Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Picking Essays from Signs of Life

For Friday, I'd like you all to skim/scan, etc. the Table of Contents in Signs of Life in the USA. We're going to be reading five essays from this text as sample academic essays. But, since this is your class, not mine, I'm not going to pick the essays. I want you all to pick them as a class. Of course, you can't read all the essays in order to decide which ones we'd like to study and discuss as a class. However, read the titles in the Table of Contents, and when one looks interesting to you, go to the page where the essay starts because each essay has a short italicized blurb before the essay starts that gives information about the author and what the essay will be about. Next, here on the blog, list five essays that you think you'd like to read. Number them 1-5, 1 being the essay that you would MOST like to read. From your responses, I'll then begin seeing what topics/themes etc. emerge that the class as a whole seems to care about the most and we'll decide on the essays from there.
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20 comments:

  1. Kresten BrownAugust 26, 2009 at 4:40 PM

    ok here they are...

    1. Revelution is U.S. (pg. 157)
    2. High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies (pg. 396)
    3. Average Gamers Please Step Forward (pg. 465)
    4. Metrosexuals Come Out (pg. 217)
    5. The Thematic Paradigm (pg. 342)

    but honestly i am up for reading any of them. my feelings wont be hurt if we don't read mine. lol

    --Kresten

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  2. Ben DussouyAugust 26, 2009 at 6:36 PM

    1. Creating The Myth
    2. Super Hero Worship
    3. The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life
    4. Revolution is U.S.
    5. What's in a Package

    -Ben Dussouy

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  3. BecAugust 26, 2009 at 9:08 PM

    1. The More Factor
    2. High-School Confidential: Notes On Teen Movies
    3. Revolution Is U. S.
    4. Class and Virtue
    5. Being an Other

    -Rebecca Griggs

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  4. UnknownAugust 27, 2009 at 6:24 AM

    1. Multitasking State of Mind
    2. Enough About You
    3. Trailer Rhetoric
    4. Commodify Your Dissent
    5. South Park and the Open Society

    -Kevin Plath

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  5. Jordan CrawfordAugust 27, 2009 at 10:18 AM

    1. A moral Never-Never Land: Identifying with Tony Soprano
    2. South Park and the Open Society
    3. So You Wanna Be a Gangsta?
    4. Superhero Worship
    5. Fox News attempts to Get Funny

    -Jordan Crawford

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  6. Shawn MAugust 27, 2009 at 10:58 AM

    1. Trailer Rhetoric
    2. Superhero Worship
    3. Creating the Myth
    4. South Park and the Open Society
    5. The Thematic Paradigm

    -Shawn Mitchel

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  7. AnonymousAugust 27, 2009 at 11:17 AM

    1. Superhero Worship
    2. Creating the Myth
    3. Multitasking State of Mind
    4. The More Factor
    5. So You Wanna Be a Gangsta?

    -Andrew Hubert

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  8. UnknownAugust 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM

    1. The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life
    2. South Park and the Open Society
    3. Gender Roles Behaviors and attitudes
    4. Superhero Worship
    5. So You Wanna be a Gangsta?

    -Raffeal Bennett

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  9. Brandon R.August 27, 2009 at 3:23 PM

    These are not actually in any particular order.

    1. South Park and the Open Society
    2. Free Speech and Censorship in Online Communities
    3. A Stand Against Wikipedia
    4. Blind Spot
    5. A Moral Never-Never Land: Identifying with Tony Soprano

    -- Brandon Ross

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  10. UnknownAugust 27, 2009 at 3:39 PM

    1. Superhero Worship
    2. The Gender Blur: Where Does Biology End and Society Take Over?
    3. Homosexuality on Television: The Heterosexualization of Will mand Grace
    4.I Won, I'm Sorry
    5. The Famine Mystique

    -Nicole Bekemeier

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  11. Nicholas RogerAugust 27, 2009 at 4:14 PM

    1. South Park and the Open Society
    2. The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the meaning of life.
    3. The New Sexual Stone Age
    4. So You Want To Be a Gangsta?
    5. Superhero Worship

    -Nicholas Roger

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  12. UnknownAugust 27, 2009 at 5:42 PM

    1. Homosexuality on Television: The Heterosexualization of Will and Grace
    2. Superhero Worship
    3. High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies
    4. Trailor Rhetoric
    5. So You Want to be a Gangsta?

    -Katie Clark

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  13. Erin KingAugust 27, 2009 at 5:44 PM

    1. There is no Unmarked Woman
    2. Beauty and the Battle
    3. The Science of Shopping
    4. So You Wanna Be a Gangsta?
    5. Boys-R-Us: Board Games and Socialization of Adolescent girls

    Erin King

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  14. UnknownAugust 27, 2009 at 5:47 PM

    1. Men's Men and Women's Women
    2. The New Sexual Stone Age
    3. Gender Roles Behaviors and attitudes
    4. Fox News attempts to Get Funny
    5. Superhero Worship

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  15. g.bursavichAugust 27, 2009 at 6:05 PM

    Alright guys..I am just going to have to trust that you picked good essays because I couldn't find the book. I just went to the Co-Op to pick my essays and they were out. Maybe I can find the book tomorrow at the student union and submit my choices late.

    - George Bursavich

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  16. UnknownAugust 27, 2009 at 6:21 PM

    1. So You Want To Be a Gangsta?
    2. Superhero Worship
    3. The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the meaning of life.
    4. I Won, I'm Sorry
    5. South Park and the Open Society

    -Erik Ross

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  17. UnknownAugust 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM

    1. South Park and the open society
    2. One Nation: Slightly Divisible
    3. The Thematic Paradigm
    4. Moral Never Never Land: Identifying with Tony Soprano
    5. Game Theoryies

    -Evan Ledet

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  18. AnonymousAugust 27, 2009 at 6:34 PM

    1. South Park and the open society
    2.Average Gamers Please-Step Forward
    3. The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life
    4. Superhero Worship
    5. Game Theoryies

    Joey Busbice

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  19. Christian OrnelasAugust 27, 2009 at 8:36 PM

    1. Multitasking State of Mind
    2. South Park and the Open Society
    3. Superhero Worship
    4. Game Theoryies
    5. The New Sexual Stone Age

    Christian Ornelas

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  20. AnonymousAugust 27, 2009 at 8:49 PM

    1. Homosexuality on Television: The Heterosexualization of Will and Grace
    2. Men's Men and Women's Women
    3. So You Wanna be a Gangsta?
    4. Revolution is U.S.
    5. South Park and Open Society

    -amanda meyer

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