Essex is closed tomorrow. Email me all papers. We are not meeting on Friday.

Essex is closed tomorrow. Email me all final papers.

Grades will be up next week. I'll be on campus all next week.

Soconnel@essex.edu 

Wednesday and Thursday Meet in 1137

Just a reminder that I'll be in my office today (Wednesday) from 9-12 to look over your drafts for the final paper.

AND

The papers are due tomorrow...also in my office from 9-12.

  Thursday is our last day. 

If we are closed because of the weather, email papers to soconnel@essex.edu.

The Allegory of the Cave" and The Truman Show

Here are some sources that will help. Remember to treat Truman and the man who leaves the cave as similar characters. They experience the same “awakening.” So you use a source on Plato to talk about Truman.

http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm

https://philpapers.org/s/Allegory_of_the_cave

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/text-to-text-platos-allegory-of-the-cave-and-in-the-cave-philosophy-and-addiction/comment-page-1/

https://philosophynow.org/issues/32/The_Truman_Show

http://www.joanmaragall.com/fronesis/3/lletres_i_pensament/science/cculture.html

Relation to The Truman Show:
The Truman Show is repeating a story that dozens of other works of popular fiction have used for decades. It is a story that reveals an essential truth about what is happening to society in the 20th Century.
What is that truth? In part, it is about how the media and corporations have begun to surround us with a universe of illusions. From their high-tech control centers, they increasingly script and stage-manage events, creating the danger that we will find ourselves living inside seamless works of theater that we mistake for the world.
Like dozens of characters before him in other works of fiction, the hero in The Truman Show goes on a journey to escape this realm of smoke and mirrors. And then he discovers something unexpected -- what he believed was an open horizon and a way out, is really a wall (http://www.transparencynow.com/truman.htm).

ENG 102 ESSAY #2*** DUE THURSDAY Jan 4

I’ll be in my office from 9-11:30 on Wednesday Jan 3 to go over the paper with you!

2- 3 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED, SIZE 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN

USE TWO OUTSIDE SOURCES (NOT INCLUDING THE TEXT!) AND QUOTE THE PRIMARY TEXTS AS WELL.

Refer to the class blog for outside source info: eng102winter17.blogspot.com

Pick ONE of the essay topics below for your paper.  

Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

"The Temp" and "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" and Edward Scissorhands

1)      Discuss the effects of Magical Stranger in Literature as seen in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands. Use at least two of these texts to display how a “magical stranger” comes into the lives of these people and changes how they look at themselves. Outside sources on different cultures would help answer this question.

2)      We also discussed the importance society places on appearance when discussing "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands. Use an example from at least two of these texts to explain how appearance played a role in their stories while discussing how important it is in today’s world

3)      Use the sources on the blog that discuss office culture to explain how the office workers were positively influenced by the temp. What was it like before she got that? How did the workers feel about their jobs before and after? Why do people sometimes feel like this about their jobs?

“The Allegory of the Cave” and The Truman Show

4)      Compare Truman from The Truman Show and the prisoner that is freed to view the outside world. Talk about how they were both “imprisoned,” achieved freedom through knowledge and what ends up happening to them.

5)      Discuss three symbols (the sun, the cave, the chains, the outside world, the prisoners…to name a few) and explain what they may represent and their importance in “The Allegory of the Cave.”

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", "The Sisterhood of the Night" and The Village

6)      One of the central themes found in “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” The Sisterhood of the Night,” and The Village is groupthink. Using at least TWO of these stories or film to explain how it played a role in each story. Refer to the blog for outside sources and be sure to use example from the primary texts as well as the outside sources.

7)      Our class blog has a few articles about the Salem Witch Hunt and Trials; use those (or other reliable outside sources on the topic) to compare any similarities you see in “The Sisterhood of the Night.” It is often referred to as an updated version of the Salem Witch Hunt. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

8)      Pick a few symbols from “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, “The Sisterhood of the Night” and The Village to explain how the stories address tradition and/or the idea of groupthink. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

9)      Using ““The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,”can you think if any analogy of the child in the room in our society? If so, who is the child, and who suffers at its expense?

·         DO NOT USE QUOTES IN INTRO OR CONCLUSION

·         CITE AND QUOTE TWO OUTSIDE SOURCES

·         DO NOT START OR END A PARAGRAPH WITH A QUOTE

·         MAKE SURE QUOTES ARE 4 LINES OR SHORTER

Movies get italics and “Short Stories” get quotation marks

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and "The Sisterhood of the Night"

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/opinion/david-brooks-the-child-in-the-basement.html?_r=0

http://www.tor.com/2015/11/19/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-is-beautiful-in-map-form/

http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/

http://www.teenink.com/reviews/book_reviews/article/133226/The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas-by-Ursula-K-Le-Guin/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/25/688925/-










The Sisterhood of the Night

The richest of the stories in this vein is ''The Sisterhood of Night,'' in which Millhauser adopts one of his familiar narrative voices -- the affable small-town archivist explaining some local peculiarity to an inquisitive stranger.

It seems that adolescent girls are going out at night in bands, seeking ''dark and secret places.'' Witchcraft is suspected, and also various unspeakable sexual perversions. ''What shall we do with our daughters?'' is the refrain of the adults. ''Tell us! we cry, our voices shrill with love. Tell us everything! Then we will forgive you.'' When the secret is revealed, we at first suspect that a joke is being made about teen-age girls and their ways. On reflection, we discover more complex meanings, to do with privacy, sanctuary and the unknowability of other minds. It is a lovely, haunting story, whose apparent simplicity masks its true depth.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/10/reviews/980510.10mcgratt.html

Links about film:

http://www.thesisterhoodofnight-movie.com/

About the Salem Witch Trials:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-the-salem-witch-trials/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6i&linkId=44074522

Interview with the author:

http://transatlantica.revues.org/562

Salem Witch Trials/Hunt:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.html

http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html

Edward Scissorhands

https://youtu.be/ajowVY7kLsQ

"The Temp" and "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"

"The Temp" and "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"

The Importance of appearance:
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/the-importance-of-appearances-man-dresses-as-homeless-man-to-prove-nobody-would-help-him-video/592301/

http://www.ridingthetiger.org/2013/03/19/the-importance-of-appearance/

http://www.byui.edu/Documents/Admin_Offices/Advising/PowerOfPersonalAppearance.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/a-facial-theory-of-politics.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/appearances-mean-nothing-or-everything/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/fashion/26looks.html?pagewanted=all&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

Office Culture:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/opinion/sunday/why-you-hate-work.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_WYH_20140602&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=3

http://www.forbes.com/sites/vickvaishnavi/2013/03/28/five-must-follow-rules-for-a-successful-office-culture/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/office-culture/

http://www.immihelp.com/newcomer/work-culture-office-environment-usa.html

https://www.themuse.com/advice/rally-the-team-how-to-create-a-cool-office-culture

Culture:

These links discuss cultural differences and also provides a number of links if you go to the bottom of the page. Use the information they provide as outside sources if you are writing your essay about this subject:http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/culture.htm

http://www.worldwide.edu/travel_planner/culture_shock.html

http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/view/4510

Here is one on the effects of culture shock:http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=effects+culture+shock&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=tIk6T-mJBaLn0QHXj5GXCw&ved=0CBoQgQMwAA

Links for "The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World":

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=THE+HANDSOMEST+DROWNED+MAN+IN+THE+WORLD&as_sdt=1%2C31&as_sdtp=

This week we will look at “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, “The Temp” and Edward Scissorhands in class. All three of these stories contain individuals that become part of a community in some way and have profound effects of the people. In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” it is a corpse that washes ashore that gives the townspeople a new way of looking at their lives, in “The Temp” it is a temp hired in an office that changes the atmosphere of the wor enviroment and in Edward Scissorhands it is a unique young man that forces a rather boring town to see how boring and judgmental they really are. This week pay attention to what these “magical strangers” force the people in the stories to look at it in their lives.