I WILL NOT BE ON CAMPUS TOMORROW! SEE BELOW

Hello Class,

I will not be on campus tomorrow because I have to attend another funeral. Your class folder is outside my office (1137). Each folder is labeled. Just find your class and your papers will be in that folder. Below is the remaining schedule:

Thursday 12/5

Meet in my office (1137 in the Red Area) from 11-2 for any help with the final paper.

Next Week

Monday 12/9-Wednesday 12/11

Meet in my office (1137 in the Red Area) from 11-2 for any help with the final paper.

Thursday 12/12

Meet in my office (1137 in the Red Area) from 11-2 to HAND IN PAPER (NO MORE HELP!)

Trump and Gatsby

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/how-the-great-gatsby-explains-trump/562673/

More on The Great Gatsby

Ted talk from class:

https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_piff_does_money_make_you_mean

This links provide many articles and resources for The Great Gatsby:

http://reading.cornell.edu/reading_project_06/gatsby/great_gatsby_resources.htm

http://www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/resources/critical-materials.html

Some more helpful links: 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/10/great-gatsby-fitzgerald-jay-mcinerney

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/achenblog/wp/2015/03/20/why-the-great-gatsby-is-the-great-american-novel/?utm_term=.d4153c7d759f

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-great-gatsby-f-scott-fitzgerald-hl-mencken-20141010-story.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karielle-stephanie-gam/the-great-gatsby-analysis_b_3430967.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/04/to-early-reviewers-the-great-gatsby-was-not-so-great/390252/


1) In Defense of The Great Gatsby

2) Do Americans Get Second Chances

3) Gatsby's Green Light a New Set of Strivers

The Great Gatsby

Taking a few mintues to read some background information on the author will enhance your understanding of the text.

Here are a few quotes to also think about from the text:
 “ Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (1).

“”a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock” (22).

”He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself” (48).

“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (60).

Article from class today on the green light:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/education/17gatsby.html?referrer=&_r=1

and one on the American Dream:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-usa-land-of-limitations.html?referrer=&_r=1

This article is about Jay Gatsby as a dreamer:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/books/review/jesmyn-ward-great-gatsby.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

The Great Gatsby Video Games from the 1980s:

http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/the_great_gatsby_and_waiting_for_godot_the_video_game_editions.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woJqbb7UIiA
This link discusses some random facts about the novel and the writer:

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/07/gatsby_facts.php

The Wire breaks down The Great Gatsby (There is some strong language here):

http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ithe_wirei_breaks_down_ithe_great_gatsbyi_f_scott_fitzgeralds_classic_criticism_of_america_nsfw.html

Footage of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/rare_footage_of_scott_and_zelda_fitzgerald_from_the_1920s.html


http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=the%20great%20gatsby

Symbols in the novel:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a672/4ad31b539d6b1d2dcedf4170e59b4ba3a390.pdf

Race and The Great Gatsby:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/rise-of-the-colored-empires/276844/

https://www.uscupstate.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Undergraduate_Research/Reseach_Journal/006_ARTICLE5_2009.pdf

http://flavorwire.com/391193/the-complicated-and-troubling-role-of-race-and-class-in-baz-luhrmanns-Gatsby

https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/why-i-believe-that-jay-gatsby-was-black/153166.article

Beasts of the Southern Wild

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/08/what-beasts-of-the-southern-wild-really-says/261228/

https://academic.oup.com/isle/article/25/3/603/5106400

https://beastsofthesouthernwild.com/news/lessons-learned


https://ransomfellowship.org/movie-comment-beasts-of-the-southern-wild-2012/


https://www.patheos.com/blogs/schaeffersghost/2013/02/what-are-the-beasts-of-the-southern-wild/

No Class Tuesday Oct 22

Hi Class,

My car got towed this morning and I have to find out where it was towed to.

We’ll catch up on Thursday.

Salvage the Bones Sources

Salvage the Bones Sources

Videos form Class:

https://www.voa.org/hurricane-katrina-the-aftermath-and-recovery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc72DrF5Kx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HPT5PuHtqg


Salvage the Bones Sources

https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2011-dec-04-la-ca-jesmyn-ward-20111204-story.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/11/salvage-bones-jesmyn-ward-review

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/11/jesmyn-wards-haunted-novel-of-the-gulf-coast

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/08/30/jesmyn-ward-on-salvage-the-bones/

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=143141874

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/jesmyn-ward/

https://apublicspace.org/news/detail/reading-jesmyn-wards-salvage-the-bones