…of “Should immigrants be forced to assimilate by learning English in the first place?” (Taken from here under the Creative Commons License) Links to the Full Textbooks Essentials of English…
Women in Computing
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Government Representation in Dystopian Literature
…1883-1975.” International Studies Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, 1988, pp. 421–438. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2600591. “Dystopias: Definitions and Characteristics.” ReadWriteThink, International Literacy Association / National Councils of Teachers of English, http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson926/DefinitionCharacteristics.pdf…
A Critical Examination of Rap Music… But I’m not a Rapper
…2019, www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hip-hop-continued-to-dominate-the-music-business-in-2018-774422/. Maine, Samantha, et al. “Fox News Reporter Responds to Kendrick Lamar Diss, Says ‘Hip-Hop Has Done More Damage than Racism.’” NME, NME, 15 Apr. 2017, www.nme.com/news/music/geraldo-rivera-responds-to-kendrick-lamar-diss-2050745. Johnson, James…
Women in Wartime
…associated with women, such as “babies”, “dancing”, “child”, “companion”, and “caretaker”. Additionally, there were other words such as “startled”, “frightened”, “slower” that also commonly have feminine connotations, but are negative,…
Inkle to Yarico as an Anti-Slavery Text
…I find it interesting that “captive” is used more often than “slave,” because to me, “captive” feels like a much more sympathetic word to use. In the general public, “slave”…
Syllabus
Prof. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Email: e.dillon@northeastern.edu Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-3 p.m., remotely on Zoom Dr. Sarah Connell Email: sa.connell@northeastern.edu Office Hours: Fridays 12–1pm, remotely on Zoom Alanna Prince, Graduate Teaching…
The Country Corpora: An Analysis of Country Music Before and After 9/11
…Fan: Country Music Must Stop Pigeon-Holing Itself: Opinion.” The Tennessean, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Jan. 2020, www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2020/01/07/county-music-pigeon-holed-after-911/2803772001/. Miller, John W. “Trucks and Beer 🍺.” John W. Miller, 7 Feb. 2018, www.johnwmillr.com/trucks-and-beer/….
America and Holocaust Refugees
…Sources United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/about/photo-archives. “U.S. Policy During the Holocaust.” The Tragedy of S.S. St. Louis, www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-tragedy-of-s-s-st-louis. “The Jewish Refugees the US Turned…
What Kind of Memes are Created and Maintained in a Participatory Internet Subculture
…spir.aoir.org/index.php/spir/article/view/803/pdf. Leavitt, Alex & A. Clark, Joshua. (2014). Upvoting hurricane Sandy: event-based news production processes on a social news site. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – Proceedings. 10.1145/2556288.2557140….