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EWRT1A
The Individual and Community

John Swensson/S43A/408-864-8929/swensson@admin.fhda.edu

Homepage: http://lore.atc.fhda.edu/Faculty/swensson/index.html

RODIN'S The Burghers of Calais

"If you would peruse in unbroken--ay,overlapping--continuity the history of a community, look not in the church registers and the courthouse records, but beneath the successive layers of calcimine and creosote and whitewash on the walls of the jail, since only in that forcible carceration does man find the idleness in which to compose, in the gross and simple terms of his gross and simple lusts and yearnings, the gross and simple recapitulations of his gross and simple heart. . ."

William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

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READING LIST:

(Note: Not all selections covered every quarter)

The Individual and the State

Chuang Tzu's "Independence"
Randell Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Henry Reed's "Naming of Parts"
Prologue to Hal Moore and Joe Galloway's "We Were Soldiers Once and Young"
Yukio Mishima's "Patriotism"

Women and the State

Women in Viet Nam (Web Site)
Jacki Rhoads' "Nurses in Vietnam"
Nancy Kates' Academy Award Winning film "Their Own Vietnam"
Taped Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston , "Preventing Wars a Thousand Years from Now."

Some Views from the Community

Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"
Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The Mill"--ditto
John Crowe Ransom's "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"--ditto
John Crowe Ransom's "The Equilibrists"--ditto
Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

The Formulation of Community Values

Auguste Rodin's "The Burghers of Calais"
Auguste Rodin's "The Gates of Hell"
Albert Camus' THE PLAGUE
Victor Hugo & Schoenberg & Boubil, LES MISERABLES (The Opera)

The Future of Community

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's "A Tapestry of Hope"
Excerpt of James D. Houston's IN THE RING OF FIRE: A PACIFIC BASIN JOURNEY

Course Evaluation Sheet: http://dadistance.fhda.edu/survey4.html

an excerpt from Cleanth Brooks' essay "Faulkner and the Community":

"The reasons are obvious: the decay of religion, increasing moral relativism, the sheer growth of cities, industrialization, mechanization--all these factors tend to break up the cohesion generated by common background, traditional beliefs, and close personal associations. The relatively tight small-town and farming communities of the older America have been disappearing. But they had not disappeared from the world in which Faulkner grew up, and they have an important place in the world that they created in his fiction.

I, too, grew up in such a world. I took for granted the values I shared with my fellows. It was only years later that I became fully conscious of the beliefs, values, and attitudes that I shared, quite unreflectingly, with others. For such a sense of community is like the air we breathe. One simply takes it for granted. It is only when one is deprived of that air--when one begins to stifle and gasp-that he realizes its importance. Once we have lost our community--and usually not until we have lost it--do we come to value it, or even see it for what it is."

Click here for an essay by your instructor comparing the character of Shreve in Faulkner's THE SOUND AND THE FURY and ABSALOM,ABSALOM! Thank you, Dr. Thomas Moser of Stanford University, for a fascinating summer school course in the Continuing Studies Program.

Click here for a wonderful essay on THE PLAGUE by Dr. Joseph W. Lella, Professor of Sociology, King's College, University of Western Ontario; The essay is entitled AIDS AND THE MORAL EDUCATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS: SOME REFLECTIONS ON ALBERT CAMUS' THE PLAGUE.

Click here for an excellent example of the Ten-Year Life Plan, "Preparing for the Millenium," described in Homepage Unit 4 and repeated in Homepage Unit 7.5. This paper was written in Java and html by Joseph Esquiaqui, who is now a student at UCSC. While this assignment is not a requirement for the Fall of 1997, this is an excellent paper and a good example of student initiative.

CORRECTION SYMBOLS:

Listed below in alphabetical order are the explanations of the hieroglyphics you will find on your papers. The right hand column refers to the Scott Foresman HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS, 4th Edition, which is an optional text for this course. You are encouraged to consult any other writing handbook, or the WRITERS GUIDE which is a link on my homepage. I encourage YOU to use these symbols when you are peer editing your classmate's work. They are fairly standard.

SYMBOL EXPLANATION See HW Sec

//ism Parallelism needed 17b

AGR Subject-Verb Agreement 16a-e

AWK Awkward Phraseology 11a-d, 13a

CAP Capitalization Error 30 a, b

CONTR Too informal to use Contractions in a College Writing Class pp.193-94

CW Word Choice is poor 10 a-d

do Ditto- Same Mistake Again

ESL A problem caused by lack of familiarity with English Chapter 31

FRAG Sentence Fragment 18b, 24a

GR Grammar Error--try the grammar check in WORD 5.0

HW Handwriting or Printer Problem--get a new ribbon/cartridge

LOG Logic Error Unit5/hmpg

M Inadequate or Wrong Size Margin 34c

MM Misplaced Modifier 25 b-c, g

P Punctuation Error Writers Guide

PAS Passive Voice 11c, 17e

Para or PP No new paragraph, or needs new paragraph

RA Read Aloud and Correct--Often helps ESL students

REF Pronoun Referent 20a-c

REP Repetitious 12b

RS Run-on Sentence 24d

RTP Read The Problem--You did not follow instructions

S or SP Spelling Error---Use the Spellcheck 37a

SH Improper shift in voice or tense

SPT Inadequate Support for argument in Evidence or Analysis pp122-24

TRANS A transition is weak or absent 9a,b

TS Error in Topic Sentence- should be an opinion-not fact Unit3/hmpg

U Unity Error

VT Verb Tense is Incorrect 17a-f

WD Wordy, flowery tagalog-like sentence 12

SMP SEE ME PLEASE---or call 408-864-8929, or email, or go to S43a

SYMBOL	EXPLANATION	See HW Sec
//ism	Parallelism needed	17b
AGR	Subject-Verb Agreement	16a-e
AWK	Awkward Phraseology	11a-d, 13a
CAP	Capitalization Error	30 a, b
CONTR	Too informal to use Contractions in a College Writing Class	pp.193-94
CW	Word Choice is poor	10 a-d
do	Ditto- Same Mistake Again
ESL	A problem caused by lack of familiarity with English	Chapter 31
FRAG	Sentence Fragment	18b, 24a

GR	Grammar Error--try the grammar check in WORD 5.0
HW	Handwriting or Printer Problem--get a new ribbon/cartridge
LOG	Logic Error	Unit5/hmpg
M	Inadequate or Wrong Size Margin	34c
MM	Misplaced Modifier	25 b-c, g
P	Punctuation Error	Writers Guide
PAS	Passive Voice	11c, 17e
Para or PP	No new paragraph, or needs new paragraph
RA	Read Aloud and Correct--Often helps ESL students
REF	Pronoun Referent	20a-c

REP	Repetitious	12b
RS	Run-on Sentence	24d
RTP	Read The Problem--You did not follow instructions
S or SP	Spelling Error---Use the Spellcheck	37a
SH	Improper shift in voice or tense
SPT	Inadequate Support for argument in Evidence or Analysis	pp122-24
TRANS	A transition is weak or absent	9a,b
TS	Error in Topic Sentence- should be an opinion-not fact	Unit3/hmpg
U	Unity Error
VT	Verb Tense is Incorrect	17a-f

WD	Wordy, flowery tagalog-like sentence	12
SMP	SEE ME PLEASE---or call 408-864-8929, or email, or go	to S43a

EWRT1A The Individual and Community