As you know, we will be watching a bromance/bromantic comedy on Monday, Nov.5, and I'd like you to give me some input/recommendations as to which movie you'd like to see.
Here is a list of bromances I've seen or know of:
I Love You Man
Wedding Crashers
40-year Old Virgin
Superbad
Role Models
Swingers
The Wood The Hangover
Please cast your vote by commenting on this post and stating which movie you'd like to see and why.
Yesterday in class we went over MLA in-text citation guidelines, all of which are in your The Little Penguin Handbook, and which I've organized in a handout that could be accessed on our class blog, by clicking on MLA, link -MLA guidelines for in-text citations. We also reviewed the outline and the necessary information it must contain. So just to reiterate:
The outline must contain a thesiswhich consist of a claim and a reason. The claim is based on the primary sources= The[insert the men's magazine you are working on] was promoting [insert type of masculinity] masculinity in [insert year] because... The reason for the claim should be based on your secondary sources.
Every main point-these points must support the thesis, must be discussed in a separate body paragraph. The main points MUST NOT be focused on primary sources, as the objective is NOT to summarize individual sources. Instead, the objective is to make points based on primary sources to support the thesis, and illustrate these points with examples from primary sources, as well as analyze/explain these using the secondary sources. *You should consult your annotated bibliography and review your reflections, as these are rough drafts of ideas for body paragraphs, which need revision/proofreading and inclusion of secondary sources.
Thank you, to those students who forwarded the e-mails they have been exchanging with their research advisers. I'm glad that you have been getting feedback and/or at least communicating with the LRC 103 students. For those who have not done so, please attend to this matter as it counts towards your points for Part II of research paper 1.
"Mark Simpson is an author and journalist. He is credited with coining the term ‘metrosexual’ in the British newspaper the Independent in 1994 and also introducing it to the US in 2002, inaugurating the current global popularity of the term. He is also credited with coining the ‘retrosexual’ in the sense of the anti-metrosexual."
Url for this brief article below: http://www.scienceofthetime.com/scienceofthetime/members/mark_simpson/11/
Today in class, I distributed hard copies of an updated syllabus, effective as of today. I also posted this on our class blog and on Blackboard.
As indicated on the updated syllabus, before Friday, Oct.29th class you must:
1. Receive some feedback about your secondary sources from your research advisor. You should either have comments from your research advisor on your blog OR you should receive feedback from your advisor via e-mail. When e-mailing your research advisor, please cc me by placing my e-mail-mbogacka@lagcc.cuny.edu - in the cc bar. And if you receive e-mails from your advisor, simply forward them to me.
2. Your annotated bibliography, which must contain 4 primary sources, must be completed before Friday's class as I'll be grading it on the morning.
3. You must post a formal outline, which includes reference to all six sources -4 primary and 2 secondary-of your research paper #1 on your blog BEFORE Friday's class.
4. Bring all your sources for research paper 1 to class.
Please e-mail me or post on the class blog if you have any questions.
The notes on comparative essay structure can be found under Essay Structure and Paragraphs on the class blog.
Please remember that you SHOULD bring the following for the Midterm exam:
1-Copies of the course readings (Theroux, Marable, Zinn, and Espiritu). These can have underlining, and marginal notes written on them.
2.- The Little Penguin Handbook
3.- Pen(s) and not pencil
4.- Dictionary
5.- Translator
6.*- A typed or handwritten Works Cited page. I'll collect this at the beginning of the exam so please put your name on it.
7.* I'll distribute the completed Venn diagrams to those who handed them in on Friday, Oct. 22
On the Midterm exam you CANNOT refer to the following:
1.- Your class note/notebook
2.- An outline you've created at home
3.- An essay you wrote at home and brought with you to the exam
Espiritu, Yen Le. “All Men Are Not Created Equal: Asian Men in U.S. History.” Men’s Lives. 5th ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner eds. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2001. 33-41. Print.
Marable, Manning. “The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes.” Men’s Lives 5th ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner eds. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2001.17-23. Print.
Theroux, Paul. "The Male Myth.”Across Cultures: A Reader for Writers.7th ed. Sheena Gillespie and Robert Becker eds. New York: Pearson Longman, 2008. 101-105. Print.
Zinn, Maxine Baca. “Chicano Men and Masculinity.” Men’s Lives. 5th ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner eds. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2001. 24-32. Print.
Please take out your Venn diagrams and proofread it. Then compose a Works Cited page for the two readings on the basis of which you composed a Venn diagram. All the necessary information for Works Cited entries can be found on the class blog, under Course Readings -Information about course readings for Work Cited/MLA documentation. Then post your Venn diagram and Works Cited page as a comment in response to this post on the class blog. Lastly, export this post to your blog by clicking on the Blogger icon as well as copy and past your comment below the exported post.
Yesterday, Luz Royal sent around a note about wearing purple tomorrow for Domestic Violence Month.
Many of us will also be wearing purple tomorrow because an informal, grassroots movement has sprung up around the recent rash of gay teen suicides. People have been asked to wear purple tomorrow to honor the memory of those who have committed suicide. This event doesn't seem to be associated with any particular organization, but many folks are jumping on board (although it is GLSEN's ally week). You can read more about it here:
If you don't feel like clicking through to Facebook, this is the text of the invitation:
"On October 20th, 2010, we will wear purple in honor of the 6 gay boys who committed suicide in recent weeks/months due to homophobic abuse in their homes and at their schools. Purple represents Spirit on the LGBTQ flag and that’s exactly what we’d like all of you to have with you: spirit. Please know that times will get better and that you will meet people who will love you and respect you for who you are, no matter your sexuality. Please wear purple on October 20th. Tell your friends, family, co-workers, neighbors and schools. RIP Tyler Clementi, Asher Brown, Seth Walsh, Justin Aaberg, Raymond Chase and Billy Lucas. You are loved.
Join this event and invite everyone on your friends list. Don't let their deaths be for nothing. Let it mean something, and let's do something to change this country for once."
Please remember that while we will review for the midterm during the first hour of our class, during the second hour, we will be attending a Library Orientation Session (from 2:15 to 3:15 pm in E building room E101B)during which you'll learn about navigating CUNY+ and academic databases. This is very important and not to be missed as you will need to find two (2) secondary sources for your first research paper the first draft of which is due very soon, Oct. 29.
Today we discussed Zinn's "Chicano Men and Masculinity" and Espititu's "All Men Are Not Created Equal: Asian Men in U.S. History," and began thinking about the similarities as well as differences between these two readings/masculinities. These two readings, as well as Theroux's "The Male Myth" and Marable's "The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes" will be on the final. I have paired up the readings and e-mailed these to you along with a Venn diagram which you must fill out for Friday, Oct.22 class. You may either complete the Venn diagram using one of the reading pairs on your computer, save it on a flashdrive/e-mail it to yourself, or you can print it out, and complete it by hand. This will be collected, so make sure to complete this activity as it will help us review for the Midterm exam.
Today we worked on composing annotated bibliographies for out first research paper. Please follow the annotated bibliography format for the 4 sources you found in a year's worth of subscription to a men's magazine provided in the Research Paper #1 assignment guidelines provided on our class blog (look under assignment). Also, make sure you accepted an invite to LRC103 Ning (research class's ning) as you need to pair up with one student (it could be more than one) to be your research advisor. If you did not receive an invite, please go to http://lrc1031492fall2010.ning.com/ and sign up. One you do, you will await confirmation. Then you can go on the Ning and connect with a student in LRC103, who will be your research advisor. This is a REQUIRED part of your research paper project.
How cool is this image/cover on an old magazine, Prof. Masuuchi posed on her class's Ning in conjunction with the description of your research paper? Go to http://lrc1031492fall2010.ning.com/profiles/blogs/for-assignment-5-more-info-on to check it out.Also, make sure to connect/respond to e-mail(s) you receive from Prof. Masuuchi's LRC103 students as they will be the advisers/peer reviewers for your research project.
So here I was taking a break from studying, and decided to visit my favorite blog, feministing.com, and I have stumbled upon a real treasure, more specifically an article in Slate magazine entitled "Real Men Cry and Do Laundry: An anthropology of the new male self-improvement mags" by Greg Beato. This is EXACTLY what you are working on in your research papers :) So Beato claims that men are facing extinction, figuratively speaking or, as he puts it "Increasingly superfluous, they're now the human equivalents of newspapers: out-of-step with a changing world and struggling to stay relevant, in some limited fashion, before they disappear entirely." This writer goes on to liken men's magazines (Esquire, GQ, Maxim) to women's magazines, in regards to how they promote fashion and spout 'how to score' tips which are non conducive to "retool[ing] the American male." He seems to prefer the tips on The Art of Manliness, a blog set up, two years ago, by a husband and wife from Oklahoma, a link to which is available on our class blog. Check it out.
It seems to me, that Beato is nostalgic for the masculinity of the old days, though he doesn't actually state how he views/understands that which men have lost along with their jobs? He points out, that men's magazines serve a different purpose: " Men's magazines are idealized Edens of irresponsibility, hedonism, wistful dreaming, places where all the women are gorgeous and underdressed, all the booze is top-shelf and on the house, and life's greatest challenges involve nothing more pressing than how to infuse your pocket squares with a little more rebel attitude." Do you agree? This is worth thinking about as you complete your selection of primary sources in a men's magazine.
Hope all of you are enjoying the long weekend. Here is a funny e-card I saw on feministing.com and decided to share with you since imperialism is considered one of the ultimate masculine qualities.
This is really horrific. I was thinking our discussing of intolerance last week and how NYC is probably the most tolerant city. Sadly, as this occurrence illustrates, homophobia is raging and violent. But it is worth considering why men react with such violence when they encounter homosexual men? It seems that certain people suffer from delusions of grandeur which makes them think they have the right to "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" yet they can deny that right to other people on the basis of their gender, race, sexuality, etc.
You will receive an invite to a Ning for a Research Class, LRC103.1492, taught by Prof. Matsuuchi. I have created page with a link to the Ning; look on top of the class blog. Please accept the invite and create a basic profile. This will allow you to connect with one of Prof. Matsucchi's students who have been studying research strategies and will help/advise you on research strategies. This is part of Research Paper #1 as indicated in the assignment.
-Your search will turn up a list of results; click on the first one - 1 Esquire
- Click on LaGuardia under Holdings
- You will see infromation about where/how the magazine is shelved in our college library, which years/issues the college library has, and also infromation about some back issues on microfilm
- Write down or print that information and take it to the Help Desk in our college library, and the librarian will help you find where the magazine is shelved or how to look at the microfilm
Before, Friday, Oct. 15 class, you must conduct research in order to complete the first part of research paper #1: Annotated Bibliography. A detailed description of this portion of the research paper and the entire assignment, can be found under Assignments on our class blog.
As I suggested in class, to access a hard copies of a year's worth of issues of men's magazine, you should go to your public library and see which magazines they subscribe to.
You may also access GQ and Esquire via LaGuardia Community College library website. Here are the directions on how to do so (*If you having problems with this, go to the college library and conduct your search there, so that you can ask the librarian for help if you encounter any problems):
To access GQ magazine and Esquire magazine via LAGCC library.
-Go to http://www.laguardia.edu/home/
-Click on libraries, top left
-Click on library media resources center
-in the middle of the page, on the menu under Research & Find, click on Find articles & books online (subscription databases)
-this will bring you to Find Articles and Books Online via Subscription Databases, and beneath this heading, towards the right, click on Find a Specific Journal, Magazine, or Newspaper
-this will bring you to a page-Find a Specific Journal or Magazine; there you will see:
Find journals, magazines, or newspapers by title or ISSN Examples: New York Times, Journal of the American Medical Association, or Newsweek
-in the second box, type in the title of a men's magazine (GQ or Esquire) and then click Search
-1 recordretrieved for the search: Title begins with "Esquire" A search for Esquire will yield the following result:
- by clicking on the links your searches yield (as shown above), which are on-line databases, you'll be able to access the magazine
To access Esquire in hard copy version follow these steps(*you will need to go to our college library to pick up/check out the magazine):
Go to http://www.laguardia.edu/home/ -Click on libraries, top left
-Click on library media resources center
-in the middle of the page, on the menu under Research & Find, click on Find books, videos, or CDs (CUNY+)
-this will take you to the following page:
BASIC SEARCH
Select search type:
Search for:
Examples: global warming
shakespeare and othello
Select library:
- in the Select search type, click on Title begins with
- in the Search for: box, type in Esquire and click Search
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Sorry for only posting this morning but I was stuck on a bus to Connecticut from 4:30p.m. yesterday until 2:00 a.m. this morning due to a shooting in Danbury and my laptop would not connect to the free wifi on the bus. Can you believe it? A state trooper pulled over a stolen car, and the driver tried to shoot him. Luckily or unluckily, the state trooper was quicker and shot the driver of the stolen car. But other passengers in the car escaped and the Danbury police shut down three exits of the highway and made everyone get off in Danbury and get back on the highway three exits further. You can imagine what that looked like on a Friday night. Needless to say, I had no food or water, and some of the passengers were yelling at the driver for not taking a different route. Ohhhh...sorry, but I had to ramble about this a bit.
As I mentioned at the end of class yesterday, in a week I'll be grading your blogs. Therefore, I'm giving you a chance catch up/up date your blogs if you missed any blog assignments. But be aware, and the dates are clearly indicated on our syllabus and on the class blog, if you DID NOT post your outline for Paper#1, comment on classmates outline, post your first draft of Paper#1, and complete peer reviews, according to the Peer Review forms, of two classmates' first drafts, on time, your blog grade will be affected. These assignments- comments on outline and peer reviews of first drafts CANNOT BE MADE UP. That would make no sense as the final drafts were due yesterday.
You'll find three documents under Blog Peer Review on our class blog; the first one will indicate whose blog you must peer review, the second contains information such as blog URL, the author's e-mail, whose outline and first drafts the blog's author commented on (this info. I collected yesterday morning), and finally, a form which you, the peer reviewer must complete. If you have Google Doc. (only if you used a gmail to set up your blog) you should be able to fill out the form and save it. If you do not have access to Google Docs, check your e-mail (the one you gave me at the beginning of the term) and there you'll find all this information in Microsoft Word format. Once you complete the form, please save it on your computer and then e-mail it to the person whose blog you peer reviewed.
I just want to remind everyone that since our final drafts of Paper#1 are due tomorrow, Friday Oct. 8, all of the blog posts related to this assignment MUST be completed before tomorrow’s class. There were 4 posts related to this assignment: Blog Post#2(as indicated on syllabus for Friday Sept. 24) was the formal outline for the paper, comments/response to ONE classmate’s outline, Blog Post#3 (as indicated on syllabus for Friday Oct. 1) was the first draft of the paper, and as indicated in the Paper #1 assignment, you were asked to peer review 2 of your classmates’ first draft using ONE of the Peer Review forms which can be found under Assignments. If you have not completed these FOUR blog activities, this will affect you Paper#1 grade and your blog grade.You cannot make up these assignments at a later date, as peer reviews are necessary for the completion of the assignment.
Overall, everyone is doing an amazing job with the blogs, but I want to remind you, and I cannot stress this enough, that your blog grade, which is worth 40% percent of your grade for the course, is contingent of timely and effective completion of the blog activities. It is your responsibility to complete all required assignments, whether you attend class or not. You must follow the syllabus and the class blog. See you all tomorrow with hard copies of your final draft of Paper #1 (we will post these on your blogs in class, so please be sure to save your work in Google Doc or on a flashdrive and bring it to class with you.)
Today we discussed Marable's "The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes" and on Friday we will discuss Zinn's "Chicano Men and Masculinity." Please access the Zinn reading via Blackboard as it is not on the blog. Make sure that your do the reading as everything we discuss from Theroux until Oct. 22 will be on the Midterm exam. Also, today we began review the steps for the 1st Research Paper and will begin thinking about research strategies and continue MLA documentation review in class on Friday. Last but not least, make sure you bring in a hard, paper copy of your final draft of Paper #1: Analyzing an Ad to class on Friday. While there is a printer in C238, I'm not sure whether everyone will be able to print his/her paper. So as the Boy Scout saying goes, "Better Safe than Sorry," and so my advice is that you come to class with a hard copy of your final draft. Also, Bryan reminded me at the end of class that I forgot to review the MLA documentation for the advertisement, so we will take care of that first thing on Friday. But if you want to try it on your own, look in The Little Penguin Handbook on page 95 and adapt the format to a magazine, rather than television, advertisement.
Today's class was devoted to composing the first draft of Paper#1: Analyzing An Ad. Please make sure that you post your first draft on your blog by the end of the day, in order to give your classmates and myself, the weekend to peer review your work. Under Assignments, on the class blog, you'll find two peer review forms, Content and Clarity, as well as Structure and Clarity. Please use these forms to complete peer reviews for two of your classmates. If your peer review addresses Content and Clarity, the next student who peer reviews the same draft, should complete Structure and Clarity. Just to clarify, you must peer review two (2) of your classmates drafts. You do not have to complete both forms, Structure and Clarity as well as Content and Clarity, for each draft you peer review. Complete only ONE form for each draft you peer review. For example, if you peer review student X's draft for Content and Clarity, another student will peer review student X's draft for Structure and Clarity. So before you conduct your peer review, check whether the draft was already peer reviewed and which form was used.
