Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

Find out what life was like in her time in America:

http://histclo.com/country/us/hist/19/ush19.html

http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj67/morgan.htm

http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/american-history

History of Louisiana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Louisiana

American suffrage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States

http://www.history.com/topics/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html

Kate Chopin: http://www.angelfire.com/nv/English243/Chopin.html

http://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/bio-books-stories

Short story elements:

http://www.slideshare.net/guest6bbfe8d/elements-of-plot

How to analyse a short story: http://ndla.no/en/node/9075

The Kate Chopin International Society: http://www.katechopin.org/

In connection with all the stories, discuss the following:

* setting * characters (not only names but what kind of people they are as individuals and as representatives of some group, and how they develop / change) * themes * language * creating local colour * symbols

* the part that would be best suited for the IO, and what kind of global issue would it be connected to

Regionalism and local colour: https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/culture-magazines/regionalism-and-local-color-fiction

https://southernspaces.org/2004/local-color/

Close vs distant reading: 

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-attempt-to-discover-the-laws-of-literature (When you open it, read it till the end, The New Yorker limits your free access to something like 3 articles a month.)

To complement PhilpotNew U 3.2 and 3.3

Colonialism:

A potential text to use for task 2.11 on page 173: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/native-north-americans/

Immigration:

Possibly complements PhilpotNew U3.3 Immigration

Warsan Shire "Home": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9D92Xiygo

John Marsden and Shaun Tan "The Rabbits":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0vT9Ru4NBo (allegorical picture book)

The rabbit problem: http://www.rabbitfreeaustralia.com.au/rabbits/the-rabbit-problem/

Shaun Tan "The Arrival" as a film part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJc3Ew2CBEE

History of human migration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_migration

Map of human migration: https://legacy.calacademy.org//human-odyssey/map/

Some short lists of best books on immigration:

https://bookriot.com/2019/09/11/best-books-about-immigrants/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/05/migration-book-recommendations-american-dirt

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/search/immigration?page=1&q=immigration

Poems: https://bookriot.com/2018/07/06/immigration-poems/

Google for immigration posters :)

The American Dirt controversy:

https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/american-dirt-book-controversy-explained.html

TED talks on immigration: https://www.ted.com/talks?topics%5B%5D=immigration

"Welcome to the New World" would be a great graphic novel to read here if we had it. Read about it a bit here: http://www.michaelsloan.net/welcome-to-the-new-world

To complement PhilpotNew 3.1 Racism

Code switching:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/04/13/177126294/five-reasons-why-people-code-switch

Code switching and code mixing:

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O29-CODEMIXINGANDCODESWITCHNG.html

AAVE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English

Ebonics in the classroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX1-FgkfWo8

The story of English episode 5: Black on white: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nxMRkKrEnQ (This is part one, all the other parts are continuation of the same)

Listen to Turn My Swag On (Soulja Boy)

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher-Stowe, and its role in American literature:

http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/

Pics on the web:

http://www.google.ee/search?q=%22uncle+tom%27s+cabin%22&hl=et&prmd=imvnsb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=MkUdT7mfH86r-gamgZmzCg&ved=0CFgQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=894

+ http://nationalera.wordpress.com/

http://librivox.org/uncle-toms-cabin-by-harriet-beecher-stowe/

Why are people racist: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/why-are-people-racist/p07x4zqm

Sexism and racism in advertising: https://rdc.reed.edu/c/sexistmak/home/about

You Clap for Me Now (coronavirus poem):

https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2020/apr/15/you-clap-for-me-now-the-coronavirus-poem-on-racism-and-immigration-in-britain-video?

Strange Fruit (song)

Nina Simone for Black History Month: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVxVa3D11n4

Racism in America: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States

KKK: https://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/ku-klux-klan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

Hipster racism: https://jezebel.com/a-complete-guide-to-hipster-racism-5905291

https://medium.com/@IjeomaOluo/on-hipster-racism-117fecb5e503

Most controversial Benetton ads:

https://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/benettons-best-advertising-campaigns

Portrayal of minorities in film, media and entertainment industries:

https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/mediarace/portrayal.htm

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/18/hollywoods-race-problem-film-industry-actors-of-colour

Colour terminology for race: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_terminology_for_race

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/11/16/563798938/the-gray-area-between-yellow-and-brown-skin

Some history: https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice/five-truths-about-black-history

Origins of racism: https://theconversation.com/the-origins-of-racism-8321

http://theredcard.ie/racism-a-brief-history/

Race and privilege: https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/diversity/social-justice/understanding-race-and-privilege

White privilege: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege#Critical_race_theory

Blackface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface

One drop rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule

Mixed- ace and identity problems: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/26/the-mixed-race-experience-there-are-times-i-feel-like-the-odd-one-out-

Phobias: https://www.healthline.com/health/list-of-phobias#common-fears

-isms: https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/29946

Colourism: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/09/colourism-is-finally-being-taken-seriously-thanks-to-celebrities-like-lupita-nyongo

TED on beauty - Fred

Title: How your brain decides what is beautiful - Anjan Chatterjee

https://youtu.be/Wgt8QUHQjw8

 The talk begins with the story of a scientist who wished to composite pictures of criminals' faces, to find the face or phenotype of criminality. What was shocking about the outcome was that this man was attractive, beautiful. This leads Chatterjee to the question, how do we decide what is beautiful?

The finding that average faces are more attractive than the individual faces themselves has been recreated many times.

Symmetric faces are preferable than asymmetric ones. Birth abnormalities, disease, and parasitic infections can lead to asymmetries in plants, animals, and humans.

Hormones, such as estrogen, play an important role by creating a fertile look. Men prefer indicators of youth such as large eyes, narrow chins, and full lips. Conversely, heavier brows, thinner cheeks, and bigger squared-off jaws are more appealing for women in men. The interesting thing here is that testosterone weakens the immune system, so the idea that testosterone-infused features are a fitness indicator does not make sense.

A similar example of a biological handicap can be found in the peacock's extravagant tail. Darwin once wrote that the mere sight of a peacock made him physically ill, as his standing theory of physical selection could not explain this.

A new theory of sexual selection, whereby the female selects the most attractive looking peacock could account for it, but modern science also points out that the peacock is advertising its super-healthy organism (necessary to support such a ludicrous appendage).

Chatterjee covers the brain areas responsible for activation and feelings of pleasure as a result of viewing something beautiful. The brain seems to associate beauty with goodness and intrigue even when not prompted to. Beautiful people are typically seen as more hardworking, intelligent, successful, and kinder even when not the case. This leads to the ugly side of beauty, as even minor facial deformities cause people to be rated as dumber, slower, lazier, etc. Chatterjee argues that this trope is also reinforced by our popular culture, villains often identified by scars or facial marks. 

GI: Discrimination based on birth-given factors.

I believe this is a fascinating look into how humans experience beauty on the reactionary level. Perhaps it would be better to strive away from these in-built adverse feelings to minor abnormalities, which may have served as a precautionary measure thousands of years ago but are simply exclusionary now.

Ted talk on Beauty - Timo Liiv

 ‘How I define beauty’ - Winnie Harlow

https://www.ted.com/talks/winnie_harlow_how_i_define_beauty?language=en

I have decided to choose this ted talk about beauty. Winnie Harlow brings out many points based on beauty, such as:

• Beauty is in everything

• Societal standards in beauty

• Be yourself

These points were brought out because Harlow herself had experienced bullying due to her skin condition, vitiligo. She was alienated because of her skin condition and was picked on because of it. She discusses how she can see beauty in everything and to not follow societal standards in beauty. 

I personally do not agree that there is beauty in absolutely everything, but I do understand what Harlow is trying to say. 

As an example that she uses to bring out her message is her own experience of having vitiligo and how others had behaved towards her. 

TED analysis

 TED talk

The presenter is a Jamaican American woman suffering from vitiligo, which is a rare skin disease. Beauty isn't based on entirely physical appearance, and is biased towards certain individuals “bald head example”. Attempting to answer the question of what is beauty. Beauty should be determined by the person's physical appearance, but a great personality or certain thing does make them more appealing and vice versa. Talks about being bullied, ignored and somewhat hated because of her skin condition. She said she became the bully because she did not want to be bullied, so she befriended bullies because she thought it was the right side. And she realized that she didn't need to fit in and she would make her own side and so she believes that there is beauty in everything. Her message is “be yourself, and don't worry about what other people think. You don't need to fit in, so make your own mold.”

Presenter name: Winnie Harlow

Global issue: the alienation and towards people suffering from physical deformities.

TED talk on beauty - Anastasia Gvineria

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM4Xe6Dlp0Y

TED talk by a model named Cameron Russell who breaks down the most frequently asked questions about her, since she is a conventionally attractive female with a successful modeling career. She explains how modeling is not what it always seems and reveals the raw truth about it.

Title: 'Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model.' - Cameron Russell

The TED talk starts with Cameron talking about her experience with modeling, how she gets treated and later she explains that she will be answering the most frequently asked questions about her career. She says she will be as raw as possible and show the entire truth even if it is ugly. 

Firstly, she shows the modeling pictures from her portfolio and gives a backstory to all of them. The main idea for doing this is to show how photos and pictures are artificial and not accurate to reality. She shows a modelling picture of her with a guy where she seems very mature and sexual. She seems confident and like she knows what she is doing and looks much older than her actual age. 

She explains that in this picture, she is 16, very nervous and does not feel comfortable in what she is doing. She was told to pose like this and the picture was later retouched. This is obviously not what she looks like in real life and she is not as experienced as she might seem from this picture. 

We are also provided with some before and after pictures of her shoots. 

She also touches on the subject of racism and how the modeling industry tends to pick favorites and be obsessed with a specific look and not allow any diversity in their community. She says out of a 100 models, only a couple are black. 

Cameron also talks about how she has noticed people treating her differently from others just because of her looks and she gets away with things that some may not get away with as easily. She brings out an example of the cops stopping her for speeding but letting her go only 2 minutes later while another person would have been fined or faced more serious consequences. 

In conclusion, from this ted talk we learned that photos are not reality and we should not compare ourselves with them since they are productions and not real life. They are photos that are worked on by professionals in every aspect (Lighting, posing, makeup, retouching etc.). We learned that the modeling industry can be unhealthy and toxic and that people tend to switch up based on looks. 

Circle writing

Circle writing means one person starts writing, then after a stretch of time (e.g. 20 min) hands the paper over to the next person in the circle and that person reads what has been written, corrects any mistakes they notice, and carries on writing logically where the previous one left off, and the process is repeated several times. When the writers are going to run out of time, the writer knows they have to write a conclusion to the text.