Music for Tuesday

Hey all,

Ok, here's the music for this Tuesday's class.  There are two songs, Nina Simone's composition "Mississippi Goddamn" (from 1964) and John Coltrane's piece "Alabama" (from 1963).  Both were written as partial responses to actual events, most notably Medgar Evers' murder and the 16th St. Baptist Church bombing (which killed four little girls) in Birmingham.  Please follow the links to read about them!

If you want to download the songs and lyrics to your computer, click here.

Otherwise, music and lyrics are after the jump (if this still doesn't work for people, please let me know)...

Style, Exercise 6.2

1. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the tale of King Lear and his daughters was a popular one. By Elizabeth's death, at least a dozen books offered iterations of the story to anyone seeking it. With a simple narrative and obvious moral, the characters were underdeveloped in most versions of the story. Shakespeare must have had several versions of the story available to him when he began work on Lear. Even though his characters were based on stock figures of legend, he turned them into credible human beings with complex motives.

2. The issue at hand is whether management's "duty to disclose" during contract bargaining includes disclosing the date an operation intends to close down. Management should bargain in good faith to minimize conflict even though case law is scant on this matter. Companies are obligated to disclose major changes in operation during bargaining in order to allow the union to put forth proposals on behalf of its members.

3. The most important event in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is Athens' catastrophic Sicilian Invasion which required three-quarters of the history to set up. Thucydides' anticipation of the invasion is demonstrated by his step-by-step description of the decline in Athenian society. We anticipate the invasion as inevitable because we have associated it with the tragic drama of decline.

4. The current hypothesis explaining the severe condition of altered mucosal and vascular permeability is of a toxin elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence favoring this hypothesis is found in changed capillaries located near the basal surface of epithelial cells and the appearance of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. The altered capillary permeability is key to the hydrodynamic transport of fluid into the interstitial tissue and then through the mucosa into the lumen of the gut.

5. Changes in revenues are as follows. In the Ohio and Kentucky areas, from July 1-August 31, an increase to $56,792 from $32,934 was realized, a net increase of approximately 73%. In the same period there was an increase of $15,370, from $153,281 to $168,651, in the Indiana and Illinois areas - an increase of 10 percent. A decrease in the Wisconsin and Minnesota regions occurred in almost the same period of time, to $190,580 from $200,102, or 5 percent.

-Justin Lin

Exercise 6.2

1. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the story of King Lear and his daughters was a popular story. By the time Elizabeth died, there were at least a dozen books that offered the story to anyone wishing to read it. However, even though the story was a simple narrative that stated obvious morals, the character were undeveloped in most of these stories. While writing perhaps his greatest tragedy, King Lear, Shakespeare must have had several versions of the story available to him. However, even though his story was based on the stock figures of legend, he turned the characters into credible human begins with complex motives.

2. It would appear that the issue here is whether the date an operation intends to close down might be part of management’s “duty to disclose” during contract bargaining. The central rationale for the duty that management has to bargain on good faith with is for the minimization of conflict. Although the case law is scanty on this matter, companies are obliged to disclose major changes in an operation during bargaining in order to put forth proposals on behalf of its members.

3. An important event in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War was Athens’ catastrophic Sicilian Invasion. Due to this reason, three-quarters of the history is devoted to setting up the invasion. We can see how he chose to anticipate the Sicilian through the step-by-step decline in Athenian society. The basic reason for the need to anticipate the invasion is the inevitability that we associate the tragic of drama.

4. A kind of severe condition is defined by the mucosal and vascular permeability altered a toxin elaborated by the vibrio. The hypothesis is favored because there are changes in small capillaries located near the basal surface of the epithelial cells and the appearance of numerous micro vesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. It is believed that hydrodynamic transport of fluid into the interstitial tissue and then through the mucosa into the lumen of the gut depends on altered capillary permeability.

5. In the Ohio and Kentucky areas from July 1-August 31, there was an increase to $56,792 from $34,934. There was also a 10 percent increase of $15,370, from $153,281 to $268,651 in the same period in the Indiana and Illinois areas. However, in almost the same period of time, there was a decrease to $190,580 from $200,102, or 5%.

6.2

1. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the story of King Lear and his daughters was a popular one. By the time Elizabeth died, at least a dozen available books offered the story to anyone wishing to read it. The story was a simple narrative that stated an obvious moral, due to the fact that the characters were undeveloped in most of these stories. When he began work on Lear, perhaps his greatest tragedy, Shakespeare must have had several versions of this story available to him. Even though they were based on the stock figures of legend, he turned the charaters into credible human beings with complex motives.
2. The date an operation intends to close down might be part of management's "duty to disclose" during contract bargaining would appear, whether it is an issue here or not. The central rationale for the duty that management has to bargain in good faith is the minimization of conflict. Companies are obligated to disclose major changes in an operation during bargaining, in order to allow the union to put forth proposals on behalf of its members, though the case law is scanty on this matter.
3. The most important event in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is Athens' catastrophic Sicilian Invasion. Because of this, three-quarters of the history is devoted to setting up the invasion. Through the step-by-step decline in Athenian society that Thucydides describes, we can see how he chose to anticipate the Sicilian Invasion. The basic reason for the need to anticipate the invasion is the inevitability that we associate with the tragic drama.
4. A current hypothesis to explain mucosal and vascular permeability is the alteration by a toxin elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence in favor of this hypothesis include changes in small capillaries located near the basal surface of the epithelial cells, and the appearnace of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. It is believed that hydrodynamic trasport of fluid into the interstitial tissue and then through the mucosa into the lumen depends on altered capillary permeability.
5. Changes in revenues are as follows. The Ohio and Kentucky areas saw an increase from $32, 934 to $56, 792, a net increase of approximately 73 percent, from July 1-August 31. In the Indiana and Illinois areas there was in the same period an incrase of $15,370, from $153,281, to $169, 651, a 10 percent incrase. However, in the Wisconsin and Minnesota regions in almost the same period of time, there was a decrease from $200,102 to $190,580, a 5 percent decrease.

Exercise 6.2 - Daniel Lee

1. During Queen Elizabeth's reign, the story of King Lear and his daughters was so popular that, by the time Queen Elizabeth died, the story was available in at least a dozen books. However, most of these stories were simple narratives which had underdeveloped characters and an obvious moral. Several versions of this story must have been available to Shakespeare when he began work on Lear, perhaps his greatest tragedy. Even though Shakespeare's characters were based on the stock figures of legend, he turned them into credible human beings with complex motives.

2. It would appear that the issue is whether the management has a "duty to disclose" the date an operation intends to close down during contract bargaining. The management has to bargain in good faith to minimize conflict. Though the case law is scanty, companies are obligated to disclose major changes in an operation during bargaining in order to allow the union to put forth proposals on behalf of its members.

3. The most important event in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is Athens' catastrophic Sicilian Invasion. As a result, three-quarters of the history is devoted to setting up the invasion. We can see how Thucydides anticipates the Sicilian Invasion through the step-by-step decline in Athenian society. We need to anticipate the invasion in order to associate inevitability with the tragic drama.

4. It is currently hypothesized that mucosal and vascular permeability is altered by a toxin that is elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence favoring this hypothesis include changes in small capillaries located near the basal surface of the epithelial cells and the appearance of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. Altered capillary permeability is also believed to depend on the hydrodynamic transport of fluid, first flowing into the interstital tissue and later making its way through the muocsa and into the lumen of the gut.

5. From July 1-August 31, revenue changes are as follows: Ohio and Kentucky went up 73 percent, from $32,934 to $56,792; Indiana and Illinois went up 10 percent, from $153,281 to $168,651; Wisconsin and Minnesota went down 5 percent, from $200,102 to $190,580.

Paper Topics, Essay #2

As promised:

Rhetoric 1A, second essay prompts

Drafts of this paper are due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, November 2, and final versions are due at 4pm on Monday, November 8 in the box in front of 7408 Dwinelle. Both your draft and your final version should be 5-6 pages long, and should employ standard formatting (double-spaced, 12pt Times New Roman or equivalent, standard margins, etc).

Choose one of the topics below, or feel free to make up your own.  These topics are means only to be rough guidelines here to help you direct your thinking; we encourage you to use them as starting points, rather than prescriptions to be rigidly adhered to.

1. Our discussion of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” addressed numerous themes that work their way through the book.  Among these one might include (but would certainly not be limited to): judgment and the idea of God; the relationship between inside and outside; speech, silence and multi-vocality; individual identity vs. communal identity; animality; figurative language and its relation to selfhood; play; men’s ways of knowing and being vs. women’s.  In your paper, take a single theme from the book (this may be one of the above or anything else you’ve noticed), describe how it plays out in the book, and make an argument about what that theme means for the book as a whole.  While doing so will likely necessitate your looking at at least two moments in the book, you want to make sure that your paper doesn’t just note that these two moments exist and that they help elaborate one of the main ideas of the book; you want to make sure that your paper makes a claim about what the moments or the idea you’re examining help us see or understand about the book as a whole that isn’t available upon initial or superficial reading.

2. In our discussions of the 'vernacular' one phenomena that has come up repeatedly has been artists’ having created a variation of another work as a mode of reply or response to it.  We’ve seen this strategy at work in Hughes’ response to Whitman, Jimi Hendrix’s reading of “The Star Spangled Banner,” Aretha Franklin’s reworking of Otis Redding’s composition, and even, perhaps, Nina Simone’s modification of the generic Broadway show tune.  Write a paper that addresses this idea of variation as response, using one or more of the above examples, or another pairing that fits.  As usual, you don’t just want to note that one artist uses another’s work as the opportunity for response, but to use the pairing to engage some deeper questions about the nature of the reworking you’re examining and the questions it raises.  To what extent, for example, do these variations on more canonical poems or songs express a style that is independent and original, as opposed to one that is merely parasitic?  What does this strategy of variation accomplish that a more “original” piece of art can’t (if anything)?  Are these artists of 'response' simply rebelling against established cultural ideas, or are they also preserving them in some way, and if so, why does this sort of preservation matter, at least as the works you’re examining see it?

3. Both "The Old People" and "A Rose for Emily" have endings that radically alter our perception of events that occur throughout narration of the story. Strange or perplexing details make sense in light of the endings of these stories, giving us a sense of resolution and understanding that can only come retrospectively, as it were. This is one of many strategies Faulkner uses to vary the linear sequence of narration, so as to change our experience of time. Through a comparison of these two stories, and by using specific scenes and examples, discuss how Faulkner engages themes of time, repetition and memory through his form (the way the story is organized).  If possible, try to relate these ideas of time to the thematic content of the stories – blood ties and family, heritage, melancholic clinging to the past, ghosts, identity, etc. 

Exercise 6.2

1. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the story of King Lear and his daughters was popular. By the time Elizabeth died, at least a dozen books included the story. However, most of these versions were simple narratives with obvious morals and undeveloped characters. When Shakespeare was writing King Lear, he must have used several versions of the story. Working from these simple stories, he transformed the stock figures of legend into credible, complex human beings.

2. The issue at question is whether the management's “duty to disclose” during contract bargaining includes the date an operation is intended to close down. The management must bargain in good faith in order to minimize conflict. For this reason, companies are obliged to disclose major changes in the operation, even though the law is unclear on the matter, so that unions can make proposals that are beneficial for union members.

3. The most important event in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is Athens' catastrophic Sicilian invasion, so three quarters of the book is sent setting it up. Thucydides' anticipates this invasion by his description of the step-by-step decline in Athenian society. This anticipation is necessary to create the inevitability of tragic drama.

4. Currently, this condition is thought to be caused when mucosal and vascular permeability is altered by a toxin elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence for this hypothesis is provided by changes in small capillaries located near the basal surface of the epithelial cells, and the appearance of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. The altered capillary permeability is believed to increase hydrodynamic transport of fluid into the interstitial tissue, and then through the mucosa into the lumen of the gut.

5. Changes in revenue are as follows. In the Ohio and Kentucky areas, from July 1-August 31, revenue increased from $32,934 to $56,792, a net increase of 73%. In the Indiana and Illinois areas over the same period revenue increased from $153,281 to $168651, a net increase of 10%. However, the Wisconsin and Minnesota regions had a decrease in revenue over the same period, from $200,102 to $190,580, a net decrease of 5%.

   
   

   -Andrew Lampinen

A rose for Emily

Hey, i just came across these 2 songs which are adapted from A rose for emily..The first one is "A rose for emily" by the Zombies and the the second one is "To the end" by My Chemical Romance..Just thought I had let you guys know..

The Old People

The Old People

A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily

Hey can someone please remind me what assignment is due for tomorrow? Thanks!

Music for Thursday

Hey all,

So here are the two songs we'll be listening to and talking about on Thursday.  This song was written by Otis Redding in 1965, and became a big hit for him, but was then redone by Aretha Franklin in 1967, and became an enormous hit for her.  Enjoy!

Please download, print out, read and bring to class the lyric sheet HERE.

If you want to download the songs to your computer, you can click HERE.

Otis Redding - "Respect"


Aretha Franklin - "Respect"


-Ben

Ex 5.3

1. 1.Though modern mass communication offers many advantages, it also proposes many threats. If it were controlled by a powerful minority, it could manipulate public opinion through biased reporting. And while it provides us with knowledge of public affairs through its national coverage, it may accentuate divisiveness and factionalism by connecting otherwise isolated, local conflicts into a larger conflict when it shows us conflicts about the same issue occurring in different places. It will always be true that human nature produces differences of opinion, but the media may reinforce the threat of faction and division when it publishes uninformed opinion in national coverage. According to some, media can suppress faction through education when it communicates the true nature of conflicts, but history has shown that the media give as much coverage to people who encourage conflict as to people who remove it.

2. 2. After Peter the great, seven of eight reigns of the Romanov line were plagued by some sort of palace revolt or popular revolution. In 1722, when the principal of heredity was terminated by Peter, achievement by merit became the basis of succession. As a result many tsars, including Peter, did not appoint a successor before dying. When Ivan VI was appointed by Czarina Anna, he was less than two months old. Anna was defeated by the daughter of Peter the great, Elizabeth, who ascended the throne in 1741. Boyars regularly disputed who was to become sovereign because succession was not dependent upon authority. In 1797 when Paul 1, codified the law of succession, male primogeniture became the law. One of the conspirators, one of whom was his son, Alexander 1, strangled him.

3. 3.When Truman considered the Oppenheimer committee’s recommendation to stop the hydrogen bomb project, he had to consider many issues. Russia and China had just proclaimed a Sino-Soviet bloc, so one issue he had to face was the Cold War. He was also losing support for his foreign policy among republican leaders in Congress, and when the Russians tested their first atom bomb, the public demanded that he should respond strongly. It was inevitable that Truman had to conclude that he could not let the public think he had allowed Russia to be first in developing the most powerful weapon yet. In retrospect, according to some historians, Truman should have risked taking the Oppenheimer recommendation, but he had to face political issues that were too powerful to ignore.

Discussion Topic!

This doesn't really have much to do with the actual class, but I just wanted to ask people about their opinions on this statement:

All people deserve to live; not all people deserve to be saved.

Interpret this in whatever manner you wish.

Hurston Reading

Hi everyone,

Just a quick favor. I have a different version of Their Eyes Were Watching God than the one sold at the bookstore, so if someone could please post where page 76 is in terms of the chapters that would be very helpful to me!

Thanks!

- Kathleen