For Wednesday, after having read Douglas’s essay, find some examples of alternative representations of women in the media online and post them to your blog. By alternative I mean to say representations that challenge the predominant logic of the female body in the meida that Douglas discusses in her essay. Explain where you found the [...]
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Assignment for Susan Douglas “Narcissism and Liberation”
Published September 26th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 4 CommentsDue dates: first draft due 9/25/06, second draft due 9/27/06 All work must be composed and revised in your wiki page for the second paper (i.e. Jim Groom’s second paper” link). You may choose one of the following options: 1. For this assignment you will need to take a trip to the National Gallery of [...]
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Keep the final draft of paper #1 within the “First paper” link
Published September 17th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 2 CommentsDo we post our finished essay under our first essay link, or do we create another “Allison C’s finished essay” type of link? I expect you to be doing all of your writing and revising for each paper within one specific wiki, i.e., first essay page, second essay page, etc.. I will be showing a [...]
As promised, here are the details for the final draft of the first paper. The paper should be a minimum of 1500 words (since we are composing in the wiki we will not frame our length in page numbers) I will comment on your first drafts by Friday evening within the discussion page for your [...]
In preparation for your trip to the National Gallery of Art, I would ask you to “network” with one another about possibly car pooling up to DC, feel free to use the comments here to get the discussion and planning started (thank you, Varin!). Otherwise, Amtrak and the VRE do go to Washington DC from [...]
Formatting the wiki for first paper draft
Published September 12th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsBe sure to create a new wiki page where you have your blog url stored and title it as follows: “Your first name last initial first paper” (for example Jim G’s first paper). Please put the text from your blog within this new page that you have created -I want you to do all your [...]
I would like to thank Kristen G. and Krysta for adding the notes they took during the last two meetings to the class wiki. Now it is everyone else’s turn to give a little something back to the community! I would like each of you to add you own thoughts, recollections and responses to these [...]
In preparation for Wednesday’s class I would like each of you to do the following: Copy the text from your blog post wherein you discussed representations of a liberal arts college experience and paste it into a page on the class wiki. Copy this into a new wiki page titled “First Essay” “Your first name [...]
Second reading questions to be posted by Sunday evening
Published September 9th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsPlease keep in mind that the second reading questions assigned for Walker Percy‘s “The Loss of the Creature” (which can be found in your text) are to be posted in your blog by Sunday evening so that I have ample time to read and comment on your work.
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