English 12IB

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Othello articles from InfoTrac (need password--not your ID number--to access from off-campus)

Ancona, Francesco Aristide. "'Honest' Iago and the evil nature of words." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 26.1-2 (March 2005): 44(22). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A135246188

Macaulay, Marcia. "When chaos is come again: narrative and narrative analysis in Othello." Style 39.3 (Fall 2005): 259(19). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A150966542

Holmer, Joan Ozark. "Desdemona, woman warrior: 'O, these men, these men!' (4.3.59)." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 17 (Annual 2005): 132(33). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A129814203

Dr. Faustus articles from InfoTrac (need password--not your ID number--to access from off-campus)

Wall-Randell, Sarah. "Doctor Faustus and the printers devil.(Critical essay)." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 48.2 (Spring 2008): 259(24). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A180329328

Sullivan, Ceri. "Faustus and the apple." The Review of English Studies 47.n185 (Feb 1996): 47(4). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A18164076

Keeble, N. H.. "Doctor Faustus." DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:EJ2101205642

"Doctor Faustus." Masterpieces of World Literature (Edition 1989): 199(4). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A16674181

Cherry Orchard articles (need password--not your ID number--to access InfoTrac from off-campus)

Bryden, Ronald. "The Snark and the Orchard: A Polemical Afterword(1).(The Cherry Orchard)." Modern Drama 43.2 (Summer 2000): 300. General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A78679071

Sandall, Roger. "Chekhov's tears.(Literature)(Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard)." Quadrant 51.10 (Oct 2007): 68(4). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A169822740

Sinel, Allen. The Clash of Economic Values. University of British Columbia Theatre. http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/cherry_orchard/subject_chekhov_clash_economic.htm Accessed 18 April 2009.

The Crucible articles (need password--not your ID number--to access InfoTrac from off-campus)

Calhoun, John. "The Crucible." TCI 31.n1 (Jan 1997): 22(4). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A19029218

Overland, Orm. "The Action and Its Significance: Arthur Millers Struggle with Dramatic Form." DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:EJ2101205898

Bonnet, Jean-Marie. "Society vs. The Individual in Arthur Millers The Crucible." DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:EJ2101205899

Hayes, Richard. "A review of The Crucible." DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:EJ2101205895

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Demo of partial compo entry (analyzing ethos): (see Compo grid for daily A/B/C/D assignments)

text	feature/s	discussion
"We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may happen to be injust."	ethos repetition parallel syntax verb: optative mood first person plural	This sentence may increase the comfort level of white audience members--and thereby, for them, enhance the speaker's ethos--as follows. The syntax of this sentence parallels "injustice" and "white people" as objects of the verb "defeat." While it might have been inflammatory and self-defeating in 1957 for a black speaker to discuss "defeat[ing]...white people," with this sentence King makes clear that that is not his goal. He establishes, instead, a goal that can be shared by Americans of any color--that of defeating injustice. Further, he eases the burden of responsibility on white Americans. Rather than blaming them directly for racist attitudes, he treads delicately with the softest possible verbs. The white persons "may" (optative verb) "happen" (not something they chose--perhaps a function of history or society) "to be injust." This refusal to accuse is congruent with King's philosophy of nonviolence. This sentence is itself an example of verbal nonviolence, combining a fierce beginning of the sentence that states the unequivocal goal of the civil rights movement ("We are out to defeeat injustice") with the ultimate refusal to blame. King's use of the first person plural ("we") supports this unifying, idealistic vision.

text

feature/s

discussion

"We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may happen to be injust."

ethos

repetition

parallel syntax

verb: optative mood

first person plural

This sentence may increase the comfort level of white audience members--and thereby, for them, enhance the speaker's ethos--as follows. The syntax of this sentence parallels "injustice" and "white people" as objects of the verb "defeat." While it might have been inflammatory and self-defeating in 1957 for a black speaker to discuss "defeat[ing]...white people," with this sentence King makes clear that that is not his goal. He establishes, instead, a goal that can be shared by Americans of any color--that of defeating injustice. Further, he eases the burden of responsibility on white Americans. Rather than blaming them directly for racist attitudes, he treads delicately with the softest possible verbs. The white persons "may" (optative verb) "happen" (not something they chose--perhaps a function of history or society) "to be injust."

This refusal to accuse is congruent with King's philosophy of nonviolence. This sentence is itself an example of verbal nonviolence, combining a fierce beginning of the sentence that states the unequivocal goal of the civil rights movement ("We are out to defeeat injustice") with the ultimate refusal to blame. King's use of the first person plural ("we") supports this unifying, idealistic vision.

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