English 015 - Americans Abroad
Mark Phillipson
Essay 4 assignment
Category: 4E: O'Brien | Mark Phillipson
Write a structured, argumentative essay about Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato. You may concentrate solely on GAC, or compare an element of it to any text we’ve read in this class. To be safe, make sure your argument is clearing up a mystery, illuminating a subtle cause of events, or...
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Posted by mphillip on December 09, 2003 at 04:40 PM
Eighth blog assignment
Category: 08B: Going After Cacciato | Mark Phillipson
Post before class on December 2. * GAC has three distinct settings: Vietnam battle scenes, adventures on the road to Paris, and one very long night at an observation post. In what interesting way does one of these settings comment on another setting? To answer this question, identify an image,...
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Posted by mphillip on November 29, 2003 at 04:12 PM
Seventh blog assignment
Category: 07B: The Sheltering Sky | Mark Phillipson
Post before class on 11/13 *** “You know what?” [Port] said with great earnestness. “I think we’re both afraid of the same thing. And for the same reason. We’ve never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We’re hanging on to the outside for all...
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Posted by mphillip on November 11, 2003 at 02:13 PM
06B Blog assignment
Category: 06B: The Sheltering Sky | Mark Phillipson
Sixth blog (06B): Post before class on November 6. Make sure you assign your post to two categories: '06B: The Sheltering Sky' and 'your name.' Assigned postings should be 100 – 200 words long. Be concise and specific: quote details to back up your claims. Keep a back-up copy of...
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Posted by mphillip on November 04, 2003 at 04:36 PM
05 Blog Assignment
Category: 05B: Babylon Revisited | Mark Phillipson
“All the catering and vice was on an utterly childish scale, and [Charlie] suddenly learned the meaning of the word ‘dissipate’...” (p. 389). What is it, specifically, about Paris that seems to have lured Charlie into dissipation? In your answer, compare a description of Paris in “Babylon Revisited” to...
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Posted by mphillip on October 18, 2003 at 01:22 PM
Fourth blog assignment
Category: 04B: Autobiography of ABT | Mark Phillipson
In the Autobiography of ABT, Stein comes across as stunningly confident as an American living abroad. Is she really? Whatever your answer, defend it by emphasizing a way ABT and Heminway’s SAR are surprising similar or an crucially different. Post your answer before class on 10/14....
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Posted by mphillip on October 09, 2003 at 05:53 PM
Blog #3 assignment
Category: 03B: The Sun Also Rises | Mark Phillipson
“Maybe a story is better without any hero.” Hemingway crossed this line out of The Sun Also Rises, but it still haunts his novel. Does this novel have a hero? If so, zero in on a scene that demonstrates this heroism. If not, who comes closest to heroism – and...
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Posted by mphillip on October 02, 2003 at 02:22 PM
Essay 1 assignment
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Mark Phillipson
Write a structured, argumentative essay contrasting two of the following: Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, James’s Daisy Miller, and/or Wharton’s Roman Fever. Please remember all the advice available in Essayland. Feel free to come up with your own topic.... more on this below. For those of you who prefer suggested approaches,...
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Posted by mphillip on September 30, 2003 at 03:20 PM
Second blog assignment
Category: 02B: Roman Fever | Mark Phillipson
Does “Roman Fever” unexpectedly echo or pointedly refute the novel Daisy Miller’s portrayal of American behavior in Italy? Defend your answer through comparison of specific details or gestures that appear in both texts....
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Posted by mphillip on September 18, 2003 at 02:24 PM
blog assignment
Category: 01B: Daisy Miller | Mark Phillipson
Daisy Miller was written around ten years after The Innocents Abroad, by an American who would choose to make his home overseas. How does James significantly differ from Twain in his depiction of Americans abroad? Answer by identifying details from each book that vividly exemplify a point of contrast between...
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Posted by mphillip on September 11, 2003 at 02:24 PM
Getting our feet wet
Category: Mark Phillipson
In the beginning, there was practice. Don't worry about great thoughts - they'll come later - for now, it's enough just to figure out how to post....
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Posted by mphillip on September 07, 2003 at 07:55 PM