Conversation Links

Dressed to Kill

53:00

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2628774106022441566&ei=a6-NS_LDO4nKwgO7ptTWCQ&q=dressed+to+kill&hl=en#

Ting Tings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8AH7yYQpro

Titanic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmbw8OycJrE

Don Giovanni

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue72gvJvpi8

Apocalypse Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7XNb3Q9Ek&feature=related

1812

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ&feature=related

Citation Help

MLA Citation Guide

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

The Autocitation Machine

http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

Some Terms

• Chair: (Here) a Sedan Chair - a covered chair supported by poles, carried by two bearers.
• Episcopal: To do with (here appointed by) a bishop - the adjective refers to church administration at the time Swift wrote.
• Gibbet: Place where criminals are hanged.
• Mandarin: Important official serving an oriental (originally Chinese) ruler, or any high official today.
• Papists: Supporters of the Pope, an insulting name for Catholics.
• Pretender: James Stuart, a Catholic who pretended to (claimed) the English and Scottish thrones. He is sometimes known as the Old Pretender, while his son, Charles Edward Stuart, is known as the Young Pretender (or Bonnie Prince Charlie)
• Shambles: Place (usually in a town) where animals are slaughtered and butchered.
• Solar year: A year in the ordinary sense (as measured by the earth's going once round the sun).

A Modest Proposal

Students! Here is Swift at his best!

Remember that this is a modest proposal...

http://www.fullbooks.com/A-Modest-Proposal.html

Mother Tongue, Amy Tan article!

Read and Enjoy!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13297165/Mother-Tongue-By-Amy-Tan-I-Am-Not-A

Not the George Orwell Article...For that...go down one

http://inventorspot.com/articles/japan_fights_train_station_suicide_blue_led_lighting_32608

George Orwell Article

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

Students!

Read!

Think!

Enjoy!

! (for extra emphasis)