Course Readings Fun Home By Alison Bechdel Understanding Comics By Scott McCloud "Advice to Youth" ~ Mark Twain "Allegory of the Cave" ~ Plato "Battle of the Ants" ~ Henry David Thoreau "Black Men in Public Space" - Brent Staples Body Rituals Among the Nacirema By Horace Miner The Busy Trap "Death of the Moth" ~ Virginia Woolf Deindividuation By David McRaney Edgar Allan Poe - 3 Poems "The Bells," "Annabel Lee" & "The Raven" "Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns" ~ Molly Ivins "In Search of a Room of One's Own" - Virginia Woolf Is Google Making Us Stupid? "Learning to Read and Write" - Frederick Douglass Let America Be America Again By Langston Hughes "Letter from Birmingham Jail" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. The Man Who Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance "A Modest Proposal" ~ Jonathan Swift "On Writing" ~ Stephen King Ordeal by Cheque A story told completely in the form of personal checks. By Wuther Crue (1932) "Politics & the English Language" - George Orwell "The Prince" ~ Machiavelli "Salvation" - Langston Hughes "Shooting an Elephant" - George Orwell "Strangers" - Toni Morrison Use tools button on the top right to rotate counter-clockwise. "Working at Wendy's" - Joey Franklin We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story Who Shot Johnny? "1984" by George Orwell (excerpt)