AP Language/Literature & Composition Syllabus 2008-2009 Note: This year is a transitional year at our school in which this single AP course will strive to prepare seniors for both the AP Literature and AP Language exams. In the 2009-2010 academic year, the Literature course will be offered at the junior level and the Language course at the senior level. I have listed many options for nonfiction readings in each unit. We will not have time to read all of them, but will explore as many as time
Dylan Holt Per.2 4/27/2011 Huckleberry Finn Essay Since its release in 1885, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been the center of a major controversy. When this book was written the slave trade was a huge part of everyday life and little did the society of that time know, this book is a major step towards relieving our world of the pains of slavery. Huck Finn shows not only the major conflicts that an African American would have faced but also extreme prejudice that they faced with the
to Guantanamo Bay prison where their miraculous escape leads them on a comical journey across the United States of America to prove their innocence (www.imdb.com, retrieved 2012). While this film is a comedy, it reveals several different kinds of social and multicultural differences and outlines how these actions affect society, while using carnival meaning to convey ideas about society in a humours way. Furthermore, using ‘Harold and Kumar 2’ as an example, the culture industry theory of Theodore
Postmodernism Essay How do postmodernist composers respond to the postmodern world? Postmodernist texts reveal the unpredictable and chaotic nature of life from the perspective from the individual. These texts are a direct result of their context, completely malleable to the surrounding circumstances in which it was created. Three texts that clearly represent postmodernist media are Brazil by Terry Gilliam in 1985, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer in 2005 and also
------------------------------------------------- World Film History II ------------------------------------------------- Spanish Film History in ten films UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI Faculty of Social Sciences – Communication & Media Spanish Film History in ten Films “And now, if you forgive us, let’s talk about Spanish Films.” -Antonio Gasset How do we know a movie is properly Spanish? Is there such a thing as Spanish filmmaking? It is important to take into consideration economic
Henry Gruger English 112 Finan 10/26/14 The Pressure of Being a Man In the movie The Wizard of Oz, the Great and Powerful Oz is supposed to be considered the ultimate alpha male. He is the feared yet admired by all for his all knowingness and his ability to grant wishes. However, “The climactic scene…where Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal a nervous, tragic man pretending to be the Great and Powerful Oz represents more than just a classic moment in American cinematic history” (Katz 16)
literature: by connecting a reader or listeners’ response to a particular deadline or goal, the writer creates urgency and excitement. * References to “current crises” or impending doom: These kinds of references are prevalent in political and social campaigns. Consider for example, the large number of financial bills, laws, and investigations undertaken by legislative bodies throughout the country after the most recent economic recession. Lawmakers were responding to and taking advantage of a
TERRI J. GORDON Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature The New School E ARLY FEMINIST FILM CRITICISM focused on the representation of women as commodities, as objects of exchange and objects of the male gaze. In her groundbreaking 1975 essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey undertook a psychoanalytic reading of film, reading visual pleasure as a scopophilic pleasure, a process in which the (male) spectator abets the castration anxiety associated with the (female) object
Essays in Criticism Vol. 54 No. 2 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved Allegory in Trollope’s The Warden K. M. NEWTON ONE OF THE MOST intriguing passages in Trollope’s fiction is a description of the archdeacon’s breakfast parlour in chapter 8 of The Warden beginning ‘And now let us observe the well-furnished breakfast-parlour at Plumstead Episcopi, and the comfortable air of all the belongings of the rectory’.1 It goes on to itemise these belongings, culminating in the following:
through. Unlike most of the other characters on the show, Cartman rarely if ever shows any concern for superego. Cartman unabashedly has no sense of right or wrong, willfully hurts people for his own gratification, and cares not for the social norms and mores that guide social behavior. In several episodes, Cartman acts cruelly because it gratifies his id while ignoring his superego. As a result of his lack of conscience, Cartman does not suffer from the types of neuroses that affect other characters on
Hennessy Catholic College HSC Advanced English Module C: Representation and Text Elective 2: Conflicting Perspectives Text: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Name_____________________________ MODULE C: Representation and Text This module requires students to explore various representations of events, personalities or situations. They evaluate how medium of production, textual form, perspective and choice of language influence meaning. The study develops students’ understanding of the relationships
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO FEMINISM AND POSTFEMINISM Feminism has had a radical impact on today’s world. But now the very future of feminism is under attack. The ideas of the feminists of the 1960s and 1970s are being questioned and redefined by a younger generation of ‘postfeminists’. The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism is the perfect guidebook for finding one’s way around what has become an increasingly complex subject. Over a dozen in-depth background chapters, written by leading
English IV Table of Contents Unit 1: The Anglo-Saxon Period in English Literature 1 Unit 2: The Medieval Period 20 Unit 3: The Elizabethan Period 40 Unit 4: The Seventeenth Century: The Puritans and the Restoration 58 Unit 5: The Eighteenth Century: 79 Unit 6: The Romantic Period 96 Unit 7: The Victorian Period 114 Unit 8: The Twentieth Century and Beyond 132 Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum, Revised 2008 Course Introduction The Louisiana Department of Education
Wadsworth (Ruth Roman) and her three fatherless adult children, the youngest of whom, Baby (David Manzy) is in his twenties but still behaves like an ungainly diaper-swaddled newborn. Mrs Wadsworth’s unconventional household makes her the focus of social workers’ attention: when one of them, Ann Gentry (Anjanette Comer), expresses a particular interest in the family’s situation, nobody could guess that she might have an ulterior motive. The true seat of horror here resides not in this anti-bourgeois
The Hodgenator’s AP Language and Composition Handbook [pic] Please Note: This handbook is NOT to leave the classroom. If you wish to have your own copy, you may print it from the class website, Facebook, or Edmodo. If these are not an option for you and really want your own copy, please see Ms. Hodgens privately. Tone and Attitude Words Positive Tone/Attitude Words |Amiable |Consoling |Friendly |Playful
Content Introduction Genre Discussion Fictionalized Autobiography? Fictionalized Memoirs and Ironic Autofiction Fictional Autobiography as a Self-Analytical Tool A Moveable Feast The Shape of the Hemingway Myth The Motifs of the Hemingway Myth Hemingway’s Self-Analysis A Moveable Feast as Fictional Autobiography Lunar Park
Commission loosened the regulations regarding ownership of newspapers, radio stations, and television stations, the concentration of media in fewer and fewer hands has been accelerating. From thousands of independent media outlets in the mid-twentieth century, media ownership dropped to only fifty companies by 1983. By late 2004, approximately 90 percent of all media companies in the United States were controlled by just five companies: Time Warner (Warner Bros., Time, Inc., HBO, CNN, etc.), Disney
overcome adversity? SAC Conditions and Criteria Unit 1 English Assessment Task 1 Area of Study One: Reading and Responding. In this task, you must write a written text response to The Book Thief. CONDITIONS: • You will be given the essay questions in the week before the SAC, and you will be allowed to bring in a one page, handwritten sheet of notes. • Please arrive promptly to class, ready to begin on time. • You may bring in your copy of The Book
Fahrenheit 451 (disambiguation). Fahrenheit 451 First edition cover Author Ray Bradbury Illustrator Joe Pernaciaro and Joseph Mugnaini Country United States Language English Genre Dystopian novel Publisher Ballantine Books Publication date 1953 Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Pages 179 pp ISBN ISBN 978-0-7432-4722-1 (current cover edition) OCLC Number 53101079 Dewey Decimal 813.54 22 LC Classification PS3503.R167 F3 2003 Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury published
history of the play and novel, and how this has been addressed in modern adaptations Allison McCarthy, 19 April 2009 In a world rife with contradictions, here's one that still surprises me: I'm a feminist with a not-so-secret penchant for the many media adaptations of Peter Pan. The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was a revival of the 1953 Walt Disney cartoon Peter Pan. A few years later, when I was old enough to read, my dad gave me an illustrated edition of the book. The book's spine is