Tattoos Essay Question

Pick one question, combine, or make your own

Write 4-6 pages

due date TBA

1. Can the ratification of your internal justice, burnish internal demons set by life's occurrences?
2. How do we find true justice, amid a culture saturated in self-indulgence and pre-occupation?
3. Is justice defined by individualism or society?
4. How can justice be our first priority when helping others?
5. Is justice linked to culture, background, and society or do you choose what justice is according to law?
6. How can we lead ourselves to "water" without relying on the compassion of others?
7. If justice is blind, how do you explain the injustice that occurs in inner city neighborhoods vs. the relative peace in suburbs in America?
8. How do we reach out to justice when justice is no longer there?
9. How can we assure justice when our past is responsible for the way society identifies us? Huh!
10. How is justice measured when justice is different for everyone?
11. If we desire success how can we use kinship to precede justice?
12. How can you help someone redeem his self worth despite the injustices in our society?
13. How can justice be a dream deferred?
14. Can forgiveness lead to self justice?

A Little homework for 5/12

Choose a single quote you really like and riff on it for a bunch of sentences, bring with you on Monday. Td

First Paper assignment for Tattoos

I want you to connect your thesis to four different pieces of evidence from chapters 1 and 2. Bring your thesis to life, make it meaningful and deep, by the way you riff on your evidence.

Don't write an intro, just start with a thesis, then write 2-3 body paragraphs.

2-3 pages maximum, due Wednesday 4/30

Native American Research

For Wed Feb 5th write, paraphrase, and literally copy and paste with proper citation information about the current state of affairs for Native Americans in this country. Use at least two sources.

Read half of Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, up to page 117, by Monday, Feb 10.

Midterm Study Guide

English 102
Spring 2014
deWit

Midterm Study Guide

You will be responsible for the following information for the midterm:

Vocabulary up to now; we will make a master list in class.

The Ten Lies and Twelve Poverty-Changing propositions at the end of the book. These 22 position statements summarize much of the book. You should be able to explain each of these with clarity and depth.

An informed position on each of the knowledge areas shared with you by your classmates. You are expected to understand the basics of each topic and how it relates to poverty. You will be able to spend most of your energy and argument on your area of expertise, but your midterm grade will be bolstered by how facile and inclusive you are of some of the other areas while writing your essay.

The Wealth Inequality Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

A few practice prompts that will help you write your midterm essay:

1) Explain the following quote from Smiley and West. Include deeper analysis of at least one area of expertise with some references and analysis to at least three other areas.

"There are nearly 150,000,000 persistently poor and near poor people in America who are not responsible for the damage done by the Great Recession. Yet they pay the price. The poor did not create the deindustrialization of America, unmatched corporate profiteering and greed, more than a decade of foreign wars, and unregulated tax benefits for the wealthy. When the largest economic institutions in the world were brought to their collective knees, they went crawling to the government's doorstep in search of salvation. The government obliged, allowing Wall Street to socialize its failure on the backs of Main St. Americans"(169).

2) Analyze either O'Reilly's little debate with West and Smiley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E95I365_LTM  or Boots Riley's poem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12JJv6yCk7Q in the context of The Rich and the Rest of Us and include deeper analysis of at least one area of expertise with some references and analysis to at least three other areas.

Notes on Research groups and topics

17Mar2014

1.       Retirement benefits ----- Lucila, Mushfiq, Guillermo

·         Include SS

·         401K’s

·         Employee Pension

·         Health Care

2.       Safely Nets---- Casey who?, Hoang, Zac

·         WIC, etc

3.       Taxes-----  Sean, Chase, Madelyn

·         Income

·         Capital gain (wealth)

4.       Prison Industrial Complex----- Elizabeth, Myron, Da’rell, Azeb, Liz

·         Status work and citizenship of persons with felony

·         Corporate/financial

5.       Manufacturing Jobs outsourcing ------  Darlene, Aaron, Anna, Jasmine

·         Chickens  in China

6.       Public education------ Damien, Yisong, Greg

·         -the great hope

7.       Weakened labor unions

8.       Minimum wage vs. living wage----  Richard, Dyrell, Angelica

·         Mc D’s budget

9.       Regulation vs. deregulation

10.   Health Care-----  Gwendolyn, Edith, Italy, Marisol

11.   Housing/mortgage crisis---- Jesse, Beerkat, Tony, Christina

·         Bailout

·         The bubble

12.   What influences stock prices, the stock market?

·         Corporation have same status as citizens, what does this mean?

·          

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10 Lies about poverty that America can no longer afford [173-174]

Poverty to prosperity [175-177]

Coming out of a recession… with an uptick of job growth…

Where’s the lie and the truth in that?

Assignment-

Product of Reseach Options:

1.       Poster

2.       Prezi/ppt (power point)

3.       Gif (video)

4.       Single info reference sheet (handouts)

5.       Up to 15 mins presenting

Criteria-

Protocol

1.       Give an overview of the topic

2.       Use at least 5 sources

3.       If debate around issue, layout the contours of that debate

4.       Take a position on the issue as a team

5.       Make connections with the text

****focusing to a mid-term****

Carnival Due- March 26

Essay Assignment for Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

Write an essay on why and how Junior/Arnold is able to swim. Baldwin writes, " If you cannot articulate what is around you and inside of you, you will be submerged by it."  How is it that Junior/Arnold is not submerged? What is it about this boy that his experiences and circumstances don't drown him?

1250-1500 words
double spaced
proper citations

On Wed Feb  26 bring your theory and the scenes you want to analyze.

On Wed March 5, final essay due, post on blog and bring hard copy to class.

As one of your pieces of evidence, you have to use at least one cartoon.


Tree Scene brainstorm

• he always finds hope whether in the present or the past
• In full knowledge he does something risky, but worth it--connected to moving to Reardan, 
• consumed with grief, but memory of climbing tree he accomplished something which helps him frame his experience at Reardan
• If the rez thinks like what Jr. thinks they have the possibility of beauty like he and Rowdy see from the tree.
• Wants to see everything from a different perspective
• Willing oneself to see from a diff perspective is scary, involves fear but it is good, because it causes you to overcome yourself, your own little self that you went to bed with the night before
• this is a question of courage, and how to muster courage not to be less than I could be 
• have to be mature and have to trust yourself, trust that things will work out in the sense of being optimistic, trusts in the underlying beauty of the Spokane community; trusts his intuition--he has a feeling that he can continue going up and climbing the tree;  even in the face of risk,
• what comes from this is a sense of appreciation
• moved to the 5 dollar bill 
• he is aware of the possible consequences that would come from lashing out
• jupiter and earth he can hold multiple perspectives
• sad, funny and touching; he is trying to stay positive
• in tune: money smelled like fear and failure and booze--he understands his dad's life while he knows he doesn't want to be that
• grandma's tolerance helps him not hate his father--the grandma was like the top of the tree
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