RichardJewell.net

ENG 1114--Comp II

Inver Hills College

TEXTBOOKS, READINGS, & OTHER RESOURCES

There are a large number of helpful resources you can access through this page for your research work in this course.  You therefore should look at this page several times over the next several weeks, as you research--and also if and when you begin to look for extra credit.

If a link in this Web site doesn't work after several attempts on two different days, please let me know.

FOR  PARTS IN THIS PAGE, SCROLL DOWN OR CLICK HERE:

TO GO TO PARTS ON OTHER PAGES, CLICK HERE:

You may also see the required resources in "HOMEWORK/Readings" or in the "Syllabus."

ONLINE RESOURCES REQUIRED FOR THIS COURSE:

"Course Packet for Eng 1114": You should print out a copy of this to bring to class every day. 

Email: (1) Please activate your free school email address by completing the four steps at 

http://www.inverhills.edu/accounts/.  Then check the address  (___@metnet.edu) at least once per week for messages from school.  (2) For our own class email, you may give me a personal email-account address, instead (e.g., xxx@yahoo.com).  It's up to you.  If you do, be sure to check it and your IHCC student account at least once a week.  (3) Whichever email address you decide to give me, be sure to tell me about it (on the class email list or by a separate email from you to me).  Again, check your one or two email accounts weekly.

http://CollegeWriting.info, our main textbook:  It is a fully-online, complete composition textbook.  This is a textbook that I have written and placed on the Web.  One of the reasons I have placed it on the Web is so that you can save money.  Similar textbooks can cost $30-80, but this textbook is free.   

Online Bulletin Boards:  Click here or access them on the home page by clicking on the "Bull. Boards" box.

Online Grammar Handbook, an alternative grammar handbook that lists grammar links.  You also can find a link to this grammar handbook in CollegeWriting.info.  (Other online grammar books with actual lessons in them that you may want to try include Elements of Style by Strunk, Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization by Mary McCaskill (NASA), and the Purdue University Writing Center grammar guides.)   

Return to top.     

PHYSICAL RESOURCES REQUIRED FOR THIS COURSE:

You must read two books (or the equivalent) this semester.  The first one, book "A" below, is one book required of everyone.  The second book, "B" below, is required, but you have a number of choices from which to pick.

BOOK for "A," REQUIRED:

In the Land of Magic Soldiers by Daniel Bergner.  Available in large (trade) paperbound.  Find it in the IHCC Bookstore or possibly other large bookstores.  (Unless you order this book 3 weeks or more in advance, buying this book in the IHCC Bookstore may be the best way to get it on time.)

 

Grammar Handbook: You may use the one you acquired in your first composition course and/or the Online Grammar Handbook (www.onlinegrammar.org).  If you want to have a physical grammar handbook to hold in your hand and don't yet have one, almost everyone in the English Dept. uses Rules for Writers by Diane Hacker.  It is available in the bookstore from the stacks of other composition courses.

BOOK/READINGS "B," REQUIRED:

        Go to "Options for Second Course Reading" for a complete list of all the books from which you must choose. 

Choose one book or three articles (or mix and match) from the "Options" list.  The library will have one or two copies of many of them, and the bookstore will have one to six copies of most of them, depending on the book.  However, the bookstore will not have the copies available until after the second week of class.

 

Please look over all of the directions --and see the titles on the entire list--before you choose.  

                    

Recommendation: Don't choose this 2nd book or set of readings until you have read the first two assignments in Bergner (book "A").  Then start looking for your choice.  Some of the books below are on 48 hr. reserve in the Library: go to the front desk and ask to see the books for "Jewell, Eng. 1114."  (Be sure to ask specifically for the "1114" books, as I also have some books on reserve for an entirely different class.)

             

Special Notes: For more details, see "Special Notes" in the Web page "Options for Second Course Reading."

Note 1, AMAZON.COM purchases can be useful.  See "Special Notes."

Note 2, MIXING & MATCHING CHOICES:  You can mix three different choices from below.  See "Special Notes."

Note 3, A BOOK OF YOUR OWN: Sometimes this is okay with my permission.   See "Special Notes."

Note 4, EXTRA CREDIT: Extra reading from below is allowed for extra credit.   See "Special Notes."

Note 5, USING ANOTHER  LIBRARY:  See below, "Find in a Library."

-------------------------------------------
                                          

ADDITIONAL ONLINE RESOURCES:

(1) Online resources about Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone: A List of Resources.    A list of Web sites, books, articles, films, and other resources about Sierra Leone and Africa, many very useful for research and study in this course.  

(2) An automated Web bibliography-entry maker called NoodleTools.  I have a subscription to use it in my classes.  It is free for you to use.  You simply type in the author's names, titles, publisher, etc., and it will create a perfect bibliography entry (in MLA or APA) for you.  Correct bibliography entries will be required in your Draft 3 papers.  Just click here on NoodleTools to start.

(3) "Find in a Library": You can go to Google or Yahoo to find your choice of books in a library.  Follow these simple steps:

1. Go to www.Google.com or www.Yahoo.com.

2. Use its search engine as normal, except start with "find in a library."  For example, if you were trying to find Shakepeare's Hamlet this way, you would type into the search engine box
            
                                           find in a library hamlet shakespeare
     
   

3. Then when the book name comes up, click on "Find a Library."

4. And then, in the new window, add your zip code.  You'll get a list of libraries having your book (including the Inver Hills Community College Library).  More details are available at http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/about.htm. 

(4) Game to play online: www.DarfurIsDying.com.  For full, hour-for-hour extra/make-up credit, play this online game in which you take the role of a Durfi and try to complete basic tasks without being murdered, raped, or kidnapped (developed at the Univ. of Southern California--USC).  Then write 200+ w. about it, describing what you did, what happened, and what you learned.  Count both your playing and your writing time.  (You'll need a high-speed line or a computer at school to play.)

(5) The IHCC English Dept. Web Site: http://depts.inverhills.edu/English.  This Web site not only tells you a lot about the English Department, its courses, and its teachers, but also helps you find a number of other English and writing resources.

(6) CollegeWriting.info's Argumentative Readings on the Web.  Looking for short, argumentative, online readings?  Find them here.

(7) Online Libraries:  www.inverhills.mnscu.edu/Library (IHCC) 
http://composition.cla.umn.edu/student_web/libraries_research.htm

(8) Online Reference Books and Other Research Links: http://www.inverhills.mnscu.edu/Library/resource.htm 
http://composition.cla.umn.edu/student_web/libraries_research.htm 

(9) Online Tutorial in Researching Using Libraries: http://www.inverhills.edu/library/searchPathClassic/index.html

(10) Online Help with Bibliographies & Quotations Using MLA, APA, and Other Styles: http://www.inverhills.mnscu.edu/Library/MLA%20handout.htm 
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html 
Online Guide to Writing and Research 
Online Grammar Handbook 
Purdue University Writing Center research guides 

(11) Web Links: 
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine/: "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" [Macromedia Flash Player].  "Over its twelve-year history, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has certainly never avoided tackling immensely controversial and important subjects, and this latest online feature is certainly no exception to this trend. Designed to complement a current exhibition at the Museum, this site looks at the ways in which the Nazi regime attempted to transform the genetic makeup of the population through the use of eugenics. Legitimized by numerous trained scientists, these ideas surrounding “racial hygiene” were tested through experiments on “imperfect” human beings who were perceived as biological threats. Within the site, visitors can view a video introduction by the Museum’s curator, Dr. Susan Bachrach, and a number of rather interesting video testimonies on the subjects of genetics and eugenics by various experts. Additionally, visitors can also view profiles of the physicians and scientists involved in these activities. It should be noted that there is a remark on the site’s homepage that states that the exhibition is “…recommended for visitors of 11 years and older.”

Return to top.     

-------------------------------------------
                                          

THEORIES YOU MAY USE FOR YOUR ANALYSIS PAPER:

Directions: Your best bet is to look for theories that you already know, either from reading about them and/or, better yet, from living or experiencing them.   While you are free to play with these theories, be sure that you do understand what they mean before you try to use them.

---------------------------

Find Your Own: Use www.Google.com and write "_____ theory" with the name or type of theory written in the blank.

General List: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_theories

---------------------------

Anthropology: www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/anthros.htm, www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/anthros.htm

Creation: www.crystalinks.com/creation.html

Criminology: www.crimetheory.com/explorations.htm

Feminism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_theory

Literary Criticism (advanced): www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm#phenom

Nursing: http://healthsci.clayton.edu/eichelberger/nursing.htm

Political Science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science

Psychology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Psychological_theories, www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists, http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/perscontents.html (personality theories)

Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html, www.rep.routledge.com/signpost-articles, www.iep.utm.edu,

Religion/s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups, www.religioustolerance.org/var_rel.htm

Sociology: www.mcmaster.ca/socscidocs/w3virtsoclib/theories.htm

TWO PLAYS & SOME FILMS RELATED  TO  THIS  COURSE:

        You may earn extra credit for going to these two plays named below, and also for watching the films about Africa and about victims of European wars that are specifically named in these two lists.  (For extra-credit options, see "Make-up and Extra Credit" in ATTENDANCE.)

(Spring 2008 Term Only) TWO PLAYS ABOUT WAR IN IRAQ & GENOCIDE IN CAMBODIA:

Guthrie Theater, March 1 – 23, 2008.  9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo.  Directed by Joel Sass.  "In this examination of Iraqi female identity in this time of war, one actress plays nine characters, including a doctor who confronts an epidemic of cancer, an artist, a child, an American with relatives in Baghdad, a wife and mother, a political exile in London and an old woman selling anything she can on the street corner.  This is a portrait of life during the Iraq war – not through the rhetoric of politicians or the hyperbole of the press – but through the ground level reality of nine female Iraqis. In a series of monologues, they discuss the terrible difficulties of their lives – both physically and psychologically – and yet we see the spirit of courage and hope that help these women face the pain and tragedy of their lives."  --Guthrie Promotional Material.

Guthrie Theater, June 7-29, 2008, After a Hundred Years by Naomi Izukka.  Directed by Lisa Portes.  "An American journalist arrives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  He has been granted a rare, career-making interview with a Khmer Rouge general accused of war crimes on the eve of his trial in front of a UN tribunal.  The Khmer Rouge general is determined to defend his actions and rehabilitate his historical legacy.  As the journalist grapples with the lies and truths of his interview subject, he becomes enmeshed in the life of an American woman he meets in Phnom Penh.  She is unhappily married to a prominent American doctor who has devoted his life to working in the Third World, but at the cost of betraying the ethical vows of his profession.  In the shadows of these events moves a mysterious woman with surprising information about everyone’s lives.  As the characters’ quests for truth intersect, they are drawn deeper into Cambodia’s history and their own complicity in crimes past and present.  Set in the present, this haunting drama examines the legacy of guilt while seeking possibilities of forgiveness and redemption."  --Guthrie Promotional Material.

FILMS ABOUT SIERRA LEONE, AFRICA, and THIRD-WORLD DEVELOPMENT: 

       Click in the yellow box to go to the Sierra Leone Resources List/Videos.  You may choose any videos or movies on this list for extra credit.

FILMS ABOUT NON-AFRICAN WAR AND VICTIMS OF WAR: 

        Most of the films below have 3- to 4-star ratings (out of a possible 4 stars).  To see a review of each, simply go to www.google.com and type in the name of the movie.  (My descriptions below may have a few minor inaccuracies, as I haven't looked up each of these films individually on the Web.)  I'm missing some details on some of these: if any of you would like to supply them, just send notes to me (e.g., length of the film, year it came out, etc.). 

Also see Sierra Leone Resources List/Videos for related videos from/about Sierra Leone and Africa.  

Fog of War, 2003.  ***½.  Documentary action/drama.  This award-winning documentary is an interview of Robert McNamara, chief architect of the Vietnam War for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, interspersed with authentic battle scenes.  Both intellectual and dramatic, this "ten lessons about war" is a good overall view of how (and how not) to wage war, physically and politically.  (See also Why We Fight below.) 

The Genocide Factor, 4-part series, 57 minutes each: (1) "Genocide: From Biblical Times Through the Ages"; (2) "Genocide in the First Half of the 20th Century"; (3) "Never Again? Genocide Since the Holocaust"; and (4) "Genocide: The Horror Continues."  Films Media Group, their producer, describes them as follows: "Massacres and brutality riddle humankind’s past. Introduced by Academy Award-winning actor John Voight, this series presents the definitive, most comprehensive overview of the history of genocide. With the aid of an impressive array of scholars, experts, eyewitnesses, and survivors from around the world, the programs examine the complex dimensions of human nature’s darkest side. Viewer discretion is advised."  To see a preview clip of this series, go to http://www.films.com/id/4106/The_Genocide_Factor.htm.  These four films are on reserve in the Inver Hills College Library; you may watch any one or more.  

The Last Days. ***½.  90 min., 1998.  Documentary.  In this documentary, five Hungarian Jews, survivors of the Holocaust, talk about what happened to them in World War II Nazi concentration camps.

Life Is Beautiful.  ***½.  2 hrs., 1998.  Fictional drama.  Stars Roberto Benigni.  This is a tale of a man who keeps his young son miraculously alive in a concentration camp through the father's heroic efforts and his ability to turn hiding into a game.  While the setting and the supposition that a child could be hidden for years seem at first fanciful, the acting more than makes up for it.  Benigni won an Academy Award for this.  

The Memory of the Camps.  ****.  60 min., 1945.  Documentary.  Alfred Hitchcock, treatment advisor. This short, British, film is a must-see experience for anyone who wants to know the true horrors of concentration camps.  It shows real scenes from the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of World War II.  Gruesome, journalistically accurate, and shocking views of corpses and of people whose bodies are so ravaged that they look like they should be dead.  (Advisory: Do not watch with young children.)

Night and Fog, ***½, 31 min., 1955.  Documentary.  Alain Resnais, Director.  Documentary action/drama.  This multiple award-winning film, with stark realism and contrasts, was made of a combination of archival footage of two concentration camps, Auschwitz and Majdanek, and a later return to them  

The Pianist.  ***½.  Fictional drama.  Stars Adrienne Brody.  This story about a top European classical pianist hiding for years from the Nazis in increasingly terrible conditions won Brody an Academy Award.  

Prisoner of Paradise, 90 min., 2002. ***.  Fictional drama.  This well received movie is a dramatic fictional recreation of how World War II Nazis forced real-life actor and filmmaker Kurt Gerron, incarcerated in a concentration camp, to make a propaganda movie portraying concentration camp life in positive images. 

Schindler's List, 195 min., 1993. Stephen Spielberg, Director.  ****.  Drama.  A dramatic and compelling fictional recreation of the real story of a German industrialist  who uses his hiring of prisoners from a concentration camp as a way of saving the prisoners.  It has some painfully real scenes about Nazi concentration camps and provides a good understanding of the camps from survivors' viewpoints. 

Turtles Can Fly, 2005. 97 min.  ***.  Fictional drama.  English subtitles.  Turtles is "the first film shot in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein" (DVD cover).  It is a culturally and psychologically fascinating and ultimately heart-breaking story of a band of Kurdish youths orphaned by the many military skirmishes between the northern-Iraq ethnic Kurds and the southern-Iraq Sunnis under Hussein.  They make do by working hard under the leadership of an older boy known as "Satellite" because he knows how to install TV dishes.  Though fiction, it accurately reflects what many orphans throughout second- and third-world countries suffer.  TV Guide calls the movie a "timely masterpiece." 

Triumph of the Spirit, 1989.  116 min.  ***.  Fictional drama.  Stars Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos.  "Nazis force Greek boxer Salamo Arouch into fight-to-the-death bouts in the extermination camps at Auschwitz in Poland" (Warner Time Cable).  In the cut version, you don't actually see boxers dying, but the film--which apparently is based on a true story--has a good portrayal of what it was like for both men and women to live day to day in Auschwitz, one of the most infamous of the Nazi concentration camps.

A Very Long Engagement, 2004, French (English subtitles).  ***.  Fictional action/romance/drama.  Stars noted French actress Emilie Tatou.  The World War I battlefield "No-Man's Land" scenes are interspersed with a young woman's attempt to find her missing soldier fiancé.  Starts slowly and gently, builds to painful intensity, has unexpected, heart-aching ending.

Why We Fight, Dir. Eugene Jarecki, 2006, ***½, PG-13.  Documentary action/drama.  This is styled in many ways like Fog of War, above, but is especially more relevant to those too young to remember the Vietnam War.  It interviews both high decision makers and individuals involved in making war, provides a background of General and President Dwight Eisenhower's concerns about the military-industrial complex, and uses this concern--and the 1990s-2009 neo-conservative movement to wage offensive war--as themes.  It is the kind of film probably considered one-sided by some people now but is likely, given all the documentation, to be thought of as a factually accurate and moving documentary a decade later.  

Return to top.     

-------------------------------------------

GREENHAVEN PRESS BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, & ARTICLES
RELATED TO THIS COURSE:

Here is a list of books and/or pamphlets by Greenhaven Press on subjects related to this course.  Each book or pamphlet contains dozens of short essays by experts arguing aspects of the subjects.  These books/pamphlets are available in most larger libraries, including our Inver Hills College Librariy.

Opposing Viewpoints Books/Pamphlets

Euthenasia

Extremist Groups

(Genetic Engineering)

Hate Groups

Human Rights

War

"At Issue in History" Books/Pamphlets.

Nuremberg Trials

Rise and Fall of Hitler

"At Issue" Series, Books/Pamphlets

Anti-Semitism

What Is a Hate Crime?

Return to top.     

------------

Most recent update of this page: 4 Jan.. 2008

- End -

The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author.
The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.