According to Hersch, What was Pakistan’s role in killing Osama Bin Laden?
(From Anas and Joseph V.)
How does Hersch structure his essay? Why do you think he made the structural choices that he did?
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Prompt for “The Fire Next Time”
Identify one or more themes in the Baldwin reading, and find a newspaper article from the past week that contains one or more of these themes. Post a link on the blog with a brief note on the thematic connection you see between the reading and the article.
Prompts for Straub’s “Responding to Other Students’ Writing”
What type of tone does Straub recommend you take when responding to another student’s work?
How, according to Straub, do you decide what to comment on?
Prompts for “In Praise of Shadows”
How is Tanizaki’s aesthetic critique also a political critique? In other words, how does what he says about beauty connect to what he says about power?
What are some ways that, according to Tanizaki, traditional Japanese aesthetics (concepts of beauty) differ from those of the West?
Prompts for “Why Soviet Women Want to Get Married” and “Shitty First Drafts”
What does Alexandrova say about the word “dialectic?” Do we have any words in English that operate similarly: words that justify things without being totally comprehensible?
Why does Alexandrova say Soviet women want to get married?
What are the three most helpful suggestions, from your perspective, offered by Anne Lamont in “Shitty First Drafts”?
Prompts for Richard Manning’s “The Trouble With Iowa”
(From Fion and Chloe)
1. In what ways are farms in Iowa invisible and what are the consequences on the U.S. that result from that invisibility?
2. How do the issues concerning American agriculture compare to the image politicians create when it comes to farming?