Due in Class 11/19, One Copy Per Group

HoffmannAnnotated BibliographyENGL 1101

Due in class 11/19, one copy per group.

For this assignment, you are required to propose a course of research for your Kid Stuffproject, and provide an annotated bibliography of relevant sources that you will use to develop your argument.

Guidelines

Start by informing me of the topic your group has chosen to pursue. In a short paragraph, explain:

1. Your overall topic, and a thesis statement if you have one.
2. Questions or problems/issues you have identified and are interested in pursuing in order to develop your argument.
3. Ideas about the childish/non-serious material(s) you’re thinking of using to express your argument.

Annotated Bibliography

For your annotated bibliography, you will provide a list of relevant sources for your argument. For each source, provide an MLA works cited entry, and a brief paragraph (three or four sentences) describing your source’s general argument, and the reason you think it will be helpful to the group as you compose your argument. Pay attention to thinks like spacing, indentation, and alphabetical order—just like you would on an actual Works Cited page.You should list at least 3possible sources, at least one of which must be a print source that is not wikipedia. For this project, relevant sources may include films, videos, comics, studies, news articles, books or book chapters, scholarly articles, novels, and so on.

See the next page for sample bibliography entries.Sample Annotated Bibliography Entries

Naddaff, Sandra. Arabesque: Narrative Structure and the Aesthetics of Repetition in the 1001 Nights. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1991. Print.

In her discussion of “The Tale of Porter and the Three Ladies,”Naddaff argues that the ladies’ repetitive interrogation of the porter results in hissuccessful education; they lead him from the literal world he inhabits to a freer, metaphorical realm where words need not correspond to any predetermined reality. I will use Naddaff’s argument primarily to disagree with it. While she celebrates the ladies’ use of metaphor, I will argue that it imprisons them in a realm that is hardly a place of freely generative or rewarding creative play; rather it is a place of violence and merciless compulsion, emphasized in the habitual battering of both the porter and the two black dogs. It is precisely this empty compulsion that Shahrazad must illustrate for Shahrayar, a victim of his own compulsive tendencies.

Lenco, Lubos. “You Might Get Nervous 2.” AddictingGames.com. MofunZone, n.d. Web.

18 Nov. 2010.

“You Might Get Nervous 2” is a horribly addictive Internet game found on – you guessed it – addictinggames.com. The game starts out as very linear, very one-dimensional. The player simply moves a black ball left and right to avoid colliding with falling red squares. The game then becomes a bit more complicated as the player must also avoid the red squares while using the computer mouse to touch blue squares which are traveling horizontally. The game becomes more complex and difficult as time goes by. I will relate this to balance in literature by speaking of the difficulty that an object – in literacy’s case, a plot – has in remaining in its current state of balance as new elements and choices arise and further the plot’s complexity. Something will eventually happen that will cause the old balance to shift into a more stable form. It may not be a preferred balance, but it is nonetheless a more stable one (in the game’s case, you eventually lose, but there is greater balance in the fact that you are no longer attempting to juggle so many things at once.)

Labaton, Stephen. “The Reckoning: Agency’s ’04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt.” Nytimes.com. TheNew York Times, 2 Oct. 2008. Web. 17 Nov. 2010.

This article explains one of the key factors in the creation of the housing bubble; the government’s relax of the net capital rule. This allowed the banks to allow mortgages and loans that they usually would never have done. I will use this to show that the greed of the large banks and the government allowed them to not allow enough regulation. They thought that they were above the need for tighter regulations and this caused things to go out of control. I will demonstrate that the government and the banks overreached their power in allowing for the undertaking of subprime mortgages.

“Spring Break.” CSI: Miami: The Complete First Season. Writ. Ann Donahue, Carol

Mendelsohn, and Anthony Zuiker. Dir. DeranSarafian. Paramount, 2002.DVD.

When I thought of a show that would encapsulate our culture’s insensitivity to gruesome death, the first thing that came to mind was CSI: Miami. I chose and suffered through this episode for no particular reason besides the corpses in this one are so over-the-top that it was hard to pass up; a girl with a broken neck and human bite marks all over her on the beach and then another one in the bottom of a pool. I will use this show along with South Park as evidence of cultural insensitivity and, specifically, desensitization to violence.