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Thematic Study of Technology and Politics A. Science and Technology 1. The internet 2. Relationship between economics, morality, and technology 3. Technology and politics
B. Politics-Imperialism 1. Kincaid Essay 2. Orwell Essay
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1. Recognize, analyze, and utilize satire as a rhetorical tool 2. Compare the arguments made by two dystopian novels in a research paper utilizing at least three secondary sources. 3. Compare and analyze multiple authors’ investigations of politics and technology. 4. Synthesize sources to support, challenge, or qualify an argument on the influence of television on elections.
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CHAPTER 10 Science and Technology How are advances in science and technology affecting the way we define our humanity?
CHAPTER 13 Politics What is the nature of the relationship between the citizen and the state? ADDITIONAL LITERATURE Cat’s Cradle Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
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Central Essay Loren Eiseley, The Bird and the Machine Classic Essay Thomas Henry Huxley, The Method of Scientific Investigation Jacob Bronowski, The Reach of Imagination Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Future of Happiness Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate Steven Pinker on Writing Ursula Franklin, Silence and the Notion of the Commons Sven Birkerts, Into the Electronic Millennium Elizabeth Royte, Transsexual Frogs Edgar Allan Poe, Sonnet – to Science (poetry) Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (poetry) Brian Aldiss, Supertoys Last All Summer (fiction) Visual Text Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Calendar (tables) Visual Text Gahan Wilson, Food Fight (cartoon) Conversation Focus on The Ethics of Applied Genetics Lewis Thomas, On Cloning a Human Being Philip M. Boffey, Fearing the Worst Should Anyone Produce a Cloned Baby David Ewing Duncan, DNA as Destiny Rick Weiss, Pet Clones Spur Call for Limits Marilynn Marchione and Lindsey Tanner, More Couples Screening Embryos for Gender
Classic Essay Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women Chief Seattle, Message to President Franklin Pierce Wendell Berry, An Entrance to the Woods Wangari Muta Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Speech Joyce Carol Oates, Against Nature William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned (poetry) Visual Text Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits (painting) Visual Text Royal Dutch Shell, Cloud the Issue or Clear the Air (advertisement) Conversation Focus on Climate Change Bill McKibben, It’s Easy Being Green Richard Conniff, from Counting Carbons (includes visual) E.O. Wilson, from The Future of Life Daniel Glick, GeoSigns: The Big Thaw Central Essay Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time Classic Essay Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal Chris Hedges, from The Destruction of Culture Oliver Goldsmith, National Prejudices Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace during an Air Raid Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Wole Soyinka, Every Dictator’s Nightmare Tim O’Brien, On the Rainy River (fiction) Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Conversation with an American Writer (poetry) Visual Text Pablo Picasso, Guernica (painting) Visual Text The New Yorker, March 17, 2003 (cover) Visual Text Harper’s, April, 2003 (cover) Conversation Focus on the politics of imperialism George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant Chinua Achebe, The Empire Fights Back National Park Service, Christiansted: Official Map and Guide (travel brochure) Eavan Boland, In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own (poetry) Bombay Furniture Co., What Part of You Lives in Bombay? (advertisement)
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Orwell Rolls in his Grave Vonnegut Documentary
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