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ASSIGNMENT |
DUE DATE |
12/02/08
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Final Exam
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TUESDAY, 12/09/08
10:00 a.m.--turn in your final essay--in my office AS27
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Tentative
readings for the semester are listed below. Please note
that readings may be added and/or omitted as needed per the instructor's
discretion.
THE
ROLE CUSTOMS PLAY IN DIFFERENT CULTURES:
"Hidden
Culture" and "Keeping a Reading Journal"
pages 6-12
"Kimono"
pages 481-487
"Too
Many Bananas" pages
432-439
"China
Chic: East Meets West" pages 488-494
"The
Little Emperors"
pages 75-85
"The
Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead"
pages 408-415
"The
Myth of the Latin Woman"
pages 158-163
"A
Look Behind the Veil"
pages 183-189
"The
Circumcision of Girls"
pages 164-175
"Decolonising the Mind" pages 418 - 424
HOW
CULTURE DETERMINES THE WAYS WE TREAT EACH OTHER:
"The
Button" pages 320 - 325
"Nickel
and Dimed" pages 222-242.
"One
Broken Fuel Pump Away From Disaster" (Handout)
"What
Prompts Humans to Commit Inhuman Acts" (Handout)
"The
Man He Killed" (Poem--Handout)
"Gregory"
pages 367 - 371
"Daisy"
pages 353-358
"Night" by Elie Wiesel (memoir, book,--available at the MAC bookstore, Wal-Mart, etc.)
"The
Geneva Convention" (Handout)
"Stockholm
Syndrome" (Handout)
"The World's Ten Worst Dictators" (Handout)
"Cairo
Is a Small City"
AND.
. . a few other poems/stories to be announced.
FAMILY:
THE SMALLEST UNIT OF CULTURE
Whale
Rider A film from New Zealand
"Desiree's
Baby" 301- 305
"The
Story of an Hour" (I will hand out this short story)
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wallpaper.html)
{URL for "The Yellow Wallpaper" may be updated as need be.)
A
chronology of important American authors (handout)
MOTHERS:
"The Fire" and "The Kitten," excerpts from
Richard Wright's Black Boy (handout)
FATHERS:
"Father"
by Jan Gray (handout)
"Reunion"
46 - 48
"Daddy"
(poem--handout)
FAMILY DYNAMICS
"A
Family Supper" (handout)
WRAPPING
UP THE SEMESTER:
Chocolat
A film
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