Ch.
2 Close
Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis |
Queen
Elizabeth, Speech to the Troops at Tilbury |
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[video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbjj9Nmn6ZU |
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Clip
of the Speech to the Troops at Tilbury from a 2005 BBC production called The Virgin Queen featuring Anne-Marie
Duff as Elizabeth. |
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[text] http://tudorhistory.org/primary/tilbury.html |
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A letter about Elizabeth’s speech written by Dr. Leonel Sharp after 1623. It is addressed to the Duke of Buckingham. |
Winston
Churchill, Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat |
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[audio] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVg7rnRheK8 |
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Audio recording of Winston Churchill delivering his famous Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat speech. This is the first address given to the House of Commons on May 13, 1940. |
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[text] http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841228_1841749_1841735,00.html |
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List
of Time magazine’s top ten greatest
speeches of all time, which includes Winston Churchill’s Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat speech. |
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[text] http://www.historynet.com/what-if-winston-churchill-had-offered-less-blood-toil-tears-and-sweat.htm |
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A surprising article addressing the possibly misguided and
overly-aggressive nature of Churchill’s famous call to arms. |
Ralph
Ellison, from On Bird, Bird-Watching, and
Jazz |
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[website] http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/2002/04/the-ralph-ellison-project-horace-porter-author-of-jazz-country-ralph-ellison-in-america/ |
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A Web site dedicated to jazz and twentieth-century America that includes an interview with Horace Porter about Ralph Ellison’s life, perspective, and legacy. |
Joan Didion, The Santa Ana Winds |
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[text] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/santa-ana-winds_n_1123931.html |
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A Huffington Post article about the top
10 references to the Santa Ana winds in pop culture. Didion’s story features on the list. |
Virginia
Woolf, The Death of the Moth |
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[video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTbnOLIl_2M |
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A
short amateur experimental film based on Virginia Woolf’s essay. |
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[text] http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/specials/woolf-forster.html |
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New York Times writer Horace Gregory
explores that which he calls the “genius” of Virginia Woolf. |
Groucho Marx, Dear
Warner Brothers |
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[text] http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/court-appointee-quoted-groucho-marx-in-verdict-1.282605 |
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Article
about a man who quoted Groucho Marx’s letter to the
Warner Brothers in a verdict he wrote as a Haifa District judge. |
Christopher
Morley, On Laziness |
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[website] http://essays.quotidiana.org/morley/ |
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Web page documenting a few of Christopher Morley’s popular
writings, including On Laziness. |
Dodge, It’s a Big Fat Juicy Cheeseburger in a
Land of Tofu (advertisement) |
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[text] http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020502&slug=jdl02 |
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Article addressing the edgy, possibly offensive nature of the Dodge
cheeseburger ad. |
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[text] http://www.ru.org/index.php/ecology/283-weapons-death-and-tofu-finding-nirvana-in-an-suv |
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Article
discussing the appeal of SUVs and the ways in which advertisements capitalize
on certain impressions. |
Girl
Scouts, What Did You Do Today? (advertisement) |
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[text] http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/133189/ |
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Article about the extensive rebranding of the Girl Scouts of the
USA. |
John
F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January
20, 1961 |
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[video] http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/39155 |
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Archival footage of President Kennedy delivering his famous
inaugural address. |
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[text] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/19/AR2011011904768_2.html |
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Article about the creation and lasting influence of Kennedy’s
inaugural address. |
Eleanor Clift, Inside Kennedy’s
Inauguration, 50 Years On. |
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[text] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/01/15/kennedys-inauguration-speech-50th-anniversary.html |
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Article about the 50th anniversary of JFK’s inauguration
and the continuing significance of the speech in modern times. |
United
States Army Signal Corps, Inauguration of
John F. Kennedy |
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[website] http://time.com/3879796/jfk-classic-photos-of-an-american-political-icon-1947-1963/ |
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Rare
photos of John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and subsequent inauguration
ceremony. |