/viewFile/216/214

http://literaryhistory.com/19thC/Chopin.htm

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Links on Southern Culture:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-flannery-oconnors-journey-through-the-south

Folow this link for a collection of links about the story:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/O’Connor.htm

More in "A Good Man is Hard to Find":

http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=casfac

http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/607/784

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall95/Haines.html

O'Connor reading the story and commentary:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/rare_1959_audio_flannery_oconnor_reads_a_good_man_is_hard_to_find.html

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jul/05/fresh-look-flannery-o-connor-cartoons

Four collections of essays provide a good range of criticism on O’Connor (These would be found in the Literary Criticism section of a book store or library):

1. The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Lewis A. Lawson (1966; rpt. Fordham University Press, 1977).

2. Critical Essays on Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark (Hall, 1985).

3. Flannery O’Connor, edited by Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1986).

4. Realist of Distances: Flannery O’Connor Revisited, edited by Karl-Heinz Westarp and Jan Nordby Gretlund (Aarhus, 1987).

The Grandmother:

The Misfit with the grandmother:

Taking the family to the woods:

The author:

MONDAY APRIL 7 NO CLASS

We will not have class today Monday April 7. We'll go over "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People" on Wednesday.

This is only for the Monday class.


This does not effect the Tuesday/Thursday section.

Our Tuesday April 8 class will meet tomorrow in the cafeteria for the poetry event at 1. I will post that info on the board tomorrow.

FINAL ESSAY

Use 2 OUTSIDE SOURCES (NO OUTSIDE SOURCES=FAIL)

3 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED, SIZE 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN

 

Pick ONE of the essay topics below for your paper.

 

Flannery O’Connor stories:

1.       The issue of whether The Misfit had grace or not was discussed in class this week. Pick a side of the argument and defend your thesis with outside sources and examples from the text.

2.       How did appearances play a part in “Good Country People”? Why did the characters trust the Bible salesman? Defend your thesis with outside sources and examples from the text.

A Raisin in the Sun

3.       Each of the characters in the Younger family has a particular individual dream. One wants to move to a bigger home, one wants to attend medical school, one wants to rise above his conditions though does not necessarily have a plan to do so. Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the functions of dreams in A Raisin in the Sun. Consider whether there was a way to make each individual dream compatible with others’ dreams. If so, explain why the characters did not identify this alternative.

4.       Oftentimes, seemingly minor characters can actually have great significance to either the meaning or the actions of the play. In A Raisin in the Sun there is a handful of minor characters, including Mr. Linder, Bobo, Willy, George and Joseph, who are significant to the play. Choose one or more of the minor characters in A Raisin in the Sun and write an essay in which you analyze the roles that they play in the development of the thematic content of A Raisin in the Sun. Assess whether the inclusion of these minor characters is necessary to develop the play’s message. Defend your thesis with outside sources and examples from the text.

5.       Compare the three women from play and explain where they differed and what separated them throughout the play.

Choice

6.       In The Hours Virginia and Laura are both, in a sense, prisoners of their eras and societies, and both long for freedom from this imprisonment. They, like the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper”, are limited in their choice for what to do with their lives. Using example FROM BOTH, explain how their choice is limited.

7.       Explain what the author of “The Story of My Life” was attempting to convey to readers in her short story. What did she hope to say about not only the character’s life but all women at the time?

How To Quote a Play

Do not use floating quotations--do not just stick quotes into a paragraph with no setup or lead-in.

How to quote a play in MLA:

Quote a monologue (one character's speech) or one side of a piece of dialogue by simply including a lead-in, enclosing the exact wording in quotation marks and adding a citation. Add a comma before the quotation. Example: To impress the successful Bernard, Willy exaggerates his son Biff's success, "Well, he's been doing very big things in the West. But he decided to establish himself here" (Miller 23).

Quote a long monologue (four or more lines) delivered by a character by setting it off in block format. This means that, instead of enclosing it in quotation marks, you put the quotation on a separate line from the lead-in and indent it 10 spaces. For block quotes, end the lead-in with a colon. Don't forget to cite it. Example: Willy continues his delusional discussion with the nonexistent

BEN. Without a penny to his name, three great universities are begging for him, and from there the sky's the limit, because it's not what you do, Ben. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, Ben, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked! (Miller 22)

Quote sets of dialogue between two or more characters by also using block format and putting the characters' names in all capital letters. Don't forget a lead-in and a citation that includes all speeches being quoted. Example:
Willy's delusions consistently show how much Happy and Bernard idolized Biff, especially when they argue over who will carry his football gear:
BERNARD. Biff, I'm carrying your helmet, ain't I?
HAPPY. No, I'm carrying the helmet.
BERNARD. Oh, Biff, you promised me.
HAPPY. I'm carrying the helmet. (Miller 34)

The Hours, 1950s Housewife and Virginia Woolf

 

We will discuss the role the 1950s housewife in relation to the film. Here are the links to some more resources on that topic:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article3510810.ece

http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/part1a.html

http://aubreylondonpinup.com/the-glorious-1950s-housewife

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everythingsanargument4e/content/cat_020/Brady_I_Want_a_Wife.pdf







Here is some more info on Woolf:
http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Virginia_Woolf
http://www.utoronto.ca/IVWS/

Yellow Wallpaper

American Women and Homes in the late 19th Century:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/rodriguez/GildedAge/home.html

Poem that discusses similar issues:

http://www1.assumption.edu/WHW/workshop/PussInTheCorner.html

Gender in the 19th Century:

http://www1.assumption.edu/WHW/workshop/untitled1.html

http://www1.assumption.edu/WHW/workshop/Spheres.html

Here are some links that discuss Postpartum depression:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0004481/

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/postpartum-depression/DS00546

jurn.org...A Good Site for Outside Sources

This site is a good place to search for reliable outside sources:

http://jurn.org/

Just enter what you are looking for. For example, for "The Yellow Wallpaper" enter "The Yellow Wallpaper"

"The Story of An Hour"

Here are some reliable outside sources on "The Story of An Hour"

http://books.google.com/books?id=qh6TWsIk-WsC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.katechopin.org/the-story-of-an-hour.shtml#articles

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/criticaldefine/femessay.pdf

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/18/storytime-grownups-kate-chopin-story-hour

Short Film based on the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btSWjiWm9M4

Here is a link to the story online:

http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/Kate%20Chopin,%20The%20Story%20of%20an%20Hour.pdf

More A Raisin in the Sun Sources

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/87646/A-Raisin-in-the-Sun/articles.html

http://www.articlesbase.com/fiction-articles/assimilationism-in-a-raisin-in-the-sun-by-lorraine-hansberry-603257.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/25/entertainment/et-raisin25

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364394_20563955,00.html

NO CLASS WED 3/12 OR THURS 3/13***GO TO CONFERENCE TO WRITE 1 PAGE EXTRA CREDIT

Wednesday 3/12

MARY BURCH THEATER
10am- 2:30pm

Thursday 3/13

SMITH HALL
10AM-5:30pm

A Raisin in the Sun and Citing a Play for Your Paper

Below are links that would function as strong outside sources:
http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/araisininthesun/historicalcontext.html

http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/36902365/somewhat-like-war-aesthetics-segregation-black-liberation-and-raisin-sun

http://lifeofannekathrin.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/race-in-a-raisin-in-the-sun.pdf

You can look through these links to see if any may be useful for your paper:

https://www.google.com/#q=a+raisin+in+the+sun+scholarly+articles

this link will explain how to quote and cite a play in your paper:

http://libguides.pstcc.edu/content.php?pid=24540&sid=1751573

Here is small sample from the link below:
When quoting dialogue between two characters:
     
      KROGSTAD. Yes, yes, yes, to the point: there's still time, and I'm advising you to use your
         influence to prevent it.

      NORA. But Mr. Krogstad, I have absolutely no influence.

      KROGSTAD. You haven't? I thought you were just saying -

      NORA. You shouldn't take me so literally! How can you believe that I have any such influence
          over my husband? (Doll act 1)

Quoting a Single Character MLA 6.4.8
If you quote a remark from one character, you can incorporate it into the body of the paragraph.

 

Nora's epiphany occurs when she realizes her husband will never reciprocate the sacrifices she's made to protect his pride. She finally stands up to Helmer, telling him, "You neither think nor talk like the man I could join myself to" (Doll act 3).

Life of Pi

Here is the IMDB.COM page for the film:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/

Interviews with the author of the novel:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/26/fiction

http://textualities.net/jennie-renton/yann-martel-interview/

Other articles about the novel/film:

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/French-director-swept-away-by-Life-of-Pi-2565015.php

http://www.theministryrookie.com/2013/02/25/does-the-life-of-pi-prove-the-existence-of-god/

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/25/fiction.reviews1

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" and Sources on Fairy Tales

Here is a list of fairytales that you may want to reference:

http://ivyjoy.com/fables/

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/

What makes a story a fairy tale?

http://www.voxmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/what-makes-a-fairy-tale/

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=jkSzkr4UWDgC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=what+makes+a+story+a+fairy+tale&ots=5INIgjj9fI&sig=-bBpPAXuosHCiUyBu3uFbQmYHOA#v=onepage&q=what%20makes%20a%20story%20a%20fairy%20tale&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=-AR9FEgly9wC&oi=fnd&pg=PA64&dq=what+makes+a+story+a+fairy+tale&ots=AcMzBieWQS&sig=UY-nsUqv1cfOsWdlWoEEM7Nr7A8#v=onepage&q=what%20makes%20a%20story%20a%20fairy%20tale&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=1esOc6GGtOsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA2&dq=what+makes+a+story+a+fairy+tale&ots=0d0nbXFdyu&sig=XK7cnjf_z8L06Q5aEzwxBNZbBss#v=onepage&q=what%20makes%20a%20story%20a%20fairy%20tale&f=false


"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

http://www.academia.edu/1000317/Marquezs_A_Very_Old_Man_with_Enormous_Wings_and_Bambaras_The_Lesson

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12287

Fear and "The Thing in the Forest"

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/fear.htm

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/02/16/how-fear-works-in-the-brain

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QJ_H6KVRf6IC&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=how+fear+works&ots=JMNQZV-7iQ&sig=OYqni3a_rj7r-25CpCrvZII1moc#v=onepage&q=how%20fear%20works&f=false

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/anatomy-of-fear/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/opinion/sunday/why-smart-brains-make-dumb-decisions-about-danger.html

These links discuss how fear functions in human beings. This is a major theme in "The Thing in the Forest."

VALE

I have mentioned VALE in class before as a good place for outside sources and here is the link:

valenj.org

Once you click the link, click on "subscribed databases". Then click on Essex County College Only and the user identification is :

essexecc

and the password is:

door42

Reliable Internet Resources and Citing Outside Sources

I will hand out an example MLA paper next class.

This is a link that covers citing outside sources:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/03/

Forget about any site that summarizes and tells you what a book or story is about. I want to know what you think not Wikipedia or Sparknotes or Shmoop or enotes Form your own opinions and never worry about misinterpreting something in Literature. It is all about interpretation. When I ask you to use reliable/critical sources, I am doing so to improve your writing and your ability to critically think about a text or subject. The outside sources well be the evidence or proof for YOUR points about the text.

Our class blog, the library and Literaryhistory.com can be counted on for reliable outside sources.

Not reliable sources (ANY PAPERS USING/CITING/TAKING INFO FROM THESE SOURCES WILL RECEIVE AN F!):

123helpme.com

allfreeessays.com

anyfreepapers.com

essaybank.com

freeforessays.com/

Sparknotes.com

Bookrags.com            

Cliffnotes.com

Essaystart.com

Wikipedia.com

Shmoop.com

Gradesaver.com

Bestnotes.com

Novelguide.com

Enotes.com

…there are many others but I think you get the idea.

Also any discussion board where someone asks a question like, “I have a paper due tomorrow morning and it is about Ernest Hemmingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and I didn’t read it! What is the theme of the story?” And then “Lauren” replies by telling the other person what the story is about will not work as a reliable outside source.

 DO NOT…use quotes in your introduction or conclusion

 

DO NOT…take information from a source and not cite it on works cited page and in text.

 

DO NOT…start or end a paragraph with a quote.

 

DO NOT…use “I” anywhere in your paper.

 

DO NOT…use quotes from primary/outside sources that are longer than 4 lines.

 

DO NOT…hand in a paper late and expect to be able to revise it.

 

DO…introduce author and primary texts in introduction.

 

DO…include your thesis in your introduction and keep it in mind throughout the paper.

 

DO… quote your outside and primary sources within the body of your paper.

 

DO…look to the essay question you are answering for your thesis statement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONSTERS: "Lusus Nature," "St.Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" and Frankenstien

Some Videos of "St.Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=st+lucy's+home+for+girls+raised+by+wolves&FORM=VIRE2#a

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

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/cGuanipa/cultshok.htm


This essay will help answer the question about what we do with those that are decided to be less than "normal"

http://thelamedame.tumblr.com/post/30938417648/on-being-a-cripple

Article on what is normal:

http://www.calresco.org/lucas/normal.htm

Articles on how we treat the elderly and the disabled:

http://www.apa.org/pi/aging/resources/guides/elder-abuse.aspx

http://www.indiana.edu/~ucstm/speech/Sandy_Hamm/sandy2.html

Sites with many links on Frankenstein:

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=fra-63

http://www.marywshelley.com/sources/





If you are having trouble finding outside sources, go to http://www.valenj.org/ and:

1) Click on "Suscribed Databases'
2) Essex County College List of Databases
3) Log In (IF YOU HAVE NEVER USED THIS BEFORE you WILL have to register...it's free for students)
4) Academic Search Premiere

Than begin searching themes, authors and story titles.

Monday FEB 3

As a result of the ongoing snow storm, Essex County College will close today, February 3, 2014, at 10AM. 

Sonny's Blues

Outside sources for Baldwin:
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/baldwin.html



http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin.html?scp=3&sq=james%20baldwin&st=cse

Baldwin sources:
http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Baldwin.htm



History of Harlemhttp://www.harlemheritage.com/history-of-harlem/

http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom/harlem-renaissance

http://www.history.com/topics/harlem-renaissance



Below is the Bible scripture that Baldwin refers to:
“The cup of trembling”
22
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
23
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

NO CLASS Wed Jan 22

I was at wedding over the weekend and my flight was delayed until late last night/early this morning. I will not be in today and as of now the school is on a delayed opening until noon. 

Check the school website to stay updated:

http://www.essex.edu

Continue following the syllabus and we will catch up next week. 

Prof. O'Connell 

TUESDAY JAN 21

This is for the Tuesday classes! English 102 and English 102 Honors

I was at a wedding this weekend and my flight was cancelled so there will be no class today. I'll see you Thursday.

Assimilation

NYTimes articles: 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

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

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

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

“It’s difficult to adapt to the culture here,” said Maria Jacinto, 32, who moved to the United States 10 years ago with her husband, Aristeo Jacinto, 36. “In the Hispanic tradition, the family comes first, not money. It’s important for our children not to be influenced too much by the gueros,” she said, using a term that means “blondies” but that she employs generally in reference to Americans. “I don’t want my children to be influenced by immoral things.”

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

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

Assimilation is not a process magically initiated upon setting foot on Americanterra firma.  Rather, it only occurs when one or both of two conditions are met: The foreign elements must have a desire to assimilate or the host nation must place pressure on them to do so.  Unfortunately, neither is the case today because both immigrants and native-born Americans are far different than they once were.

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

Interview with Amy Tan (author of "Mother Tongue")

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