Reminders....

Plagiarism test on Thursday.  We'll also be briefly discussing the upcoming Essay #2. 
On Tuesday the 28th, classes will be canceled for conferences.  Directions on those forthcoming.

Reminder...

If any of you need help with essay #1 or have any questions, ask me now because it's due on Thursday!

Where Were You on September 11th?

Where were you when you first heard the news about Sept. 11th?
I was at home with my parents--came out of the shower to see my mom crying, telling me a plane had crashed into one of the WTC towers.  I shrugged it off as some stupid accident.  When the second plane hit, I thought maybe it was some weird Bermuda Triangle sort of deal...like a weather or wind pattern messing with how the planes were flying over the area or something, or some visibility issue.  When a plane hit the Pentagon, there wasn't any room for denial anymore....
The day was surreal....  I still get chills when I see videos of the towers falling.  It was like something out of a nightmare.  We were glued to the televisions on campus at WVU (my first "official" semester).  My professor still made us come to math class to "talk about it."  I didn't want to talk!  I wanted to watch the news!  It was on every channel--even the Weather Channel and MTV.  THAT was weird to see, made it seem all the more serious.  They were taking ID's at the dorms for security measures.  Rumors were flying.  Some professors were keeping a tight rein on who went in and out of their classrooms.  It was an odd, quiet panic.  I've never experienced a day like that ever in my life.  The whole nation seemed fixed on the news and the events unfolding around us.
Where were you?

Some Great Resources for MLA Citation--PLEASE READ!!

A website to help you all out with in-text citations (i.e. when you use the readings in your papers)--
http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/within/mla.html


How you'll want to cite an article within an anthology--i.e., one of the readings in your textbook (see also Hacker ch. 32, item 10)--
http://library.osu.edu/help/research-strategies/cite-references/mla#Book%20%28Anthology%29

If you need help, www.easybib.com will make a Work Cited entry for you, although it is only as good as the information YOU put in, so you have to make sure all the info you provide is correct.

We'll go over ALL of this in class on Tuesday, so don't panic....

Disability and the Prescription for Change

Now that you've read the Riley essay for class, do you feel that the disabled are fairly treated/portrayed by the media?  Do you feel that Riley's suggestions are correct?  What would you suggest that differs from Riley's argument?

Offensive?

Is using a mascot that's the likeness of another culture offensive (i.e. using a Native American tribe)?
Also, do you know what a trade character is?  A trade character is a created character used to represent a product--like the Captain for, well, Captain Crunch, or the Trix Rabbit.  A number of said trade characters, particularly those created in the likeness of racial stereotypes, have also caused offense.
Should we be offended by these cultural caricatures?

Thoughts on Mascots?

What do you think of when you think of mascots?