Claudia Rankine poem

One way to think of this poem is as a response to Brown-Garner situation, just like she got the same assignment as you and here it is.

http://vimeo.com/103780954

Final Essay Assignment

Final Class Essay:

1) What Can You Learn from Fup? This is your essay topic, at least 5 pages due Friday 19th midnite.

Big Questions and Topics: Personal journey, Obsessions, Vengeance (Dog & fences), Why fences (so nobody will fall in lakes, keep things out from harming him, work off his pain), why is he obsessed with fences, immortality, spirituality, death, Johnny Sevenmoons as pig (Lockjaw), Whiskey makes for immortality (Ol' Deathwhipser)  

Or Alternative to Fup paper or extra credit paper, at least 5 pages typed.

TOPIC: Give meaning to Michael Brown and Eric Garner's lives and deaths--your meaning, a meaning that will cause truth and raise consciousness and provide some reference for us beyond the media noise?  Think of Rankine's poem as a way of responding to this question, those beautiful young men shopping. Not what you think about it, but what meaning you want to give to it.   Due on the 19th! 


Final Exam Wednesday December 17th 10am - 12pm in the same room.  We will have a study session Wednesday December 10th during class.

Link to Empathic Civilization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g

Link to Dyson interview (Dyson starts 29:00 minutes into video): http://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/ipod/dn2014-1201.mp4