Monday, November 12, 2018
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
WWII in MAPS - Visual Storytelling
See Wikipedia: German-Occupied Europe in WWII
Map Description: Historical Map of World War II: Europe in 1944
Illustrating
Allied Gains in Europe
June 6 - July 24, 1944
July 25 - September 14, 1944
September 15 - December 15, 1944
Credits: Courtesy of the United States Military Academy Department of History.
See: More Maps
Fateless (2005) - a Haunting Film about the Holocaust
Eastern Europe
Read the article by Jennifer Rosenberg:
ThoughtCo, Oct. 19, 2018.
Scenes:
FROM The New York Times:
Film Review by A.O. Scott
March 31, 2016 "Imre Kertesz, Nobel Laureate Who Survived Holocaust, Dies at 86" by Jonathan Kandell
"The Holocaust, From a Teenage View" by Alan Riding JAN. 3, 2006
From The New Yorker:
"Imre Kertész Speaks to Himself" By The New Yorker May 2, 2013
From Wikipedia:
| Imre Kertész | |
|---|---|
Imre Kertész in Mandalay (2007)
| |
| Born | 9 November 1929 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | 31 March 2016 (aged 86) Budapest, Hungary |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Notable works | Fatelessness Kaddish for an Unborn Child Liquidation |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 |
| Spouse | Albina Vas (d. 1995)
Magda Ambrus
[1][2](m. 1996) |
Imre Kertész (Hungarian: [ˈimrɛ ˈkɛrteːs]; 9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".[3] He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of Nazi Holocaust (he was a survivor of a German concentration camp), dictatorship and personal freedom.[1] He died on 31 March 2016, aged 86, at his home in Budapest after suffering from Parkinson's disease for several years.[4][5]
Monday, October 22, 2018
Trending Topic: Red-lining
Can you name these cities?
LA, like most American cities, is highly segregated:
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| The RED dots show white people, BLUE is black, ORANGE is Hispanic, GREEN is Asian, and YELLOW is other. |
From Business Insider "21 Maps Of Highly Segregated Cities In America"
Rebecca Baird-Remba and Gus Lubin Apr. 25, 2013:
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — White people cling to the coast around Santa Monica and Brentwood, and the north side of the city beginning with the Hollywood Hills.
L.A.'s black-white dissimilarity score is 65.0, according to a study of 2010 Census data by professors John Logan and Brian Stults of Brown and Florida State University. A score above 60 on the dissimilarity index is considered very high segregation.
The red dots show white people, blue is black, orange is Hispanic, green is Asian, and yellow is other, according to maps of 2010 Census data by Eric Fischer.
To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit:
http://newsreel.org/video/RACE-THE-POWER-OF-AN-ILLUSION
"The House We Live In" asks, If race is not biology, what is it? This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics and culture. It reveals how our social institutions "make" race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and wealth to white people. These scenes are excerpted from California Newsreel’s acclaimed three-part documentary series, Race-The Power of an Illusion. To learn more and watch the entire series.
30 Minutes:
RACE – THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Created from California Newsreel on Vimeo.
Analysis | Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Punctuation for Titles with Quotation Marks
From Get It Write:
Writing Tip: January 18, 2002
Are these sentences punctuated correctly?
Writing Tip: January 18, 2002
More on Punctuating with Quotation Marks
About a year ago, we wrote a tip on the proper way to punctuate sentences containing quotation marks. (To review that tip, look in the tip archive for 01/08/01.) Recently, a visitor to the tip archive wrote to ask about situations not covered in the tip.
She noted that all our examples were of dialogue within a sentence. "
Do the same rules apply in other situations involving quotation marks?" she asked.
The answer is yes: in all cases of usage involving quotation marks (American usage, not European), commas and periods always go inside the quotation marks while semicolons and colons always go outside.
(Please see the original tip for the rules governing question marks and exclamation points.)
Specifically, the visitor wondered about a series of titles, as in this example:
-- This month's issue of Grammar Guru magazine contains articles entitled "Making Every Comma Count," "Punctuate or Perish," and "The Write Way."
Notice that the commas separating the titles are inside the quotation marks.
We should also place periods and commas inside the quotation marks that we use in other situations, such as to suggest that a word is being used in a special or ironic sense, to show that we are referring to a word as a word, or to mark the definition of a word or words.
Here are some examples:
-- A three-hundred-pound gorilla eats quite a few "snacks," so the zoo keeper must closely monitor the animal's daily intake.
-- A lottery ticket holder who breaks even is counted as a "winner"; thus, statistics about one's odds of winning are misleading.
-- Sam sprinkles his conversations with the word "amen," although he really pays very little attention to what other people are saying.
-- The Latin verb "duco" means "to lead," "to consider," or "to prolong."
Note that in the fourth sentence, we could have used italics instead of quotation marks for the verb "duco," which is a word being used as a word.
Also note that italics or underlining--not quotation marks--should be used to emphasize a word or phrase.
TEST YOURSELF
Are these sentences punctuated correctly?
1. Margaret read a magazine article titled "Living in the Country;" four days later she sold her house in the suburbs and moved to a farm.
2. The instructor read the class three poems by Robert Frost: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Design," and "Directive."
3. Sarina's father is the most eccentric man I know, but Sarina excuses his behavior as "artistic license".
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Awareness Over Knowledge: Counter to Default Settings - David Foster Wallace
Notes on Wikipedia.
"This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace - Vocabulary List on Vocabulary.com
Book form on Amazon.
Full Commencement Address Transcript at Kenyon College class of 2005 written by David Foster Wallace:
Full Commencement Address Transcript at Kenyon College class of 2005 written by David Foster Wallace:
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