Fight Club

Interview with the author:

http://chuckpalahniuk.net/files/features/fight-club-anthology-intro.pdf

Consumer Culture:

http://www.businessinsider.com/birth-of-consumer-culture-2013-2?op=1

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/12/consumer.aspx

http://www3.nd.edu/~olizardo/papers/jcr-fight-club.pdf

http://www.hartman-group.com/hartbeat/understanding-consumer-culture

High School Fight Club:
http://gothamist.com/2013/03/27/nj_high_school_officials_get_freake.php

Link to author's essays on writing:

http://litreactor.com/essays/36-writing-essays-by-chuck-palahniuk

Fight Club : A Ritual Cure For The Spiritual Ailment Of American Masculinity

http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue8/fightclub.html

Fight Club: An Exploration of Buddhism

http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol11no2/ReedFightClub.htm

Fight Club and the Effects of Anger

http://usf.usfca.edu/pj//fightclub_cairo.htm

This podcast speaks about the novel Fight Club and its impact on culture. Skip to about the 39 minute mark:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ttbook

Click on the one entitled "Film and Philosophy"

The below link will take you to Google Scholar's links for Fight Club:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=fight+club&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C31

"Lola" and "A Bag for Nicholas"

Deceiving Appearances

http://www.personal-development.com/chuck/appearances.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23645413

http://invisibledisabilities.org/educate/invisibleawareness/lookscanbedeceiving/

Immigration

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2013/11/jersey_city_touts_first_in_state_immigration_affairs_department.html

http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2013/11/immigration_debate_can_learn_f.html

If you see something, say something

http://www.dhs.gov/if-you-see-something-say-something%E2%84%A2-campaign

http://ifyouseesomething.org/

Identity and "Live For Today"

This link below has a wide variety of articles on how we construct identity.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/identity

Newark and the surrounding area plays a big role in "Live For Today" and we will look at how that colors how people view the city and people from there. Here are some links about Newark:

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Newark-New-Jersey.html

http://libguides.rutgers.edu/content.php?pid=158675&sid=4109423

MONDAY NOV 17 NO CLASS

Hi Class,

I'm sorry to do this last minute but I have to cancel class for today. Your corrected essays will be outside my office (1141 in the red area) starting tomorrow morning at 930. Please be sure to stop by and pick up your essay so you can make corrections for next week. 

I'll assign the final paper next week and go over "Live for Today", "New Day Newark" and I'll preview Fight Club so begin reading that as well. 

Colonialism in Things Fall Apart

http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/imperial_post_colonial_history.html

http://www.the-map-as-history.com/maps/5-history-europe-colonization.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pis5f085P3M

http://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1182&context=utk_chanhonoproj

http://www.humanities360.com/index.php/the-long-term-consequences-of-the-colonization-of-africa-10-62788/

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,31&q=colonialism+in+things+fall+apart

Tagic Hero In Things Fall Apart

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/santorar/engl190v/trag.hero.htm

http://www.bisd303.org/cms/lib3/WA01001636/Centricity/Domain/593/10th%20english%20Fall/C%20-%20The%20Tragic%20Play/Antigone.Medea/Definition%20of%20Tragic%20Hero.pdf

http://jurn.org/#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=tragic%20hero%20in%20things%20fall%20apart&gsc.sort=

Updated Syllabus

Oct        20       ESSAY DUE, Things Fall Apart, Read Things Fall Apart

 

              27        Things Fall Apart, Read Things Fall Apart

           

 

Nov     3          ASSIGN SECOND PAPER, Things Fall Apart, Read “Lola” and “A

Bag for Nicholas” in New Jersey Noir

 

10        ESSAY DUE, “Lola” and “A Bag for Nicholas” in New Jersey Noir, ,Read

 

17        ASSIGN FINAL PAPER, “Live for Today” and “New Day Newark” in New Jersey Noir, Read Fight Club

 

24        Fight Club, Read Fight Club

 

Dec       1         Final Paper Issues, Fight Club

             
              8        Final Research Paper Due (NO LATE PAPERS!!!),