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As you assemble preliminary bibliographies for your Analytical Research Papers, it’s not too early to begin thinking about how to format your bibliography properly and how to include citations in the body of your paper when you quote from a source or when you include an idea that you found in one of your sources.

For this paper, we will be following the guidelines of the MLA (Modern Language Association) 8th Edition.

For a description of how to format bibliographic entries using the MLA guidelines, see the Purdue OWL’s online guide:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_works_cited_page.html

For this paper, you will be including a Works Cited page, not a regular bibliography.  This means that, rather than a big list of all the potential sources you looked at, your page will only include the sources you actually used in writing your paper. This page comes at the end of your essay and should say Works Cited at the top of the page.

You are welcome to use a citation generator (like EasyBib) in putting together your bibliography.  Just make sure to select MLA 8th Edition.  If you have questions about how to format a particular entry, feel free to reach out to me or consult one of the many resources online.

This week’s assignment comes to you courtesy of Steven!  Use the link below to access a collection of political cartoons about the coronavirus.  The genius of political cartoons is that they use humor and visual imagery to make serious political commentary.  Please choose a cartoon that seems to you to be particularly effective and post a 300 word blog post that does the following. In order to receive credit, your post must appear by Sunday, April 26th.:

–includes the image you are writing about

–describes what you think the message of cartoon is

–identifies what is funny about the cartoon

–explores your own views on the issue being addressed

What do you think about this genre? Are cartoons an effective way to make a political point? Why or why not?

https://www.usnews.com/news/cartoons/2020/02/28/political-cartoons-on-the-coronavirus

Here’s one more article.  I think this one speaks most directly to Steven’s research question – how does this story end? I found it really interesting, albeit somewhat depressing: “Our Pandemic Summer” by Ed Yong from The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-summer-coronavirus-reopening-back-normal/609940/

Here’s another very current article.  This one is about Mental Health and the Coronavirus, from the New England Journal of Medicine.

Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic Betty Pfefferbaum, Carol S. North | New England Journal of Medicine

Thought I would share this interesting article from the current issue of The New Yorker.  Its topic, inequality and health in the coronavirus crisis, relates directly to Dylan’s research question, but I think it will be of interest to all of us.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-coronavirus-and-the-interwoven-threads-of-inequality-and-health

Here is the schedule for Wednesday’s conferences.  If you have an updated proposal or anything else to share with me, please send it to me by email or post it to the blog in advance of our conversation.  Zoom info is at the bottom of this post.

10:00 Diomeudy

10:15  Aboubakr

10:30  Eliana

10:45  Dylan

11:00 Steven

11:15  Kevin

11:30 Munsura

11:45 Raymelis

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For this week’s assignment, please select one of the podcasts listed below, listen to it carefully, and then post a review of the podcast.  Your review should be 400-600 words and should include the following. Your post should appear by midnight on Sunday, April 19th:

What is this podcast about?

Who are the people whose views are being expressed? What are their backgrounds and potential biases?

What interests you about this podcast?

Describe something you learned from this podcast.

Did this podcast influence your views on its subject? If so, how?

Would you recommend this podcast to your classmates? Why or why not?

Any reactions to the podcast format?  How does it compare for you to reading the newspaper or watching television news?

Please include the link to the podcast in your post!!!

Podcasts and Radio

*An Unfinished Lesson: Nancy Bristow on the 1918 Flu, NPR Hidden Brain

*Anatomy of a Pandemic, This Podcast Will Kill You
*Boogie-Woogie Flu Sufferers Unite, NPR All Things Considered

*Coronacast, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 

*Coronavirus, Animal Infections & the Next Pandemic, NPR Fresh Air

*Coronavirus, Climate Change and Living in States of Emergency, KCRW To The Point

*Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction, CNN 

*Coronavirus: Fears and Facts, Science VS

*Coronavirus Global Update, BBC World Service

*Coronavirus Series, The History of Now

*Containing the Coronavirus, Reveal: From the Center for Investigative Reporting 

*COVID-19, This Podcast will Kill You

*COVID-19 is Exposing US Racism in a Stark New Way with Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, Democracy Now 

*Floodlines: The Story of an Unnatural Disaster, The Atlantic 

*From Cholera to Coronavirus with Richard Evans, Talking Politics/London Review of Books

*How Music Has Reflected Difficult Times, WABE City Lights 

*Imagining and Narrating Plague in the Ottoman World: Orhan Pamuk and Nükhet Varlık, Ottoman History Podcast

*NDR Info Coronavirus Update, Daily interview with Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten (In German)
*Our Plague Year, Night Vale Presents 

*Pandemic: The Story of the 1918 Flu, BBC

*Racism in the Time of Coronavirus, Long Distance 

*Repurposing the Webs of Infections as Webs of Connection, with Mindy Thompson Fullilove Ear to the Pavement podcast/Progressive City

*’Rona and Racism: A Survival Guide, KQED Truth Be Told

*Social Distance, The Atlantic

*States of Emergency with Lea Ypi, Talking Politics/London Review of Books

* The Black Death, In Our Time

*The Origins of a Disaster, Why is this Happening? With Chris Hayes
*The Urbanization of Covid-19, Urban Political. 

*The World Health Organization and Pandemic Preparedness in the US, with Andrew Lakoff, Slow Disaster
*Viral: Coronavirus, ThreeUncannyFour

*When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus, NPR Code Switch 

*Why We Underestimated COVID-19 (with Daniel Kahneman), New Yorker Radio Hour

If the current set-up, in which you are free to journal about whatever is on your mind on any given day, is working for you, great! Feel free to continue journaling as you have been over the past month. If, however, you would like more structure or would like to experiment more in your journal writing, choose a prompt from the list below, and respond to it in your journal. You can try different prompts each time, return to the same prompt more than one, or mix-and-match between free-form journaling and these more structured prompts.

1. Write a letter to someone who is on your mind today.   This could be someone you know, or it could be a stranger. What do you want to tell him/her?
2. Count your blessings. What do you have to appreciate today? What keeps you going in these uncertain times?
3. Make a playlist for your life. What songs would you pick to represent the various stages of your life? Why?
4. Describe the landscape of your “quarantine” space. Imagine you are writing a travel guide to your room or to your home.
5. Go to the window. What do you see? What is happening out there?
6. What keeps you up at night? Use this journal entry as “brain dump” to get all your worst worries and fears out onto the page.
7. Write a thank-you letter to yourself. What do you want to acknowledge and appreciate about yourself today?
8. Instead of a “To Do” list, write a “Not To Do” list. What are all the things you are NOT going to do today? What would it mean to let go of the idea of accomplishment as a yardstick for our days?
9. Write a letter to your future self. Tell him/her all about what you’ve done to get where he/she is in the future.
10. Reflect on a time you really struggled. What was the struggle? How did you get through it?
11. What do people NOT see about you? How have you been misunderstood – even by those closest to you?
12. Write about a time when you misjudged or misunderstood someone else. What happened?
13. What muscles are you developing or stretching during this crazy time? What invisible changes are taking place inside you right now?
14. What do you know about the world today that you didn’t know five years ago?
15. What do you know about yourself today that you didn’t know five years ago?
16. If you had to come up with a motto – a saying or slogan – to live by right now, what would it be? Why?
17. What are some of the tiny things that are bringing your pleasure these days? Describe ten tiny pleasures.
18. Write a thank-you letter to someone who helped you in some way. This could be someone you know, or it could be a stranger. It could be someone who helped you deliberately, or it could be someone who doesn’t even know how he/she helped you.
19. Imagine you had a meeting with the mayor or the governor or the president. What would you want them to know about you and your community?
20. Describe an experience or encounter that transformed you in some way. (It could even be what you are going through right now!) How did it change you?

This week, I’d like you to share and respond to any text about the coronavirus crisis you find interesting. This could be an article, a  news broadcast, a Tedtalk, a tweet, a photograph, a podcast, a film, an Instagram (or another online) post, a TikTok video, a political cartoon—anything that spurs some thinking about the crisis.   Please share a link to your text, plus a 300 words response that explains why you chose this text and what issues or questions you think it raises.  You are encouraged to find your own texts—whatever you think is worth writing about—but if you have trouble getting started, you might want to respond to one or more of the following:

○ Two Woman Fell Sick, One Survived Two Women Fell Sick From the Coronavirus. One Survived.  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-death-life.html

○ 25 songs that matter now: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/11/magazine/best-songs.html?actio n=click&module=moreIn&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&action=click&module=M oreInSection&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=The%20New%2 0York%20Times%20Magazine#cover

○ Coronavirus explained in a TedTalk: Coronavirus Is Our Future | Alanna Shaikh | TEDxSMU  https://www.ted.com/talks/alanna_shaikh_coronavirus_is_our_future?language=en

○ Political cartoons: Corona News. https://www.usnews.com/news/cartoons/2020/02/28/political-cartoons-on-the-coronavirus

○ A soccer team is trapped: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/sports/soccer/wuhan-coronavirus-spain-soc cer.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

○ Who will pay the salary of stadium workers? One player steps up. Pelicans Star Zion Williamson Pledges to Pay the Salaries for Staffers of the Smoothie King Center https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/zion-williamson-nba-stars-pledge-money-coronavirus

○ Podcast on the Coronavirus: Ologies “Virology (COVID-19) with Dr. Shannon Bennet + various ologists” https://www.alieward.com/ologies/virology

○ Researchers are using a World of Warcraft scenario to understand COVID-19’s spread: PCGamer article. https://www.pcgamer.com/the-researchers-who-once-studied-wows-corrupted-blood-plague-are-now-fighting-the-coronavirus/

○ The power of social distancing: https://www.horsesforsources.com/storage/app/media/2020/social%20distancing. png?fbclid=IwAR1dlnfTlkl408TJzbCEXvfY1dzntEl8whsehVGJwG3LZeDK2zn7G5 5jgY0

○ Here are the workers most at risk: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/15/business/economy/coronavirusworker-risk.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage ○ Lots of good info here: https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/coronavirus

○ A look at coronavirus through comics: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/28/809580453/just-for-kids-a -comic-exploring-the-new-coronavirus

○ Is paper money safe? https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-12/cash-coronavirus

○ How can we stop the curve of infection?: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/

Hi Everyone,

See below for info about our Zoom call on Monday, April 6th.  You will note that I have scheduled this as a recurring meeting.  This means that, for the remainder of the semester, we will be meeting via Zoom each Monday morning at 10:00 a.m.  You can log on from a computer or from your phone.  If, for some reason, you already know that you will be unable to participate in Monday’s call, please email me, so that we can make alternate arrangements.

I miss you and hope that you are staying safe and healthy!

Professor Sylvor

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Topic: ENG 2150
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