Friday, July 24, 2009

Dead Cities citation

Davis, Mike. Dead Cities. New York: The New Press, 2002.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Climate Change in the news

ANOTHER GLACIER NEAR ANTARCTICA

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090722/sc_afp/scienceclimatewarmingglacier

Research Assignment: Statement of intent

Assignment for Research Statement

5 questions that animate (motivate) your research (drive your research).


Bibliography (at least three entries / at least one book)


Statement of intent (1-3) sentences

I intend to study …

I intend to study this because…(The reason for this is…)

Video: "The Katrina Myth"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wln_iq5bc8k

Emile's Echo: Shelly's Ozymandias

Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare