Friday, May 15, 2009

Hunting

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Nonfiction: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist by Theodore Roosevelt
Nonfiction: Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Nonfiction: Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting by Jim Posewitz
Video game: Duck Hunt (1984)
Short story: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
Film: Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
Film: Bambi (1942)
Wikipedia: Hunting

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Neurosurgery

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Nonfiction: Brain Surgeon by Keith Black MD
Documentary film: The English Surgeon (2007)
Novel: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Film: The Man with Two Brains (1983)
Website: Neuroscience for Kids (http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/cart.html)
Short film: "Runaway Brain" (1995)
Radio show: Suspense, "Donovan's Brain"
Chapter: "Fact and Fiction of Emergency Surgical Care in America: A Neurosurgical Perspective" by Alex B. Valadka, M.D.
Wikipedia: Neurosurgery

Monday, May 4, 2009

The Ethos of Beauty

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Nonfiction: On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
Nonfiction: Beauty by Roger Scruton
Novel: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Poem: "Beauty" by Carlton Sprague
Poem: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
Radio: "Andrew Bird: Poetry Of Beauty And Biology"
Article: "Introduction to Poetry and the Problem of Beauty" by Lisa Samuels
Wikipedia: Beauty

Friday, May 1, 2009

Wanting to Be Beautiful

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Song: "Paper Dolls" by Tuscadero
Song: "The Fear" by Lily Allen
Nonfiction: Deadly Persuasion: Why Women And Girls Must Fight The Addictive Power Of Advertising by Jean Kilbourne (also available under another title)
Novel: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Novel: Gossip Girl #1: A Novel by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Article: "How to be Beautiful & Pure in Hollywood" (no credited author, published in Time)
Article: "Dying woman spends £40,000 on plastic surgery.. to look like Demi Moore" by Kelly Jenkins
Film: Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Film: Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Wikipedia: Physical attractiveness

Monday, February 23, 2009

Satire

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Novel: Candide by Voltaire
Essay: "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
Film: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Television: Any three episodes of The Colbert Report
Website: http://www.theonion.com/
Film: The Great Dictator (1940)
Novel: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Film: Fear of a Black Hat (1994)
Wikipedia: Satire

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Stagger Lee

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Comics: Stagger Lee by Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix
Nonfiction: Stagolee Shot Billy by Cecil Brown
Song: "Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price
Song: "Wrong 'Em Boyo" by The Clash
Song: "Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee" by Furry Lewis
Song: "Stack-O-Lee" by Woody Guthrie
Song: "Stack O'Lee Blues" by Duke Ellington
Song: "Stagger Lee" by The Grateful Dead
Song: "Stackalee" by Bama
Song: "Stack A Lee" by Bob Dylan
Song: "Stagger Lee" by Nick Cave
Song: "Stagger Lee" by Mississippi John Hurt
Story: "Stagolee" by Julius Lester
Article: "Stagger Lee: A Historical Look at the Urban Legend" by Tony Kullen
Website: staggerlee.com
Wikipedia: Stagger Lee

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Unorthodoxly Orthodox

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Novel: "My Name Is Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok
Autobiography: Surfing Rabbi by Nachum Shifren
Nonfiction: Cool Jew by Lisa Alcalay Klug
Article: "Putting the 'fun' in fundamentalism" by Mark I. Pinsky
Album: This Is Babylon by Y-Love
Album: Youth by Matisyahu
Album: Heavenly Jams Band by Piamenta
Website: http://www.rivkahk.com/
Blog: Frum Outdoorsman: Rare but Possible
Blog: Frum Satire | Jewish Comedy
Blog: The Jew & The Carrot
Blog: cool yiddishe mama
Blog: Anarcho-Judaism
Blog: Hasidic Rebel
Blog: One Frum Skeptic
Blog: frum female
Blog: A Frum Punk
Website: http://rabbisimcha.com/
Wikipedia: Jewish religious movements

Tupac

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Poetry: The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
Book: Tupac: Resurrection by Tupac Shakur et al
Biography: Tupac Shakur by Heather Forkos
Nonfiction: The Killing of Tupac Shakur by Cathy Scott
Album: 2Pacalypse Now by Tupac Shakur
Album: Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. by Tupac Shakur
Film: Juice (1992)
Film: Gridlock'd (1997)
Article: "Tupac's Book Shelf" by Mark Anthony Neal
Article: "The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 86) Tupac Shakur" by 50 Cent
Wikipedia: Tupac Shakur

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Walt Disney: The Man and His Company

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Biography: Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas
Biography: Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince by Marc Eliot
Autobiography: Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
Website: http://www.waltdisneymuseum.org/
Film: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Film: Fantasia (1940)
Film: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954)
Film: Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
Film: Mary Poppins (1964)
Film: The Jungle Book (1967)
Wikipedia: The Walt Disney Company

Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film

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Nonfiction: Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film by Annalee R. Ward
Nonfiction: Deconstructing Disney by Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan
Film: The Lion King (1994)
Film: Pocahontas (1995)
Film: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Film: Hercules (1997)
Film: Mulan (1998)
Article: "Beyond the mouse-ear gates: the wonderful world of Disney studies" by Cynthia Chris
Reference: Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Hercules", "Mulan" by Dave Smith
Wikipedia: Disneyfication

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Cowboys Get Religion

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Album: God by Johnny Cash
Album: Show Me Your Way by Glen Campbell
Novel: The Backslider by Levi S. Peterson
Blogpost: "A Cowboy of Faith" by Editor Corbett
Article: "Ministry the cowboy way" by Bobby Ross Jr.
Documentary: "Cowboys Of Faith" (2006)
Memoir: "The Salt Block" by Bubba Stahl
Novel: Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed
Wikipedia: Circuit preacher

Black Cowboys

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Nonfiction: The Negro Cowboys by Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones
Picture book: Black Cowboy, Wild Horses by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney
Autobiography: The Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love
Novel: Ebony Marshal by Sean Chandler
Album: The Essential Charley Pride by Charley Pride
Film: Blazing Saddles (1974)
Film: Silverado (1985)
Wikipedia: Cowboy

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Little Red Riding Hood

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Nonfiction: Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked by Catherine Orenstein
Children's novel: Wolf by Gillian Cross
Film: Red Riding Hood (2004)
Film: Hoodwinked! (2005)
Music video: "Call Me When You're Sober" for Evanescence (2006)
Short film: "Red Hot Riding Hood" (1943)
Short film: The Story of Little Red Riding Hood (1949)
Poem: "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" by Roald Dahl
Picture book: Ruby by Michael Emberley
Picture book: Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault and James Marshall
Picture book: The Wolf's Story by Toby Forward and Izhar Cohen
Fairy tale: "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" by Charles Perrault
Fairy tale: "Rotkäppchen" by the Brothers Grimm
Song: "Li'l Red Riding Hood" by Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs
Comics: Spider-Man Fairy Tales #1
Wikipedia: Little Red Riding Hood

Repartee

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Short story collection: My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Play: The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Play: Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Film: Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Film: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Film: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Nonfiction: Viva la Repartee by Mardy Grothe
Essay: "Twitter Aphorisms, Epigrams and Repartee" by Tim O'Reilly
Essay: "H-E-E-E-E-RE'S BARRY!" by Dave Barry
Wikipedia: Wit

Of, and, for, or about Castro

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Speeches: "History Will Absolve Me", "On the Triumph of the Revolution", "One Hundred Years of Struggle for Cuban Independence", "Rectifying the Errors of the Cuban Revolution", "Assessing Half a Century of the Cuban Revolution" by Fidel Castro
Novel: Escape from Castro by Mario Lamar
Novel: Flight to Freedom by Ana Vesiana-Suarez
Film: Bananas (1971)
Documentary film: Fidel: The Untold Story (2003)
Nonfiction: The Man Who Invented Fidel by Anthony Depalma
Wikipedia: Fidel Castro

Monday, November 17, 2008

San Francisco (no earlier than twenty years ago)

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Novel: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Novel: McTeague by Frank Norris
Film: Bullitt (1968)
Film: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Film: Vertigo (1958)
Film: San Francisco (1936)
Song: "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" by Tony Bennett
Song: "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" by Scott McKenzie
Song: "San Francisco" by Jeanette MacDonald
Photo book: San Francisco's Chinatown by Judy Yung
Nonfiction: San Francisco : a cultural and literary history by Mick Sinclair
Wikipedia: History of San Francisco

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Novel: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Novel: My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Nonfiction: Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman
Comics: Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Website: http://www.fromthetop.org/
Website: http://www.teenspoint.org/teenart/index.asp
Magazine: a recent issue of Teen Ink
Movie: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
Wikipedia: Alliance for Young Artists & Writers

Monday, November 10, 2008

Just your average upper-middle-class African-American family

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Novel: The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Television: The Cosby Show, "A Shirt Story" and "Clair's Case" and "Mr. Quiet" and "Cliff's Birthday"
Television: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, "The Fresh Prince Project" and "Clubba Hubba" and "Mistaken Identity" and "Kiss My Butler"
Radio news: "Black Brokers On Obama" by Celeste Headlee
Article: "The Secrets of Success of Wealthy African Americans" by Jevaillier Jefferson
Website: http://www.bravotv.com/Real_Housewives_Of_Atlanta/season/1/bios/index.php
Nonfiction: Blue-Chip Black by Karyn R. Lacy
Wikipedia: Black billionaires

Friday, November 7, 2008

For Love of Luna

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Film: The Right Stuff (1983)
Film: Apollo 13 (1995)
Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968
Short film: Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902)
Nonfiction: Apollo by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox
Novel: Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke
Children's nonfiction: Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
Nonfiction: The Moonlandings, chapter 16, "First Steps -- and Where They Led" by Reginald Turnill
Song: "Monochrome" by The Sundays
Webpage: hhttp://windows2universe.org/mythology/planets/Earth/moon.html
Wikipedia: Moon

The Russian Space Program

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Photography: Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age by Adam Bartos
Nonfiction: Sputnik: The Shock of the Century by Paul Dickson
Television documentary: NOVA: Sputnik Declassified (2007)
Article: "Going to Space? First Stop: Eight Months of Grueling Training in Russia's Star City" by David Kushner
Website: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/
Website: http://www.sputnikmania.com/
Article: "Sputnik -- one man's dream" by the Associated Press
Blogpost: "Sputnik was just a rocket booster!" by Kim Sbarcea
Article: " Russia's space program is struggling to recruit a new generation of cosmonauts" by Mara D. Bellaby
Article: "Russia thriving again on the final frontier" by Alan Boyle
Wikipedia: Russian Federal Space Agency