Engaging English (F21 ENGL 20200-001 Purdue) Dashboard
Description
This class will teach you how to surf (the Internet) and about the various ways that English studies have been transformed over the last few decades. Starting with some basic close-reading and analysis skills (aided by annotation at COVE Studio), we will then explore how those skills have been increasingly applied to new areas of inquiry (tv, film, culture, critical theory, and politics). Throughout, we will employ new digital tools that change the way we approach our subjects of inquiry, including Web annotation, timeline-building, gallery-building and GIS mapping. As we proceed, we will consider the nature of English studies: What is an English department and how does it relate to the rest of the university? What can you do with an English degree? Why is it necessary to fight for English in an increasingly STEM-oriented world?
See below, "Galleries, Timelines, and Maps," in order to add items to our collective map, timeline and gallery exhibit. Click on the links below to begin.
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
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Individual Entries
The rioting began in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York after Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan murdered an African American teenager, James Powell near his summer school.
Over the course of six days, the rioting spread to Brooklyn, South Jamaica, and Queens, New York. Later, riots spread to Rochester, New York, Paterson, Elizabeth, and Jersey City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Harlem race riot of 1964 | United States history | Britannica
New York City has always been a hub for all classes of people, a collection of rich and poor who live together in a delicate balance. At the turn of the 20th century, that balance was upset for the newsboys, who at the time were essential to newspaper distribution in the afternoons and evenings. Most of the newsboys came from poor immigrant families as New York, considered the gateway from the rest of the world to America, was the first stop or eventual home to many immigrants. What being a newsboy meant was purchasing a bundle of newspapers directly from the manufacturer for 50¢ for one hundred papers and selling each paper for 1¢ each, working as long as you had to to sell every last paper because whatever paper you didn't sell was money literally thrown away (Newsboys). Since you couldn’t sell the same paper the next day, newsboys had to use whatever means necessary, whether that be tricks, lies, bribery, or often times working late into the night, and since the total...
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